The 20-year-old Wang Xinyu beat the Top 20 player for the first time in her career
In the early morning of November 10, Beijing time, the women's singles of the 2021 WTA250 Linz Station began the second round of competition. Chinese player Wang Xinyu, who broke through from the qualifiers, sent an invisible egg in the first set, and after 2 hours and 36 minutes of hard fighting, defeated the top seed of the tournament and the new US Open champion Radukanu 6-1/6(0)-7/7-5 to advance to the women's singles quarterfinals, and the real ranking also advanced to the top 100. Wang Xinyu will fight the No. 8 seed Risk in the next round.
Wang Xinyu, who started from the qualifiers in this tournament, broke into the second round of the women's singles after two consecutive successful reversals, and ended up encountering the top seed of the tournament and the champion of the new US Open, Radukanu. Both set new all-time personal highs on this week's world rankings, with Raducano making it into the top 20 for the first time and Wang Xinyu approaching the top 100. Previously, Wang Xinyu had lost all 9 times against top 50 players.
In the first set, Raducado saved his first serve and then lost six innings in a row, swallowing the invisible duck egg to lose the first set 1-6. In the first set, Raducannu's 7 second serves only received one point, and the 14.3% two-serve scoring rate was really a bit miserable. The score ratio between the two sides was 17 to 33, and Wang Xinyu won almost double the score of her opponents.
In the second set, the two sides broke each other's serves to open the game, Radukanu quickly took the set to 4-2 after breaking again in the 5th set, but Wang Xinyu successfully broke back in the 8th set and took a 5-4 lead after a strong save from Love Game in the 9th set. Both were stable in their respective serves, and the game could only enter the seventh, and As a result, Raducanu scored seven consecutive points to win the seventh set at 7-0 and also pulled back a set.
The tournament's top seed Radukanu still doesn't seem to have found the rhythm of the tour after the Net
In the third set, the first eight sets were normal rhythms, but near the end of the game, Radukadu was suspected of being unwell. In the 9th set, Wang Xinyu broke four consecutive points in Raducannu's serve, and then saw match points in his first serve win, but Raducanu saved two match points and struggled to break back. After the first set was still glued, and Wang Xinyu broke consecutively to grasp the initiative again, as Wang Xinyu won another serve in the 12th set, the post-00s career first beat the Top20 players to advance to the women's singles quarterfinals!