Beijing time, January 18: This afternoon Beijing time, the first tennis Grand Slam tournament of the year in 2022, the Australian Open, has frequently reported success. Following the collective passage of the first round by the three Chinese players who played in the main tournament on the first day yesterday, the two Chinese players Zhang Shuai and Wang Xinyu who played in the second half of the tournament today also defeated their respective opponents and successfully advanced to the second round, which is the first time that Chinese players have achieved 100% clearance in the case of multiple Grand Slam tournaments, and also equaled the 5-man promotion to the second round of Grand Slam singles set by the US Open in 2016. Let's take a look at the good news from the Australian Open.
At 8:00 a.m. Beijing time this year, this year's Australian Open competition began the second matchday of competition. In the first day of the competition, the three Chinese players Wang Qiang, Zheng Qinwen and Wang Xiyu, who played in the first half of the competition, defeated their opponents to enter the second round. The victories of Both Zheng Qinwen and Wang Xiyu were their first victories in the Senior Grand Slam tournament, and Wang Qiang's victory was also her first tour victory since May last year. Today, two Chinese players played in the second half of the zone, namely Zhang Shuai and Wang Xinyu, who had reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, and both of them were scheduled to play on Court 7.
Zhang Shuai's opponent today is Switzerland's Grubich, the two have met 3 times before Grubich 2 wins and 1 loss to dominate, the most recent meeting occurred in the 2019 Guangzhou Open 1/4 final Grubich fierce battle three sets to win the victory. Combined with recent status and battle records, all parties are more optimistic about Grubich's victory before the game. The match began at 1:20 p.m. Beijing time on Court 7, and Zhang Shuai, who took the lead in serving after the start of the game, entered the state faster, and after breaking the break, he maintained the advantage of breaking to the end to win the first set 6-3 to occupy the initiative of the game. After entering the second set, Zhang Shuai continued her excellent performance in the first set, and she won the opening of this year's Australian Open in 77 minutes with the advantage of a break, which took 6-4 to win the second set and ended her tour's four-year losing streak. With the victory of this game, Zhang Shuai's singles win in the Grand Slam tournament reached 30 matches, which ranked fourth among Chinese players. In the next round, Zhang Shuai will face Kazakh No. 12 seed Lebakina, who won three sets in today's match to reverse the promotion through Díaz.
After Zhang Shuai's match, Wang Xinyu continued to play on the No. 7 ball, and her opponent was Ang Lee, a Chinese player from the United States. Today's match is also the first time the two have played each other in an official match, and the match began at 3 p.m. Beijing time. After the start of the game, the two launched a fierce confrontation, the first 12 innings of the two sides to fight 6-6 need to be through the seven to divide the victory and defeat, in the scramble for seven Wang Xinyu in the key points to win the key points to win the seven to win the first set of the game to occupy the first set of the opportunity. After entering the second set, Wang Xinyu continued the good state of the first set and broke off, although Ang Lee achieved a return break to chase the set to 3-3, and then Wang Xinyu broke again after saving the serve to play a wave of small climaxes of 3 consecutive sets to win the second set 6-3 to win the second set to win the game. This match was wang Xinyu's first professional grand slam singles win, and she also achieved the goal of passing all the first rounds for the Chinese team. In the next round, Wang Xinyu will take on the no. 2 seed of belarus, Sabalenka, who defeated the host Saunders with a wild card in today's match.
With today's victory of Zhang Shuai and Wang Xinyu, all five Chinese players who played in the Australian Open this year have all advanced, creating the history of Chinese tennis. This is the first time that the Chinese women's tennis team has been able to pass the first round collectively in the case of multiple participants, and it is also the second time that 5 Chinese players have entered the second round of the Grand Slam, the last time was the 2016 US Open. After the cold winter after the retirement of Li Na, Zheng Jie and others, Zhang Shuai, Wang Qiang and others are also more than 30 years old, but a group of young players like Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xinyu, Wang Xiyu and so on have slowly gone to the center of the competition to complete the replacement of the old and new chinese tennis. I believe that in the next few years, we can see this batch of small flowers playing results, comparable to the records of their predecessors, but it is still expected to write their history.
The Australian Open matches continue, and we will continue to pay attention to bringing relevant reports to everyone.