On January 17, Beijing time, the first day of the 2022 Australian Open regular tournament became the "Golden Flower Day", and the four Chinese Golden Flowers who played in addition to Zheng Saisai withdrew due to injury, Zheng Qinwen, Wang Qiang and Wang Xiyu all won the second round. Among them, Wang Qiang has advanced to the second round of the Australian Open again after two years, while Zheng Qinwen and Wang Xiyu are the first wins of the career Grand Slam main tournament.
Wang Qiang 2-0 Gaofu: Wang Qiang wins after half a year, and wins top 20 after two years
Since the Tokyo Olympics last year, China's Jinhua sister Wang Qiang has not won for half a year, and even the warm-up match of this season's previous station, both stopped in the first round of the qualifiers, and the overall state was extremely bad. Facing the world's 16th-ranked American supernova Gauff, Wang Qiang won two consecutive sets 6-4 and 6-2, once sending an invisible egg in six consecutive sets, beating Gauff for the first time in his career.
Wang Qiang has once again advanced to the second round of the Australian Open after two years, and after defeating Serena Williams in 2020, she has won the Australian Open against the top 20 players in the world rankings for the second time in two years. Wang Qiang broke the six-month winning drought, and the next round will be against Uit Fank.
Zheng Qinwen 2-1 Sasnovic: Zheng Qinwen won the first career Grand Slam regular match
As a chinese rising star dark horse who broke through from the qualifiers, 19-year-old Zheng Qinwen faced Belarusian star Sasnovic, winning one set 6-3 and routing 1-6 in the second set, winning 7-6 (5) in the decisive set to grabbing the tenth battle. Zheng Qinwen is the youngest player to make her Grand Slam debut in this Australian Open women's singles tournament, and she successfully advanced to the next level, which is also the first victory of her career Grand Slam regular tournament.
Wang Xiyu 2-0 Kuzmova: Wang Xiyu won the first grand slam tournament in his career
As another post-00s flower in China, Wang Xiyu was once the US Open junior women's singles champion, and her results were average after entering the adult group. This year, Wang Xiyu won the wild card again, she gave up last year due to the epidemic, facing the qualifier Kuzmova duel, Wang Xiyu swept the opponent 7-5, 6-3 to win the first Grand Slam of her career, which will be the winner between Krejickova and Petkovic.
Zheng Saisai: Retired due to injury to bid farewell to this year's Australian Open
Zheng Saisai was originally the last Chinese Jinhua player to appear on the first day, but she chose to withdraw due to a wrist injury, and her signing was replaced by the lucky loser Japan's Hibi Noori.
(Text/Drunken Floating Life)