Bu Yunchaokete upsets Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 in the 1st round in Shanghai on Thursday. Yunchaokete is going to play against Luciano Darderi in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 52 minutes. This run will match his most significant achievement in this competition. Here you can see his history at this event.
Bu added to his prize money $ 11,500 after winning this match. He has already won $ 35,260 after this win. If he wins the next match, Bu will add $ 25,140 to his earnings to get in total $ 60,400 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Bu scored 111 points vs. Cerundolo’s 103.
Yunchaokete
Yunchaokete served exceptionally well to win 77% of the points (63/82) behind his first serve. However he won only 46% points (16/35) on his second serve. The Chinese struck 10 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Yunchaokete won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 40% (2/5) of the procured opportunities.
Cerundolo
On the other side, Cerundolo wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/9). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Yunchaokete and Cerundolo is 1-0 for Bu.
Draw and next match H2H: Bu Yunchaokete vs. Luciano Darderi – stats
Yunchaokete will compete against Darderi in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Bu Yunchaokete and Luciano Darderi play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Darderi (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Darderi won 7-64 6-3 in the 1st round in Rome back in May 2025.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Yunchaokete grabbed in the 4th game (3-1) before ultimately winning the set (6-3).
Yunchaokete converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 4th game (2-1 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Yunchaokete didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 64 points. Bu was the winner of the set after clinching 6 points more than Cerundolo (35-29). The Chinese conceded 5 points on serve (20-5). On the other side, Juan Manuel conceded 15 points on serve (24-15).
Juan Manuel won the set after he broke Yunchaokete .
Cerundolo was perfect in converting all his break points in the 4th (2-1 30-40), the 8th (4-3 30-40 and 40-A), the 10th (5-4 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Bu wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 11th game (5-5 30-40).
They contested 102 points. This set was so close that, Juan Manuel won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. Juan Manuel dropped 8 points on serve (22-8). On the other side, Yunchaokete conceded 29 points on serve (43-29).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Yunchaokete conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before finally conquering the set (6-3).
Yunchaokete was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6th
game (3-2 40-A). On the other side, Juan Manuel wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 5th game (2-2 30-40).They played 46 points. Bu conquered the set after winning 4 more points than the Argentine (25-21). Bu conceded 6 points on serve (18-6). Regarding the other side of the net, Cerundolo conceded 7 points on serve (15-7).
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