In the semi-finals of the first leg of the WTA250 Melbourne Tour, China's 19-year-old tennis player Cheng Qinwen regrettably lost 0-2 (3-6/ 2-6) to Romanian halep, who won the French Open and Wimbledon women's singles titles, and the latter will compete with Russia's Kudmetova for the title. Zheng Qinwen was fully restrained in all aspects of the competition, saw the gap between the top players, and gained valuable experience, and the world ranking also climbed to a career high of 110th.
Zheng Qinwen officially began to play the WTA Tour of the senior group from 2021, basically stopping the qualification of some competitions, the number of regular matches is not much, the first leg of the opening year of 2022 played the best level of China's golden flower, in Melbourne consecutively beat the American player Pella and Russia's Zvonareva, ranking higher than himself, breaking into the top 4 is also a new breakthrough in his career.
In the semi-finals, Zheng Qinwen's opponent is Halep, who won the French Open and Wimbledon two-time Grand Slam women's singles championship, she has been ranked No. 1 in the world for a long time, with a height of only 168cm, the bottom line is super strong, and she is also the strongest opponent Zheng Qinwen has encountered in the competition, and Halep has the upper hand in fame and strength.
In the first set of the game Zheng Qinwen obviously had an idea, wanted to blow up again, the burden was a little heavy, from the beginning of the serve repeated mistakes, the success rate of one shot was too low to lead to a decline in the power of the second shot, Halep's pressure to receive the ball instantly weakened, after strengthening the aggressiveness of the serve, Halep won a break, he became more and more courageous, and finally won the first set 6-3.
Halep played more handily in the 2nd set, the serve landing point changed a lot, Zheng Qinwen's delivery quality did not go up, in the standoff stage is often at the beginning of the inferior, it is difficult to take advantage of Halep's serve, and Zheng Qinwen's serve is difficult, Halep in this set is twice broken, easier than the first set to win, the score is fixed at 6-2, Halep easily advanced to the final. In this game, Halep gave Zheng Qinwen a good lesson in terms of serving, receiving the ball, and the change of the standoff stage, and Zheng Qinwen played with the top international female players for the first time, seeing the gap and also gaining a lot.
In addition to Zheng Qinwen, Yuan Yue, who is participating in the women's singles semifinals of the W60+H Tour in Traralgan, also has good news, in the case of falling behind 1-4 in the first set, Yuan Yue reversed strongly 7-5, and when the opponent Ofs In the second set was 4-2, the opponent Of course, Vikley of the United States withdrew, Yuan Yue advanced to the final, gained 60 points, and temporarily ranked 175th in the world ranking.
At present, the real-time ranking of China Golden Flower is: Zhang Shuai 59, Zheng Saisai 81, Wang Xinyu 103, Zheng Qinwen 110, Wang Qiang 112, Zhu Lin114, Wang Xiyu 140, Yuan Yue 175, for the upcoming New Year's first Grand Slam tournament Australian Tennis Player Open, China Jinhua is also out of the nest, of which Zhang Shuai, Zheng Saisai, Wang Qiang, Wang Xinyu and Wang Xiyu directly entered the main competition list, Zheng Qinwen, Zhu Lin, Han Xinyun, Yuan Yue, You Xiaodi participated in the women's singles qualification tournament.