text/Yangcheng Evening News All Media Reporter Long Xi
Today in the women's singles final of the Tokyo station of the WTA500 Women's Tennis Tour, Chinese player Zheng Qinwen lost to Russian player Samsonova 0-2, and ranked second, missing the first championship of the WTA Tour.
in the game in the first set, Zheng Qinwen broke the serve at the end of the set and lost 5-7. In the second set, Zheng Qinwen was broken by Samsonova in the fifth game. Although he immediately broke back, he was broken again at the end of the set and lost 5-7.
Zheng Qinwen swept the No. 2 seed Samsonova 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the WTA 250 Palermo Station (Clay Race) last year, winning the first WTA main game of his career. Samsonova is the clay race most bad at, while Zheng Qinwen is the clay race second best at.
Tokyo Station is hard-ground. Samsonova showed her strength in the hard-ground match in the semi-finals against Zhang Shuai . She issued 15 Aces in the game, and Zhang Shuai was completely suppressed and could not resist.
final against Zheng Qinwen, Samsonova still performed well and controlled the rhythm of the game throughout the whole process. At the Tokyo Station, Samsonova defeated Wang Xinyu , Zhang Shuai and Zheng Qinwen to win the championship, which can be called the "golden flower killer". Although
missed the championship, Zheng Qinwen became the first Chinese player to reach the singles final in the history of Tokyo Station, and was also the first Chinese player to reach the WTA500 singles final after Zheng Saisai in San Jose Station in 2019.
At the Tokyo Station, Zheng Qinwen achieved his goal of reaching the top 30 this season. At the beginning of the season, her world ranking was still 126th, and now her instant ranking is 28th. The 19-year-old youngster delivered an excellent answer in his first adult season. (For more news, please follow Yangchengpai pai.ycwb.com)
source | Yangcheng Evening News·Yangchengpai
picture | Visual China
editor | Zhong Wenyi
