What Chinese history did Zhang Buyunchaokete make in Hangzhou?
pWhen Zhang Zhizhen defeated a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/mattia-bellucci/b0gg/overview'Mattia Bellucci/a 6-3, 6-0 to reach the quarter-finals in Hangzhou Saturday, he made history for Chinese tennis. /ppIt is the first time multiple Chinese players have made the quarter-finals of the same ATP Tour event. On Friday his countryman a href="https://www.atptour.com/en/players/yunchaokete-bu/y09v/overview"Buyunchaokete/a upset second seed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/karen-khachanov/ke29/overview'Karen Khachanov/a to reach the quarter-finals./ppldquo;Wersquo;re happy to [earn] some wins for Chinese people,rdquo; Zhang shared after the match./pblockquote class="twitter-tweet"p lang="en" dir="ltr"???? Home hero ????br /br /
ZZZ mania is in full swing!a href="https://twitter.com/HangzhouOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@HangzhouOpen/a|a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HangzhouOpen?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#HangzhouOpen/aa href="https://t.co/e18YM5Cd0Z"pic.twitter.com/e18YM5Cd0Z/a/pmdash;
ATP Tour (@atptour) a href="https://twitter.com/atptour/status/1837491323533705494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"September21, 2024/a/blockquotescript async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"charset="utf-8"/scriptpIn a near-perfect performance, Zhang fired six aces and faced no break points throughout the match as Bellucci made 29 unforced errors. The Chinese will face a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/roberto-carballes-baena/cf59/overview'Roberto Carballes Baena/a in the quarter-finals. It will be the first meeting in the pairrsquo;s Lexus ATP Head2Head series./ppa href="https://www.atptour.com/en/players/yunchaokete-bu/y09v/overview"Buyunchaokete/a will face a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/mikhail-kukushkin/k926/overview'Mikhail Kukushkin/a in the quarter-finals. It will also be the pair's first meeting./ppstrongDid You Know?/strongbr /
Zhang became the first Chinese player in PIF ATP Rankings history to break into the Top 100 in October 2022 and Top 50 in January 2024. Zhang and a href="https://www.atptour.com/en/players/yunchaokete-bu/y09v/overview"Buyunchaokete/a will try to join Wu Yibing (2023 Dallas) as Chinese ATP Tour titlists./pp[NEWSLETTER FORM]/p