Yuan Yue infographic
On January 12, Beijing time, the second round of the 2022 Australian Open qualifiers began, and Chinese player Yuan Yue defeated the American Player McNali 7-6 (1)/6-4 to advance to the qualifier decider, which took 2 hours and 2 minutes. Yuan Yue will next compete with another American player, Baptiste, for a place in the Australian Open.
Facing the 20-year-old American teenager McNalie, Yuan Yue relied on a sharp bottom-line attack to maneuver with his opponents, and the two saved their own serves in the first twelve sets of the first set, fighting to a 6-6 draw. It is worth mentioning that Yuan Yue, who served after the ball, saved a set of tenacious serves in a 5-6 non-guaranteed serve and dragged the first set into the seventh. Yuan Yue was full of momentum in the rush to grab the seven, taking a small score of 7-1 and taking the next set at 7-6 (1). The first set lasted up to 1 hour and 2 minutes.
The game progressed to the second set, the battle situation was still scorching, Yuan Yue won the first break of the whole game in the second set after successfully saving the serve with love game. McNally then broke back in the third set, saving the lead to tie the score to 2-2. After that, the score alternately rose, to McNally's indispensable serve, Yuan Yue scored three consecutive points, holding three consecutive match points, McNalie failed to withstand the pressure on the second match point, issued a double error, Yuan Yue won the game with another set of 6-4.
In other matches, Women's Singles No. 4 seed Stojanovic lost 3-6, 4-6 to American Battiste, and South Korean sister Jiang Sujing swept homegrown wild card player Preston 6-0, 6-0. No. 11 seed, British teenager Dart beat Parks 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.
(Text, Editor/Faye Wong, Photo/Li Jianyi)
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