On the evening of April 28, Beijing time, the WTA Crown Madrid Open began the first round of women's singles competition. China's 19-year-old Xiaohua Zheng Qinwen and the world's 67th-ranked Czech player Mukhova fiercely fought in three sets, and the result was reversed 1-2, with the scores of 1-6, 6-3 and 6-4 in three sets.
Before coming to Madrid, Zheng Qinwen rested for 20 days due to a wrist injury, including a match in the Sub-region of Billy Jane Gold Cup, and faced the powerful player Mukhova as soon as he returned, which was a bad signing. More importantly, this Mukhova also bears the name of golden flower nemesis, and has kept winning all the previous 5 times against Chinese players.
After the game began, Zheng Qinwen gave a different feeling, and the stability of the serve seemed to have been strengthened. In the first set, her one-shot success rate reached 66%, which was much better than her previous performance of less than 50%. So, although the Ace was not issued in the first set, Zheng Qinwen led 68%-56% in the first-shot scoring rate, and the second-serve scoring rate was 46%-17%, and finally took the lead at 6-1.
After all, Mukhova is strong, she saved two break points in the third set of the second set to save the serve, and then took the lead in the fourth set to achieve a 3-1 lead. After that, both sides saved their serves, and Zheng Qinwen lost the second set 3-6 because the fourth set was broken.
In the decider, Zheng Qinwen lost five consecutive points in the first set with a 40-0 lead, and then wasted 3 break points in a 40-15 lead, and was saved by the opponent, and the ball that could have started 2-0 was beaten to 0-2. After that, the Chinese teenager's mentality was unbalanced, losing 4 points in a row and being broken, while Mukhova kept serving steadily, the score came to 0-4, 1-5, and Zheng Qinwen was only one step away from the game.
Under the desperate situation, Zheng Qinwen instead relaxed his mentality. In the seventh inning, she scored four consecutive runs to save at 0-15; in the eighth, she broke four runs at 0-15; in the ninth, she lost four straight runs to hold her serve — after a small 12-1 surge, she chased the score to 4-5. After all, Mukhova had the ability to win the game in her second serve, she used three serves to go straight away, scored four straight points, and took the game 6-4.
In the whole game, Zheng Qinwen was almost not behind in all technical links, but slightly lower in the conversion rate of break points, only 3 of the 13 break points were cashed in, while the opponent only got 5 break points and cashed in 3. In terms of total points, Zheng Qinwen only lost 2 points 88-90.
After this match, Mukhova further confirmed her golden flower nemesis, and the record of the match with the Chinese players was updated to 6-0. In these 6 matches, Xu Shilin and Zheng Qinwen both lost 1-2, while Wang Yafan, Wang Qiang and Zhang Shuai all lost 0-2, of which Zhang Shuai lost twice.
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