On April 2, Beijing time, the WTA Miami Crown began the women's doubles semifinals competition, and China's Jinhua Yang Zhaoxuan joined hands with Russian player Alexandrova to meet Sigmund/Zvonareva. As a result, the Chinese-Russian combination won 6-3 in the first set and took a 9-4 lead with five consecutive match points, and missed the final.
Yang Zhaoxuan previously won the championship with Xu Yipan at Indian Wells Station, and this time reached the Miami semifinals again, looking forward to achieving the feat of winning the championship back-to-back.
After the game began, Yang Zhaoxuan played very actively and has been mobilizing the state of his teammates. After squandering three break points in the second set of the first set and being saved by their opponents, they scored three consecutive breaks after falling behind 15-40 in the fourth set to take a 3-1 lead. After being broken back in the seventh inning, they broke in the eighth inning, 5-3, to force out the opponent's inevitable serve. After completing the break, Yang Zhaoxuan/Alexandrova took the lead 6-3.
In the second set, Zvonareva's form rebounded significantly, the number of mistakes decreased, and Sigmund's performance has been stable, the situation on the field has taken a big turn, and Yang Zhaoxuan/Alexandrova has fallen into passivity. After mutual protection to 1-1, Yang Zhaoxuan lost 4 consecutive sets and fell behind 1-5 in an instant. After saving a set to complete the break, Yang Zhaoxuan wasted a 40-0 advantage in his own unavoidable serve, and was broken for the third time in the set, losing 2-6.
In the exciting grab ten showdown, Yang Zhaoxuan's combination led all the way, 2-0, 5-1, 6-2, 9-4, once won 5 consecutive match points. Just when the fans thought that Yang Zhaoxuan would win 9 consecutive victories and advance to the final of the crown match back-to-back, an accident occurred: the Chinese-Russian combination actually lost 6 points in a row, but instead fell behind 9-10 and faced the opponent's match point. After struggling to 11-11, Yang Zhaoxuan conceded two consecutive points to deliver an 11-13 victory.
Wasting 5 consecutive match points was reversed, which is extremely depressing. However, what makes Yang Zhaoxuan feel more congested is that as a singles player who occasionally makes a doubles appearance, Alexandrova's strength in front of the net is slightly inferior, often standing in front of the net "in a daze", rarely taking the initiative to grab the net, so that Yang Zhaoxuan is tossed enough at the bottom line.
As a result, Yang Zhaoxuan, who has always been good-tempered, was emotionally out of control, shouted, and angrily threw the beat - unfortunately, this did not make her teammates "wake up", but let her be frightened, and then made more mistakes. It should be said that the main reason for the loss of this game is that Alessandrova hit too soft at a critical moment.
Of course, Yang Zhaoxuan's own performance is also problematic, especially the serve, the quality is not high, not to mention, but also issued double errors many times. In addition, similar to the quarter-finals, although the two have communication, it is not very smooth.
According to post-match statistics, affected by the soft serve, Yang Zhaoxuan's combination of a shot scoring rate of only 49%, losing to the opponent by 9 percentage points. In terms of the conversion of break points, Yang Zhaoxuan combined 8 to break 3, while the opponent's 4 break points were all cashed in, which shows that in the grasp of key points, the two veterans on the opposite side are better.
After losing this match, Yang Zhaoxuan's eight-game doubles winning streak came to an abrupt end, and he will play in the doubles match with Chinese Taipei's Zhan Haoqing. I hope that the 27-year-old Yang Zhaoxuan can find a fixed partner as soon as possible, and do not miss a good time because there is no fixed partner when the current state is perfect.
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