Swartec is in good shape at the Stuttgart Open.
In the early morning of the 23rd, the women's singles quarterfinals of the Stuttgart Open will usher in an absolute strong dialogue: 20-year-old top seed Svatek against 19-year-old No. 8 seed Raducano.
Both players are the "big seeds" of the Stuttgart Open, both players are now in the top 15 in the world rankings, and both players hold a Grand Slam women's singles championship trophy... These are undoubtedly the reasons why this duel has attracted attention, and another reason that may have to be said is that this will be the first time that two young players will meet in professional tennis.
Swataker "unexpectedly" became the world's number one.
The two Grand Slam women's singles winners will meet for the first time in professional tennis, and how it will end is indeed another point of view for this quarter-final. However, another fact that may be mentioned here is that although they have never fought in professional tennis, the tennis careers of the two are not completely absent.
Radulcannu, who is now ranked 12th in the world, and Swatek, who is now no. 1 in the world, once met once in the women's singles field of wimbledon junior group in 2018 - although Wimbledon is now smelly, this does not affect the previous status of Wimbledon.
In that junior women's singles competition, Swatak and Raducanu were both unseeded players, and both had a big upset before the quarter-finals of "Huishi". Among them, Swatak swept the top seed Osvigui in the first round, while Raducano eliminated the then No. 11 seed Fernandez in the second round - in the 2021 US Open women's singles final, Raducano defeated Fernandes again.
However, when the two real "gifted girls" met in the quarter-finals, the advantage was all on the side of Svatek, who was a year older. After sweeping Raducano 6-0 in the first set, Swatak easily won 6-1 in the second set. So when Radukanu will face Swatak again at the Stuttgart Open, the Chinese-American girl said she had completely forgotten about the 2018 encounter between the two.
Raducano won the women's singles title all the way to the 2021 US Open.
The only reason for this shift from obscurity when Wimbledon juniors met in 2018 to being in absolute focus when they met again at the 2022 Stuttgart Open is that Radukanu and Swatek's achievements in recent years are indeed impossible to ignore – the youngest of the current world-ranked top 15 players.
Swataker recently won the championship.
Although it is a coincidence that she became the world number one, after winning the French Open women's singles title in 2020, Svatek has indeed become a real powerhouse in women's tennis, and the three WTA 1000-level events that have ended this year (Dubai, Indian Wells, Miami), all of which have been won by her, is enough to say.
Raducannu's performance in 2022 is indeed inferior to Swatek, but her "historic scene" of winning the women's singles title at the 2021 US Open is still the most precious memory of women's tennis - she was the first singles player to win a Grand Slam title through the qualifiers.
When the two players first met in the 2018 Wimbledon junior group match, I am afraid that not many people would have thought that the two would grow up so quickly, and while marveling at the progress and success of the two, they would also make Chinese women's tennis have some envy.
Svatek won the 2018 Wimbledon Junior Women's Singles Title.
Back in the women's singles arena of the 2018 Wimbledon Junior Division. In addition to Raducano and Svatek, who eventually won the championship, the top 8 players included two Chinese golden flowers: Wang Xiyu and Wang Xinyu. And compared to Raducannu being blocked by Swatak in the top 4, Wang Xinyu (eliminating Dema) and Wang Xiyu (eliminating Gauff) have successfully advanced to the top 4.
Although Wang Xinyu lost 0-2 to Svatek and Wang Xinyu lost 1-2 to Kun Ge, they have brought enough excitement to Chinese fans by joining hands to advance to the top 4 of the women's singles in the youth group. It is also worth saying that in the women's doubles competition of the Wimbledon junior group that year, Wang Xiyu also partnered With Wang Xinyu to win the final championship, which is already the second Grand Slam Junior Women's Doubles Champion of Wang Xinyu (partner Liang Enshuo) after the 2018 Australian Open.
Wang Xiyu and Wang Xinyu won the 2018 Wimbledon Junior Women's Doubles Championship.
Both have appeared in the 2018 Wimbledon Junior Group and have achieved good results in the 2018 Wimbledon Junior Group, but it is regrettable that when Swatak and Raducanu continue to play the main roles in the WTA, the career paths of Wang Xiyu and Wang Xinyu are not smooth – of course, most of the players who won the Junior Championship are actually unknown afterwards.
In the latest edition of the World Rankings, 20-year-old Wang Xinyu ranked 83rd, 21-year-old Wang Xiyu ranked 127th, and as for their achievements in professional tennis, they could not be compared with Radukanu and Swatek, who also advanced to the top 8 that year.
Take Grand Slam tournaments as an example. Wang Xinyu and Wang Xiyu both ushered in their first personal grand slam women's singles victory at this year's Australian Open, among them, Wang Xinyu eliminated Ang Lee 2-0 to advance to the second round after being reversed by Sabalenka 1-2, and Wang Xiyu lost 0-2 to Klechkova in the second round after eliminating Kuzmova 2-0 in the first round.
Zheng Qinwen's recent momentum is good.
Looking at the achievements of Radukanu and Swatek today, Wang Xiyu and Wang Xinyu, who were once on par with them, are obviously too far behind. Both the two young Chinese Jinhua and Chinese tennis may be a somewhat disappointing result, but what makes Chinese Tennis a little happy is that the 19-year-old Zheng Qinwen may be trying to become the representative player of the new generation of Chinese Jinhua, and Zheng Qinwen, who is now ranked 70th in the world, has qualified for the Madrid Open (WTA1000) wild card.