WTA1000 Indian Wells Women's Doubles Began the first round of competition, China's Jinhua Zhang Shuai and his old partner Australian star Stosur as the No. 2 seed, the first opponent is the transnational combination of Fernandez / Koone, after 3 rounds of battle, Zhang Shuai / Stosur 1-2 (6-1 / 6-7 / 8-10) suffered an opponent reversal, missed the second round of women's doubles.
Zhang Shuai's state has fluctuated this year, the singles field has won the WTA250 Lyon Open championship, in the first Grand Slam Australian Open at the beginning of the year to reach the round of 32, but all other matches played abnormally, did not show the level they should have, the first round of the Indian Wells Super Women's Singles Competition, Zhang Shuai unexpectedly lost 2 sets to Savell, encountered a round of travel. In the women's doubles, Zhang Shuai continued to play with his old partner Stosur, the two won the US Open last year, and this year's Australian Open lost unexpectedly 1-2 to the multinational duo of Pella/Reinette in the second round of this year's Australian Open.
In the first set of the game, Zhang Shuai / Stosur entered the game state quickly, the two had many years of cooperation experience, tacit understanding, their own serve bottom line holding technology is excellent, the mobilization is good, and soon the serve is won. In the second set, Stosur was very aggressive, broke at her instigation, and then cooperated with Zhang Shuai to save the third set with a 3-0 score. In the 4th inning, Koone/Fernandez finally opened his sleeve and struggled to save his serve. However, the rhythm of the game was still in the hands of Stosur/Zhang Shuai, the two saved the break point in the 5th set to save the successful service, and then completed the second break of the game in the 6th set, and saved 4 break points in the 7th set, and then successfully won in the 1st set, and the whole game only let the opponent win 1 set 6-1 very easily.
In the second set, Fernandez/Conet improved their form, the opposite of the first set, and the opening was to save and break, with a wave of 2-0 taking the lead. In the 3rd set, Stosur / Zhang Shuai did not show weakness to break the opponent's set, the two sides returned to the starting line, and then saved their own serves in the following game, in the 7th set Stother / Zhang Shuai once held 2 break points, but unfortunately were resolved by the opponent one by one, the affected two people suffered an opponent break in the 8th set, but in the 9th set Zhang Shuai combined to break a set, the two sides have been holding the battle until 6-6, grabbing the seven battles in which Corne / Fernandez came later, reversing the decline at 9-7, It also completely broke the plan of Zhang Shuai's combination to try to solve the battle within 2 sets.
In the third set, the tiebreaker, the women's doubles took the grab ten battle. The scores between the two sides were never able to open up, Zhang Shuai/Stosur and Koone/Fernandez played until the key point of 8-8, and then the next 2 goals of Corne/Fernandez all grasped the fighter and won in one fell swoop, thus ending the battle 10-8.
Zhang Shuai / Stosur lost a bit of a pity, originally won 6-1 first set, in the case of the last two sets have the opportunity, or not as good as the opponent's physical strength, technical and tactical and other comprehensive aspects of the use of more reasonable. Canada's youngster Fernandez has recently become the nemesis of China's golden flowers, zheng qinwen and Wang Qiang, two golden flowers in China, at Monterrey, and suppressed Chinese golden flowers in the women's doubles field.