Zheng Qinwen entered the final 2-0, ranking 7th and won a grand prize of 8.14 million

In the semifinals of the 2024 Australian Open women's singles, China's first sister Zheng Qinwen faced Ukraine's dark horse Yastremska, Zheng Qinwen was in hot form, swept the opponent with a total score of 2-0, and advanced to the final for the first time in her career, creating a new history.

In this year's Australian Open, Zheng Qinwen participated as the No. 12 seed and was divided into the top half of the zone, and in the previous game, the other seeded players in the top half of the zone have been out of the tournament in advance, only Zheng Qinwen alone reached the top 8, and then in the 1/4 finals, Zheng Qinwen won 2-1 reversal, and entered the top 4 of the Australian Open for the first time in his career, becoming the second Chinese player to enter the top 10 in the world ranking after Li Na. In the semifinals, Zheng Qinwen's opponent was Ukraine's Yastremska, who started from the qualifying round, won 8 consecutive games to advance to the top 4, and was the second to reach the top 4 of the Australian Open since the Open era, and the fifth qualifying player to reach the top 4 of a Grand Slam, and also defeated the two-time Australian Open champion Azarenka during the period, and the state is quite hot, and is the biggest dark horse of this Australian Open. Zheng Qinwen and Yastremska have both made huge breakthroughs in their careers in the previous matches, so who can go one step further against the two will be the focus of attention.

At the beginning of the game, in the first set, Zheng Qinwen was a little slow to heat up, there were some mistakes in the opening stage, Yastremska took the lead in the 2nd game to complete the break, and the game was 2-0 ahead, fortunately, Zheng Qinwen adjusted in time, and broke back after the completion of the 3rd game, and then successfully held serve in the 4th game, chasing the game to a 2-2 draw, in the 5th game, Yastremska completed the hold, and then Zheng Qinwen won two games in a row with a break belt, and the game score was 4-3 overtake, at this time Yastremska applied for a medical timeout due to injury, and after a short period of treatment, the game restarted, in the 8th game, Zheng Qinwen successfully held serve, and in the 9th game, Yastremska completed the hold, and the 10th game, Zheng Qinwen successfully won his own serve to win the set and won the first set with a score of 6-4.

In the second set, Yastremska completed the hold in the first game, and then Zheng Qinwen broke in the third game, leading 2-1 in the game, but Yastremska played very tenacious, even broke with the serve, won two games in a row, and overtook the game 3-2, after which Zheng Qinwen was full of firepower, won 3 games in a row, and expanded the lead 5-3, and finally Zheng Qinwen won another set 6-4, thus winning 2-0 on aggregate, and reached the Australian Open women's singles final for the first time in his career.

With this victory, Zheng Qinwen directly set 7 records, the first is the first time that Zheng Qinwen has reached the Australian Open final in his career; the second is the first time that Zheng Qinwen has reached a Grand Slam final in his career; in the third case, Zheng Qinwen has become the youngest player in the Chinese women's tennis team to advance to the Australian Open final at the age of 21; in the fourth event, Zheng Qinwen has become the first post-00 player in the Chinese women's tennis team to reach the Grand Slam singles final; in the fifth event, Zheng Qinwen has become the second Chinese women's tennis player after Li Na to reach the Australian Open final and Grand Slam final; in the sixth event, Zheng Qinwen has gained 1,300 points, and the world ranking has risen to No. 7 in the instant, creating a new personal high; and in the seventh event, Zheng Qinwen received a prize of 1,725,000 Australian dollars, equivalent to about 8.14 million yuan, setting a record for the highest prize money received by a single event. In the semi-finals, Zheng Qinwen will face defending champion Sabalenka. This article was originally written by Xiao Lizi, please do not plagiarize or carry it.