On January 14, Beijing time, the Australian Open qualifier decisive round began to compete. China's Jinhua Yuan Yue, who had a good performance at the beginning of this year's season, competed against the 168th-ranked American Baptiste in the world. After a fierce battle of three sets, Yuan Yue was reversed by his opponent in the case of winning the first set of the game, and finally lost 1-2, stopping the Australian Open qualifier decisive round for two consecutive years and missing the first Grand Slam tournament of his career.
In the first set, Baptiste took the lead, and Yuan Yue missed 2 break point opportunities in the opponent's first set. In the 12th set, Yuan Yue saved the set at the end of the set in his own indispensable set, dragging the first set into the seventh. Yuan Yue scored three consecutive runs after 2-2 to establish an advantage and won the first set of the seventh in the game 7-4.
In the second set, Yuan Yue missed two break point opportunities in the second set, Yuan Yue lost the serve in the fifth set, and then she quickly completed the break in the 6th set to chase the set to 3-3. After that, the two saved the set of the net, and the second set was once again in the seventh game. Battiste was even better at stealing seven sets, and she won the second set 7-5.
During the first seven sets of the decider, Yuan Yue was broken by his opponent in the crucial serve in the 8th set, and Baptiste came to the serve to win the match 5-3. In the crucial 9th set, Baptiste managed to save and win the tiebreaker 6-3.
In the end, in a match that took 2 hours and 40 minutes, Yuan Yue, the Chinese Jinhua, was reversed by the American Baptiste 7-6 (4)/6-7(5)/3-6 and missed the Australian Open. Yuan Yue stopped the decisive round of the Australian Open qualifier for two consecutive years, and she played in the Grand Slam qualifiers four times in her career, but she still failed to break through to the main tournament.