Hong Kong’s Coleman Wong set to ‘sweat blood’ in bid to reach mainland China final

Coleman Wong Chak-lam has been told he will have to “sweat blood” to beat the ominously in-form Sun Fajing on Saturday and reach the sixth Challenger Tour final of his career.

Emerging from a fallow 1½ months that Wong’s coach James Allemby put down to his player becoming “too result oriented”, the Hongkonger continued his charge in Jiujiang on Friday, overcoming home favourite Bu Yunchaokete 7-6, 7-6 in an absorbing quarter-final contest.

“Coleman would’ve most likely lost that match a couple of weeks ago, but the objective was for him to face every obstacle in the best possible way in terms of attitude and body language, and not get caught up in the result,” Allemby said.

“The real result was that he was able to say, ‘We’ve left the day a little better than we found it’.”