Wang Qiang has won again!
In the early morning of May 22, in the women's singles semifinals of the 2021 WTA250 Italy Parma, China's Jinhua Wang Qiang eliminated the 2017 US Open champion Stevens in two straight sets 6-2, 7-6 (3).
This is the first time in her career that Wang Qiang has reached the final of the Clay Tour, and it is also the fifth time she has reached the women's singles final of the Tour.
After beating Serena Williams to reach the round of 16 at the Australian Open last year, Wang Qiang never achieved a brilliant result again. After returning to the field at the beginning of this year, he has not yet won two consecutive games this season, with a total record of 4 wins and 11 losses, and as many as seven races are a round trip.
After coming to the new station competition, Wang Qiang seems to have opened the second pulse of Ren Dou and won the competition.
In the last round, Wang Qiang defeated the No. 2 seed Marttic 7-6 (4), 3-6, 7-5 to reach the final four of the tournament, which was also the first time in Wang Qiang's career that she reached the final four of the Clay Tour.
Today Wang Qiang's opponent is the 2017 US Open champion, the 2018 French Open runner-up, 28-year-old American Stevens. She is currently ranked 65th in the world and Wang Qiang is ranked 48th, and the two sides have met twice before, and Wang Qiang has maintained a complete victory and has not lost a set.
With a certain psychological advantage, the game between the two sides began. In the first set, Wang Qiang quickly opened to take a 3-0 lead, and although Stevenson broke back to win a set, Wang Qiang easily took the next city 6-2.
In the second set, Stevenson quickly adjusted to his form, and Wang Qiang seemed to have physical problems, quickly falling behind 1-5, and it seemed that the two sides were likely to compete for the decisive set.
However, at this time, Stevenson suddenly lost his nerves and was in a state of nowhere, repeatedly conceding the winning points and making low-level mistakes, and Wang Qiang seized the opportunity to chase 4 consecutive innings to pull the innings to a 5-5 draw.
Then they took the serve and the two sides came to grab seven. At this time, Wang Qiang was already unstoppable, starting seven with a perfect 6-1 start, and gave Stevens a goodbye Ace to win the game 7-3, defeating Stevens for the third consecutive time and advancing to the women's singles final of the Clay Tour for the first time in his career!
Wang Qiang's opponent in the final will be the 17-year-old American talented girl Gauff, who has reached the 28th place in the world ranking, and Gauff once defeated Dawei to reach the round of 16 when she first competed for the Grand Slam in 2019.
In last week's Roma match, Gauff was very lucky, swept Sabalenka in two straight sets in the quarterfinals, lost one set in the quarterfinals, and when he fell behind 1-2 in the second set, he received a retirement gift from the world's first Barty and reached the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 level for the first time.
Looking forward to the final between Wang Qiang and Gao Fu, it will be a tough battle, can Wang Qiang defeat Gao Fu and win his third tour championship? Tennis fans are looking forward to it.