On October 11, Beijing time, in the women's singles 1/4 finals of the WTA1000 Wuhan Open, Chinese player Wang Xinyu played against Russia player Alexandrova. Wang Xinyu led 5-0 in the tie-break in the deciding set, and then lost six points in a row, but finally won the tie-break 8-6, and reversed Alexandrova with an aggregate score of 2-1 (4-6, 7-5, 7-6) to successfully enter the women's singles semifinals of the Wuhan Open, and will face the winner between Zheng Qinwen and Paulini in the semifinals.
The match became a battle of mutual breaks, and neither of them could complete the hold in the first seven games, of which Wang Xinyu was broken four consecutive service games. In the end, Wang Xinyu lost the first set 4-6 and fell behind Alexandrova 0-1.
In the second set, Wang Xinyu relied on the key break at the end of the set to pull back a city 7-5, and the big score came to a 1-1 draw.
In the deciding set, Wang Xinyu suffered a break on serve in the third game and was at a disadvantage in the score. In the next six games, both of them successfully held serve, and the game score came to 4-5.
In the tenth game, Alexandrova's serve won the game, and Wang Xinyu broke serve strongly and tied the score at 5-5.
In the next two games, the two each completed the hold and will win through a tiebreaker.
In the tie-break, Wang Xinyu led 5-0 at the beginning, but was chased by the opponent for 6 points in a row, but finally won the tie-break 8-6 thrillingly, and the total score was 2-1 to reverse the opponent to win, and broke into the semi-finals in the first Wuhan Open main match.
It is worth mentioning that this is the first time in Wang Xinyu's career that she has reached the semifinals of the WTA1000-level women's singles.