The 2022 Australian Open began the women's singles qualification tournament on January 10, and Zhu Lin, currently ranked 114th, appeared in the first round of the qualifiers as the No. 3 seed, only to win the first set 6-3 in the first set and break the first set in the second set, and was dragged by the opponent to grab seven sets of regretful defeat, and the decider was broken twice and finally lost 3-6, losing to France's Adrian Jafitrimo, helplessly missing the second round of the qualification round. Previously, from 2017 to 2021, Zhu Lin participated in the women's singles main tournament of the Australian Open for 5 consecutive years, and this competition also created the worst record of Zhu Lin in the past 6 years!
Zhu Lin is currently ranked 114th in the world in the women's singles, is the 6th highest ranking player in the Chinese tennis women's singles, in the women's singles qualifier of the WAT250 Melbourne station before the Australian Open qualifier, Zhu Lin played smoothly to advance to the main tournament, and in the first round welcomed the strong opponent host of the Grand Slam winner Stosur, the opponent has won the US Open women's singles championship, and also won the women's doubles championship with Zhang Shuai, the strength is extraordinary, but Zhu Lin is tenacious to eliminate the opponent through two 7-6 doubles to advance to the women's singles second round. However, he was then eliminated by Denmark's youngster Towson and went directly to the preparation for the Australian Open qualification round.
Zhu Lin, as the No. 3 seed of the Australian Open qualification round, met the unknown French player Adrian Jafiterimo in the first round, and the match seemed to be suspenseful because the opponent was ranked 200th away in the world ranking. In the first set, Zhu Lin played very strongly, with speed and strength in the forehand slash of the two big corners on the bottom line, and soon found a good opportunity to break in the opponent's serve, while her own serve was easy to save, taking the lead 6-3.
In the second set, Zhu Lin's offensive attack was not reduced, under the preservation of the serve, still took the lead in breaking the opponent's serve, the score also took the opportunity to come to 3-1, at this time the opponent Adrian Jafitrimo suddenly found the feel, strengthened the attack of the serve, the first and second shots were strengthened in strength, forcing Zhu Lin to receive the ball The quality of the ball decreased, and even brought back the ball before the first few shots were very passive, the opponent quickly achieved a return break, and in the seventh set of the 7-5 thrilling reversal.
Zhu Lin failed to win the last set of matches, and her mentality began to change. In the decisive set of the competition, Zhu Lin still played with the opponent in accordance with the rhythm of the first set, but the opponent seized the conservative idea that Zhu Lin wanted to win and was afraid of losing, and was more confident after the reversal of the second set, many balls dared to change Zhu Lin's big angle in the bottom line, took the lead in opening the line, mobilized Zhu Lin, after two breaks, the French player broke the cold and reversed to defeat Zhu Lin to advance to the second round of the qualifiers.
Zhu Lin has been in the Australian Open since 2017, and this time she even missed the second round of the women's singles qualifier, becoming the worst record in recent years. The other four qualifiers for the Australian Open are: 13th seed Zheng Qinwen against van der Wieg of the United States in the first round, Yuan Yue against Khovi of the Netherlands, You Xiaodi against Russia's Brinkova, and Han Xinyun against Australia's Heves.