{"id":6079,"date":"2026-09-03T03:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:17:24","slug":"yunchaokete-creates-tennis-history-in-us-open-win-over-jodar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/yunchaokete-creates-tennis-history-in-us-open-win-over-jodar\/","title":{"rendered":"Yunchaokete creates tennis history in US Open win over Jodar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Bu Yunchaokete created a piece of tennis history after stunning 12th seed Rafael Jodar in the first round of the 2026 US Open.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 124 produced one of the biggest upsets of the opening round with a dominant 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 victory over the highly-rated Spaniard on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xLudWFW98k?si=ID_aD1RJpXYCvDD-\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In doing so, Yunchaokete became the first lucky loser in the Open Era to defeat a top-15 seed.<\/p>\n<p>Jodar was also the highest-seeded player to lose to a lucky loser in the tournament&#8217;s Open Era history.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old had initially missed out from the main draw after losing to Federico Cina in the final round of qualifying, only to receive a late opportunity when Thanasi Kokkinakis withdrew from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>It was also his first Grand Slam main-draw victory at the seventh attempt, having lost in the opening round on each of his previous six appearances at majors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kBYcxuFZ6mw?si=0PK4EKgLn5RigjZ1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The result brought an abrupt end to Jodar&#8217;s first US Open senior campaign, two years after the Spaniard won the boys&#8217; singles title at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old had been one of the fastest-rising players on tour, climbing from outside the world&#8217;s top 300 to the top 15 over the past year before arriving in New York as the 12th seed.<\/p>\n<p>Yunchaokete&#8217;s reward is a second-round meeting with American wildcard Michael Zheng, who defeated Fabian Marozsan 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 in his opening match.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese player won their previous meeting in straight sets at the 2024 Chicago Challenger as he looks to turn his unexpected place in the draw into an even deeper run at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the 2026 US Open live on SPOTV NOW.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Q2xrg-kDQU?si=vuy4eccaL1WoIZjJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Bu Yunchaokete created a piece of tennis history after stunning 12th seed Rafael Jodar in the first round of the 2026 US Open. The world number 124 produced one of the biggest upsets of the opening round with a dominant 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 victory over the highly-rated Spaniard on Wednesday. In doing so, Yunchaokete &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/yunchaokete-creates-tennis-history-in-us-open-win-over-jodar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yunchaokete creates tennis history in US Open win over Jodar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[264,364],"class_list":["post-6079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular","category-top-stories","tag-tennis-en","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions\/6084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}