In the women's singles quarterfinals of the WTA250 Tour in Melbourne, Australia, the only remaining Chinese flower Zheng Qinwen lived up to the expectations of beating Croatia's fierce woman Connew 2-0 (7-6/7-6) to reach the semi-finals of the Open for the first time in her career, becoming a new breakthrough in her career! In the semi-finals, Zheng Qinwen will face Romanian Grand Slam winner Halep, who won the French Open and Wimbledon women's singles titles.
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The first leg of the Melbourne Tennis Tour, Chinese players Zhang Shuai, Wang Qiang, Wang Xinyu, Zhu Lin and Zheng Qinwen all participated, but only Zheng Qinwen reached the top 8 of the women's singles, Zheng Qinwen stood out from the qualifiers, defeated the overall strength of his opponents in two consecutive rounds, defeated Pella of the United States in the first round of the main round, and defeated Russia's Zvonareva in the second round, Pella ranked 93rd in the world, Zvonareva 81st, and Zheng Qinwen's women's singles world ranking was only 126th, However, China's Jinhua performed strongly, reaching the women's singles quarterfinals with consecutive weak victories and meeting Croatian Connew in the quarterfinals.
When Connie entered professional tennis in 2014, she once encountered the final winner of the Australian Open, Li Na, who won the first round of the Australian Open, when Li Na won the two straight sets with her powerful forehand firepower. Connews once reached the top 20 in the women's singles rankings, and has also reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam, and is an experienced player.
Although Zheng Qinwen is 60th in the world ranking and Kang Niu, but the scene of this game is not inferior, the two sides do not give in to each other in the first set of the game, after their respective serves and mutual breaks, the final score was 6-6, in the cruel seven-time battle, Zheng Qinwen fought more and more courageously, only let the opponent win 1 point, 7-1 to win the lead. In the second set, Kang Niu's state was greatly improved, the score in the second grab seven battle once came to 5-1, seeing that the trend of this set has gone, Zheng Qinwen, who was not willing to lose, quickly broke back and won the score again, bringing the score to 5-5 again, this time the last laugh is still Zheng Qinwen, she won 8-6 in the seven-time battle, thus eliminating Kang Niu after a double grab seven, and entered the women's singles semifinals of the Tour for the first time in her career. Zheng Qinwen won the game with 128 WTA points, and the world ranking immediately came to 110, with a high scoring rate of 81% in the whole game.
Zheng Qinwen's opponent in the semi-finals will be more powerful, will be the Romanian star Halep, who won the French Open and Wimbledon Grand Slam women's singles championships, Halep once ranked No. 1 in the world women's singles, and is also a veteran of the international women's tennis world for many years, in the first round of women's singles at the Australian Open, he once achieved Zhang Shuai's first victory in the Grand Slam main tournament, ending the embarrassment of Zhang Shuai's consecutive losses at a Grand Slam. Halep played against Sweden's Grubich in the quarterfinals, and after three sets of a battle between the two sides, Halep eliminated Grubich 2-1 (6-2, 5-7, 6-4) to advance to the women's singles semifinals.
Today's women's tennis world presents an open pattern, no female player can achieve hegemony for a long time, veteran rookies have the possibility of winning good results, emerging young Grand Slam winners such as Radu kannu, hoping that the Chinese flowers represented by Zheng Qinwen can grow rapidly and become an important force in the world tennis world.