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WTA1000 the 1/4 finals of the Tour of Rome continued, and a key battle in the first half of the zone was played by Zheng Qinwen, the first sister of China's golden flower, against the talented American girl and the world's third Gauff.
The winner of the match will face world No. 1 Swiatek across the net for a ticket to the final.
The quarter-finals are highly anticipated, with all eight players reaching the Grand Slam finals, and each one has the quality to compete for the title.
Among them, the match between Zheng Qinwen, the first sister of China's golden flower, and Gauff, the winner of the US Open Grand Slam, is particularly eye-catching.
The organizers arranged the game to start at the last game on the center court, just as a finale, the game time is a little "unfriendly" to Chinese fans, and if you watch the live broadcast, you must stay up late.
This is the first meeting between the two post-00s.
In the first set, the two sides played inseparable, and Zheng Qinwen fell short in the tie-break.
Gauff served first.
In the first seven games, the two held serve respectively, and Gauff took the lead 4-3 first;
In the eighth game at the end of the set, Gauff forced multiple break points and finally established an advantage on the fourth break point, leading Zheng Qinwen 5-3.
In the 9th game, Zheng Qinwen refused to hand over the first set, stubbornly resolved the opponent's handicap, and successfully broke serve.
In the next two games, both sides held their serves, and the game entered a tie-break showdown.
In the seventh game, Zheng Qinwen failed to bite the score, losing to the opponent with a small score of 4-7, and falling behind 0-1 with a big score.
In the second set, the game was one-sided, and the American genius girl became more and more courageous, giving a cruel "fritter" to the first sister of China.
In the game, Zheng Qinwen served first, but as soon as he came up, he was broken by his opponent, and fell behind 0-2 at the beginning and fell into trouble;
In the fifth game of the middle game, Zheng Qinwen's serve was broken for the second time, and Gauff took advantage of the situation to expand the game advantage 4-1;
The backward Chinese sister was unable to form a counterattack on the opponent's serve, but it was worse in the seventh game.
In the 7th game, Zheng Qinwen failed to withstand the pressure in the game that had to be guaranteed, and was broken for the third time in the service game, losing 1-6.
Throughout the game, Zheng Qinwen still has a big gap with his opponent in terms of baseline stability, and it is difficult for his own offense to tear apart the opponent's defense, and the failure of the service link is also one of the main reasons for the defeat.
In the end, after two sets of competition, Zheng Qinwen lost the battle of talented girls, and while losing the first meeting, he missed the semifinals in Rome for two consecutive years, and also lost the opportunity to "revenge" the world No. 1 Swiatek.
World No. 3 Gauff will reach the semi-finals for the second time in three years, and the 20-year-old will reach at least the semi-finals of at least 1000 for the sixth time, where she will face top seed Swiatek.
Congratulations to Gauff on his victory, and I hope that Zheng Qinwen will sum up his experience and continue to improve himself.