In the first round of the Australian Open women's singles, the five Chinese Jinhua Wang Xinyu, Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xiyu, Wang Qiang and Zhang Shuai who played in the Australian Open all passed the first round and equaled the best record in the first round of the Chinese Golden Flower Grand Slam.
With Wang Xinyu defeating American Ang Lee in two straight sets, plus the previous Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xiyu, Wang Qiang and Zhang Shuai, the five Chinese Golden Flowers who played in the 2022 Australian Open all passed the first round! It was also the first time that five of them had reached the second round of the Australian Open at the same time, and they also equaled their best first round of the Grand Slam record set at the 2016 US Open!
In fact, this year, there were originally six Chinese Jinhua in the Australian Open main competition, of which Zhang Shuai, Zheng Saisai, Wang Xinyu and Wang Qiang were directly shortlisted by ranking, Wang Xiyu was holding a wild card to participate, and Zheng Qinwen was from the qualifier all the way to the main tournament, but because Zheng Saisai withdrew due to injury after signing the table, only five Chinese Jinhua finally stood on the first round of the Australian Open women's singles.
Among the five, in addition to Zhang Shuai and Wang Qiang, two veterans who have been playing for many years, the other three are "Little Flowers" born after 2000, Wang Xiyu and Wang Xinyu have never won a victory despite their previous experience in the Grand Slam, zheng Qinwen is the first time to compete in the Grand Slam, and finally all three of them have won their first career Grand Slam victory at the Australian Open!
Among the three Chinese small flowers, Wang Xiyu's victory can be said to be the most logical, because the opponent Slovakian Kuzmova is ranked more than twenty times lower than her, theoretically China's Golden Flower is dominant, and finally Wang Xiyu did not let the accident happen, she won the victory 7-5 and 6-3, but in the second round she will usher in a strong opponent, the opponent is last year's French Open champion, the No. 4 seed Kregitckova.
And Zheng Qinwen and Wang Xinyu are victorious over opponents ranked higher than themselves, especially Zheng Qinwen's victory can be described as hard-won, the opponent Sassnovic's ranking is more than 30 times higher than his own, and he has just reached the final in a warm-up match, the state can be said to be quite good, and finally Zheng Qinwen overcame many unfavorable factors including the opponent's injury, and won through the decisive set to grab ten difficulties, and in the second round she will also meet the fierce opponent, the opponent is the No. 5 seed, Greek Sakkari.
Wang Xinyu temporarily withdrew from a warm-up match last week, which made people a little worried about her physical condition, but fortunately from the field performance should be no problem, the first round she met the American Chinese player Ang Lee, the opponent's ranking is more than 50 higher than her own, so at the beginning Wang Xinyu may not be so optimistic, but may be due to the victory of the first four Jinhua to bring extra motivation, so that Wang Xinyu played proactively from beginning to end, controlled the situation on the field from beginning to end, and finally won two straight sets.
In fact, compared with the three post-00s Xiaohua, who are full of impact and the opponent is relatively not so strong, the victory of the two veterans Wang Qiang and Zhang Shuai is more exciting. Jinhua's sister Zhang Shuai dropped two straight sets to defeat the Swiss Personality Lubić, who ranked more than 30 times higher than herself and reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon last year, which was her first victory of the new season, and the next round also welcomed rival and 12th seed Leibakina.
Wang Qiang, who has fallen out of the ranking of 100, was lucky enough to be directly shortlisted this time because someone withdrew from the tournament, and the two warm-up matches before the Australian Open were both stopped in the first round of the qualifiers, and in the first round of the Australian Open, she drew the big bitter lord Gauff, who defeated herself twice in last year's Parma final and the second round of the French Open.
But after more than seven months of meeting again, Wang Qiang's state and mental outlook suddenly changed, the serve and forehand showed a power that had not been seen for a long time, and it seemed that people saw the state of defeating Serena Williams at the Australian Open in 2020, and in the end she did not give Gauff any chance at all, eliminating the No. 18 seed 6-4 and 6-2.
In place of the No. 18 seed, Wang Qiang is probably the most likely Chinese Jinhua to pass the second round against Belgian Uitfank, who is ranked 56th. But no matter what the result of the second round, the first Grand Slam veteran of the new year will return to the rookie breakthrough, and five golden flowers will pass the first round at the same time, which is undoubtedly a shot in the arm of the Chinese legion that has collectively fallen into a downturn in the past two years, especially the wonderful performance of the three post-00s who represent the new forces, which makes us full of expectations for the future of China's golden flowers.
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