Lu Yanxun, a Chinese Taipei tennis player, was born on August 14, 1983. As early as 2001, at the age of eighteen, Lu Yanxun officially entered the professional tennis world, so now, he has been galloping in the world tennis for nearly 17 years.

As a representative figure of Taiwanese men's tennis, Lu Yanxun has made countless history for Taiwan. The first Taiwanese player ranked No. 1 in Asia in youth, the first player to win the gold medal in tennis for Taiwan at the Asian Games, and the first player to win the gold medal in the men's singles event for Taiwan at the Universiade, almost all of Taiwan's men's tennis firsts were created by Lu Yanxun.

At the same time, Lu Yanxun is also the first Taiwanese male player to enter the top 100 in the world rankings. In November 2010, its world ranking reached an all-time high of 33rd. In the same year, at the Wimbledon Championships, Lu Yanxun defeated the No. 5 seed and three-time runner-up Andy Roddick of the United States in a five-set battle, reaching the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam men's singles for the first time in his career. This result also equaled the best time set by Japan's Shuzo Matsuoka in 1995 in Asian men's singles Wimbledon.

All of the above achievements are proof of the success of Lu Yanxun's career. Although he is not the top player in tennis, he is good enough for Asia. For China in particular, Lu Yanxun's achievements are beyond the reach of Chinese men's players.

Lu Yanxun, who is about to turn 34 years old, is already an out-and-out veteran on the tour. Although due to physical constraints, its overall level has decreased more than its peak. However, with his veteran experience, Lu was still able to stabilize his world ranking in the top 100, temporarily ranking 86th.

Compared to the results achieved on the tour, Lu Yanxun's record in the Challenge Tournament is nothing short of brilliant. Since joining the tennis world, in addition to participating in tour tournaments every year, Lu Yanxun has always participated in as many challenge tournaments as possible. Almost every time he participates in a challenge, Lu Yanxun always becomes a favorable contender for the championship. Over the years, the number of challenge tournaments it has accumulated is not small in the entire tennis world.

The reason why he is so keen to participate in the challenge is that in addition to getting a lot of bonuses and points, Lu Yanxun can also find the feeling of winning through the challenge. This time, he participated in the Chengdu Challenge, and he also had the same purpose. In his previous two consecutive Grand Slams, he was out of the first round without a single victory. This was a rarity in his previous career.

In addition, the performance of a series of tour tournaments during this period was not very good, and at most he only reached the second round, and Lu Yanxun, who felt that he urgently needed to regain his confidence by winning, naturally signed up for this Chengdu Challenge.

Sure enough, this choice was the right one for him. As the top seed in this challenge, Chinese Taipei's Lu Yanxun is having a good time. In the first two rounds, he barely encountered any challenges and easily advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament.

In particular, in the first round, he also defeated China's local player Zhang Ze. Although four Chinese players participated in the qualifying round before the game, only Pan Xiqi and Zhang Ze successfully broke through and entered the main competition.

However, Zhang Ze's signing luck was really unlucky, and he met the top seed Lu Yanxun in the first round of the main event. In the face of this kind of tour veteran who has almost become a fine tour, where is Zhang Ze, who has just returned from injury, Lu Yanxun's opponent. There was no suspense, and Zhang Ze went home after losing two sets in a row.

In the whole game, Zhang Ze did not get any chances. Although he is seven or eight years younger than Lu Yanxun, in terms of the state shown on the field, Zhang Ze is far inferior to the veteran on the opposite side. In addition, Zhang Ze's spirit also showed that he didn't want to win this game at all.

As for the bet between Zheng Jie and Lu Yanxun, it must not be counted on if Zhang Ze wants to complete it. Not to mention winning the first set, even the two games won in the whole game were largely due to Lu Yanxun's deliberate delivery of the host's players because he didn't want the host player to be too ugly.

Thinking of that gambling contract, Lu Yanxun couldn't help but feel funny. He and Zheng Jie have known each other for many years, and they had dinner and chatted together that night, and just casually said a few comments about Chinese men's tennis.

may be because his tone is not very polite, and the criticism is a little too harsh, but he didn't expect to cause Zheng Jie's dissatisfaction, and he actually proposed to make this bet with him. Although there was some surprise, Lu Yanxun thought that what he said was not wrong, so he accepted the gamble.

From his point of view, this gamble is completely unequal, and Zheng Jie put it forward in a hurry. Because if you want to expect these current Chinese players to take a set from him, the probability of achieving it is about the same as that of the Chinese player winning the championship.

No, the match with Zhang Ze fully confirmed Lu Yanxun's thoughts. After winning the game, Lu Yanxun even felt that the Chinese players not only did not improve, but their strength had declined seriously. Now that we have entered the quarterfinals, looking at the draw, it seems that only one Chinese player is still alive in the bottom half. As for the name, it is called Pan Xiqi, and Lu Yanxun has never heard of it.

Although it was a bit of a surprise that Pan Xiqi was able to reach the quarterfinals of the competition, thinking that the Chinese mainland players must at least reach the final before they have a chance to challenge themselves, Lu Yanxun felt that this possibility was almost zero.

In the lower half of the bracket are the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in this challenge, Serra and Hiroshi Tata, who are currently ranked 97th and 150th in the world. Like him, these two players are tour-level players and their strength should not be underestimated. Even if he met it, he was not completely sure of winning. In this challenge, both of them were divided into the lower half of the region, which also made Lu Yanxun secretly lucky. Because it means that he will hardly face any strong challenges before the final.

Pan Xiqi is obviously a nobody, and wanting to defeat these two masters in a row to meet him in the final is almost beyond the scope of what the Chinese players can accomplish. When the game is over, Lu Yanxun, who did not let Zhang Ze win a set, will naturally be regarded as the winner of the bet with Zheng Jie.

Just as Lu Yanxun was thinking about the finals, Pan Xiqi also silently reached the quarterfinals of the event. The first round was okay, with a victory over a not-so-well-known Indian player. In the second round, Pansiqi eliminated the fifth seed of the tournament and was the first big upset.

The opponent's ranking is dozens of places higher than Pansiqi, and he is not a nobody in the tennis world. Losing to Pansiqi can definitely be regarded as an upset. However, looking at the score, 6:2, 6:0, the average person will wonder what happened on the field when they see this score.

However, at this moment, Panci can't care so much, because in the next round of eight-in-four, he will meet the No. 3 seed, the veteran Hiroshi Tamida from Japan. In the eyes of everyone, if there is no accident, Panxiqi's dark horse road will also come to an end.

Wonderful!