After the first two matchdays, the five Chinese Golden Flowers who played in the first round of the Australian Open were all finished. Compared with the pre-match gloom, the five golden flowers in this year's Australian Open are eye-catching. All five Chinese Jinhua who competed in this year's Australian Open advanced to the second round, which was equal to the best record of Chinese players competing in the first round of the Grand Slam. The last time all five people passed the first round at a Grand Slam, it was back to the 2016 US Open, when Zhang Shuai, Duan Yingying, Wang Qiang, Zheng Saisai and Wang Yafan all broke through the first round.
Time back to a few months ago in the US Open, because of the Olympic Games and the National Games, zhang Shuai was alone in Flushing. As a result, Zhang Shuai only reached the second round of the singles match and was eliminated by Raducannu, who won the championship in the end. In the doubles match, Zhang Shuai's partner Stosur successfully won the championship and became a light in the darkness of the Chinese legion.
At the end of last season's WTA Tour, no one in China's Jinhua World Ranking ranked in the top 50, the TOP100 was once only supported by Zhang Shuai and Zheng Saisai, and the former Jinhua sister Wang Qiang fell out of the top 100. That time became the darkness before the dawn of Chinese women's tennis, starting from the challenge at the end of last year, China's golden flowers have bloomed, Wang Xinyu has been shortlisted for the top 100 for the first time, Zhu Lin WTA has won the championship for the first time, and Zheng Qinwen, Yuan Yue and others have also performed well.
After the start of the new season, the Chinese Jinhua Legion attacked again, compared with last year's Australian Open, this time the Jinhua Legion team has grown significantly. In terms of singles, the three players directly entered the main competition through the ranking, Wang Qiang was shortlisted, Wang Xiyu won the wild card of the main competition, and Wang Xinyu broke through the qualification round. However, after the main draw was announced, several Chinese Jinhua were unlucky, which made many people sweat about their prospects at this Australian Open.
However, judging from the progress of the first round of competition, the performance of the five people is remarkable. Xiaohua Zheng Qinwen took the lead, and she repelled Sasnovic in three sets, ushering in her first grand slam victory. Wang Qiang, who then played, swept the 18th seed Gao Fu and won the Australian Open again after two years. Wang Xiyu, who competed in the wild card, successfully passed the hurdle, Zhang Shuai swept away the decline of the previous singles losing streak, and Wang Xinyu ended the first round of the Jinhua match with a 2-0 match.
Behind the five wins in the first round, we see a bright future for Chinese women's tennis. Zheng Qinwen is only 19 years old, and she broke into the second round of her first Grand Slam tournament, an achievement that Li Nadu has never achieved before, and her real-time ranking has already ranked among the top 100 in the world. The two kings are only 20 years old, of which Wang Xinyu has entered the top 100 in the world, and Wang Xiyu, who became famous earlier than her, is also making progress. In addition, it should not be forgotten that 23-year-old Yuan Yue, who is only one step away from the main competition at this year's Australian Open.
The younger generation has risen, Wang Qiang, who has just passed his 30th birthday, has a second spring, Zhang Shuai, who is about to turn 33, can still bring surprises from time to time, and zheng Saisai and Zhu Lin, who are in the year of playing, are still able to bring surprises.
Breaking through the first round is not the goal, in this era of women's tennis flowers, as Zheng Saisai once said, "everyone has a chance". The next two round of the five golden flowers will face greater challenges, can they continue to work harder and further? Let's wait and see! The three generations of old, middle and young people have bloomed in full bloom, and they are expected to have a better performance in the future.