Jiayou Li eliminated Annabelle Xu in the quarterfinals of the Tianjin tournament

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis. (Infobase)

jiayou liChina beat in one hour and nineteen minutes by 6-2 and 6- to the canadian player Annabelle Xu in the quarter-finals of the tournament tianjin. With this result, we can continue to see the winner of the match in the semi-finals of the tianjin.

The match data shows that Li managed to break his opponent’s serve 7 times, reached 63% efficiency on the first serve, committed 3 double faults, and took 61% of the service points. As for the Canadian tennis player, she managed to break her opponent’s serve twice, achieved 55% efficiency, committed 6 double faults and managed to win 29% of the points on serve.

The Chinese tennis player will meet in the semifinals the winner of the match between the Chinese tennis player Han Shi and the chinese player Yufei Ren.

Tournament ITF China 05A It takes place on an outdoor hard court and during it, a total of 61 players compete against each other. Likewise, its celebration takes place from July 2 to 9 in tianjin.

Tennis is considered a classic sport. Each year, four tournaments (called “Grand Slams”) attract all the attention of the world: the season begins with the australian opencontinue with the dirt track of Roland Garrosthen moved to London with the celebration of Wimbledon and ends in the United States with the U.S. Open.

The rest of the year, players also compete around the world completing seasons on different surfaces: hard or fast track, clay either grass.

Tennis was born in Europe at the end of the 18th century and since 1926 it is a professional sports after the creation of the first tour. It was particularly popular among the upper classes in English-speaking countries, but today it is a world sport. Divides into two categories: the male (ATP) and female (WTA) competition.

There ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) is the association of professional tennis players which brings together players from all over the world in the men’s category.

The ATP circuit organizes several tournaments throughout the year: ATP Masters 1000 (if a player wins the tournament, he will take 1000 points to add to the ATP ranking), ATP 500 and ATP 250. Below these tournaments, in a lower echelon would be the ATP Challenger Tour, where future stars compete world tennis. . Moreover, ATP tennis is also in charge of Grand Slam tournaments.

The fight to be the best in history does not stop in the men’s category. The Spaniard Raphael Nadalhe Serbian Novak Djokovic and the Swiss Roger Federer they compete to break all records and accumulate the most Grand Slam tournaments. The three players are commonly referred to as “big three‘ in front of the new generations or ‘Next Gen’.

These new future tennis stars have stormed onto the world tennis circuit, as in the case of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipasfrom Italian Matteo Berretinigerman Alexander Zverev or the russians Medvedev And Rublev.

Novak Djokovic currently holds the record for weeks at number 1 in the ATP rankings, closely followed by Roger Federer, the legendary American player Pete Sampras, Iván Lendl and Jimmy Connors.

There WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) was founded in 1973 by the famous former tennis player billie jean king. The Californian has won 39 Grand Slam titles during her active career and is an icon in the world of tennis.

Today, many female tennis players are also battling to stay at the top of the world tennis elite and surpass Stefanie Graff or Serena Williams. Players like the Polish Iga Świątek (Roland Garros champion in 2021), the Greek Maria Sakkari either Paula Badosa (the first Spanish winner of Indian Wells) are fighting to stay in the famous top 10 of the WTA rankings.

In the year 2022, the Australian tennis player Asleigh Barty announced his permanent retirement from the world of tennis and ended an impressive career with several Grand Slam tournaments behind him. Now it’s the other players’ turn to take over and become number 1.

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