Beijing time on August 10th, the 2019 WTA Rogers Cup Super Five continues to be fierce. China Jinhua has long been wiped out in the singles arena, while only the Xu Yifan combination in the doubles arena is still carrying the Jinhua big team. flag. Xu Yifan and Dabrowski, as the new Wimbledon women's doubles runner-up, are now in the women's doubles quarter-finals. After two fierce tie-breaks, they defeated 6-7(0)/7 through a tie-break. -6(5)/10-3, a thrilling reversal to defeat the Babos /Kontaveit combination, and reached the semi-finals to continue their pursuit of the women's doubles championship. As for the No. 4 seed Wimbledon women's doubles champion and Hsieh Su-wei's combination, they were reversed and eliminated. It also announced that the possible Straits Derby in the women's doubles final was scrapped in advance.
In this year's Rogers Cup, China Golden Flower has four players (pairs) in each of the singles and doubles matches. Just after the first two rounds of the women's singles competition, they were wiped out early and had no chance to go further. Among them, Peng Shuai stopped in the first round of qualifying, while Wang Xiyu and Zheng Saisai stopped in the first round of the main draw, and Zhang Shuai was in Exited in the second round of the main match.
As for China’s four women’s doubles pairs, Zhang Shuai/Peng Shuai partnered up again for the first time in five years. Unfortunately, they were reversed in the top ten and suffered a first-round elimination. As for the new French Open women's doubles runner-up combination Zheng Saisai/ Duan Yingying , they were also reversed and eliminated in the first-round tiebreaker. After the combination of Yang Zhaoxuan and advanced in the first round of women's doubles, they directly chose to withdraw in the second round and gave a big gift to the number one women's doubles combination.
Xu Yifan's combination won this year's Wimbledon women's doubles runner-up
As a result, China Golden Flower only has Xu Yifan's combination. They are the No. 2 women's doubles combination in this tournament and successfully won the runner-up in the previous Wimbledon women's doubles. In this event, they enjoyed a bye in the first round, and in the second round of women's doubles, they defeated the Japanese multinational combination Kato Miwei/Santa Maria in straight sets 7-5 and 6-2.
In the current women's doubles quarter-finals, Xu Yifan's combination encountered a duel between Babos/Contaveit. The two sides started a tug-of-war in the first set. As a result, the two sides continued to fight in the first 12 games until they were tied at 6-6. The two sides had no choice but to enter the tie-break. Xu Yifan and his team were defeated by their opponents in the tie-break, thus losing the first set 6-7(0) and falling behind their opponents with a total score of 0-1.
Entering the second set, Xu Yifan's combination still encountered crazy blocking from their opponents. The two sides still tied at 6-6 in the first 12 games. They could only enter the tie-break again. Xu Yifan and his team withstood the pressure and narrowly won the tie-break, thus regaining the set with a thrilling 7-6(5), and the total score was tied at 1-1.
The two sides joined hands to enter the top ten battle. Xu Yifan's combination did not give their opponents a chance and won the game with a strong 10-3. The Xu Yifan combination was able to reach the semi-finals and advance to the semi-finals. In the next round, they will compete for the right to the finals against the No. 3 seed Groenfeld / Schuers .
Hsieh Su-wei won this year's Wimbledon women's doubles championship
It is worth mentioning that the No. 4 seed combination of Chinese Taipei sister Hsieh Su-wei and Filipkens failed to stop the No. 6 seed Barty/ Azarenka, after The two players reversed the situation 4-6, 6-2 and 10-5 to reach the semi-finals, and will compete with the top seeds Siniakova/Krejitskova for the right to the finals. Naturally, this also announced the future of the Rogers Cup Women’s Doubles. Missed the Channel Derby showdown.
(Text/Zui Wo Fu Sheng)