The first day of the M25 main draw of the ITF International Men's Tennis Tour Shenzhen Guangming Station ended

On March 18, the 2025 Shenzhen Guangming International Tennis Open ITF International Men's Tennis Tour Shenzhen Guangming Station M25 launched the first match day of the main event at the Guangming District Mass Sports Center in Shenzhen.

In the first five matches of the first day of the singles tournament, the third seed Bai Yan was challenged by China's Mesozoic player Terigele, and finally Bai Yan also made it through the first round 2-0 (6-3, 6-0). His National Games doubles partner Dong Zhenxiong from Guizhou Province challenged Japan's Masahiro Imamura, the No. 5 seed in the tournament, who was in good form today, but was torn apart by Masahiro Imamura by pulling at both sides to stop in the first round 0-2 (4-6, 3-6).

The 36-year-old Bai Yan said in an interview that because of his illness at the beginning of the year, the Shenzhen Guangming Station is the third week of competition since the adjustment and recovery, and he will first find the feeling of the game through some slightly lower-level matches in China, and then will participate in more foreign challenges and strive for higher-level ATP opportunities. In recent years, I have been involved in a lot of coaching work, and at the same time, I have returned to the field as a player, and both roles are experiencing and accumulating. Through my own experience, I have learned that the most important thing for the growth of young people is tolerance, help them learn from their mistakes, and help them grow better.

This year, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao co-hosted the 15th National Games, Bai Yan will represent Guizhou Province, when talking about the goal, he said that every athlete who participates in the competition must be the champion, but the current strength of Chinese men's tennis is also in the process of steady progress, when several Top100 players will also come back to participate in the National Games, the goal is the champion, and the hope is to be able to play their own strength and style, every step forward is the best result.

In the doubles, the Straits pair Wang Aoran/Hsieh Zhengpeng took the lead in the first set against Hsu Yu-hsiu (Taiwan)/Shintaro Imai (Japan), and then took the next set 6-3, but the second set was confusing, with the two sides taking the lead alternately, and in the crucial 10th game, the Wang-Hsieh pair won three points in a row on the opponent's serve to tie the set point, and then they were more mentally advantaged to successfully defeat their opponents 2-0 (6-3, 7-6(2)) to advance to the quarterfinals. Sun Qian/Tang Sheng lost 3-6 to fourth seeds, Japan's Shishi Isomura/Keisuke Saito.

The first round of the main draw will continue with 11 singles matches and three doubles matches in the first round, with top singles seed Xu Yuxiu facing Australia's Akira SANTILLAN and fourth seed Cui Jie facing Russia's Yegor Agafonov.

Today's (19 March) schedule is attached

The event will be broadcast live throughout the event, and viewers who cannot watch the event live can continue to pay attention to the event through the official account of Yueqiu Sports, Yueqiu Weibo, all tennis and other platforms.

The competition is authorized by the ITF International Tennis Federation, hosted by the Tennis Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China, the Chinese Tennis Association, and the People's Government of Guangming District, Shenzhen, supported by the Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau of Guangming District, Shenzhen, Sports Industry Group Co., Ltd., and Guangdong Tennis Association. In addition, the event has also been strongly sponsored and supported by well-known enterprises and units such as Adidas, Yonex, Shutu Sports Protection, ELECTROX, Guangdong Radio and Television Sports Channel, Guangzhou Daily, and Quantenni, providing a full range of services and guarantees for the event.