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WTA1000 Tour of Rome has a crucial fourth round match.
The two sides are Zheng Qinwen, the "first sister" of the Chinese women's tennis and the No. 7 seed of the tournament, and Naomi Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam winner and former world No. 1.
The winner of the two sides will get a ticket to the quarterfinals.
The significance of this match is self-evident, it is not only a competition between the two representative players of the Asian women's tennis, but also a battle of "revenge".
Naomi Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam champion, and Zheng Qinwen is hailed as a future star.
The two players have only met once before, when Naomi Osaka won 2-1 against Zheng Qinwen.
Many domestic fans are looking forward to Zheng Qinwen's performance, and in an interview, Zheng Qinwen confidently said:
"It's good, I'm looking forward to this matchup."
As we all know, Osaka Naomi is not good at playing clay, but in the six months since her comeback, she has won three consecutive victories on the clay court in Rome for the first time, and clay is where Zheng Qinwen is good at.
In addition to Naomi Osaka, Zheng Qinwen also had an unpleasant period with the opposing coach Fasset, so this game is also a "slap in the face" battle that Zheng Qinwen proved to the former coach.
In the first set, Naomi Osaka served first.
In the first two service games, both of them failed to keep it, first Zheng Qinwen forced a break point, and held the ball to make the opponent return the ball to the net to break;
Then Naomi Osaka got a great chance of 40-0 on Zheng Qinwen's serve, and Zheng Qinwen returned the ball to wipe the net out of bounds and send the ball to the serve.
In the next two games, the two held their own serves, and the first four games were tied 2-2;
At the beginning of the fifth game, the first sister of China began to take over the game, and successfully broke in the opponent's two consecutive service games, and soon achieved a huge advantage of 5-2;
In the 8th game, the service game won the set, and the first sister of China easily held serve and won the first set 6-2.
The second set is still Naomi Osaka first.
As soon as the match came up, Zheng Qinwen continued to chase hard, got the break point and cashed it quickly, and after saving her own serve, the Chinese sister took over the game with a shockwave of seven games in a row.
After the break, Zheng Qinwen completely suppressed the opponent at the bottom line, forcing the opponent to take out a small notebook frequently to take notes during the break.
In the 10th game, Zheng Qinwen, who entered the service game to win the game, did not let the suspense continue, successfully held serve, and fixed the score of the second set at 6-4, ending the whole game.
In the end, after two sets of competition, the first sister of China defeated Naomi Osaka 2-0, and while successfully "avenging" the previous game, she also "slapped in the face" the unkind behavior of former coach Fasset.
The victorious Zheng Qinwen played a convincing match and got a ticket to the quarterfinals.
Congratulations again to Zheng Qinwen, worthy of the "first sister" of China's golden flower!