The third Grand Slam tournament this season, Wimbledon Tennis Championships enters its 6th match day.
In the women’s singles arena, the third round of competition for the top 16 continues.
A match that has attracted much attention from tennis fans: Zheng Qinwen, a 19-year-old Jinhua from China and a girl from Hubei, will compete with Kazakhstan player and No. 17 seed Rybakina of the tournament to compete for a ticket to the top 16.
Zheng Qinwen, who has made rapid progress this season, is the biggest gain in Chinese tennis this year.
Set foot on a Grand Slam stadium in Melbourne for the first time at the beginning of the season. Zheng Qinwen started from the qualifying round and broke into the second round;
A small test at the Australian Open gave Zheng Qinwen more confidence.
At the French Open , Zheng Qinwen once again made a splash, winning three consecutive matches in the main match. In the end, he lost to the final champion and world No. 1 Swiatek in three sets due to physical reasons.
It is worth mentioning that Zheng Qinwen is the only player to win a set against Swiatek at the French Open this year.
After that game, when the 19-year-old Zheng Qinwen was interviewed, he seemed a little unwilling, thinking that if it were not for physical reasons, he should have a chance to win.
After the French Open, Zheng Qinwen participated in two grass-court tournaments non-stop. His performance was poor and he was eliminated in the first round.
came to Wimbledon for the Grand Slam. Due to the dismal results in the warm-up match, many fans had lowered their expectations for Zheng Qinwen.
However, after two rounds, Zheng Qinwen still gave Chinese fans more surprises, winning two consecutive games and reaching the top 32.
Looking at the three Grand Slam tournaments that Zheng Qinwen participated in this season: the Australian Open reached the second round, the French Open entered the fourth round, Wimbledon also reached the third round, such a Grand Slam performance, for Chinese players It's already very valuable.
Due to her excellent results in the Grand Slam, Zheng Qinwen is also called the "Grand Slam Girl" by many domestic fans.
After winning the second round of Wimbledon, Zheng Qinwen said in an interview that she really liked the nickname (Grand Slam Girl) given to her by Chinese fans.
Opposite Zheng Qinwen across the net is the tournament's No. 17 seed, the long-legged beauty Rybakina from Kazakhstan.
Although Rybakina is only 23 years old, she is an out-and-out nemesis of Chinese players. She has played against Chinese players 13 times in her career and won 10 of them. She has also won 9 of the last 10 games.
Both players have their own hitting characteristics.
Rybakina is 184cm tall and has excellent serving ability. She is a typical baseline offensive player.
Although Zheng Qinwen is also an offensive player, his hitting methods are different. Rybakina's offensive ball pursues more speed and line changes, while Zheng Qinwen has more solid power and forehand attack, and he can swing the single ball after standing still. It is powerful and destructive.
This is the first match between the two, and the outcome is unpredictable.
In the first set, both players showed strong serving ability in their respective service games. Relatively speaking, Zheng Qinwen’s first-server scoring rate was very high, but he made many double-serve errors and was broken first by his opponent. The score was 1:4 behind.
Zheng Qinwen, who adjusted in time, strengthened his aggressiveness, prompting Rybakina to make more mistakes. At the end of the set, the score was tied, and the two entered the tie-break.
In the tie-break, Rybakina took the lead with a more stable serve, and soon won four consecutive set points with a small score of 6:2. In the end, Zheng Qinwen failed to reverse again and lost the tie-break;
In the first set, Zheng Qinwen’s serve Like the ineffective Six Meridians Divine Sword, you score as soon as you score, but if you don't score, you face the risk of double faults. There were 7 double faults in the whole set, and it was really "glaring" to allow the opponent to score more simple points. ".
After losing the first set, Zheng Qinwen was the first to break serve at the beginning of the second set, but failed to hold on to the advantage. After being broken by his opponent in seconds, the two entered a tug-of-war.
At the end of the set, Zheng Qinwen fluctuated again, and Rybakina got a crucial break, thus losing the entire game with a score of 5:7.
In the end, after two sets of competition, 19-year-old Zheng Qinwen failed to go further and stopped in the third round of Wimbledon.
With Zheng Qinwen's elimination, there will be no Chinese Golden Flower left in the draw for this year's Wimbledon women's singles.
For Zheng Qinwen, who is participating in Wimbledon for the first time, it is not easy to win two games, but if he wants to go further, he still needs to improve in many aspects, especially his ability to handle key points.
Come on, Zheng Qinwen, and congratulate your opponent Leba Jinna!
