Donald Young upsets Yen-Hsun Lu to move to round two – Thailand Open 2012
World number 124, Donald Young of USA, is coming back to winning ways, as he outlasted the 65th ranked player from Chinese Taipei, Yen-Hsun Lu, in the first round of the Thailand Open in Bangkok.
Taking a total of two hours and 17 minutes to claim victory, Young lost the first set 5-7 but grabbed the following two 6-2, 7-5 to move to the next stage.
The American player, who attained his highest ranking of 38 in February this year, is having a pathetic season. The left-hander has won just four of the 26 matches he has played this year. The 23-year-old lost 16 matches in a row
and that streak ended when he defeated the then 63rd ranked, Leonardo Mayer of Argentina, in the first round of the Winston-Salem Open.
Young and Lu served brilliantly in the first 10 games, as both of them did not allow the other to claim a breakthrough, equalling the score at 5-5. The Taiwanese national raised the level of his game at the ending stages of the
set, hitting a blow to his opponent in the 11th and making the most of it to triumph 7-5.
Just like the opening set, Young and Lu made a stable start in the second one, going neck to neck in the first four games to level the score at 2-2. However, there was a one sided contest later on, as the American player claimed
four successively to seal it 6-2.
Young lost the winning momentum, as he got broken in the opening game and dropped the following game to trail 0-2. The American contestant pulled it back in the sixth to even it out at 3-3. The following five games went with serve
to take the score to 6-5 in the favour of Young and then Lu failed to hold and went down 5-7.
The Georgia resident banged in a total of three aces and 65 percent of the first serves, winning 48 of the 59 points on them in the match.
Young will play the fifth seeded player from Spain, Fernando Verdasco, in the second round.
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