Chung Hyeon Wins Indonesian Futures Tennis...Win for the first time in five years and five months
Chung Hyeon Wins Indonesian Futures Tennis...Win for the first time in five years and five months
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Chung Hyeon (1,104th) won the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Amman Mineral Competition (total prize money of $30,000).
On the last day of the tournament in Bali, Indonesia on the 5th, Chung beat Giles Hathse (421st, England) 2-0 (6-1, 6-2).
As a result, Chung Hyeon won the singles title at the international competition for the first time in five years and five months since the men's professional tennis (ATP) Chengdu International Challenger in August 2019.
Chung Hyeon, who became the first Korean player to advance to the semifinals of a major tournament's singles at the 2018 Australian Open, has been on a downward spiral due to his injury. The world ranking also rose to 19th place in 2018, but is now behind the top 1,000.
After failing to play in the second round of the Wimbledon qualifying round in June 2023, he returned to the Japan Futures tournament in September last year after being unable to play for more than a year due to injury.
Adult men's tennis international competitions are largely divided into four major tournaments, ATP Tour, ATP Challenger, and ITF Futures.
Chung`s latest championship falls under the lowest grade of Futures. The ITF recently did not use the term "Futures" but categorized the competition into M25 and M15 according to the total amount of prize money.
Chung did not win a regular tour tournament, and he became the first champion of the Next Gen Finals in 2017, where players under the age of 20 compete. 토토사이트
In singles, he has won Challenger nine times and Futures has won five times so far.
In the quarterfinals of this tournament, Chung inflated the possibility of a comeback, defeating top seed Antoine Escoffier (207th, France) 2-0 (6-2, 6-2).
With this victory, Chung is expected to rise to the 700th place in the world. If he accumulates more points in the ranking, he will be able to compete on his own in the Challenger stage, where players ranking 100th to 300th are mainly playing in the finals.