news

한어Русский языкEnglishFrançaisIndonesianSanskrit日本語DeutschPortuguêsΕλληνικάespañolItalianoSuomalainenLatina

Jimu News reporter Chen Lingyan

Zheng Qinwen advances to the second round

In the early morning of August 27th, Beijing time, in the first round of the 2024 US Open (hereinafter referred to as the US Open), Chinese player Zheng Qinwen defeated American player Anisimova 2-1 and advanced to the second round. In the second round, she will face Andreeva.

Zheng Qinwen is the women's singles champion of the 2024 Olympics and also the quarterfinalist of the US Open last year. This match is her first Grand Slam match after winning the Olympic Games, so it has attracted much attention. Anisimova is a power attacking player. She was once a rising star in American tennis, but she was on rest last year due to family and health reasons. After returning this year, she won the runner-up at the WTA1000 Toronto Station two weeks ago, returning her world ranking to the Top 50.

Zheng Qinwen in the game

This match was the first encounter between the two in their careers. In the first set, Anisimova quickly got into the game and was very brave in both serving and receiving. Zheng Qinwen played relatively cautiously and was broken by Anisimova in the second serving game. Anisimova continued to maintain her hot hand, seized the opportunity of Zheng Qinwen's low success rate in the first serve, fought hard on the second serve, broke the serve continuously, and took the lead 5-1. Unexpectedly, Anisimova suddenly fell into a state of decline, served double faults, and the serve was no longer fierce. The calm Zheng Qinwen began to chase points continuously, but Anisimova still won the first set 6-4.

In the second set, Zheng Qinwen's serving condition began to improve, with more aces, breaking and saving the ball, and winning the game 6-4.

In the final set, Anisimova was unstable again and made more mistakes, while Zheng Qinwen remained stable, breaking the serve at the beginning and quickly widening the score. Anisimova's physical strength began to fail, and she could only watch Zheng Qinwen win the third set 6-2 and secure the victory.

Fans cheered and praised in the comment section, "The success rate of the first serve still needs to be improved, but he played very patiently today, so I give him a thumbs up." "The opponent is still very fierce, but Xiao Zheng's ability to adjust has improved a lot, which is gratifying! Come on!"

In the first round of the day, in addition to Zheng Qinwen, the Chinese players included Yuan Yue, Wang Xiyu, Wang Yafan and Shang Juncheng in the men's singles competition, all of whom were scheduled to play their first matches at their respective venues. The simultaneous start of so many Chinese players' matches made the fans happy and tangled, "It's hard to make a choice."

Wang Yafan (Xinhua News Agency file photo)

Among them, Wang Yafan was the first to bring good news. She played against No. 9 seed Sakkari and won the first set 6-2. Then Sakkari retired due to injury. In this way, Wang Yafan became the first player to advance to the second round of this US Open. She also successfully passed the first round of five consecutive Grand Slams.

(Source: Jimu News)