Zheng Qinwen was praised by the dark horse of the Australian Open! pointed out the key elements of winning in the final, Xie Shuwei may become a double champion
The Australian Open 2024 will feature two finals, the Women's Singles and Women's Doubles. China's Golden Flower has reached the final and will attack the Grand Slam Gold Cup on the same day. In Women's Singles, Zheng Qinwen will face Sabalenka, while in Women's Doubles will be Hsieh Shuwei, who will be in the hunt for the title with Mertens and Kichenok/Ostapenko.
If Zheng Qinwen can defeat Sabalenka to win the Australian Open, her world ranking will further improve to sixth, and she will also receive 14.73 million yuan in prize money. So, how will Zheng Qinwen cope with defending champion Sabalenka's battle? first, he needs to overcome the nervousness of reaching his first Grand Slam final, and then he needs to improve his first-serve goal and win rate as much as possible.
According to the official statistics of the Australian Open, Zheng Qinwen's ace ball and one-serve win are ranked first among all female players, especially the ace ball is a fault lead, so the Chinese girl should be good at using her fierce service advantage, try to increase her one-serve scoring rate, and then increase the scoring rate of one-serve, and pay attention to the combination and change of one-serve power and landing point, and strive for the initiative of the game. In tennis, the side with the best serve often takes the initiative.
In the quarterfinals and semifinals, Zheng Qinwen's first-serve success rate was not particularly stable, sometimes he was able to score consecutive aces, and sometimes he made multiple double service errors. In the confrontation with the experienced Sabalenka, if Zheng Qinwen fluctuates, the opposite side will definitely seize the opportunity to break serve. When her semi-final opponent Yastremska predicted the final, she thought Zheng Qinwen had a chance to win the match.
She said: "Zheng Qinwen is a great player, with a lot of hitting power and a good serve, if she can maintain a good condition and handle the key points more decently, I think she can win, and even win easily." The Ukrainian girl is arguably the biggest dark horse of this Australian Open, and her advice to Zheng Qinwen is to handle the key points properly, and the power of the serve and hit is on the line. Hopefully, Zheng Qinwen will have the last laugh in the rematch with Sabalenka.
Another Chinese golden flower, Xie Shuwei, will compete in the women's doubles final. After a 18-month hiatus, Xie Shuwei showed super doubles ability as soon as she returned, and reached the women's doubles final of this Australian Open with Mertens. In terms of Xie Shuwei's current state alone, the possibility of her winning the Australian Open women's doubles title is still very high. After her comeback, she won the French Open women's doubles title with Wang Xinyu and her partner Strysova won the Wimbledon women's doubles title.
The Women's Doubles final was also Hsieh's second final, as she and Zielinski overcame a set-down break to save a match point in a tie-break to win their first career Grand Slam mixed doubles title 6-7(5), 6-4, 11-9 against second seeds Klotzke/Skupski. Xie Shuwei's mixed doubles title is off to a good start for China's Jinhua to win the women's singles and women's doubles titles.