Beijing time, January 24: This evening Beijing time, the first tennis Grand Slam tournament of 2022 ended the eighth day of competition, and the top eight seats in men's and women's singles have all been generated. In a match that ended in the morning, France veteran Coney eliminated two-time Grand Slam champion 14th seed Thalep of Romania for the first time in a grand slam singles match to make history by reaching the quarterfinals for the first time. In a mixed doubles second round match that ended today as the No. 2 seed, Mainlander Zhang Shuai and Australia's Pierce defeated a pair of multinational pairs to get tickets to the quarterfinals. In addition, Sviatek, Medvedev and others also beat their opponents to get tickets to the quarterfinals. Let's take a look at the latest australian open matches.
Today's match began at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time, and today's first match was a women's singles fourth round match, played against the 27th seed collins of the United States and the 19th seed Belgian Mertens, who eliminated Zhang Shuai in the previous round. The two have met twice before, and both sides have won one game each, and the pre-match is seen as a match between the two sides. The two sides were entangled in a fight at the start of the match, and mertens took the lead in the first set with the advantage of one more break to take the lead in the first set 6-4. After entering the second set, Collins was not discouraged to adjust her competitive state in time, and in the second and third sets, she played 6-4 consecutively with the advantage of one more break. Collins completed the reversal and beat Mertens to get a ticket to the quarter-finals.
Today's second match at rodravol stadium is still a women's singles match against two-time Grand Slam champions 14th seed Romanian Halep against French veteran Cone. The two have played each other three times before, Kone has a 3-1 advantage, but the most recent meeting dates back to the 2015 Madrid Open, so the pre-match parties are still optimistic that Halep can easily win. The match began at 11:20 a.m. Beijing time, and after the start of the game, Konai entered the state faster in the first set with the advantage of one more break to occupy the initiative of the game 6-4 first. After the start of the second set, Konei continued the good form of the first set to get off to a 3-1 lead, just when Haller Popularize adjusted his competitive state and won the second set 6-3 in five consecutive sets to bring the game into the decider. After entering the decider, Konei was not affected by the reversal of the second set lead and took the lead to break first, and maintained the break advantage until the end to win the decider 6-4 to win the match and get the ticket to the quarterfinals. Corne will compete with Collins for a place in the final four in the next round.
This year's Australian Open is The 63rd time that Koone has participated in the main slam (60th consecutive time), and today she has reached the quarterfinals, which has set a new record, becoming the first time since the Open era that a female player has advanced to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam the most. At the 2005 French Open, at just 15 years old, Coney made her grand slam debut when she reached the second round and lost to Maurice Mo. At the 2022 Australian Open, Cone, who made his 63rd Appearance in the Grand Slam finals, finally reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam for the first time, setting a new record (previously Tana Sugan's 45 times). The current highest in active service is Niculescu's 48 times). In a post-match interview, Konai emotionally said, "Try again, it's never too late." That's why I keep playing tennis. It is for this moment that I can share all my emotions with all of you on the field. The journey goes on, I really can't believe it. ”
Today' men's singles no. 2 seed Russian Medvedev also ushered in his fourth round of competition, his opponent is the United States' Cressy, who finished second in this year's Melbourne Summer. The match was the first time the two had met in an official match, and before the match, all parties were optimistic that Medvedev would be able to win easily. The match began at 12:00 noon Beijing time at the Margaret Court, and after the start of the game, Medvedev showed good competitive form and completed several breaks before winning the first set 6-2 easily to take the upper hand. After the game entered the second set, the two sides were entangled in a fight after each saved the set and needed to divide the winner by grabbing the seven, and Medvedev's key points in the seventh were better to win the second set 7-4. The match into the third set of the two sides is still anxious, once again need to be through the seven to divide the winner, in this rush seven Cressy is in better shape to win 7-4 to chase the set to 1:2. After entering the fourth set, the two sides still held a relatively solid first ten sets in their respective serves to 5-5, and then Medvedev made a key break to win the fourth set 7-5 to beat Cressy to get a ticket to the quarterfinals. In the next round, Medvedev will face 9th seed Canada's Ariassim, who reversed Croatian veteran Cilic in four sets in today's match.
Two fantastic women's singles matches were staged at Margaret Stadium in today's night match, starting with a match between No. 7 seed Poland's Sviyatke and Romanian veteran Costia. This is the first time the two have met in an official match, before the game all parties are optimistic that Sviatek can easily win, but after the start of the game, Costia is in better shape to win the first set of the game 7-5, and then Sviatek adjusted his competitive state in time to complete the reversal in two 6-3 consecutive sets to reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time, which is also the second time in 6 years that a Polish female player has reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. Sviatek's opponent in the quarter-finals will be 1985-born Estonian veteran Kanepi, who defeated Second-seeded Belarusian Sabalenka 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (10-7) in the final fourth round of women's singles today. Canepi also unlocked her achievement in the quarter-final eight of four Grand Slam singles, the ninth time she has beaten a top-ten player in the world at a Grand Slam and the seventh time she has reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam.
In a mixed doubles second-round match this morning, Mainlander Zhang Shuai, who played as the No. 2 seed, partnered with Australia's Pierce to defeat the Dutch player Kurchhoff and the American Pera in two straight sets to get tickets to the quarterfinals. In today's two men's singles matches, 11th seedEd Italy's Sinar defeated 32nd seed host DeMinal in straight sets to advance to the second round. Sinar will compete with No. 4 seed Ichigo Greece for a place in the final four, and he won the final eight tickets in five sets against The United States Fritz in the final match that ended tonight.
The Australian Open competition has entered the final stages and we will continue to pay attention to the relevant reports of the tournament.