The 2022 WTA1000 Doha Open began the first round of competition for women's singles competition, the world's 53rd place Chinese Jinhua Zhang Shuai after two rounds of qualifying rounds to enter the first round of the main tournament, the result of facing the world's 63rd ranked Belarusian Sasnovic, the full strength against the obvious inferior Zhang Shuai only got a pitiful 2 sets, only 1 save and 1 break, with 0-2 (1-6/1-6) to deliver the full victory, did not qualify for the second round of women's singles.
Zhang Shuai participated in 4 tournaments this year, including 3 open tournaments tragically by the women's singles main round of the round trip, this year's 32-year-old Zhang Shuai only played a normal level at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, defeated Switzerland's Grubich and Kazakhstan's Lebakina 2-0 respectively, broke into the Australian Open women's singles round of 32, but then the third round was beaten by Belgium's Mertens, did not qualify for the third round, fortunately in the mixed doubles and Pierce reached the semifinals.
This Doha tournament belongs to the top event of WAT, gathered the world's top masters to participate, the world ranking of only 53 Zhang Shuai can only start from the qualifiers, the result of two consecutive rounds of eggs to advance, the first round of the qualifiers 2-0 defeated the French young parry, the second round and defeated Russia's Melnikova, perhaps the strength of the qualification opponent is not strong and young, or powerless to prevent Zhang Shuai from entering the main tournament, the result of the first round of Zhang Shuai's opponent Sassnovic world ranking is 10 places lower than her, It also took two rounds of qualifying to reach the main tournament.
In the first set of the first set, Zhang Shuai was fortunate to take the lead in serving, the opening state was still in the process of finding the rhythm of adaptation, the serve was sluggish, and the opponent's wave of bottom-line offensive angles also had the strength to do the foundation, and the 4-ball straight down to win the easy break. However, in the subsequent 2nd set Zhang Shuai also broke in the Norwegian serve, Sassnovic also needed to find a rhythm of the serve in the first serve, in this process Zhang Shuai received the serve to attack the landing point accurately, quickly achieved a breakback, the score came to 1-1, who had expected, after which Zhang Shuai did not win another round for 7 consecutive innings! In the 3rd set, Zhang Shuai's serve still did not find the rhythm of the serve, and was continuously grabbed by the opponent to make two shots, and the next board connection after Zhang Shuai's serve was always passive, and inevitably lost this set, with Sassnovic successfully saved the 4th set, The score came to 3-1.And Zhang Shuai collapsed in the next 5th and 7th sets, and was broken 4 times by the opponent in the first set, while the opponent successfully saved the 6th set, and the normal game was only broken once by Zhang Shuai in the 2nd set, and soon Sasnovic easily ushered in the first set victory 6-1.
The second set of the game Sasnovic is like a bamboo, Zhang Shuai in the bottom line and the opponent's tug-of-war is always because of lack of strength and lose points, the first set of Sasnavich serve has no flaws to find, smoothly saved, and in the second set Zhang Shuai's serve attack did not decrease, after achieving a break, and then in the 3rd set of the successful, Zhang Shuai until the 4th set of the difficult to save to win the 1st set of the game. The good times were short-lived, Zhang Shuai was powerless to break in the 5th set, and then hit the blow in the 6th set, and was once again broken by Sasnovic, and after the 7th set Sasnovic took 4 consecutive points to save the serve, he once again won the whole game 6-1.
Zhang Shuai participated in 5 tournaments this year and 4 women's singles main tournament round trip, but it is undeniable that she can still adjust in place in the Grand Slam field such as the Australian Open, play a normal level, and come up with the best state to deal with, this game faces Sassnovic, who is equally strong and ranked, the difference in strength between Zhang Shuai and the opponent is obvious, which also lays a hidden danger for the loss of this game.