On January 20, Beijing time, the second round of the Australian Open women's singles, China's Jinhua Zhang Shuai Challenge will be the 12th seed Laiba Jinna. In the first set, the two sides played very fiercely, and Zhang Shuai narrowly won 6-4. In the second set, the moment of surprise came, Lebakina withdrew, and Zhang Shuai automatically advanced!
In fact, from the scene point of view, Zhang Shuai and Lebakina played very glue, the first set of the competition, Zhang Shuai with the key break in the ninth set and the subsequent preservation of the first set to win the first set 6-4. In terms of overall strength, it is undoubtedly Leiba Jinna who is stronger, she is the No. 12 seed in the women's singles of this Australian Open, the world ranking is also 12th, Zhang Shuai's world ranking is only 74th, the gap between the two is still relatively large. Being able to win the first set, Zhang Shuai has already exploded a big cold door.
However, after coming to the second set, after Zhang Shuai won the first set, something even more unexpected happened, the 12th seed Lebakina chose to withdraw, Zhang Shuai received a retirement gift, and successfully entered the top 32 women's singles of this Australian Open. So far, this year's Australian Open, after 5 People broke through the first round of the historical record, Zhang Shuai and Wang Qiang 2 people passed the second round to advance to the women's singles round 32, and Wang Xiyu, Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xinyu 3 after 00 Xiaohua is stopped in the second round.
In this regard, People's Daily Sports has paid attention to the wonderful performance of Wang Qiang and Zhang Shuai at the Australian Open, and sent praise!
For Wang Qiang, People's Daily commented: Stage a wonderful reversal! In the unfavorable situation that was only two points away from being eliminated, he finally defeated Belgian player Ujtfank 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 to reach the round of 32 of the Grand Slam after two years, which is also the third time that Wang Qiang has advanced to the third round of the Australian Open after 2019 and 2020.
For Zhang Shuai, People's Daily commented: When 6-4/ 1-0 led the 12th seed Lebakina, the latter withdrew due to injury, and Zhang Shuai once again reached the top 32 of the Australian Open after two years. Next, she will be separated from Mertens.