On January 17, 2022, the Australian Open ushered in the first match day, China Jinhua won the opening, 19-year-old rising star Zheng Qinwen played three sets, narrowly defeated Belarusian star Sassnovic, becoming the first Chinese player to advance to the women's singles round of 64, Zheng Qinwen broke through from the qualification tournament, staged the debut of the Grand Slam field, facing the stronger Sasnovic, she brought new surprises.
China Jinhua six people won the singles qualification, namely Zhang Shuai, Wang Qiang, Zheng Saisai, Wang Xiyu, Wang Xinyu, Zheng Qinwen, of which the 19-year-old rising star Zheng Qinwen started from the qualification tournament, maintaining a total victory record to advance to the main tournament, this is also her first time to participate in the Grand Slam main tournament, Zheng Qinwen participated in the adult group competition for a long time, quickly achieved good results, by the attention of outside fans, it is really not simple.
The new season Zheng Qinwen 8 wins and 1 loss, only lost to the Romanian star Halep, into the tour women's singles final four, the first round of the Australian Open against Belarusian Sasnovic, the latter 27 years old, ranked 76th in the world, the competition experience is very rich, has won many times over the famous player, this game is not easy to play in many people's eyes, Zheng Qinwen wants to eliminate Sassnovic to advance, it is indeed very difficult.
In the second leg of this year's Melbourne Summer Series, Sasnovic finished runner-up in women's singles, when he lost to The American Anisimova in the final, and his overall strength Sasnovic was stronger, but Zheng Qinwen has improved quickly recently and is confident of competing with any opponent.
After the start of the game, Zheng Qinwen was in good shape, taking advantage of Sasnovic's slow heat, strengthening the offensive to grasp the initiative, taking the lead in completing the break, winning three consecutive sets to take a 3-0 lead, zheng Qinwen made more mistakes in the fourth set, Sasnovic struggled to save the serve, and then Zheng Qinwen broke to 5-1, Sasnavich chased two consecutive sets, Zheng Qinwen stopped the loss in time, saved his serve, and took the lead 6-3.
In the second set, Sasnovic backwater, but she was not in good shape, the key ball was not grasped, Zheng Qinwen completed the break, and then Sasnovic broke back, the two sides fell into a battle, Sasnovic applied for a medical suspension, after returning she broke Zheng Qinwen's serve twice, won five consecutive sets to equalize 6-1, Zheng Qinwen was inexperienced, the success rate of one shot was too low, very passive.
Decisive set Zheng Qinwen 2-4 trail chased to 5 draws, both sides won a set into the grab ten battle, the key moment Zheng Qinwen also withstood the pressure, 7-6 (5) to lock in the victory, and finally 2-1 narrowly won Sassnovic, made a good start, the first time to participate in the Australian Open to enter the second round, and then challenged the No. 5 seed Greek sister Sakkari, who eliminated Germany's Maria 6-4/7-6 (2).