Coming to the 2022 season, Zheng Qinwen seemed to have suddenly opened up, and wrote Cinderella's script in Melbourne: at the WTA Melbourne 250 Tournament, she broke through from the qualifiers and advanced to the final four in one fell swoop, refreshing her best record on the tour; when she came to the Australian Open, she won four consecutive victories, starting from the qualifiers, entering the second round of the main tournament, and achieving the feat of entering the second round of the first Grand Slam regular tournament.
In the second round of the women's singles, facing the powerful Greek champion Sakkari, Zheng Qinwen, who was unwell in his feet, broke out at the end of the second set in the case of a 1-6 defeat in the first set and a 1-4 trail in the second set, saving 3 match points and only losing 4-6. It can be said that in Zheng Qinwen, we see the strong willpower of the former famous Zheng Jie, and her physical quality is much better than Zheng Jie, which makes people very optimistic about her future.
In fact, since Zheng Qinwen came to prominence in the ITF arena in the 2020 season, fans have given him a very high evaluation: this Li Na's sister-in-law not only has excellent physical fitness than Sister Na, but also has a tenacious fighting spirit like Zheng Jie, which will become a great instrument in the future.
Why do you think that she has the same strong psychological qualities as Zheng Jie? Look at her winning percentage in three sets. In the last ten three-set matches, Zheng Qinwen has won all of them, as long as the game is dragged into the decider, she is like a warrior who has opened and hung, brave and confident.
And putting herself in the disadvantage and then dragging the game into the decider can show her competitive temperament. For a recent example, in the first round of the Australian Open qualifiers, facing the former final four player Van der Weig, Zheng Qinwen lost 1-6 in the first set and fell behind 71-5 in the second set to achieve a big reversal, directly crushing the opponent, and then winning 6-1 in the decider.
As for Zheng Qinwen's technical ability, she is only 19 years old and obviously has a lot of room for improvement, such as her backhand and the fan set for her benchmark li na, compared with the difference between cloud mud, her pre-net technology is also rough. But she had almost arguably the best serve ever for a Chinese player, losing 2-0 to Sakkari in the match where she blasted eight ACEs.
With such a powerful serve as cover, if carefully polished in other technical details, the upper limit of Zheng Qinwen's technical ability can definitely be close to Li Na. Coupled with a strong psychological quality, it is foreseeable that in the future WTA arena, her name will often appear in the deeper rounds, and there is a great hope for the year-end 30.
However, although he is still very young, Zheng Qinwen must always pay attention to his own body changes, have a more accurate assessment of his body, and cannot be entangled in injuries at a young age. Against Sakkari, she chose a medical timeout during the break, which made people break into a cold sweat - this rising star with great potential can't write the tragedy of injuring Zhongyong in the big script of her career!
Compared with Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xiyu, who is one year older and earlier in the WTA, is also physically excellent, but her running is not good enough, and her personality seems to be softer. Today she lost 0-2 (2-6, 3-6) to French Open champion Klechkova, and in the same number of wins as Zheng Qinwen, it was a bit humiliating, because she was a little too dull.
——Pay attention to the small fish and feel the temperature of sports!