In the first round of the 2022 Australian Open women's singles, China's Wang Qiang swept away the haze of consecutive defeats at the beginning of the season, and swept the 2021 US Open women's doubles runner-up Gao Fu 2-0 (6-4/6-2), the opponent is also the No. 18 seed of the Australian Open women's singles, Wang Qiang and Gao Fu have lost two previous encounters, and in the first round of the Australian Open women's singles, they broke 4 times and avenged a shot, and Gao Fu has also become the highest ranking player in the women's singles field so far.
Wang Qiang in 2021 due to the epidemic relationship reduced the number of trips to foreign countries to participate in the tour, resulting in a plummeting state, at the beginning of the 2022 season, the state of the Adelaide Tour Wang Qiang in the first round of the qualifiers unexpectedly lost to Sanders, appearing to be defenseless. Wang Qiang's first opponent at the Australian Open, Gauff, is a talented girl in the American Women's Tennis, reaching the top 8 of the French Open women's singles in 2021, participating in the Grand Slam women's singles competition at the age of 14, and winning the women's singles competition in the second round of parma and french open in 2021.
In the first set, Gao Fu took the lead in serving, straight down 4 balls to save the serve, but Wang Qiang's subsequent serve was also successfully saved, when the two sides fought to 2-2, Wang Qiang suddenly exploded in the 5th set, Gao Fu's serve was Wang Qiang's strong serve, and the bottom line's confrontation was repeatedly directly pressed, and the return ball fell particularly deeply, causing Gao Fu to return to the net, Wang Qiang broke the trend, and achieved a 4-2 lead after the successful preservation of the 6th set. Subsequently, Gao Fu and Wang Qiang did not let the opponent find a good opportunity to break in their respective serves, and after each saved, Wang Qiang won the first set with a key fifth set of breaks 6-4.
In the second set, Gao Fu's first serve was still high, but her first serve success rate was not high, and the power of the second shot dropped sharply, and Wang Qiang took the opportunity to force out the break point, and took a 1-0 lead after cashing in one fell swoop. However, Wang Qiang also encountered a huge attack from his opponent in the second set of the serve, and after 40-40, he had a thrilling and difficult save with the change of serve. In the 3rd set, Wang Qiang continued to suppress Gauff's backhand consecutive scores with a high-quality bottom line. Achieved the second break in this set, followed by the fourth set to save, achieved a huge advantage of 4-0. The 5th set was Gauff's must-keep serve, eager to achieve her continuous one shot, the second shot was grabbed by Wang Qiang, and finally after the third break, Wang Qiang came to the service to win the game 5-0. In the 6th set, Wang Qiang was given the first break of the game by Gao Fu, and in the 7th set, Wang Qiang won a 40-15 advantage and won 2 match points, but Gao Fu stubbornly resolved and struggled to save the score after the tie. In the 8th set, Wang Qiang's serve won the game, Wang Qiang saved a break point and saved the set to win the game 6-2.
In this game, Wang Qiang's break opportunity was well grasped, and 4 of the 7 break points appeared, while the opponent Gauff only grasped 1 of the 4 break points. In terms of serve, Wang Qiang had 3 ACE2 double errors, Gauff 1 ACE3 double errors, and Wang Qiang was 11-15 behind Gaofu in the winning score.