Bu Yunchaokete

In this Mongolian name, the given name is Buyunchaokete (布云朝克特). There is neither a patronymic nor a family name.

Buyunchaokete^{[lower-alpha 1]} (born 19 January 2002) is a Chinese tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 69 achieved on 30 September 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 274 achieved on 23 October 2023.^[1] He is the current No. 3 Chinese player.^[2]

Buyunchaokete

Bu at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Full name	Buyunchaokete
Country (sports)	China
Born	(2002-01-19) 19 January 2002 (age 22) Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	January 2022
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US $651,848
Singles
Career record	8–7
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 69 (30 September 2024)
Current ranking	No. 74 (28 October 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2024)
French Open	Q2 (2024)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2024)
US Open	1R (2024)
Doubles
Career record	1–4
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 274 (23 October 2023)
Current ranking	No. 607 (30 September 2024)
Last updated on: 30 October 2024.

Early life

Buyunchaokete was born in an Mongolian family from Bortala in northwestern Xinjiang. His father died when he was young, and his mother remarried. Following the Mongolian custom of attaching more importance to the paternal family, Buyunchaokete continued to live with his grandparents. But his grandparents did not know Mandarin, so in order to allow him to receive a better education in the city, he was sent to the Urumqi SOS Children's Village. At the age of 5 (2007), he was discovered by coach Luo Yong and sent to Huzhou, Zhejiang for training.^[3]

Career

2023: Maiden Challenger title, first Masters win

He won his maiden Challenger title at the 2023 Seoul Open, defeating Aleksandar Vukic in straight sets. As a result, he moved close to 80 positions up at a new career-high ranking of No. 164 on 8 May 2023.^[1]

He won his first match at a Masters 1000 level as a wildcard at the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters against Miomir Kecmanović.^[4]

2024: Grand Slam debut, first ATP 500 quarterfinal and top 100

He won his second Challenger at the 2024 Wuxi Open in China, defeating Egor Gerasimov and becoming the youngest Chinese player to win multiple titles at this level.^[5] As a result he climbed 50 positions back up back to the top 200 at world No. 189 on 20 May 2024. Two months later, he reached the top 150 at No. 147 on 22 July 2024, following another Challenger title in Granby, Canada. He reached the top 125 following a semifinal showing at the 2024 Lincoln Challenger on 12 August 2024.

Ranked No. 123, he made his Grand Slam debut, after qualifying for the main draw at the US Open. He was defeated in the first round by Casper Ruud.

At the 2024 Hangzhou Open where he entered as a wildcard, he defeated Hugo Gaston and second seed Karen Khachanov to make his first ATP Tour quarterfinal becoming just the sixth Chinese player to accomplish the feat in the Open Era.^[6][7] Next he defeated Mikhail Kukushkin to reach the first ATP Tour semifinal in his career. Next, he met compatriot Zhang Zhizhen in a historic all-Chinese ATP semifinal but lost in straight sets. As a result he moved into the top 100 in the rankings, on 23 September 2024 at world No. 96, becoming only the fourth Chinese player to reach the milestone.^[8] At the 2024 China Open where he also received a wildcard he defeated this time his other compatriot Shang Juncheng recording his first ATP 500-level win^[9] and stunned sixth seed Lorenzo Musetti making his first ATP 500 quarterfinal, only the second Chinese man to reach that far in the tournament.^[10] He then upset fourth seed and world no. 6 Andrey Rublev for his first top 10 win, and became the first Chinese man to reach the semifinals and the first to claim multiple top 20 wins at a single event on hardcourt since the release of the ATP rankings in 1973.^[11] He lost to world No. 1 Jannik Sinner in straight sets.^[12] He received a wildcard for the 2024 Shanghai Masters for his debut at this tournament,^[13][14] later changed to a special exempt entry as he was still competing in Beijing.

Davis Cup

He represents China at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 0–2.^[15]

Name

According to the ATP Tour, his name is Buyunchaokete - one word - but goes by Bu or his English name, Bert.^[16][17] His name on the websites of tennis' governing bodies, the ATP and the ITF Tours, is displayed as either Bu Yunchaokete or Yunchaokete Bu.

Record against top 10 players

Buyunchaokete has a 1-2 (33.33%) record against record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.^[18]

Top 10 wins

No.	Player	Rank	Tournament	Surface	Rd	Score	BR
2024
1.	Andrey Rublev	6	China Open, China	Hard	QF	7–5, 6–4	96

ATP Challenger Tour finals

Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Legend ATP Challenger Tour (3–2)

