On January 27, Beijing time, the Australian Open women's singles final officially began, and the 21-year-old Chinese player Zheng Qinwen faced the Belarusian defending champion Sabalenka. Sabalenka took the lead 6-3 in the first set. After that, the fans at the scene gave Zheng Qinwen verbal pressure, and his mentality was slightly affected, and Sabalenka scored consecutive points in the second set to win the 2024 Australian Open women's singles championship with 6-2. Zheng Qinwen set a personal best in women's singles at the Australian Open.
In the first game of the first set, Sabalenka served and scored consecutive points, Zheng Qinwen was shooting out of bounds, and Sabalenka led 1:0 in the first game. In the second game, Zheng Qinwen failed to seize the opportunity, and Sabalinka led 2:0. In the third game, Zheng Qinwen seized the opportunity to break Sabalenka's serve, Sabalenka made a non-beneficial error, Zheng Qinwen pulled back a game, 1:2 behind Sabalenka, and then Sabalenka showed the strength of the defending champion, although Zheng Qinwen pulled back two games, but in the end Sabalenka was stronger, 6-3 to take the next set.
In the first game of the second set, Zheng Qinwen took the lead in serving, Zheng Qinwen grabbed the opponent's backhand in a row and won three consecutive double faults and was once overturned by Sabalenka, and Zheng Qinwen fell behind 0:1 in the first game.
After Zheng Qinwen came up in the second game, Zheng Qinwen still maintained a high-intensity defense, Sabalenka made two consecutive high-quality serves to overtake the score, and Sabalenka won the service game again, leading 2:0 in the game.
In the third game, Zheng Qinwen served the game, the first ball scored directly on the outside corner of the serve, Sabalenka backshot to chase 40-40, and then Zheng Qinwen hit the position of the repeated landing point, at this time the audience gave Zheng Qinwen verbal interference, Zheng Qinwen withstood the pressure, a direct score, the third game pulled back a game, and chased the game score to 1:2.
In the fourth game, Sabalenka's serve broke strongly, and after 40:30, a high-quality serve was followed in the next game, and Zheng Qinwen fell behind 1:3.
After that, Zheng Qinwen performed well and hit a high-quality backhand, but after that, Sabalenka scored consecutive points, and Zheng Qinwen lost two games and fell behind 1:5.
In the seventh game, Zheng Qinwen still did not give up, and made two consecutive high-quality catches in the service game, seeing Sabalenka shoot back and forth in a straight line to penetrate Sabalenka's net in front of the net, chasing the score to 2:5.
In the eighth game, Sabalenka scored strongly on the serve, Zheng Qinwen saved Sabalenka's championship points several times in a row, but finally lost another game 2-6, Sabalenka defended the Australian Open women's singles championship, and the 21-year-old Zheng Qinwen created a personal Australian Open women's singles best result.