In the early morning of March 26, Beijing time, the second round of the women's singles competition of the WTA1000 Miami station began to compete. China's Jinhua Zhang Shuai played against the 24th seed Costia. The two have played each other twice before, and Costia has won the game. Zhang Shuai's performance in today's match was even better, she fell two straight sets to win the opponent lightly, and successfully reached the women's singles round of 32.
In the first set, Zhang Shuai successfully saved the start, in the second set she broke the opponent's serve, in the third set Zhang Shuai love game saved the serve, and in the fourth set, she broke 4 points in a row to get a 4-0 start. In the 5th set, Costia broke Zhang Shuai's serve, but then Zhang Shuai broke again in the 6th set, and Zhang Shuai successfully saved the serve in the 7th set, winning the first set 6-1.
In the second set, Zhang Shuai broke the opponent's serve as soon as she came up, she saved the serve smoothly in the second set, Zhang Shuai completed the break again in the third set, and then Zhang Shuai saved the serve again to make a 4-0 start. In the 6th set, Costia saved 2 break points to save serve, and Zhang Shuai easily saved serve by 4 consecutive points in the 6th set. Costia lost again in the 7th set, and Zhang Shuai broke and won the second set 6-1.
In the end, in a game that took 53 minutes, China's Jinhua Zhang Shuai defeated the world's 27th-ranked Costia 6-1, 6-1 to successfully reach the women's singles round of 32. This is the second time in her career that Zhang Shuai has reached the round of 32 in Miami, and it is also the first time since the 2018 China Open that she has won two consecutive games in the WTA1000 level regular tournament. In the next round, Zhang Shuai's opponent is the 14th seed Gao Fu, who eliminated China's Jinhua Wang Qiang.