After locking in the French Open qualifying spot, Ma Yexin successfully won the Wimbledon qualifying place. In the duel with Japan's Moe Natsu Uchitori, Ma Yexin fought hard in three sets, and it took two and a half hours to defeat her opponent with a difficult reversal and advance to the semifinals.
In the Tokyo W100 Women's Singles 1/4 finals, the Chinese Xiaohua Ma Yexin faced the No. 4 seed and local player Uchijima Natsu. The current world ranking, Ma Yexin 198, Uchijima 130, the previous highest 104. This season, Ma Yexin made her first Grand Slam qualifying round at the Australian Open, and then finished runner-up in the Australian W35. Not long ago in Shenzhen W50, she did not perform well for 2 weeks, and her best result was only in the 2nd round. But after arriving in Japan, her form rebounded, and she won back-to-back victories to advance to the quarterfinals. Uchijima, on the other hand, has reached the main draw of the Australian Open and has played well this season, winning the W50 in Puen and W100 in Zaragoza, and the W125 in Turkey has reached the semifinals. At this season's Australian Open, she also stopped qualifying.
In the first set, the two sides played very close at the beginning, holding serve in the first 10 games. In the 11th game, Ma Yexin took the lead in breaking, but was quickly broken back by the opponent in the 12th game. In the subsequent tie-break, Ma Yexin started 0-5 and finally lost 2-7.
In the second set, Ma Yexin adjusted her state and scored three consecutive points to complete the key break after 15-30 in the 10th game, thus equalizing the score 6-4.
In the deciding set, Ma Yexin's condition was getting better and better, and she broke the tie to take a 3-0 lead at the beginning. After being broken in the seventh game, she dropped four straight points in the eighth game to complete the break. In the 9th game, she resolved her opponent's 2 break points, successfully cashed in the victory, and finally won another set 6-3, and won the big score 2-1 with a difficult reversal to advance to the semifinals.
In this battle, Ma Yexin had 3 aces, a first-serve scoring rate of 63%, a first-serve scoring rate of 74%, and 4 of the 6 break points. With this victory, she scored 39 points, $4,473, and is ranked 175th in the instant rankings, while securing a place in Wimbledon qualifying.