On April 24, the first round of the WTA1000 Madrid tournament began, and China's Jinhua Yuan Yue played against world No. 50 Putintseva. In this game, Yuan Yue lost two sets in a row and lost to her opponent and stopped in the first round of the women's singles in Madrid. Yuan Yue, who lost, had no chance to stage the Golden Flower Derby with Zheng Qinwen.
In the first set, Yuan Yue took the lead in serving, and both sides successfully held serve in the first 4 games, and in the 5th game, Yuan Yue's serve was broken and fell behind the opponent 2-3. In the 7th game, Yuan Yue was broken by her opponent again, and Putintseva then won the set with a love game to hold serve, and Yuan Yue lost the first set 2-6.
In the second set, Yuan Yue took the lead in the second game to break serve and make a 3-0 start. In the 5th and 7th games, Yuan Yue was broken twice by her opponent on serve, and in the 10th game, Yuan Yue missed 3 break points in the opponent's service game, and lost the second set 4-6.
In the end, in a match that took 1 hour and 27 minutes, Yuan Yue lost to Putintseva 2-6/4-6 and unfortunately stopped in the first round of the women's singles. Yuan Yue will then make a slight adjustment and compete in the WTA 125 Lleida next week. Putintseva will face sixth seed Zheng Qinwen in the next round, to whom she lost in three sets at last year's French Open.