Chinese women's tennis welcomes good news! Wang Xinyu swept the world No. 3, set 3 records, and won a prize of 520,000 yuan. In the third round of the women's singles of the 2024 WTA Wuhan Open, China's Jinhua Wang Xinyu played against the world's No. 3 Pegula, Wang Xinyu was in hot form, winning two sets in a row 6-3, 7-5, and defeating Pegula with a total score of 2-0, reaching the top 8 of the Wuhan Open for the first time in her career, and also reaching the top 8 of the women's singles for the first time in the WTA1000, creating a personal best record.
The latest world ranking Wang Xinyu is in the 51st place, Pegula is in the third place, the two sides have played each other before, in the second round of Wimbledon this year, Wang Xinyu narrowly defeated Pegula 2-1, but Pegula's performance has been relatively good recently, and he has overcome strong opponents all the way to the US Open, reached the final, and finally won the runner-up, so this time Wang Xinyu faced Pegula again, and needed to be prepared to deal with difficulties. In the first set, Pegula took the lead in serving, successfully held serve in the first game, Wang Xinyu completed the hold in the second game, and in the third game, Wang Xinyu seized the opportunity to take the lead in completing the break, and in the fourth game, Wang Xinyu continued to hold serve, leading 3-1 in the game, and then both sides completed the hold in the next 4 games, and in the critical 9th game, Wang Xinyu completed the break again and won the first set with a score of 6-3.
In the second set, the two sides played more intensely in the first 7 games, each completed the hold, in the 8th game, Wang Xinyu got 2 break points, and successfully broke serve, the game was 5-3 ahead, in the 9th game, Wang Xinyu missed the opportunity to win the game on serve, Pegula completed the break, and then in the 10th game, Pegula completed the hold, and the game was tied at 5-5, in the 11th game, Wang Xinyu successfully held serve, and in the 12th game, Wang Xinyu broke again and won another set 7-5, thus defeating the opponent with a total score of 2-0 and successfully advancing to the top 8. With this victory, Wang Xinyu directly created 3 personal records, the first one, this is the first time that Wang Xinyu has reached the top 8 of the Wuhan Open in his career; Second, this is the first time in Wang Xinyu's career that she has advanced to the top 8 of the women's singles in the WTA1000; Third, this is the first time in Wang Xinyu's career that she has beaten a top three player in the world.
In addition, Wang Xinyu also gained 215 points, and the instant world ranking rose to 45th, surpassing Yuan Yue to return to the second position of the Chinese women's tennis team, second only to Zheng Qinwen, and also won the gold medal of 73,193 US dollars, which is equivalent to about 520,000 yuan. After the game, Wang Xinyu said in an interview that when he was preparing for this game, he wanted to be himself and then enjoy the game, which was very difficult from the beginning to the end, but I heard everyone's cheers, thank you. Talking about the opponent Aleksandeva in the next round, Wang Xinyu said that the opponent is very aggressive, and he does not have as much time to adjust in the next game, and hopes that he can take a good rest and prepare for the next game. This article was originally written by Xiao Lizi, please do not plagiarize or carry it.