On January 24, Beijing time, in a match in the quarterfinals of the women's singles at the 2024 Australian Open, Chinese Jinhua Zheng Qinwen reversed Kalinskaya 2-1 and entered the semifinals of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career.
Three years and three steps, Zheng Qinwen ranks among the top
In 2021, at the age of 19, Zheng Qinwen began to get the opportunity to compete in the main draw of the tour, but only won one victory in the whole of 2021, and Zheng Qinwen entered the accelerator at the beginning of 2022, and entered the semi-finals of the Australian Open in Melbourne to usher in the first Grand Slam victory. Zheng Qinwen's pace of progress has not stopped, and in 2022, he has reached the fourth round of the French Open and the third round of Wimbledon and the US Open.
After experiencing a rapid improvement in 2022, Zheng Qinwen in 2023 has become more mature and began to gradually rank among the top ranks, reaching the quarterfinals of the Masters in Rome and winning his first tour title, the US Open is a performance in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam, Zhengzhou won a title at the highest level so far, the Zhuhai Classic reached the final, and the Asian Games women's singles gold medal was also recorded this year.
After entering 2024, Zheng Qinwen has won the No. 12 seed in the Australian Open, and is already the top player in women's tennis today, and his age is not yet 22 years old.
Nine years later, China has another Grand Slam semi-finalist
Chinese women's tennis players have performed well in Grand Slams, including Li Na, who has won two Grand Slam singles titles in her career, reached the semifinals of Grand Slams six times, and has been the first person in the history of Asian women's tennis before Naomi Osaka. After Li Na, Zheng Jie has reached the semi-finals of Grand Slams twice, and Peng Shuai also reached the semi-finals at the 2014 US Open.
With Li Na's retirement from the Chinese women's tennis in 2014, there has been a long period of slump, including Zhang Shuai's two Grand Slam quarterfinals and Wang Qiang's US Open quarterfinals, but they have never been able to go further, and it has been nine years since the 2014 Grand Slam semifinals. Now Zheng Qinwen has risen with a strong performance, and after 9 years, there will be another Chinese player to the Grand Slam round, and now Zheng Qinwen is only 21 years old, and the Australian Open is not over yet, and the Chinese teenager still has the opportunity to continue to create miracles.