Finals by surface Hard (3–2) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2023	Seoul, South Korea	Challenger	Hard	Aleksandar Vukic	7–6(7–4), 6–4
Loss	1–1	Apr 2024	Gwangju, South Korea	Challenger	Hard	Lloyd Harris	2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Win	2–1	May 2024	Wuxi, China	Challenger	Hard	Egor Gerasimov	6–4, 6–1
Win	3–1	Jul 2024	Granby, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Térence Atmane	6–3, 6–7(7–9), 6–4
Loss	3–2	Jul 2024	Chicago, USA	Challenger	Hard	Gabriel Diallo	3–6, 6–7(3–7)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2023	Shanghai, China	Challenger	Hard	Te Rigele	Alex Bolt Luke Saville	6–4, 3–6, [9–11]

ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Legend ITF WTT (6–2)

Finals by surface Hard (6–2) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2022	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Mattia Bellucci	6–4, 6–2
Win	2–0	May 2022	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Ray Ho	6–4, 7–5
Win	3–0	May 2022	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Alberto Barroso Campos	6–1, 6–7(4–7), 6–3
Win	4–0	Jun 2022	M25 Chiang Rai, Thailand	WTT	Hard	Shintaro Imai	6–3, 7–5
Loss	4–1	Jun 2022	M15 Chiang Rai, Thailand	WTT	Hard	Shintaro Imai	5–7, 4–6
Win	5–1	Jun 2022	M15 Chiang Rai, Thailand	WTT	Hard	Cui Jie	6–1, 6–4
Win	6–1	Aug 2022	M25 Tbilisi, Georgia	WTT	Hard	Edan Leshem	6–3, 2–6, 6–3
Loss	6–2	Dec 2022	M25 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Mark Lajal	4-6, 1-6

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Legend ITF WTT (1–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2022	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Li Zhe	Charles Broom Constantin Frantzen	5–7, 6–2, [8–10]
Loss	0–2	May 2022	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Wang Aoran	Alberto Barroso Campos Ray Ho	2–6, 6–4, [5–10]
Win	1–2	May 2022	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Wang Aoran	Kazuma Kawachi Ryuki Matsuda	6–2, 7–6(7–2)

Notes

1. Chinese: 布云朝克特, Mongolian: ᠪ‍ᠤ‍ᠶᠠᠨᠴᠤᠭᠲᠤ, romanized: Buyanchogtu

References

1. "Bu Yunchaokete | Rankings | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.
2. "Rankings | Singles". ATP Tour.
3. "Bùyúnzhāokètè bù dí ǒuxiàng mù léi, sài hòu chéngqīng liǎng gè wùjiě" 布云朝克特不敌偶像穆雷，赛后澄清两个误解 [Buyunchaokete lost to his idol Murray and clarified two misunderstandings after the game]. Sohu (in Chinese). 2023-07-08. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
4. "Chinese Star 'Bu' Set For ATP Tour Debut In Shanghai". ATPTour. 3 October 2023.
5. "Bu, 22, makes Chinese tennis history; Pouille returns to Challenger titletown". 13 March 2024.
6. @ATPTour (20 September 2024). "Wild card, wild win 🤩 Home prodigy Bu topples Khachanov to become just the 6th Chinese player to reach a singles QF in the Open Era! 👏 @HangzhouOpen #HangzhouOpen" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
7. "Nakashima saves MPs, advances to Hangzhou QFs". ATPTour. 20 September 2024.
8. "History in Hangzhou! Zhang, Buyunchaokete seal first all-Chinese SF". ATPTour. 22 September 2024.
9. @ChinaOpen (27 September 2024). "In a battle of hometown heroes, Buyunchaokete narrowly defeats Shang Juncheng 6-7(3), 6-2, 6-4. 🇨🇳 #2024ChinaOpen #AllForPassion" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
10. @ChinaOpen (29 September 2024). "History in the making 🇨🇳 Yunchaokete Bu defeats No. 6 seed Lorenzo Musetti 6-2, 6-4 to earn his first career Top 20 win over the No. 18-ranked Italian. Bu becomes the 2nd Chinese men's quarter-finalist in tournament history (since 2004).#2024ChinaOpen #AllForPassion" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
11. @OptaAce (30 September 2024). "1 - Since the rankings were released in 1973, Bu Yunchaokete is now the first Chinese player to claim multiple ATP top 20 wins at a single event on hard court, and the first player representing China to reach the SF at the China Open. Stunning.#ChinaOpen @ChinaOpen @atptour" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
12. "Sinner sets Alcaraz blockbuster in Beijing final". ATPTour. 1 October 2024.
13. @SH_RolexMasters (25 September 2024). "Our first wildcards for the 2024 #RolexShanghaiMasters have been announced 🙌 @keinishikori@stanwawrinka" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
14. "Nishikori, Wawrinka headline Shanghai wild cards". ATPTour. 26 September 2024. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
15. "Davis Cup – Players".
16. "Yunchaokete Bu | Bio | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.
17. "China's Bu: 'I hope I can inspire'". ATP Tour.
18. "Bu vs Top 10". Tennis Abstract.

External links

• Bu Yunchaokete at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Bu Yunchaokete at the International Tennis Federation
• Bu Yunchaokete at the Davis Cup
• Bu Yunchaokete on Instagram