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- An update on Wimbledon’s Monday schedule indicated that the match between Zhang and Hoang had been canceled. Wimbledon was forced to cancel 20 matches on Monday due to rain, reported Express.
- Zhang, who reached a career-high World No. 136 last year, currently ranks as the World No. 175 in tennis.
- He is only the fourth Chinese man to appear in a grand slam event, following in the footsteps of Wu Di (2013, 2014, 2016), Zhang Ze (2014, 2015), and Li Zhe (2019), who have all played at the Australian Open.
- A win over Hoang would progress Zhang past the first round of The Championships and give him an edge over his Chinese men’s tennis predecessors.
- Zhang was 4 years old when he started playing tennis. At the time, his father thought he was quite small to be a soccer player.
- He joined the Shanghai team at 12 and became the youngest, at age 16, to win the doubles gold medal in the China national games with Wu Di in 2013.
- In 2015, Zhang qualified for his first ATP Tour main draw at the age of 18, a week before he earned his first Top 100 victory in Beijing, according to a feature on ATPTour.