On April 6, 2022, Beijing time, the good news came from Chinese women's tennis, 19-year-old Zheng Qinwen played 6-0 in the decider, sweeping Grand Slam champion Stevens, when she beat the world's top 50 players for the first time in her career, creating a new record.
Zheng Qinwen is the star of hope in Chinese women's tennis, who has made breakthroughs in tour and Australian Open competitions this season, showing his potential, and is a young player with strong plasticity. However, Zheng Qinwen lacks stability, which is related to her relatively little experience in the game. Therefore, Zheng Qinwen should participate in more competitions so that he can find problems.
Charleston is a WTA 500 level competition, and the level of competition is relatively high. In the first round of women's singles, Zheng Qinwen played against the No. 13 seed and Grand Slam champion Stevens, who had won the championship in Charleston, although the competitive state was not as good as before, but the strength was also very strong.
In the match, Zheng Qinwen won the first set 6-3, and Stevens pulled back a set 6-4. In the decider, Zheng Qinwen played well, in the case of the opponent's physical decline, Zheng Qinwen comprehensively suppressed the opponent, blasted out 6-0, and finally eliminated Stevens 2-1 to advance to the next round.
This was the first time in His career that Heung Chin-man had beaten a top 50 player in the world rankings, setting a new record. Next, Zheng Qinwen played against Alexandrova, expecting her to continue to move forward.
In another game, Wang Xiyu missed the serve in the second set to win the game, she also missed a huge advantage of 5-2 in seven sets, and finally lost 6-4, 6-7, 3-6 to 10th seed Benzic, regrettably out. The tough-won Bencic will face supernova Fruvetova in the next round.
In the women's doubles, top seeds Zhang Shuai/Dolllehead beat Chichenok/Rodionova 6-2, 4-6, 10-6 to successfully pass the first round. In this way, Zhang Shuai won all the women's singles and women's doubles matches, and the competitive state was quite good. As the No. 16 seed in the women's singles, Zhang Shuai's opponent in the next round is Liu Jingwen, a Chinese-American player, who hopes that Zhang Shuai will continue to cheer up, achieve good results in the mud season, continue to improve his world rankings, and impact the Grand Slam seed seat!