In the second round of the 2024 Wuhan Open, Zheng Qinwen, as the No. 5 seed of the tournament, eliminated Christian with a total score of 2-0 and successfully advanced to the next round, and also advanced to the top 16 of the Wuhan Open for the first time in his career, while receiving 260,000 yuan in bonuses and 120 points. In the latest WTA real-time championship standings, Zheng Qinwen surpassed Navarro and rose to No. 7, which is closer to entering the year-end finals for the first time.
At the Paris Olympics, after Zheng Qinwen won the gold medal, he was eager to hit the US Open championship and finally reached the quarterfinals, but this year there is another important goal, which is to enter the year-end finals for the first time, which only Li Na has done before.
With Krejcikova already locked up a year-end spot with a Wimbledon title, Zheng must be among the top seven in the WTA Race rankings.
Before participating in the China Open, Zheng Qinwen was as many as 498 points behind Navarro, who ranked seventh. After the end of the Chinese Open, Zheng Qinwen gained 390 points, and Navarro only had 10 points, so Zheng Qinwen overtook Collins and rose to 8th place, while only 98 points away from Navarro's points.
After 5 years of restarting the Wuhan Open, Zheng Qinwen and Navarro have registered, the two are the No. 5 seeds and the No. 6 seeds, respectively, and they have direct byes in the first round until they appeared in the second round.
As a result, when Navarro took the lead, he lost to Fletcher with an aggregate score of 1-2, and after the China Open, the Wuhan Open also went out in one round, with a total of 20 points in the 2 1000-level events, and the latest points reached 3568 points.
Navarro's one-round tour is definitely good news for Zheng Qinwen.
Zheng Qinwen, who appeared in the evening, did not repeat Navarro's mistake, directly eliminated Christian 2-0, successfully advanced to the top 16, and at the same time received a bonus of 260,000 yuan, as well as 120 points, and the personal WTA real-time championship reached 3570 points, surpassing Navarro by 2 points and rising to 7th place.
As long as he advances to the semi-finals of the Wuhan Open, Zheng Qinwen can extend his lead to nearly 400 points, and the subsequent WTA500 Ningbo Station and WTA500 Tokyo Station will face much less pressure to grab points, and the goal of achieving the first year-end finals will be closer.