In the 2022 Australian Open, which entered the second round of the women's singles qualifier, China's 19-year-old tennis star Zheng Qinwen continued the fiery feel since the beginning of the season, defeating the world's 241st Australian youngster Mendes 2-0 (6-3/ 6-2) to just one victory before the main match. Zheng Qinwen's opponent in the qualifying round is Japan's Makoto Honyu, who just won the Melbourne Tour last week.
At the beginning of 2022, 19-year-old Zheng Qinwen became the biggest discovery of Chinese tennis, she only began to participate in the professional tour last year, only won 1 women's singles match, and began to show amazing progress this year, in the WTA250 Melbourne Tour, she rose from the qualifiers all the way, a wave of 5 consecutive wins to reach the semifinals, but unfortunately faced the former world's No. 1 Romanian star Halep, lack of experience, the grasp of key points, and finally lost 0-2, However, the semifinals are still the best women's singles results of Zheng Qinwen's career. Coming to the first round of the Australian Open qualification round, Zheng Qinwen staged a big reversal, defeating van der Wieg of the Top Four of the Australian Open in the United States, and continued to maintain a strong state.
In the first set of this game, Zheng Qinwen took the lead in serving, and after easily saving the serve, he found a good opportunity to break in the second set of Mendes' serve, but unfortunately, in the case of equal division, Mendes used the serve to get straight, and after resolving the crisis, he saved the service successfully. In the 4th set Zheng Qinwen once again forced out the break point, received the serve directly to grab the opponent's second serve, with a large angle of movement, forced the opponent to return the ball out of the shallow, a slam before the trend of the net to bring the score to 3-1, then Zheng Qinwen and the opponent Mendes 2 serves to achieve serve preservation, the score came to 5-3, and then entered Zheng Qinwen's serve to win the game, but Zheng Qinwen this set to win, played 2 double mistakes in a row to lose points, fortunately, the opponent did not have the ability to force out the break point, and finally Zheng Qinwen successfully won the first set 6-3, Achieved a 1-0 lead.
In the matchup in the second set, Mendes came up to the first serve and was seized by Zheng Qinwen, and the continuous positive shot moved Mendes in a straight line at a large angle, and finally relied on Mendes to return the ball out of bounds to achieve a break. However, Zheng Qinwen then made a double mistake again in his own serve in the second set, and the unforced errors increased in the process of holding, conceding 3 goals in a row to give the opponent 3 break points, and the result was saved 2 times or inevitably returned to the net to encounter the opponent's break. However, in the 3rd set Mendes's serve was not saved, Zheng Qinwen's forehand firepower was fierce, and in the case of the opponent's tactics changed, changing the serve to the internet, bravely picked the backfield over the top of the high ball, the opponent slammed the mistake again forced out the break point, the next ball a hit to win, Zheng Qinwen took a 2-1 lead.
Then the two sides each saved the score to 4-2, the key 7th set Mendes's serve was not saved, Zheng Qinwen always looked for scoring opportunities in the bottom line back and forth, the opponent was all inferior in strength and landing points, following the rhythm of Zheng Qinwen, and finally served double mistakes and lost 4 goals in a row by Zheng Qinwen for the third time in the disk. With a huge advantage of 5-2, Zheng Qinwen came to the winning game, and she used four goals in a row to strongly advance to the decisive round of the Australian Open women's singles qualifier.
Zheng Qinwen had a huge advantage in servings, a total of 10 ACEs were issued but there were 6 double errors, Mendes only had 3 ACE 2 double errors, the winning point Zheng Qinwen led too much 24-5, the grasp of the break point Zheng Qinwen completed 4 times in 5, and Mendes completed 3 times 1 time.