Picture: Bouyunchokert (left) shakes hands with Sinner after the game. China News Service
In one of the semi-finals of the 2024 China Tennis Open (referred to as the China Open), when the last ball landed, Chinese player Buyun Chaoket, as the “loser” of the game, enjoyed the warm applause of the diamond court audience. Smiling and shaking hands with his opponent, world No. 1 Sinner.
Although Bu Yunchao Kete lost, he “won” at the same time. Because while he lost to Sinner, he won the best result in this event in his career. China News
Many people may not have imagined that this 22-year-old young man who competed fiercely with the world’s number one has a completely different life from other tennis players.
Buyunchaoket was born in Inner Mongolia and grew up in a children’s village in Xinjiang. Later he joined the Zhejiang Provincial Tennis Team and started playing from scratch. If his story could be told in one sentence, it could be summarized as: a man who was teased by fate and yet favored by fate.
Compared with other sports, the cost of training a tennis player is by no means low. In the vast career system of the “rich man’s movement”, Buyunchaoket is an exception because no one has walked the same path as him.
Xinjiang Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, where Buyunchaoket comes from. In Mongolian, Bortala means “green grassland”, while “Buyunchaoket” means auspiciousness and blessing. It’s just that these beautiful images did not materialize in Xiao Bu’s growth. Reality made a joke on this child who longed for success.
Bu Yunchaoket’s father passed away when he was young. After his mother remarried, Bu Yunchaoket continued to live with his grandparents. In order to give him a better way out, Buyunchaoket was sent to Urumqi SOS Children’s Village, a public welfare organization that rescues children.
In the eyes of Liu Peibao, the mother of the No. 2 family who raised Bu Yunchaoket, although Xiao Bu is thin and small, his eyes are full of intelligence.
When talking about Buyunchaoket, the name Luo Yong cannot be avoided. In the early years, Luo Yong, who was full of enthusiasm, packed his bags and headed south to Huzhou, located in the northern part of Zhejiang Province. At that time, the development of tennis in Huzhou City was relatively lagging behind. As a coach, Luo Yong was keenly aware that there was a serious shortage of good young talents in the local area, so he finally went to the welfare institution to select talents.
In Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan, he began to run around looking for children with athletic talent and shining eyes. By chance, 5-year-old Buyunchaoket came to a strange southern town from the SOS Children’s Village in Urumqi, almost across the entire country.
Since then, the ignorant boy has an additional life option of tennis. Under the circumstances, this may also be his best choice to get ahead.
Likes to take the initiative in serving games
Like many people, Xiaobu didn’t understand what a goal was at first. He only knew that playing tennis could make him feel happy. Growing up, people around him had the same comment about him: a hard-working player.
Buyunchaoket likes to use his forehand attack to take the initiative in his serve game. This is reflected in his high-quality serve and consistent baseline performance on the court.
The formation of this style of play can be traced back to his teenage years. During the three years of training at the Huzhou Tennis Center, Buyunchaoket has mastered the basic technical essentials of tennis. In order to improve his physical fitness, he often runs from the training ground to Taihu Lake 6 kilometers away.
He learned the fierceness that is essential for an excellent athlete. To a certain extent, this is an external manifestation of his desire for tennis.
