The Australian Open Wild Card Tournament ended successfully, and Kumchun and Istomin received the Australian Open Wild Card!

The 2017 Australia Open Asia-Pacific Wild Card Tournament, hosted by the Australia Tennis Association and hosted by Zhuhai Huafa Group, entered the final stage on December 4, and the men's and women's singles finals were staged one after another at the Hengqin International Tennis Center.

In the final of the Women's Singles, Kum Chun from Thailand defeated Chinese Taipei's Chang Kai-zhen 6-4, 6-3; In the final men's singles final, top seed Istomin defeated Korea's rising star Lee Deok-hee 7-5, 6-1. Both champions received wild cards from the Australian Open and will go straight to the Australia Open in January.

Zhang Kaizhen

The Women's Singles final was first played on Centre Court, with both sides holding serve after the opening of the match. In the third game, Zhang Kaizhen's mistakes increased, and Kumchun broke the deadlock on the court, taking the lead to break serve and lead 3-1, and then the two sides performed steadily and held serve respectively.

Zhang Kaizhen

In the seventh game, Kumchun trailed 0-30 on her own serve, but she scored four straight points to hold serve to take a 5-2 lead. The game came to Zhang Kaizhen's indispensable service game, and Zhang Kaizhen withstood the pressure and successfully held serve.

Luksika KUMKHUM won the set on his serve, but when he won two set points, he made frequent forehand errors, and Zhang Kaizhen won a break point and successfully broke to make the score 4-5. However, Zhang Kaizhen did not take advantage of the victory to chase down, and the service game was lost again, and Kumchun took the next city 6-4.

After the first 4 games were tied at 2-2, Zhang Kaizhen was trapped in a leg injury and was broken by Kumchun in the fifth game, and Kumchun then held serve successfully, and the score came to 4-2. After holding serve for the rest of the game, Zhang Kaizhen took a break to request a medical timeout.

After Kumchun successfully held serve, the score came to 5-3, and the game came to Zhang Kaizhen's irreversible service game, but the Taipei girl failed to hold the serve, and Kumchun broke serve to win the game 6-3 and won the championship of this wild card tournament.

Wu Xiangming, Deputy Director of Zhuhai Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism (second from right), Todd Woodbridge (first from right), Australian tennis legend T·odd Woodbridge (first from right), Jeffery CHAN, President of CPA Australia Greater China (second from left), and Jeff Hughes, Chief Operating Officer of CPA Australia Membership Services (first from left) presented awards to the winners

The Men's Singles final was then held on Centre Court. This match can be described as the pinnacle of the wildcard matchup, as the players on either side of the court are top seed Istomin and second seed Lee De Hee.

Denis ISTOMIN In the first four games of the first set, the two sides were stable on their own serve and temporarily tied at 2-2. In the fifth game, Istomin got multiple break points in Lee De-hee's service game, but all of them were defused by Lee De-hee's strong serve, and Lee De-hee had a thrilling hold of serve.

Duckhee Lee In the next few games, both players failed to take advantage of their chances, even though both sides had break points on each other's serves. In the eleventh game, the situation on the court took a turn for the better, Istomin won three consecutive break points at 40-0 on Lee Dehee's serve, and although he wasted one, Istomin finally seized the break opportunity to win the game, and then won his own serve to win the first set 7-5.

Denis ISTOMIN, who lost the first set, began to slacken and was broken in the second set. Istomin was getting more and more relaxed, breaking back-to-back to bring the score to 3-1.

Enthusiastic spectators in these games, Lee Deok-hee frequently released small balls and received good results, but still could not stop Istomin's attack, the Korea teenager lost again in the second service game, and Istomin broke the tie to bring the score to 5-1.

Wu Xiangming, Deputy Director of Zhuhai Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism (first from right)

Australian tennis legend T·odd Woodbridge (first from left) presents the winners with an award match to Lee Tek Hee's unstoppable service game, only for the Korea teenager to break serve again, and Istomin won 6-1 to defeat Lee 2-0 on aggregate to win the 2017 Australia Open Asia Pacific Wild Card Tournament.

Before the start of the Australian Open trophy match, Huafa Sports, the executive unit of the event, invited students from the No. 6 Primary School of Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City to perform on the center court.

In addition, at the award ceremony of the women's singles and men's singles finals, the organizer of the event, the Australia Tennis Association and the organizer Huafa Group, drew the 2017 China Open, Zhuhai WTA Super Classic and Australia Open free viewing awards for fans who came to watch the match, and even heated the atmosphere of the scene.

In a roar of
cheers and applause

2017 Australia Open Asia Pacific Wild Card Tournament

The curtain has come down perfectly!