{"id":54862,"date":"2023-02-13T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=54862"},"modified":"2023-02-13T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:21:50","slug":"wu-yibing-first-atp-title-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/02\/13\/wu-yibing-first-atp-title-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu Yibing Makes History with ATP Title in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wu Yibing has made history at the Dallas Open, by becoming the first Chinese player to win an ATP Tour title, after beating American veteran John Isner in the final, 6-7 7-6 7-6.\u00a0Wu saved four championship points in a thriller, eventually coming out on top 14-12 in the deciding tiebreak.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wu wizardry \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>The moment Wu Yibing sealed his maiden ATP title at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DALOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DALOpen<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TpSRpzkJHP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/TpSRpzkJHP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1624894374571286529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The now Chinese #1 came into the ATP 250 tournament ranked #97, having recently become the second ever player from China to enter the ATP top 100 after finishing as runner-up at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/02\/05\/challenger-tour-weekly-recap-wu-breaks-the-top-100-arnaldi-hijikata-and-kovacevic-nearing-that-feat\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">the Cleveland Challenger<\/a>, following in the footsteps of Zhang Zhizhen who achieved the feat back in October.<\/p>\n<p>Wu is now ranked #58, which is a remarkable rise considering he was outside the top 1500 only 10 months ago, after not competing on the tour for almost three years due to a string of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made history here for my country,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1624899162230919168\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wu said after the final<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of myself and especially thanks to all the fans and my team who came here and supported [me]. I couldn\u2019t do this without all of you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Open champion had to withstand the almost seven foot tall serve of Isner, who hit 44 aces in total in the final, accounting for over a third of his points.<\/p>\n<p>Isner had pledged to donate $100 to the Isner Family Foundation for each ace he hit during the tournament, and ended up raising $13,800 for children in the Dallas area, after landing 138 aces across his five matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough match. I&#8217;m facing, I don&#8217;t know 100 aces,\u201d Wu laughed. \u201cIt&#8217;s a good thing he has this $100 thing, this makes more kids happy. I will take credit for that, because I&#8217;m not even moving when he serves!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isner also had some kind words to say about Wu, predicting that he would have a &#8216;bright&#8217; future in tennis.<\/p>\n<h3>Wu Yibing&#8217;s run to the Dallas title<\/h3>\n<p>Not only did Wu beat a former top 10 player in Isner, he also beat a current top 10 star and top seed at the event Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Round &#8211; <\/strong>Beat Michael Mmoh, 6-3 3-6 6-3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Round &#8211;<\/strong> Beat Denis Shapovalov (3), 7-6 6-4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarterfinal &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Beat Adrian Mannarino (8), 6-3 6-4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semifinal &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Beat Taylor Fritz (1), 6-7 7-5 6-4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Beat John Isner (5), 6-7 7-6 7-6<\/p>\n<p>Main photo credit: Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wu Yibing has made history at the Dallas Open, by becoming the first Chinese player to win an ATP Tour title, after beating American veteran John Isner in the final, 6-7 7-6 7-6.\u00a0Wu saved four championship points in a thriller, eventually coming out on top 14-12 in the deciding tiebreak. Wu wizardry \ud83d\ude4c The moment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4101,"featured_media":54872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[1877,17259,776,412,389,347,18118,8561],"class_list":["post-54862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-news","tag-adrian-mannarino","tag-atp-dallas-open","tag-denis-shapovalov","tag-john-isner","tag-michael-mmoh","tag-taylor-fritz","tag-wu-yibing","tag-zhizhen-zhang"],"modified_by":"Jim Smith","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}