On March 12, Beijing time, the 2022 WTA1000 Indian Wells Tournament began the second round of women's singles competition. In the last round, China's Jinhua Wang Rose missed a 5-2 lead in the second set, although there was stubborn resistance at the end of the match, but in the end, the match point double error, 3-6, 6-7 (5) defeated Buzkova, who also broke through from the qualifiers, and lost to his opponents again after Guadalajara, and had no chance to go further.
In the second round, Zheng Qinwen played against Kerber, Swatek, Muguruza, Radukanu, Halep and other seeds appeared, and Ka Pliskova made her season debut. Ka Pliskova accidentally injured her right hand while training in the offseason and has been on a truce for the first two months of this year, and the Australian Open is her first absence from a Grand Slam regular in nearly nine years. World Number One finally returned to the field this week and will face Corvinich in the second round of the WTA1000 Indian Wells.
Returning from injury, Ka Pliskova missed a 6-2, 5-2 lead and was reversed by Kovinic 6-2, 5-7, 4-6, losing the first game of the season. It was The third top 10 win of Covinic's career, both previously from clay (2016 Madrid – No.8 Vinci, 2020 Roma – No.10 Bencic).
The new season for 11th seed Raducano is full of all sorts of circumstances: she first tested positive for covid-19 in the offseason, the Australian Open was plagued by blisters on her hands, and she also withdrew from the first round of Guadalajara with a left leg injury two weeks ago. Coming to Indian Wells, the new U.S. Open champion said she would try to overcome adversity and get back on as soon as possible. She said: "These setbacks I have encountered, after so much good luck in the past year, I think I can bear all the bad luck as well. But I was a little frustrated because I was hoping to continue the momentum. But there are still many games in the future, and there are more opportunities to make up for it. ”
In today's match, Raducano beat France's Garcia 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 in three sets to win her second victory of the season, which was also the first WTA 1000 class victory of her career. The new U.S. Open winner will face Martic in the next round, who eliminated 19th seed Zedansek 7-5, 7-6 (6).
In addition, Doha champion and No. 3 seed Svatek quickly adjusted after losing the first set, and finally reversed Kalinina 5-7, 6-0, 6-1. The Polish girl currently holds a six-game winning streak and leads the women this year with 15 wins on the Tour. As the highest-ranked player in the first half, she will face 29th seed Towson in the next round, who beat Maya 6-4, 6-3.
Former tournament champion and 24th seed Halep beat Alexandrova 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 in three sets to rewrite the record of the two sides to 3-2, and also ended a two-game hard-court losing streak against the latter. Next, the Romanians will wait for the winner between Gauff and Liu Jingwen.