Advance to the round of 16! Zheng Qinwen reversed the Japanese qualifier 2-1 with illness and took medicine for blood pressure at one point

On February 20, Beijing time, in the women's singles round of the 2024 WTA1000 Dubai Station, China's first sister Zheng Qinwen faced off against Japanese qualifier Nao Hibino. Zheng Qinwen lost a set at 5-7, and then adjusted his state to win two sets in a row, and finally Zheng Qinwen reversed and eliminated Nao Hibino with a total score of 2-1 and successfully advanced to the top 16 of the Dubai station, and she once applied for a medical timeout to take blood pressure medicine in the game. Zheng Qinwen won 6 out of 7 matches against Japanese players in his career, and Zheng Qinwen will face Potapova in the next round.

As the first sister of the Chinese women's tennis team, Zheng Qinwen soared to the sky at this year's Australian Open, successfully reaching the final and winning the runner-up, becoming the second Chinese player after Li Na to win the Grand Slam singles runner-up. In the previous WTA1000 Doha station, Zheng Qinwen unfortunately lost to Grand Slam runner-up Fernandez 0-2 in the 1/8 finals.

Now WTA1000 in Dubai, world No. 7 Zheng Qinwen, the No. 7 Chinese sister, is playing as the No. 6 seed in the women's singles, and she has a bye in the first round. As for the first round of the women's singles, the remaining four Chinese Jinhua players, Zhang Shuai, Wang Xinyu, Zhu Lin and Wang Xiyu, were all out of the first round.

Zheng Qinwen faced Japan's Nao Hibino in the women's singles round, and the two met for the first time in their careers, but Zheng Qinwen has faced Japanese players 6 times in his past career, with a 5-1 record, and the only loss was a 1-2 loss to Japan's first sister Naomi Osaka in San Jose in 2022. As for Nao Hibino's career against Chinese players, she has a 27-24 record in the past.

In the first set of this game, the two sides held serve in the first two games, and Zheng Qinwen then made mistakes and continued to lose 3 games in a row to fall behind 1-4. In the next two games, both sides held their serves, Zheng Qinwen fell behind 2-5 in the first seven games, Zheng Qinwen then chased three games in a row, and the first ten games were tied at 5-5. At the end of the game, Zheng Qinwen was tragically broken by Nao Hibino and lost two more games 5-7 to lose the first set.

At one point, Zheng Qinwen asked for a medical timeout and briefly checked and treated on the sidelines. Entering the second set of the game, Zheng Qinwen adjusted his state and took the lead to take a 2-0 lead with a tie, and Hibino Nao recovered a game in the third game, and Zheng Qinwen broke and then held serve in three consecutive games, which has expanded the 5-1 lead. In the next two games, both sides held serve, and Zheng Qinwen pulled back a set 6-2.

In the third set of the deciding set, after Nao Hibino held serve in the first game, Zheng Qinwen then strongly suppressed his opponent, and Zheng Qinwen won 5 games in a row to crush, especially in the fifth game. After Zheng Qinwen took a 5-1 lead, Hibino Nao recovered a game, and Zheng Qinwen won the service game, thus winning another set 6-2, and finally eliminated Hibino Nao with a total score of 2-1.

(Text/Drunken Sleeping)