Zhang Zhizhen retired again! After Rome, the world ranking fell outside the 80s

The 2025 season is quite a bit of a high start and low for Chinese player Zhang Zhizhen. At the beginning of the year, Zhang Zhizhen helped the Chinese team defeat Brazil and other teams to qualify for the group stage and advance to the quarterfinals with his outstanding performance in singles and mixed doubles.

Although the United States lost to the tennis powerhouse in the quarterfinals and missed the semifinals, the excellent performance in the group stage still made many fans talk about it.

Switching to the Australian Open, Zhang Zhizhen fought in the men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles, although he lost to the famous Rune in the first round of the men's singles in five sets, but he and Mahachi still advanced to the third round of the men's doubles, and finally lost to Nice/Wassellin.

After finishing his first Grand Slam tournament of the year, Zhang Zhizhen made it to Rotterdam without stopping, losing to Rublev 3-6 4-6 in the first round; The subsequent Marseille Open eliminated Aris and Hurkacz in the first two rounds, and retired in the quarter-finals when he faced Berges 5-7 down in the first set.

After Zhang retired from Marseille, he played in Doha, Dubai and Indian Wells, all of which ended in the first round, losing to Narddi, Perricar and Diallo respectively.

However, on February 24, 2025, Zhang Zhizhen officially surpassed Bublik to become the first brother in Asia for the first time with the world ranking of 49th, which is also the first Chinese mainland player to become the first Asian player since the establishment of the ATP ranking system.

However, Zhang Zhizhen did not retain his position as the number one brother in Asia, having withdrawn from the Miami Open, Monte Carlo Masters, Munich Open and Madrid Masters due to personal injury problems, and the Rome Masters, which he withdrew from next week, Zhang Zhizhen has been absent from the tour for two months since the beginning of March.

You must know that Zhang Zhizhen's performance in the same period of the 2024 season is quite eye-catching, after losing to Kezmanovic in the first round of the Madrid Masters, he came to the Rome Masters alone, and successively eliminated Gran, Mannarino and Shelton to advance to the men's singles round of 16.

He continued to play consistently in the quarter-finals, beating Monteiro 7-6 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals of his second Masters, before losing to Tabilo in the quarter-finals.

After deducting 200 points from last year's quarterfinals at the Rome Masters, Zhang is expected to drop to around 80th in the world rankings, leaving the ATP with only two tournaments left in Hamburg and Geneva, followed by the French Open.

According to the schedule, this year's French Open will officially start on May 25, after Shang Juncheng has announced his retirement, and only Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xinyu, Zhang Zhizhen and Buyun Chaoket are directly ranked in the singles main draw.(Source: Tennis House Author: Barbie)