In the early morning of April 24, Beijing time, the first round of competition for the 2024 WTA1000 Madrid Station continued. After three sets, Wang Xiyu defeated the opponent 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-2 reversal, and won the Chinese Golden Flower tournament to get off to a good start!
WTA1000 Madrid was the first 1000 series of the clay season, led by world No. 1 Swiatek and Sabalenka as the defending champion. China Jinhua is led by Zheng Qinwen, the No. 6 seed of the tournament, Yuan Yue, Wang Xinyu, Wang Xiyu, Zhu Lin, Wang Yafan, Zhang Shuai 7 people directly advanced to the main event, and Xiaohua Bai Zhuoxuan played in the qualifying round.
Wang Xiyu, ranked 52nd in the world, took the lead in the first round against Romanian veteran Bogdan, who was ranked 64th. The two sides have played each other twice before, and Wang Xiyu won both 2-0, but the process was not easy. In the most recent encounter, it took two sets to tie-break.
In the first set, Wang Xiyu was incomprehensible, a little crying and laughing. In the first set, Wang Xiyu led 4-1 and took 13 deuce breaks to take a 5-1 lead. But the result was chased to 5-5 and came to tie seven. After leading 5-2, Wang Xiyu lost 5 points in a row and lost the first set 6-7.
In the second set, Wang Xiyu took the lead again at the beginning and took a 2-0 lead. However, the opponent successfully broke back in the sixth game, 3-3. After that, they held serve and entered the tie-break again at 6-6. Wang Xiyu won 7-4 in the tiebreaker and pulled back a set.
In the deciding set, Wang Xiyu finally returned to normal and easily won 6-2. The whole game took more than 3 hours, so it was embarrassing to stay up late to watch the game.
Congratulations to Wang Xiyu for successfully qualifying! In the second round against the world's No. 1 sister Swiatek, is it possible for Wang Xiyu to cause an upset?
In the decisive round of the Madrid WTA1000 qualifying tournament, Bai Zhuoxuan lost to Belek 4-6/6-1/3-6 and unfortunately missed the main event!