The 2022 Australian Open, which began on January 17, began the first round of the main tournament, and Zheng Qinwen, 19, of China Xiaohua, played in the first round of the women's singles competition against The Belarusian star Sasnovic, who had just finished second in the women's singles at the Melbourne Tour, and after 3 rounds of fighting, Zheng Qinwen missed 2 match points in the decider and eliminated his opponent 2-1 (6-3/1-6/7-6) by grabbing ten battles, reaching the second round of the Women's Singles grand slam for the first time in his career.
The Chinese women's tennis team has achieved good results in a series of low-level tour competitions at the end of 2021, and the little flowers represented by Wang Xinyu, Wang Xiyu, Yuan Yue and Zheng Qinwen are gradually growing and slowly integrating with the international standard. 19-year-old Zheng Qinwen after last season's 4-stop tour training, amazing progress, the beginning of 2022 in the Melbourne Tour in the first leg of the consecutive defeat of a number of strong players to reach the WTA 250 level of women's singles semifinals, to the Australian Open qualifiers to defeat the former Australian Open final four American Van der Weig and other 3 good players, with their own strength for the first time to compete in the Grand Slam, the first round of opponent Sassnovic's best result is the Grand Slam women's singles 16, the competition experience is rich.
In the first set of the first set, Zheng Qinwen's serve fluctuated too much, and there were two undeserved double mistakes to directly send points to the opponent, but in the end, he broke out strongly by serving and achieved a 1-0 lead. In the second set, Zheng Qinwen received the transfer of the ball at a large angle, so that Sasnovic was overwhelmed, and the bottom line tug-of-war was also Zheng Qinwen has been mobilizing opponents, resulting in a straight drop of 4 goals to complete the break first. In the 3rd set, Zheng Qinwen deliberately slowed down the pace of the serve, took the opportunity to disrupt the opponent's batting rhythm and successfully saved the hand, and also entered the next match with a 3-0 score. In the 4th and 5th sets, both sides took their own serves, Zheng Qinwen led 4-1, sasnowic's serve in the 6th set was lost again, Zheng Qinwen was full of firepower, played the opponent with repeated mistakes, scored 4 consecutive points to get the second break, with 5-1 Zheng Qinwen came to the serve to win the set, the 7th set Zheng Qinwen was eager to succeed, was picked up by the opponent after continuous fighting, and in the subsequent 8th set Sasnovic easily saved, in the 9th set Zheng Qinwen did not let the serve win the set slip away, With a strong bottom line pair of backslash, the wind ball was drawn to take the lead 6-3.
In the second set, Zheng Qinwen's offensive attack did not decrease, and he received consecutive serves diagonally and anti-slash in the service set of Sasnovic, and achieved a break in a tug-of-war with one shot and one shot, and the situation was very good. However, Zheng Qinwen unexpectedly made an incredible 4 double mistakes in the second serve, and soon the initiative was handed over, and Sasnovic took the opportunity to break back successfully. In the 3rd set, Sasnovic applied for a medical suspension after the save, which disrupted the rhythm of Zheng Qinwen's game, and the youngster did not win the next set, and after three encounters with opponents, he won the second set 1-6.
The decisive set Sasnovic started with the experience of the veteran, grabbing Zheng Qinwen's second serve very accurately, and taking a 3-1 lead after taking the lead in the break, while Zheng Qinwen had 2 break points in the 4th set but lost it by mistake. Zheng Qinwen seized the opportunity in the 8th set, a suppressed opponent's backcourt, and then in front of the net, he returned to the opponent's first set to fight 4-4.Then when they successfully saved their serves to 6-5, Sasnovic's unavoidable serve was attacked by Zheng Qinwen's sharp attack, and in the 12th set, Zheng Qinwen once led 40-15 to get 2 match points, but was resolved by the opponent one by one and entered the ten-match tiebreaker. Zheng Qinwen took the lead in the decrepit and eventually won the first Grand Slam victory 10-5.
The 19-year-old Zheng Qinwen made his debut in the women's singles tournament after 2 hours and 28 minutes of fighting in the Grand Slam. In the whole game, Zheng Qinwen scored 32-23, unforced errors 37-42, and scored 64% of the first shot, all slightly ahead of Sasnovic, but Zheng Qinwen issued 10 double errors and 4 ACE, and the stability of the serve was also strengthened, and the break point Zheng Qinwen cashed out 4 times in 13 and Sasnovic 8 times 5 times.