Beijing time on January 3: This evening Beijing time, the first week of the 2022 season of the tennis tournament is in full swing. The WTA500 tournament in Adelaide, Australia, broke out on the first matchday of the Adelaide Open. Two-time Grand Slam winner Kvitova of the Czech Republic lost three sets to host han Tianyu, who played with a wild card, to stop the first round. The Chinese team also began the competition for the new season in an all-round way, with a number of players competing in the melbourne 250 qualifying round, the overall performance was good, the only regret was that Wang Qiang, who aimed to reach the top ten, lost to the host Ayava who ranked 316 and failed to make a start in the first round of the qualifiers. Let's take a look at the information from the tennis arena.
Today is the first Monday of 2022, and this year's tennis tour also began to compete for the main tournament today. The most important event of the week is the WTA500 Adelaide Open in Adelaide, Australia. In a match played at night, two-time Grand Slam champion Kvitova of the Czech Republic met the host han Tianyu, who played with a wild card, and before the game, all parties were optimistic that Kvitova could easily win. The match was played at 4:30 p.m. Beijing time on Center Court, and the referee of the match was Zhang Juan, a gold medal referee from China. After the start of the game, the two fell into a fierce battle, after 2 hours and 20 minutes of fierce fighting Han Tianyu reversed Kvitova with a score of 6-7 (4)/7-5/6-2 to win the game and broke the biggest upset today.
Sakari, the No. 3 seed who reached the semi-finals of a Grand Slam twice last year in other matches at today's Adelaide Tournament, defeated Slovenia's Zidansk 6-2, 0-6, 6-4 in three sets. No. 7 seed Kazakh Lebakina also struggled to defeat Australia's Sanders with a wild card in three sets 6-4, 1-6, 6-1. Canada's Fernandez, last year's U.S. Open runner-up, defeated Russia's Alexandrova in straight sets to advance to the second round. Hosts TomJanovic also defeated Britain's Watson in straight sets to advance.
This week, a number of Chinese players also competed in the two WTA250 events in Melbourne, except for Zhang Shuai and Zheng Saisai, who competed in the qualification tournament. The Chinese player who played in the qualifiers in today's match performed well The No. 4 seed Wang Xinyu defeated the host player Smith with a wild card to advance to the decider round with two 6-2, and the No. 8 seed Zhu Lin sent double egg blood to wash the host player Fick with a wild card. No. 11 seed Zheng Qinwen swept Germany's Niemaier 6-4, 6-0 to advance to the qualifying tiebreaker.
China's Wang Qiang also played in the first round of the qualifiers today, and her no. 6 seeded opponent is Aeva, the 316th-ranked host with a wild card. Today's match is the first time the two have met in an official match, and before the game, all parties are still optimistic that Wang Qiang can win. After the game began, Wang Qiang entered the state faster and took the lead in breaking, but then the opponent won the first set of the two sides to break the two sides by grabbing seven to decide, and the competition between the two sides was more intense in the rush, and finally Wang Qiang lost 9-11 and fell into passivity. At the start of the second set, Aeva opened the break and maintained the break advantage until the end to win another set 6-4. In this way, Wang Qiang lost two sets in a row to stop the first round of the qualifiers and failed to make the new season start. Wang Qiang went to the United States to prepare for training after the National Games, eager to have a new breakthrough this year to enter the top ten, and at present, Wang Qiang's ranking has fallen out of the top 100, and the Australian Open will be very difficult to play well this season.
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