Beijing time on May 12, WTA1000 Rome station ushered in a night of upset last night and this morning: Sabalenka, Pegula, Pliskova, Maltić, Begu 5 seeds out on the same match day, 2 Chinese golden flower Wang Xiyu and Zheng Qinwen have won and advanced to the round of 32, refreshing the best results in the history of their respective careers in Rome.
The second round began in the second half with the appearance of two of the world's top three seeds, Sabalenka and Pegula. Sabalenka, who just defeated world No. 1 Swiatek in the Madrid final to win the title, was unexpectedly out, facing Kenin, who had fallen out of the top 100 in the world ranking, Sabalenka lost the first set of tie-break and quickly collapsed, losing another set 2-6 in the set, and the big score was 0-2 early to stop the second round, which is also the first time that Sabalenka was eliminated on his debut in a tour this season, and reached the final of Stuttgart and Madrid in a row, which may indeed make Sabalenka very tired. Getting a break to adjust before the French Open may also be a good thing for Sabalenka.
World No. 2 Sabalenka lost, world No. 3 Pegula was not spared, this round against American compatriots, qualifying dark horse Townsend, Pegula started the game very slowly, soon lost a set 2-6 in the first set, although in the second set once improved his form to win back 6-3, but in the decider, Pegula fell into a slump again, Townsend seized the opportunity to win the tiebreaker 6-3, so that the two most seeded players in the second half of the women's singles were both out of the second round.
In this WTA1000 Rome competition, the three Chinese women's tennis golden flowers were all divided into the second half, Wang Xinyu stopped in the first round, Wang Xiyu passed smoothly, and Zheng Qinwen directly entered the second round as a seeded player. Wang Xiyu took the lead in Chinese tennis in this round of 64 to 32, facing the No. 31 seed Begu, Wang Xiyu won 6-4/7-5, and staged a 3-5 to 7-5 reversal in the second set, Madrid and Rome successfully reached the round of 32 in two consecutive clay-court WTA 1000 tournaments, creating a career-best record in Rome.
Cheng, who made her Rome debut, also reached the round of 32, beating France's Koné 6-3, 7-6 to win two straight against the latter, and she will then compete with qualifier Bondal for a place in the round of 16. In addition to Sabalenka, Pegula and Begu, two other seeded players were also upset on this matchday, with former tournament champion Pliskova losing 6-7/2-6 to Bondall, and 29th-seeded Maltic losing 4-6/2-6 to world No. 100 Colombia's Osorio.