Chinese Jinhua defeated the No. 31 seed, Wang Xinyu won the first French Open, and the Grand Slam against the Top50 won for the first time!
At 17:00 on May 30, 2023, the third matchday of the French Open was played, and on the 11th court, the women's singles 31st seed Buzkova of the Czech Republic faced China's golden flower Wang Xinyu, and Wang Xinyu won 2:0, the scores were 6:4, 7:6 (5), which was her first victory against the Top50 in a Grand Slam and her first win at the French Open.
In the first set, the two sides each held serve to 3:3, Wang Xinyu was broken by the opponent, but China Jinhua immediately achieved a break, and successfully won his own serve 5:4 lead, in the Buzkova this set of the game must be saved, Wang Xinyu broke again to win the first set 6:4.
In this set, Wang Xinyu led in data such as first-serve scoring rate, second-serve scoring rate, serving scoring rate, ACE ball and double error, but the one-serve scoring rate was low, only 48%.
In the second set, Wang Xinyu was broken in the first serve, and although she broke back in the second game, she lost four consecutive points in the third game and was broken again, trailing 1:2. In the fifth game, another 4-point loss was broken, trailing 1:4, showing signs of collapse. Previously, Wang Xinyu also lost all of her matches against Top50 players in the Grand Slam arena. In the 6th game, Wang Xinyu forced 2 break points, Buzkova sent a double mistake to cash in, stopped the bleeding in time and trailed 2:4, and in the 7th game, Wang Xinyu saved serve 3:4 behind.
When trailing 3:5 on the serve, Wang Xinyu saved four sets to keep serving 4:5 behind. In Buzkova's serve victory, Wang Xinyu broke serve 5:5, and the two sides returned to the same running line. In the 11th game, Wang Xinyu took a 6:5 lead. Buzkova saved serve in this set, and the two sides went into a tie-break. Wang Xinyu took the lead in seven sets to complete 2 mini-breaks, leading 3:0, and then 2 serves were broken by one point each, 5:4, and broke again 6:4 to get the match point and win the game 7:5.
