On January 14, Beijing time, the first Grand Slam tournament of the New Year, the Australian Open Women's Singles Qualifier, came to an end, 19-year-old Chinese teenager Zheng Qinwen fought hard for 2 hours and 30 minutes, defeating Japan's Ben Yuzhenwei 6-3, 6-7 and 6-3 to successfully reach the 2022 Australian Open Women's Singles Main, which will be the first time in her career to appear in the Grand Slam main tournament, the first round will face Belarusian player Sassnovic. Another Chinese player, Yuan Yue, stopped the tiebreaker. In this way, this year's Australian Open will have 6 Chinese women's tennis players playing in the Australian Open women's singles competition.
Zheng Qinwen is from Hubei and excelled at a young age.
At the age of 7, Zheng Qinwen was sent to the famous tennis teacher Xia Xiyao for training, and a year later, she went to Yu Liqiao for training. At the 14th Hubei Provincial Games held in 2014, Zheng Qinwen, then 12 years old, represented Shiyan in the tennis event and won two gold medals. Because of his outstanding performance, Zheng Qinwen entered the Wheel of Ingenuity Tennis School in Beijing, where he studied under Carlos.
In 2018, at the Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championships held at IMG College in Florida, USA, Zheng Qinwen won the U18 championship. Zheng Qinwen then lost 1-2 to Gough in the Orange Bowl final and won the second place. In 2019, Zheng Qinwen reached the final four in the French Open and US Open youth groups. As a teenager, Zheng Qinwen's ranking reached the highest level in the world.
After years of polishing, Zheng Qinwen now stands out and successfully qualified for the Main Slam Qualification Tournament.
A total of 5 Chinese women's tennis players participated in the qualifiers of this Australian Open, and only Yuan Yue and Zheng Qinwen successfully reached the final round. Unfortunately, Yuan Yue, who rose to the highest position in the world ranking to the 162nd place in her career, defeated another American player, Baptiste, after defeating the American star McNally in the second round, she went down 7-6 in the first set, and once won a 5-4 and 6-5 lead in the second set, but in the end she still lacked a hammer to kill and was reversed by the opponent.
Zheng Qinwen will face Belarusian Sasnovic in the first round, and if promoted, he may face the region's big seeded player , No. 5 seed Sakkari; Wang Xiyu's first-round opponent is qualifier Kuzmova, and Zheng Saisai is facing qualifier Trevisan.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City reporter Sun Jiahui
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