On April 24, local time, the first round of the WTA1000 Madrid station was held. China's King Xinyu will face world No. 81 Tomova. In this game, the two sides fought in three sets, and Wang Xinyu saved 10 match points in the game to stage a shocking reversal and passed the next round with difficulty.
In the first set, Wang Xinyu broke the tie at the beginning, and the opponent broke in the fourth game. In the 5th game, Wang Xinyu broke the opponent's serve again, and in the 10th game, Wang Xinyu's serve was broken in the set game. In the 12th game, Wang Xinyu lost the first set 5-7.
In the second set, Wang Xinyu was broken twice in the second and fourth games, and once fell behind her opponent 0-4. After that, Wang Xinyu launched a counterattack, saving 3 match points in the 8th game, 7 match points in the 9th game, and then winning 5 games in a row after 2-5, 7-5 to drag the game into the deciding set.
In the deciding set, Wang Xinyu became more and more courageous, and successfully broke serve twice in the first and third games. In the sixth game, the opponent broke to chase 2-4, and then Wang Xinyu broke again in the seventh game to win the service game 5-2. In the 8th game, Wang Xinyu missed the opportunity to win and was chased by the opponent to 3-5. In the 10th game, Wang Xinyu resolved two break points to hold serve and won the deciding set 6-4.
In the end, in a match that took 2 hours and 49 minutes, Wang Xinyu narrowly defeated Tomova 5-7/7-5/6-4 and successfully entered the second round of the women's singles. Wang Xinyu will next face 21st seed Garcia across the net for a place in the round of 32.