Facing the former US Open champion Stephens, facing a grass court that he had never won before, Zheng Qinwen achieved a big explosion. After overcoming the unfavorable situation of falling behind 1-3 at the beginning, Zheng Qinwen swept his opponents in 2 straight sets 7-6, 7-5. While advancing to the second round of Wimbledon , he also created his own 3 major history (first victory on grass) , first win at Wimbledon, etc.), once again achieved a breakthrough in his career.
In the first round of Wimbledon women's singles, a focus match was played between Chinese golden flower Zheng Qinwen and Stephens. In this game, Zheng Qinwen made his Wimbledon debut, while his opponent's best result in Wimbledon was the top 8. It is worth mentioning that Zheng Qinwen suffered a first-round defeat in the previous two warm-up matches on grass, showing his extreme discomfort with grass. But in this game, Zheng Qinwen showed great progress, which was the fundamental reason why she was able to reverse the victory.
In the first set, the opponent started. With better adaptability to grass, the opponent took a 3-1 lead at the start. But Zheng Qinwen responded quickly in the 5th game and broke back to tie the score to 2-3. In the 6th game, Zheng Qinwen tied the score to 3-3 while maintaining serve.
In the next 6 games, both sides maintained serve, and the battle ended at 6-6. Although he has never been able to break his opponent's serve again, Zheng Qinwen has completely entered the state. There are many changes in his offense, including cutting balls in the stalemate, short balls, and even sliding defense on the grass, and during the rapid movement The quality of the shots is also very high and very consistent. More importantly, Zheng Qinwen finally found the rhythm of receiving the serve: standing back and catching the ball.
In the tie-break of the decisive game, the opponent had psychological fluctuations and made a double fault from the beginning. Zheng Qinwen seized the opportunity, took advantage of his serving, and won with a large advantage of 7-1. It is worth mentioning that this is Zheng Qinwen’s first career grass-court victory. Another data shows that Zheng Qinwen’s first serve scoring rate is as high as 94%.
In the second set, Zheng Qinwen continued his fiery form in the first set, and tied his opponent 2-2 in the first four games. In the fifth game, Zheng Qinwen exposed his impatience weakness. After two consecutive double faults, his opponent broke serve first. In the 6th game, the opponent held serve and took a 4-2 lead.
At the critical moment, Zheng Qinwen overcame major psychological fluctuations, kept serving, and broke serve in the 10th game, chasing the score to 5-5. In a good situation, but was tied, Stephens had a huge psychological gap, and then made frequent mistakes. In the 11th game, Zheng Qinwen took advantage of her opponent's mistakes and scored 4 straight points to secure serve. At the end of the 12th game, she won the last point with a lucky ball that bounced off the net, and finally won the next set 7-5.
With this victory, Zheng Qinwen once again made a major breakthrough in his career and created three major histories: in addition to his first career grass court victory, he also won his first career Wimbledon victory, and the most important and least easy thing to achieve: the first three games this year. Each Grand Slam main draw (all making their debuts) advanced to the next round. Perhaps because of this, Zheng Qinwen was very excited and excited after the game, roaring wildly in celebration.
