The first round of the 2022 WTA1000 Roma Open Women's Singles ended, and Zhang Shuai, the current sister of Chinese women's tennis, easily defeated Italy's famous Trevisan 2-0 (6-4/6-2), and the women's singles second round of the first time this season advanced to the clay arena, Zhang Shuai's 6-3 breaks made her win in two straight sets, and the next round will usher in the challenge of the No. 3 seed macho Sabarenka.
Before the French Open, the highest level of the clay season was the two WTA 1000 matches in Madrid and Rome, and Zhang Shuai was out of the first round of women's singles at the Madrid Open last week, but paired with Sanders was the No. 1 seed in the women's doubles, stopping the semifinals. In Rome, Italy, Zhang Shuai, who is ranked 42nd in the world, is facing host Trevisan in the first round of women's singles, who is currently ranked 82nd in the world.
In the first set, Zhang Shuai continued the consistent slow heat state, the first set of his own serve could not find the rhythm, the first shot rate was not high, the second shot was frequently attacked by Trevisan, and soon the cup Trevisan broke the hand, with Trevisan quickly achieved 2-0 after the trevisan saved, the 3rd set Zhang Shuai was forced out of the break point by the opponent but did not cash in, tenaciously saved, the 4th set was the turning point of Zhang Shuai's game, after the first 3 sets of warm-up slowly found the state of Zhang Shuai finally broke the hand, the score was tied. In the 5th set Zhang Shuai did not have the entanglement of the first 2 serves, straight 4 balls easily saved the score 3-2 to overtake, the 6th set Zhang Shuai continued to work hard, the second break won, and then the 2 sets of both sides saved, Zhang Shuai took the lead 5-3, Zhang Shuai ushered in the service win, trevesan of the backwater battle fought back with all his strength to recover 1 set, but in the 10th set Zhang Shuai rushed to win the first set 6-4.
In the 2nd set, Zhang Shuai's first serve faced the opponent's 2 break points, but they all resolved the difficult serve one by one, and then Zhang Shuai forced out Trevisan's break point in the 2nd set, and cashed in to achieve 2-0, and then the 2nd set of the ball Trevisan broke a guarantee, the score was chased to 2-2, the next 5th set The two sides played 3-2 after a tug-of-war Zhang Shuai saved the hair, zhang Shuai's offensive attack in the 6th set was like a broken bamboo, and after scoring 4 consecutive breaks, zhang Shuai took the lead 4-2, and then in the 7th set Zhang Shuai was already hot, after the save, The 8th set was Trevisan's indispensable serve, under pressure, he was once again broken by Zhang Shuai, and the score in the second set was fixed at 6-2 Zhang Shuai to win the whole game.
Zhang Shuai challenged the No. 3 seed Belarusian Sabalenka in the second round of women's singles, this year's 24-year-old opponent has reached the highest place in the world ranking to no. 2, and together with Mertens to win the women's doubles championship of the 2019 US Open and the 2021 Australian Open, and won the Women's Singles Championship of the Madrid Open in 2021, given Sabalenka's recent state, Zhang Shuai, although ranking nearly 40 places behind his opponents, still has the possibility of upsetting.