Three minutes a day to know about tennis in the world. Hello fans and friends, today is Thursday, February 10, 2022, welcome to listen to the news noon news provided by Tennis House.
Beijing time last night, from the foreign media came the news, the British club announced that since this year's Wimbledon, the ticket price of the men's and women's singles finals has been adjusted, and the face price of the two matches has been uniformly determined to be 240 pounds. This adjustment ends Wimbledon's tradition of over the past 31 years when ticket prices for men's singles finals were higher than those of women's singles. This year's Wimbledon women's singles final and men's singles final are scheduled to be held on July 9 and July 10. The CEO of Wimbledon said that the unified fare is aimed at conveying the concept of "equality between men and women" at Wimbledon.
Let's go back to the field. Beijing time last night, ATP500 Rotterdam station crossed the men's singles first and second round of competition. In a focus battle in the first round, Britain's Murray, who played with a wild card, and The Kazakh Bublik, who just won his first career title last week, fought in two sets to win 7-6 (6)/6-4. He will compete for a place in the quarter-finals with Canadian rising star Ariassim in the second round, who defeated Belarusian Gerasimov 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.
In the other first round of matches, South Korean rising star Kwon Junyu, Hungary's brother Vösovitz, and Belarusian Ivaszka all won and advanced. In the second round of the day, 19-year-old Italian rising star Josetti performed well, beating Poland's Hulkac 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals. Britain's brother Norrie defeated Russian toughman Khachanov 6-4, 7-6 and also successfully got the ticket to the quarterfinals.
Beijing time this morning, ATP250 Buenos Aires station began the second round of singles competition, the top seed, Norwegian rising star Rudd played a stable, 7-6 (2)/6-3 elimination of Espanyol Baena, advanced to the quarterfinals. In the quarter-finals, his opponent was local player Coria. After 2 hours and 35 minutes of bitter fighting, the latter reversed Serbian star Rajovic 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals amid cheers from the home crowd. In other games, Italian Sonego beat Argentine youngster Baas in two sets, and Spanish veteran Vodasco reversed Brazilian Monteiro in three sets.
At THEP250 Dallas men's singles second round, the American Geelong defeated the Briton Brody 2-1, and the Australian Thompson defeated the American rising star Brandon Nakajima in two sets to advance to the quarterfinals.
Let's focus on the women's arena again. Beijing time last night, WTA500 St. Petersburg station began the second round of women's singles competition. Belgian miltons beat Croatian veteran Martic 2-1 to advance to the quarter-finals. Next, she will compete with Greek sister Sakkari for a place in the final four, who beat Russian Alexandrova in two sets.
Swiss star Bencic beat Slovenian qualifier Euvan 2-0 to secure a place in the quarter-finals. She will face Estonian star Kontavit in the quarter-finals, who beat Romanian Costia in two sets.
In a women's doubles first-round showdown on the same day, the Chinese duo of Xu Yipan / Yang Zhaoxuan counterattacked unsuccessfully, losing to Rossoka / Lutlif 4-6/ 6-3/ 5-10, encountering a round of travel.
Finally, let's guess and recognize. The image below shows a player falling to the ground celebrating after winning the championship. Without prompting, can you recognize who he is?
Guess last time, the golfer gave the correct answer. That's right, the shadow on the picture is Nadal, the Spanish god of war who achieved double circle grand slam at the Australian Open. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Maverick)