French Open Battle Report: Zhang Shuai 2-0 Lepchenko The second round will play Canepi

Beijing time last night, the 2019 French Open began the second matchday of the main tournament. Zhang Shuai defeated American player Lepuchenko 6-1 in the first round of the women's singles and successfully reached the second round.

<h5>Data chart Zhang Shuai Xinhua News Agency reporter Bai Xuefei photographed</h5>

This year is Zhang Shuai's ninth personal participation in the French Open women's singles competition. She has made the first round in Roland Garros over the past three seasons and set her best singles record at the French Open to date in the 2017 season – reaching the round of 32. But this year, Zhang Shuai's more eye-catching performance is in the doubles field, where she and her partner Stosur not only won the Australian Open women's doubles title, but also reached the final in Miami. However, in the singles arena, Zhang Shuai's performance was very average, especially in the clay season, in addition to reaching the final at the Anning Station and losing to Zheng Saisai, he only played one round in Madrid, Rome and Strasbourg. It also brought her singles ranking from a top of 39 at the beginning of the year to her current 50th.

Zhang Shuai's opponent in the first round yesterday was 33-year-old American player Lepcenko. Although the opponent has reached the top 16 in the French Open women's singles, but in recent years, with the growth of age, the results are also declining, the current WTA singles ranking is only 129, and the 4 encounters with Zhang Shuai have lost 3 times. In the first round of the French Open women's singles match, Lepchenko also failed to improve, and was completely suppressed by Zhang Shuai in terms of various data. Especially in the hair extension link, Zhang Shuai's advantages are very obvious. Taking the catch score data as an example, Zhang Shuai scored 26 points in 41 serves in this game, while Lepuchenko only scored 8 points in 36 serves. Under the performance of the two sides, Lepchenko did not even get a break opportunity in the whole game, while Zhang Shuai scored 17 winning points, and the unforced error was 10 times less than the opponent, successfully breaking the opponent's 5 serves, and won the game in only 52 minutes.

As Wang Yafan, the first Chinese player to appear in the women's singles tournament of this Year's French Open, was out on the first match day, Zhang Shuai's victory also made her the first Chinese player to reach the second round of the women's singles tournament. Her opponent in the next round is Estonian player Kanepi.

<h4>Source Beijing Evening News reporter Li Yuanfei</h4>

<h4>Process Edit TF003</h4>