Eleonora Aloise told the story of the tennis player Yunchaokete Bu, born in 2002 in Xinjiang, in the Mongolian community of Bortala. According to the author, his original name was Buyunchaokete, written all together, because surnames were not used in the community. Aloise added that the ATP would have derived a surname by separating the name and that he was called Bu or Bert. In her story, Bu's father died before his birth, and after his mother remarried and moved away, the child was entrusted to his paternal grandparents. Pastors who did not know Mandarin and lived with limited means, the grandparents sent him to the SOS Children’s Village in Urumqi so that he could study. Aloise wrote that when Bu was five years old, the youth tennis coach Luo Yong arrived at the center to engage the kids in physical activities. In the post, she attributed the discovery of the boy's talent to Lu Yang: according to Aloise's words, Bu was neither the fastest nor the strongest, but the one who worked hardest. The coach then proposed that he transfer to his sports center in Huzhou, 3,000 kilometers from Bortala, and Bu agreed. Aloise described the journey as a series of coincidences and detours, evoking the legendary names of the region and comparing the opportunity Bu received to a letter from Hogwarts. She concluded by suggesting that his more suitable name could be Jangar, the protagonist of the local epic. #tennis #tennis #storia #sport (translated)
