Naomi Osaka (Photo: Intuition China)
On January 4, Beijing time, in the first round of the Melbourne Summer Series 1 women's singles, top seed Naomi Osaka defeated French player Cornett 6-4, 3-6/6-3 to win the season, waiting for the winner between Martic and Zanevska. No. 11 seed Jeong Chin-moon defeated Seed 3 and U.S. player Pera 6-3, 1-6, 7-5 in the qualifying tiebreaker round to advance to the main tournament.
In the remaining qualifying rounds, Dutch player Khovi defeated local wild card player Birrell 6-4, 6-4, Kuzmova received a withdrawal gift from opponent Gwatsova after 6-1 in the first set, No. 2 seed Bondar defeated Motodhar 7-6 (4)/6-4, and No. 12 seed Hibino Nozomi received a withdrawal ceremony from opponent Kovinic and was shortlisted for the main tournament.
Zhu Lin (Photo: Li Jianyi)
In the Melbourne Summer Series 2 competition, top seed Pegula lost 6-7 (3) / 3-6 to Romanian player Begu. In the qualifying tiebreaker, No. 8 seed Zhu Lin, who had recently been in good shape, beat Borsova 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the main tournament. The No. 4 seed, China's Little Flower King Xinyu, lost to British player Dart 6-1, 6-7 (5)/4-6 and regretted not being able to play the game.
No. 2 seed Liu Jingwen defeated Stojanovic 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, Rakhimova swept Battist 6-4, 6-0, and No. 6 seed Sassnovic 7-5, 6-1 Lick tsurenko, all advanced to the main tournament.
(Article, Editor/Faye Wong)