Shang, Juncheng - Piros, Zsombor

AO qualification

Hungarian vs. Chinese, similarly ranked tennis players meet in a decisive match for entry to the AO main tournament. Shang personally surprised me by beating Verdasco and this is where I think his long journey will end. Piros is a great player who won the junior OA tournament in 2017, so he knows the cards here, and the young 17-year-old Shang has already achieved what I think he didn't believe himself. Piros looks better on the ground, but in conditions like here it also shines, a good serve and a good game from the back makes you trust him, not to mention that the cof has fallen a lot and will probably fall again. The Hungarian defeated more than one much more serious opponent than Shang and such a big koff is really taken for him, of course I choose a small minus here, because I think that the Hungarian has to deal with the young upstart quite easily here

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