The reason for their nerves, perhaps, was the presence of their 23-year-old teammate XuXin, the freewheeling young gun who has leapfrogged them both to become world No. 1 and started as the tournament's top seed.
XuXin, president of Deer Jet, a subsidiary of the Hainan Airlines Group, told China Daily that he is very optimistic about the Chinese business aviation market due to the increasing number of rich people in China and their willingness to spend more on business jets.