Hoang Nam hit the final with a 2m03 high “serve machine”, competing against stars who were in the top 70

(Sports news, tennis news) Vietnam’s No. 1 tennis player Ly Hoang Nam had a commendable final against the 2m03 tall player who was ranked 62 in the world Kenny De Schepper.

Hoang Nam’s efforts in the final against De Schepper:

On the evening of March 27, Vietnamese billiards fans turned their attention to the final match of the M25 Toulouse-Balman professional tennis tournament in France, where Ly Hoang Nam had a great championship war with Kenny De Schepper (532 TP).

Although Hoang Nam tried very hard, he could not beat the veteran tennis player De Schepper

The 34-year-old tennis player of the host country has a height of 2m03 and was ranked 62nd in the world in April 2014. During his career, De Schepper has earned a total prize money of more than 1.64 million USD. (nearly 38 billion VND).

The match started off fairly even when De Schepper put into play his “thunderbolt” serves, while Hoang Nam maintained his technique-rich late-court style. In the fourth game, De Schepper exerted tremendous pressure with powerful forehand shots to successfully break Hoang Nam’s serve game and take a 3-1 lead.

Hoang Nam was almost able to claim the break in the 7th game when he led his opponent 40-15, but the host player played soberly to win this set and widen the gap to 5-2. De Schepper continued to serve well to win the first set 6-3.

De Schepper was crowned thanks to extremely powerful serves

In the second set, Hoang Nam lost his break in the first game. Losing the advantage, the Tay Ninh tennis player played very well in the next games with effective nets, and extremely dangerous hits to the two corners of the court, causing many difficulties for the opponent.

However, the powerful and classy serves have saved De Schepper many times at important moments. The 2m03 tall player almost all gets the serve to score directly in the game he serves. Efforts but could not reclaim the break, Hoang Nam continued to lose this set with a score of 3-6, thereby losing the final 0-2 after 2 sets.

Hoang Nam and De Schepper on the podium to receive the award

Although he could not be crowned at the tournament, the runner-up position helped Hoang Nam accumulate 12 more points on the world men’s tennis rankings, thereby surely returning to the top 500 ATP. After this tournament, Hoang Nam will attend 3 consecutive M15 Chiang Rai tournaments taking place from April 4 to May 1 in Thailand to prepare for the 31st SEA Games.