On January 27, Beijing time, the 2024 Australian Open entered the women's singles final day, two weeks ago, few people would have thought that Chinese players would appear in the finals, and a week ago, many people would have thought so! Because Zheng Qinwen is in the top half of the region, she is the only big seed! In this way, the dream of huge prize money has increased from 255,000 Australian dollars, 375,000 Australian dollars, 600,000 Australian dollars, 990,000 Australian dollars, and then to 1,725,000 Australian dollars! The world ranking has also risen by leaps and bounds, from 15th in the world, but only 1 point away from the world's top 10, to the instant ranking of 7th, if it wins the championship, it will rise to 6th! Become the second Chinese tennis player to reach the top 10 after Li Na, and ten years ago Zheng Qinwen and her friends are waiting by the TV, witnessing the historic moment of Li Na's Australian Open victory! Now a decade has passed, the Australian Open final once again ushered in Chinese faces! Li Na is likely to be the guest of honor, the official website is so introduced" The spicy woman is back", of course, Li Na wants to put the championship trophy in Zheng Qinwen's hands, but Sabalenka is indeed the stronger side! The probability of winning the championship given by the official before the game, Zheng Qinwen is only 19%.
Zheng Qinwen against Sabalenka
In the first game of the first set, Sabalenka chose to serve first, Zheng Qinwen received a forehand, and Sabalenka gave a backslash [0-15]. Sabalenka has a straight serve [0-30], Sabalenka has an ace [0-40], Sabalenka's first second serve today, Zheng Qinwen backhand extension bottom line holds, Zheng Qinwen forehand changes the line and flies!【0-1】
Zheng Qinwen sent an outside corner, Sabalenka's forehand received a deep drop, Zheng Qinwen returned to the forehand and hit out of bounds [0-15], Zheng Qinwen sent a straight outside corner [15-15], Zheng Qinwen sent an inside corner, Zheng Qinwen's forehand became diagonal in the bottom line and did not eat the accurate part, did not wrap the ball, out of bounds [15-30], Zheng Qinwen sent an outside corner, Sabalenka's backhand extension connected to the forehand line change and pressed at Zheng Qinwen's feet, Zheng Qinwen returned the ball to hang the net [15-40], Sabalenka was two concerned! Zheng Qinwen was shouted out of bounds in the first outer corner, and in the second inner corner, Sabalenka's backhand hair extension was very powerful, and Zheng Qinwen returned to a straight line to give out of bounds! [0-2]
Sabalenka's serve, one outside corner was called out of bounds, and the second big outside corner was cut, but there was no absolute advantage in front of the net and Zheng Qinwen crossed the backcourt [15-0], Zheng Qinwen's first winning point of the day appeared!
Sabalenka sent an inside corner, Zheng Qinwen's forehand cutting extension was a little shallow, Sabalenka's forehand slash sent an unforced mistake, Sabalenka sent a net with a serve, a second serve, Zheng Qinwen's chase in the middle of the back to the top middle, Sabalenka's backhand with both hands swept out of bounds 40-0. Sabalenka sent a shot to the outside corner, Zheng Qinwen backhanded a straight line, the baseline was held, Zheng Qinwen attacked Sabalenka's backhand, Sabalenka passively resolved the forehand slash, and finally Zheng Qinwen changed the line again to give out of bounds, [40-15]. Sabalenka made a shot to the outside corner, Zheng Qinwen chased the bottom line with his forehand, Sabalenka had a low bounce on the forehand diagonal, and Zheng Qinwen returned the ball to hang the net [40-30]. Sabalenka sent out of bounds, the second serve on the break point was in the middle, Zheng Qinwen grabbed the return with a backhand, Sabalenka changed the backhand to a slash, and repeated the backhand of the landing point to win the score [40-40]. Sabalenka hit the wrong corner in the first serve, the middle of the second serve, Zheng Qinwen backshot the serve, the bottom line Sabalenka changed the line with a forehand and tore the angle for two consecutive shots, Zheng Qinwen returned the ball to the net [40-AD], Sabalenka saved three break points and brought out the game point. Sabalenka still couldn't get into the outside corner of the first shot, and the second shot, Zheng Qinwen backhanded and chased the hair extension, but there was an unforced mistake in the subsequent connection, Sabalenka held the serve in a thrilling way, [0-3]!
Zheng Qinwen scored the winning point with a shot from the outside corner [15-0]. Zheng Qinwen served an ace from the inside corner [30-0], and Zheng Qinwen served the first ace in the final! Then it was a straight win in the outer corner, a perfect hold, and won the first point of the final [1-3]
Although Zheng Qinwen's strength is not bad, the muscles of this arm show how hard she is a player, of course, her talent is also very high, it can be seen from the serve, these two are indispensable! However, Sabalenka's strength is too strong, and when her own mistakes are well controlled, Zheng Qinwen has little chance, she is very passive on the court, and she is passive in the standoff! But Zheng Qinwen still has many bright performances, and some balls Sabalenka can only look at the ball and sigh, and she can't do anything about it!
In the end, Zheng Qinwen lost 3-6, 2-6, but Sabalenka did not take the victory until the fifth championship point!
#Zheng Qinwen won the Australian Open women's singles runner-up#