In the early morning of June 12, Beijing time, good news came from the WTA125K Valencia station, China's Jinhua Wang Xiyu defeated Sweden's Björkonde 2-0 in the women's singles semifinals, and successfully reached the final, with the scores of 6-3 and 6-4 in the two sets respectively. This victory is of great significance, Wang Xiyu has improved his world ranking to 99th with the 95 points he has already received!
Born in March 2001, Wang Xiyu debuted as a talented girl and won the women's singles championship in the US Open junior group in 2018. Her strength is that she is 1.82 meters tall and has outstanding strength, and the fans expect her to become a superstar like Li Na. Unfortunately, because of her poor psychological quality, she did not achieve the expected results, and when Wang Xinyu and Zheng Qinwen, who debuted later, entered the world's top 100 early, she was still working hard for this goal that did not seem to be a goal.
In the North American season in the spring, she had many opportunities to be in the top 100 as long as she won one more game, but squandered them one by one. This Valencia match, she once again faced such a situation after reaching the semi-finals, after many defeats, she finally hardened her temper and told the fans that she still lived up to the new era of "two kings and one team" with a relatively remarkable victory. Let's take a look at this semi-final, how Wang Xiyu won.
In the first set, Wang Xiyu dropped four points to save the serve as soon as he came up, showing a good state, and then forced out the break point in the opponent's first serve, but unfortunately failed to seize the opportunity, 1-1. After holding the serve to 2-2, Wang Xiyu saved four break points in the fifth set to save the serve, showing his determination to win the game, and then broke to make it 4-2.
Wang Xiyu's serve in this game was not good, in the seventh set she was directly cut by the opponent to break the four points, fortunately more general than Joklonde's serve, Wang Xiyu broke another set, still led 5-3 into the set to win the set. At the critical moment, the Chinese girl's shot was more decisive, and after stabilizing and maintaining the hair, she took the lead 6-3 first.
At the beginning of the second set, Wang Xiyu's state dropped somewhat, not only did he do nothing in the opponent's serve, but his own serve was also broken, and he fell behind 0-3 in an instant. In the following three sets, both sides were successful in maintaining their serves, and Wang Xiyu fell behind 2-4. The turning point came in the seventh inning, when Björkonde's less powerful serve gave Wang Xiyu the opportunity to counterattack, who completely stimulated the state after a straight four-point break.
In the eighth set, Wang Xiyu saved a break point to save the serve, and in the ninth set, she scored two consecutive breaks on the 30-30 big score, and the score came to 5-4. In the win of the serve, Wang Xiyu once sent a break point, but the opponent made a series of mistakes, and China Jinhua smiled and accepted the gift, locking up the victory 6-4. From 1-4 to 6-4, this night, Wang Xiyu's reversal is commendable.
Throughout the game, Wang Xiyu's serve was really out of shape, issuing 9 double errors, and Ace only had 2, so that 6 of her 10 serves suffered break points. Fortunately, she played more decisively on key points today, and was only broken twice in the end. In terms of total scores, Wang Xiyu won 12 points 76-64.
After Wang Xiyu advances to the final, she will be the winner between teammate Zheng Qinwen and top seed Parissas Dias. We look forward to the Women's Singles Final at Valencia to stage the Chinese Derby!
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