In the first round of the 2022 WTA1000 Madrid Open qualifiers, Wang Qiang, the former sister of the Chinese women's tennis world, suffered a 1-2 (6-4/4-6/2-6) reversal by yuwan, who ranked 82nd in the world, in the case of a narrow victory over the first set, and the whole game took 123 minutes for Wang Qiang to travel in the first set. Since the Madrid Open is the highest level WTA clay event before the French Open every year, perhaps because there are still many discomforts in the hard court to the dirt field, Wang Qiang's rhythm of key points on the field has not yet been adjusted, especially in the second set of the 10th set of his own serve was broken, resulting in the loss of the second set of the game, becoming a key turning point in the whole game.
Madrid Open as a crown event, gathered the top 20 of the WTA ranking coefficient to go, take this opportunity to warm up for the French Open, generous points can also improve the world ranking, China Jinhua treats the selection strategy of the game differently, Wang Qiang, Zhang Shuai and other top 100 players have chosen this game, even from the qualification tournament, and Wang Xiyu in order to improve the ranking into the top 100 as soon as possible, chose a lower level challenge, try to win points.
Wang Qiang played in the qualifiers, the first round encountered the 18th seed Yuwan of the qualifiers, the opponent ranked 82nd in the world, and Wang Qiang was ranked 97th, the two were almost the same from the world ranking, and it was foreseeable to be a vicious battle before the game.
In the first set of the game Yuwan took the lead in serving, both sides in the first set of the ball are trying to save, in the slow dirt field to carry out the bottom line tug-of-war, the first 2 sets into 1-1, the 3rd set Wang Qiang improved the state, the first to break Yuwan's serve, and then in the 4th set to save 1 break point, there is no danger to save the success, the score became 3-1, the hot Wang Qiang continued to pressure Yuwan, in the next 2 consecutive breaks with the guarantee quickly played a huge lead of 5-1, Unwilling to be tied, Yuwan broke the ribbon in the following 2 consecutive sets to regain the color, and the score was chased to 4-5, and Wang Qiang won the first set 6-4 in the 10th set.
In the second set, Wang Qiang failed to continue the strength of the first set, just when the 2nd set was broken by YuWan, Yuwan's first 2 serves were very stable, and the first set was sluggish at 3-0, Wang Qiang's serve in this set was very hard, and he was forced out of the break point by the opponent many times, fortunately, there was no danger, until the 9th set Wang Qiang broke through Yu Wan's set, the score came to 4-5 behind, the 10th set Wang Qiang's serve was expected to equalize but it backfired, Yu Wan won the second break of the game in this set, thus paying tribute to Wang Qiang a 6-4.
In the third set of the competition Wang Qiang began to show the limit in physical fitness, the physical confrontation between Asian players and European and American players still occupied a significant disadvantage, especially the duel on the slow clay court, it was more to compete for endurance, Wang Qiang's first 2 serves ended in defeat, YuWan broke all in the 2nd and 4th sets to achieve a 5-0 dream start, Wang Qiang broke back to Youwan in the case of 1-5 behind, but Wang Qiang was again broken by Yuwan in the 8th set, and Yuwan also won the decider 6-2.