On January 20, Beijing time, the 2022 tennis Grand Slam Australian Open continued, in a focus match in the second round of women's singles, China's Wang Xinyu Challenge will be the no. 2 seed Sabalenka. In the game, Wang Xinyu seized the opportunity of the opponent's repeated double errors to win the next set first, but failed to win the final victory 6-1, 4-6, 2-6 was reversed, regrettably stopped in the second round of the Australian Open women's singles, still creating the best record of his career Grand Slam.
Chinese teenager Wang Xinyu created a personal Grand Slam history this year's Australian Open, winning two straight sets in the first round against Ang Lee and winning the first career Grand Slam regular tournament. In the second round, Wang Xinyu encountered the No. 2 seed Sabalenka, who reached the final four of Wimbledon and the US Open last season, but his recent state was not ideal, and he had suffered three consecutive defeats before the Australian Open, and the Australian Open defeated the wild card players 2-1 in the first round. This is the first time the two have played each other, and it is also Wang Xinyu's second time against the TOP10 players after the first round of the 2021 Wimbledon against Koning.
In the first set, Sabalenka, who took the lead in serving, fell into a double error dilemma again, and three double mistakes sent a break point to report, after which Sabalenka even saved the break point, Wang Xinyu took two shots to attack the straight line score and got the break point again, then Sabalenka issued the sixth double error in the first set and lost the game, and in the second set Wang Xinyu's first serve withstood the opponent's impact to complete the 2-0 lead. In the third set, Sabalenka's reduced force was scored by Wang Xinyu in a straight line, and then Sabalenka's impatience showed three consecutive double errors before being broken to take a 3-0 lead. In the fourth set, Sabalenka also received the same bad state, after a series of mistakes once angrily smashed the racket, Wang Xinyu was not disturbed by the opponent's emotions, and successfully saved the score of 4-0.
In the fifth set, Wang Xinyu played more and more confidently, the score came to 30-30 after the match came to a 30-30 counter-shot attack diagonal score to get the break point, and then Sabalenka served the net, Wang Xinyu was shooting the attack straight line to play a 5-0 lead through the ball. Next is Wang Xinyu's serve to win the game, the state of slight fluctuations by the opponent continuous attack, get 40-0 consecutive break points, Wang Xinyu saved a break point and was shooting the net to lose the game. Next was Sabalenka's unavoidable serve, Wang Xinyu got the break point and also took stock, and after successfully cashing in, he won the first set 6-1, leading 1-0 on aggregate.
In the second set, Sabalenka improved his form in the opening stage, and forced the break point to complete the break in the first set, and took advantage of the situation to save the score to take a 2-0 lead. In the third set, Wang Xinyu's serve was again impacted by the opponent, and when the opponent received the serve and hit the break point, Wang Xinyu withstood the pressure to complete the 1-2 drop. Next into the rhythm of their respective serves, Sabalenka broke advantage in the hand 5-4 to win the set, Wang Xinyu fast-paced serve to force out a 40-40 draw, and then a long multi-shot to force Sabalenka to mistake to get the break point, Sabalenka withstood the pressure to complete the second set victory 6-4, the total score came to 1-1 draw.
In the decider, Wang Xinyu, who took the lead in serving, continued to maintain a good serve, blasting two ACES balls lovegame to save the first set, and Sabalenka improved the serve state to save the score to 1-1. In the third set, Wang Xinyu's serve suffered an impact, after 40-40 draw, Sabalenka received the ball and pressed Wang Xinyu to return the ball out of bounds to break the point, and then the next multi-shot hold in the Sabalenka return ball bounced the net in the boundary, Wang Xinyu did not react to the return ball out of bounds. In the fourth set, Wang Xinyu quickly launched a counter-attack, scoring two consecutive shots to get the break point, and then the high-quality serve pressed the opponent, and Wang Xinyu connected the front shot backslash to win the score and break 2-2.
In the fifth set, Wang Xinyu was in poor service condition, and after two double mistakes, he was shooting out of bounds to send 0-40 consecutive break points, and after Wang Xinyu saved two break points, the second shot was too shallow to be scored by Sabalenka and scored again. In the sixth set, Wang Xinyu's break point opportunity could not be seized, the break did not become Wang Xinyu's serve state fluctuated again, and in the seventh set, the opponent played the cross-ball to get 40-0 consecutive break points, and Wang Xinyu saved a break point and was shortened by the opponent to break the break. 5-2 to Sabalenka's serve to win the game, Wang Xinyu failed to get the break point under the 30-0 lead, Sabalenka played consecutive ACES balls to complete the save, 6-2 to win the decider.
In the end, China's youngster Wang Xinyu failed to maintain the opening advantage, and was reversed by no. 2 seed Sabarenka 1-2, stopping the second round and still creating his best record. The whole game took 1 hour and 55 minutes, in the game, Wang Xinyu completed 5 ACES balls and 7 double errors, Sabalenka was 5 ACES balls and 19 double errors, Wang Xinyu's one-shot success rate was 52% slightly ahead, and Wang Xinyu's one-shot scoring rate was 71%. Sabalenka led 33-21 on the winning points, Wang Xinyu was 27-43 below the opponent without forced errors, and both of them completed 5 breaks with 10 break points in the break link.