Ly Hoang Nam stopped in the second round of Zhangjiagang Challenger 75

In the first round, Ly Hoang Nam made an impressive comeback to win 2-1 against American tennis player Nick Chappell, thereby ending a losing streak of the first eight matches in Challenger tournaments.

The opponent in the second round is Colin Sinclair from the Northern Mariana Islands - ranked 379 ATP - is considered equal and has a chance for Nam to win.

However, the habit of slow starting puts Hoang Nam at a disadvantage. He struggled to keep his first serve game after four 40-40 draws. But in game eight, Nam failed to give his opponent a 5-3 lead and then won 6-3 in the end.

In the second set, Nam played better to win the first and third ball games, thereby winning 6-1 quickly. However, the player born in 1997 lacked concentration in the third set when he lost four games in a row, scoring only five points to help Sinclair win 6-1 to end the match after 1 hour 56 minutes.

Stopping in the second round, the Vietnamese player has seven more points and 1,300 USD in prize money (about 35 million VND). The last time Ly Hoang Nam reached the quarterfinals of a Challenger tournament was at Matsuyama 50 in Japan in November 2022.

Zhangjiagang 75 is one of four tournaments in China that Ly Hoang Nam plans to compete in, along with Hengqin 50 (eliminated in the first round), Shanghai 100 from September 4 to September 10 and Guangzhou Nansha 75 from September 11 to September 16. /9. After that, the Vietnamese tennis player will prepare for ASIAD 19 in Hangzhou.