Chinese tennis is celebrating the New Year again, and the "first brother" and "first sister" reached the top 16 of the 1000 tournament at the same time, which is both surprising and happy.
ATP1000 the third round of the Rome Masters, Zhang Zhizhen played his best form this year, sweeping the No. 12 seed Shelton 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the round of 16, achieving the fifth career victory against a top 15 player, and avenging the final loss in the first round of the Australian Open last year.
Won, Zhang Zhiyu got 100 points, 88,440 euros, and ranked No.51 in real time. Although the performance of Madrid was sluggish, the strong recovery of Rome still barely retained the lost big points when it was counted with Monte Carlo points this year. Is it just the rhythm of tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall?
won 688,478 yuan in the first battle, and Zhang Zhizhen won hemp! 280,000 yuan more than Zheng Qinwen, who also reached the top 16 (Zheng Qinwen only got 52,480 euros, a total of 408,562), and the unequal pay for equal work between men and women is indeed a problem.
Zhang Zhizhen has 5 career TOP15 victories
- 2024罗马大师赛第3轮：6-3、6-3 谢尔顿（NO.12）
- 2023ATP500东京首轮：3-6、6-4、7-6(4) 胡尔卡奇（NO.11）
- 2023 US Open second round: 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 0-6, 6-2 Ruud (No.5)
- 2023 ATP 1000 Madrid Masters Round of 16: 3-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(8) Fritz (NO.10)
- 2023 ATP 1000 Madrid Masters Round 3: 2-6, 7-6(2), 7-6(2) Norrie (NO.13)
The game was still very easy to win, it only took 1 hour and 11 minutes, Zhang Zhizhen basically relied on defense and pulling up the moon ball to knock Sheldon down!
This is actually the technique and tactics of last year's Madrid winning streak, and Zhang Zhizhen should insist decisively. Instead of having results in doubles, he was once obsessed with surfing the Internet and volleying, and the results were miserable.
This round of 16 battle, win beautifully! It is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for Zhang Zhizhen, who has a poor record in 2024, showing that he is still capable of playing at a first-class level, and he still has the strength to fight against top players. Excellent serve, super strong bottom line, this is Zhang Zhizhen's best tennis! Sometimes, you don't have to change, sticking to your strengths and becoming stronger may be the better way to survive!
The post-match interview was very interesting, but it also made people feel a little lonely at one point.
He said that on this trip to Rome, he did not let the team accompany him, and wanted to face the game alone, but also to find his former self and the feeling of winning.
Actually, this passage is very interesting. Since this site does not participate in doubles, and his competitive state is not in a high position, Zhang Zhizhen is ready for a "round tour".
But sometimes, don't think too much about yourself and return to your original self, but it is an important psychology to stimulate your potential.
Talking about today's game, Zhang Zhizhen said that the game was played very well. The only fly in the ointment is that the average success rate of one serve is not very high, but fortunately, the bottom line played very well today and occupied a big advantage.
Of course, victory is for those who are prepared, and this saying is never true. Zhang Zhizhen said that he made very careful preparations before the game, and watched Sheldon's game in Madrid, as well as his Houston final. You can basically predict his ball.
Since Sheldon's ball speed is very fast, and in terms of receiving the serve, he is very resolute, which is to step back, so you should not be able to see me on the screen, hahaha.
Zhang's next opponent will be Monteiro, a qualifier ranked only 106th in the world, and if you just look at the rankings, Zhang has a good chance of reaching the top 8 of the Masters again after Madrid last year and returning to the top 50.
Facing this opponent, Zhang Zhizhen said that he didn't know much about Monteiro. But I remember an interesting incident between the two. In the 2017 Shenzhen Tournament, Zhang Zhizhen's opponent in the first round was originally this Brazilian, but Monteiro finally entered the main match of the Chengdu competition that same week and chose Shenzhen to retire, and the two regretted missing. That year, Zhang Zhizhen reached the top 8 of his first career tour in Shenzhen.
In this way, Monteiro is Zhang Zhizhen's lucky star.
Another interesting episode is that after the game, some fans shouted that they wanted to see Zhang Zhizhen in the final. Zhang Zhizhen responded with a smile, "My idea is to come round by round, and it would be very good if I could enter the top 8 and top 4." If you really want to ask me about my ambition, it's in the semi-finals. ”
The answer was a bit of a diplomatic rhetoric, and it remained modest, but at the same time ambitious. Semifinal? If it can really be fulfilled as promised, then the TOP30 may really not be far away.
So, let's look forward to it.
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