The first crown is in hand! Zheng Qinwen beat the host player 2-1, becoming the youngest player on the mainland to win the first title

In the early morning of July 24, Beijing time, the WTA250 Palermo final, Chinese tennis flower Zheng Qinwen continued to attack her first tour women's singles title.

Last season, Zheng Qinwen was awarded the "Best Newcomer Award" by the International Women's Tennis Association for his outstanding performance. In view of this, fans at home and abroad have new expectations for Zheng Qinwen.

In the new season, Zheng Qinwen, who is eager to go further, has suffered many blows and even changed to a new coach. But this series of operations brought a wave of 4 consecutive losses.

Zheng Qinwen, who originally focused on participating in WTA500 and above events, readjusted and started again, this time as the No. 2 seed in the tournament to participate in the WTA250 Palermo tournament.

Zheng Chin Wen went all the way to win four consecutive games and reached the final of the Tour for the second time after last year's WTA 500 in Tokyo.

Zheng Qinwen's opponent in the final is the fifth seed and host Italy's Borini. She is of Ghanaian and Polish descent, and although she is only 160 centimeters tall, she has overcome a number of good players, including top seed Kasakina, to reach the final with her bold decisions and fierce attacks.

Cheng overcame the downside of the road and sweltering weather to fight three sets to win his first personal tour title.

In the first set, Zheng Qinwen relied on his high-quality serve, only holding and losing one point, and broke serve in the first game, and then dropped four straight points to hold serve strongly. In the third game, Zheng Qinwen won 2 break points, although Borini saved a break point, but could not stop Zheng Qinwen from breaking another game, Zheng Qinwen took a 3-0 lead.

Bolini is not tall and has good ability to move on her feet, but she did not find her form at the beginning and was caught off guard by Zheng Qinwen.

But in the fourth game, Zheng Qinwen's success rate was too low, and the second shot was seized by the opponent, and Bolini scored four consecutive points to break the first game.

After losing two consecutive games, when trailing 0-30 in the sixth game, Zheng Qinwen scored four consecutive points to save serve, 4-2, and continued to hold a break advantage.

After that, both sides held serves, and finally Zheng Qinwen won the first set 6-4.

Although Zheng Qinwen won the first set, the success rate of one serve was only 46%, and he scored only one point for multiple online volleys, all of which needed improvement.

In the second set, Zheng Qinwen saved 5 break points in the second game, while wasting 5 game points, and fought hard for 12 minutes in a single game, unfortunately being broken. This dealt a serious blow to Zheng Qinwen's later play.

Bolini broke the tie to take a 5-0 lead.

Zheng Qinwen's success rate continued to decline, and Borini entered the stalemate stage, there were too many unforced mistakes in the backhand, and it was difficult to win a game, and the previous set was the same as the two.

Zheng Qinwen lost the second set 1-6 after a straight four-point break in the sixth game.

During the inter-plate break, Zheng Qinwen changed his clothes and readjusted his state.

In the tiebreaker, Zheng Qinwen completely broke out.

In the second game, after missing a break point, he was the first to achieve a break point.

In the third set, both of their physical strength reached a certain limit, and Zheng Qinwen repeatedly won short balls.

In the fourth game, Zheng Qinwen held 2 break points 40-15, and although Borini tried to recover one, Zheng Qinwen broke again with serve.

Zheng Qinwen became more and more courageous, scoring two consecutive points at the end of the fifth game to take a 5-0 lead in the third set.

In the sixth game, Bolini had to serve the game and withstood the pressure to win a face-saving set.

In the seventh game, Zheng Qinwen's serve won the game.

Zheng Qinwen served and scored directly, 15-0.

Bolini returned the ball back-to-back to the bottom line, and Zheng Qinwen held three championship points 40-0.

Zheng Qinwen was influenced by the fans at the scene and made a double mistake.

After missing two match points, Cheng finally scored the last point to win the tiebreaker 6-1.

Zheng Qinwen defeated Bolini 2-1 to win the WTA 250 Palermo women's singles title.

Zheng Qinwen also surpassed Yan Zi to become the youngest player on the mainland to win the "first title" of the WTA Tour.

Palermo is truly worthy of Zheng Qinwen's "blessed land", where she achieved her first "first victory" on the tour two years ago; This time, she won the "first title" of the tour here, and once again congratulated Zheng Qinwen on winning the championship.

The game

Although Zheng Qinwen issued 5 ACES, he had 7 double errors at the same time, the success rate of one shot was as low as 46%, and his own errors were 11 more than his opponent, fortunately, in the key game, Zheng Qinwen grasped it.

For Zheng Qinwen, the biggest help for this victory is to rebuild confidence.

Many people have thought that Zheng Qinwen should not be obsessed with high-level events, questioning her that it is difficult to win low-level tournaments, because Zheng Qinwen is the only player in the world's top 30 who has not won a tour title; But this time, Zheng Qinwen won the championship as soon as he participated in the WTA250 tournament, and once again proved his strength, and he can stabilize in the world's top 30, not a waste of fame.

Do you think that Zheng Qinwen should participate in more low-level events, or should he focus on high-level events?