{"id":283701,"date":"2025-11-14T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283701\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:01:14","slug":"hong-kongs-wong-enjoying-return-to-tennis-team-environment-eases-into-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283701\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Wong enjoying return to tennis team environment, eases into second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s Coleman Wong Chak-lam said he needed to take his time getting used to playing at the National Games after advancing to the second round of the men\u2019s singles.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The No 2 seed took little more than an hour to dispatch Duan Hao of Shanxi on Friday, sealing a 6-1, 6-3 win at the Hengqin International Tennis Centre in 64 minutes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Speaking after his maiden win at the Games, Wong said he thought he had played well but would need more time to adjust to playing outdoors.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI did well with my serves today but I need some adjustments with everything else going forward,\u201d he said. \u201cI just rested a few days after playing in Taipei. It was indoor last week, but it\u2019s outdoor here.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cEverything was so different, so let\u2019s take it slow, and hopefully I can keep winning. The goal is to win a medal, but there\u2019s still a long way to go, so it\u2019s one game at a time. The most important thing is to avoid injury and recover well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Coleman Wong said he was surprised by the level of support he had during his first round clash with Duan Hao. Photo: Eugene Lee\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6aa1fd8e-ada0-42bc-bb77-53ab932431c0_3fc23124.jpg\" title=\"Coleman Wong said he was surprised by the level of support he had during his first round clash with Duan Hao. Photo: Eugene Lee\"\/>Coleman Wong said he was surprised by the level of support he had during his first round clash with Duan Hao. Photo: Eugene Lee<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Playing in his first China Games, the 21-year-old Hongkonger said he had enjoyed playing with his teammates around, and expressed surprise and delight at the number of fans who had made the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Coleman Wong Chak-lam said he needed to take his time getting used to playing at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[118961,53572,13832,64,63,3686,163872,136919,136923,163870,136922,10340,123119,36448,163869,163871,85,23073,747,163868],"class_list":["post-283701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2025-national-games","tag-asian-games","tag-atp-tour","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beijing","tag-chen-ye","tag-cody-wong-hong-yi","tag-coleman-wong-chak-lam","tag-duan-hao","tag-hengqin-international-tennis-centre","tag-hong-kong","tag-jerry-shang-juncheng","tag-national-games","tag-nicholas-cheng-siu-chi","tag-shanxi","tag-sports","tag-taipei","tag-tennis","tag-tiffany-wu-ho-ching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}