The Australian Open qualifiers are just around the corner, and players from all over the world are warming up on the major pre-tournament tournaments to improve their status for the Australian Open. Zhang Shuai, as the highest ranking player in Chinese women's tennis, was out of the first round of the WAT500 Sydney Women's Singles Tournament, facing the world's No. 7 Estonian teenager Kontavit, who was passively winning the match with two 3-6 victories, suffering 4 consecutive defeats in singles across seasons! Another Chinese xiaohua 20-year-old Wang Xiyu participated in the qualifiers for the WTA250 Adelaide Tour, and lost to Sweden's Peterson 1-6, 4-6 in the decider round, regrettably missing the final.
Contavet is a sister of Estonia, currently ranked No. 7 in the world, and also the top player in the international women's tennis world, competing as the No. 4 seed in the Sydney 500 Tour, facing The Chinese Tennis Jinhua Zhang Shuai in the first round. Zhang Shuai is 33 years old, ranked 59th in the world, the highest ranking among Chinese tennis singles players, but he has recently suffered three consecutive defeats in the singles field, and this game has encountered strong opponents, and the prospects for promotion are slim.
In the first set of the game Zhang Shuai is still playing at his own pace, the opening stage can also form a balance with Kontavit, after the two sides have their own saves, Kontawirt 3-2 to Zhang Shuai's serve, the result of Whichantavet seized the weakness of Zhang Shuai's decline in success rate, continuously received the ball to attack Zhang Shuai's second serve, and finally achieved a key break to open the score to 4-2, after which Zhang Shuai had no chance to break, and finally won the first set 3-6.
Zhang Shuai
In the 2nd set, Zhang Shuai's state declined seriously, and in the first set, He was caught by Kontawirt to break the opportunity to win, Andkovit's serve was watertight, playing with ease, and took a 2-0 lead after taking his own serve, after which the two sides kept 3 sets each, the score came to 5-3, and Zhang Shuai's serve in the 9th set fluctuated again, and after being broken by Cantawirt, he went to the next city 6-3 and won the whole game, thus eliminating Zhang Shuai to advance to the second round. Contavet has improved the two's record against each other to 3 wins and 1 loss.
Contawirt
On the WTA250 Tour in Adelaide, 20-year-old Wang Xiyu entered the women's singles qualifier tiebreaker against Sweden's Peterson. In the first round of the previous qualifying round, Wang Xiyu defeated Japan's Makoto Ninomiya 6-1 and 6-2, but in the previous tour in Traralgan, Wang Xiyu participated as the top seed, but he failed to qualify for the top 8, and the final champion was won by Yuan Yue, which was also the first crown of The New Year's Chinese Golden Flower. However, in this match, Wang Xiyu and Peterson had a clear gap in the matchmaking, and the experience of the competition was rare, and finally lost 1-6, 4-6 to the women's singles main tournament of the Adelaide Tour. Another Wang Qiang, who competed in the women's singles qualifier of the Adelaide Tour, suffered a reversal by Australian Sanders in the first round 6-3, 4-6 and 3-6 and did not qualify for the second round of the qualifiers, so the Chinese players will not be seen in this tournament.
The Australian Open Qualifiers are out, Wang Xiyu, Zhang Shuai, Wang Qiang, Wang Xinyu and Zheng Saisai will directly participate in the main tournament, including Zheng Qinwen, Zhu Lin, Yuan Yue, You Xiaodi and Han Xinyun, among which Zheng Qinwen, who won the first new year championship for Chinese tennis, encountered the American rival Van der Weige in the first round of qualification. You Xiaodi's first-round opponent is Russia's Brinkova, both opponents are veterans who have been racing in the international tennis world for many years, and they are strong and need to be careful to deal with.