Focus on tennis events and pay attention to the performance of Chinese players.
The WTA500 Stuttgart tournament continues.
A battle of focus is between current world number one and defending champion Swiatek and Zheng Qinwen, the first sister of Chinese Jinhua and now ranked 25th in the world.
Both players returned from injury.
After losing to Portapova in Miami, Zheng Qinwen hung up his waiver card due to injury, until he returned from this tournament, facing the youngster Parkes in the first round, Zheng Qinwen relied on the advantage of breaking one game in each set to reach the second round.
In an interview after the match, Cheng said of the encounter with Swiatek in the second round: "I had a lot of experience in the first two meetings, and she was the number one in the world in the first meeting, and I was not famous, and I played in that atmosphere. Now I have more experience, so I want to show my best and you never know what to expect in tennis, and that's the beauty of it... ”
It can be seen from Zheng Qinwen's interview that although he has lost to his opponent twice in a row, Zheng Qinwen does not show fear, but has a sense of asking for battle.
World No. 1 Swiatek has also been out of absence since the Indian Wells defeat and moved to Stuttgart, the Polish sister who returned as defending champions for almost a month.
In an interview before the game, the world number one said that after this period of recuperation, his injury had healed.
The two players have previously met twice, both last season, when Swiatek led 2-0.
Although he lost both meetings, Zheng actually had some chances to win, at least forcing his opponent to the decider.
Especially at last year's French Open, Zheng Qinwen became the only player to win a set in seven of Swiatek's seven titles.
Entering this season, Swiatek is still strong, but compared to last season, he no longer has the demeanor of seeking defeat alone, and this match is the Poles' first battle in a month, so for Zheng Qinwen, it is not completely without chance.
In the first set, Swiatek served first.
After the start of the game, the-for-tat situation did not take place, Zheng Qinwen backhand was prone to active errors, and Swiatek seized the opportunity to quickly establish a break advantage.
In the Swiatek serve, Zheng Qinwen was not completely without a chance, and he was able to force the game to only 30-30 draws several times, but every key moment, the problem of hair extension that had always existed began to appear, and even two very outrageous service errors occurred in a row.
After just 31 minutes into the first set, the defending champion won 6-1 with two breaks.
The second set was started by Zheng Qinwen.
In the first serve, Zheng Qinwen once again started unfavorably, and was given 40-0 by his opponent as soon as he came up, with three consecutive break point chances, and failed to hold the serve under a huge disadvantage.
After falling behind, Zheng Qinwen did not rush and clenched the score.
In the 8th game, Zheng Qinwen forced the break point for the first time with a backhand winning score, and after successfully cashing in, he chased the game to a 4-4 draw;
However, in the 9th game, the two sides fought for a long time, and Zheng Qinwen regretted that he could not hold the serve and was broken by his opponent twice;
In the 10th game, entering the Swiatek serve to win the game, the result was not suspenseful, and the Polish sister easily saved the serve, won another set 6-4, and then reaped the whole match.
In the end, after two sets of matching, the 20-year-old Zheng Qinwen lost two consecutive sets to world number one Swiatek, losing three consecutive games to his opponent while stopping Stuttgart in the second round.
Judging from the process of this game, Zheng Qinwen can be described as good and bad.
The good side is reflected in the boldness of holding Swiatek multi-beat, several big fights with opponents, very direct shots, and a lot of wonderful shots;
In addition, good serve at key moments to save the danger.
The bad thing is mainly that there are too many mistakes in the backhand position, and there are frequent cases of active hanging of the net.
Another problem is the problem of hair extensions, in fact, on the whole, Zheng Qinwen has good aggression in the game extensions, but it is not efficient, especially in key points, it is always a pity to simply play out of bounds.
I hope that after this game, Zheng Qinwen can summarize well and continue to cheer!