WTA1000 Miami Crown began the women's singles third round of competition, only China's Jinhua Zhang Shuai faced the 18-year-old rising star Gauff of the United States, both sets were in the lead of the score, 6-7 and 5-7 unfortunate defeat, especially in the first set Zhang Shuai held the serve to win the game The good situation was still dragged by the opponent into the seven decisive victories and failed to win, and the second set was also stubbornly reversed by Gauff in the case of 4-2 two first breaks. At this point, the 18-year-old American youngsters Gophrenk China's two eldest sisters, Wang Qiang and Zhang Shuai, have advanced to the round of 16.
Zhang Shuai this WTA1000 crown is still a singles doubles doubles doubles battle, in the women's singles main game in the state burst, with two 6-1 victory over the 24th seed Romania's Costia, but the doubles field is full of regrets, as the No. 3 seed and the old partner Australia's Stosur to lose 4-6 to Yang Zhaoxuan / Alexandrova's transnational combination, tragically suffered a round of travel, perhaps Zhang Shuai in the women's doubles field and Stosur's partner has been difficult to join the championship ranks.
Zhang Shuai and the American youngster Gauff had a confrontation at the US Open last year, when Zhang Shuai/Stosur defeated The American Gauff/McNally in the women's doubles final to win the US Open women's doubles crown, and this time in the women's singles zhang Shuai competed with Gauff for a place in the round of 16.
In the first set, Zhang Shuai took the lead in serving, and Zhang Shuai and Gao Fu played very carefully at the beginning, without obvious consecutive mistakes, nor did they have a strong attack, and each saved the first 2 serves. Zhang Shuai once forced out a break point of Gao Fu in the 4th inning, but failed to cash in, to the 5th set Zhang Shuai's serve began not to be guaranteed, was first broken by Gao Fu, fortunately Zhang Shuai quickly broke back to the 6th set, the score battle to 3-3, Zhang Shuai accelerated the pace of hitting, even the break with the guarantee belt to increase the score to 5-3, the 9th set was Zhang Shuai's serve to win the set, but unfortunately failed to grasp, played too hard and too urgent, 2 sets were all squandered, after the increase in mistakes was broken by Gao Fu, losing the best fighter in the whole game, the two fought to grab seven, Gauff scored six points in a row with a wave of attacks to win the first set 7-1.
In the second set, Zhang Shuai was not affected by the opponent's reversal in the first set, and in the first set, Gao Fu took the initiative to attack her second serve in the serve, and Gao Fu came up and was broken by Zhang Shuai. In the 2nd set, Gao Fu completed the breakback, and then both sides played very strong in their respective serves to complete the save, the two sides fought to 2-2, the 5th set Zhang Shuai was the first to break successfully, the good times did not last long Gough fu broke back in the 8th set, the two sides fought to 4-4, but Gough took the lead in serving, and when it came to 6-5, Zhang Shuai made many mistakes in the non-guaranteed set of serves, and Gao Fu seized the opportunity to break and win the whole game 7-5.
Zhang Shuai had a chance to win both sets in a 109-minute match, both of which were mistakes in the grasp of the on-field fighter, and finally missed the women's singles round of 16 at 0-2 (6-7/5-7), and Gauff had the opportunity to challenge the world's No. 1 Sviatek in the 4th round of women's singles, but the latter still had to pass the Bröngel level.