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in the early morning of august 29th, beijing time, zheng qinwen played against erica andreeva in the second round of the us open women's singles. after three hard-fought games, zheng qinwen achieved a reversal with 6-7, 6-1, 6-2, and advanced to the third round (top 32) for three consecutive years. her next opponent will be niemeyer.

in the past two years, zheng qinwen has at least made it to the third round, and last year she even made it to the quarterfinals. for her, the us open is a good place to be. after winning the women's singles tennis championship at the paris olympics earlier this month, zheng qinwen's influence and popularity have greatly increased, and her performance in the us open is now attracting much attention.

in the first round of the us open, zheng qinwen lost to local player anisimova and then won, advancing to the second round in a reversal manner and avoiding a first-round exit.

now the second round begins. zheng qinwen's opponent is russia's new generation tennis genius erica andreeva, who is currently ranked 75th in the world. the two have no record of playing against each other in the past.

in the first set, the two played very fiercely. after zheng qinwen's serve was broken, he was able to break erica andreeva's serve, and the score went from 2-2 to 4-4, and then to 6-6. although erica andreeva is ranked 75th in the world, she had a slight advantage over zheng qinwen in the first set, and then the tie-break was very obvious. she led 3-0 at the start, and then broke zheng qinwen's serve, winning 7-3 and leading 1-0 in the total score.

entering the second set, zheng qinwen successfully held his first two service games, and then successfully broke erica andreeva's serve in the fourth game, leading 3-1. in the crucial fifth game, zheng qinwen hit two consecutive aces, and had hit 11 aces in the whole game, successfully holding his serve and leading 4-1. then he broke the serve again in the sixth game, leading 5-1. facing his own service game for the winning set, zheng qinwen hit two more aces and successfully held his serve, winning 6-1 and tying the total score 1-1.

in the deciding set, zheng qinwen successfully broke andreeva's serve at the beginning, making andreeva so angry that she threw her racket. he then broke her serve again in the seventh game and led 5-2. in the final winning serve game, zheng qinwen seized the opportunity and reversed the total score to 2-1.

according to the us open rules, singles players who advance to the third round will receive a bonus of us$215,000 (approximately rmb 1.54 million). zheng qinwen reached the quarterfinals last year, which was the fifth round, and was two rounds away from tying the record.

in a match that ended earlier, niemeyer won in straight sets 6-4, 6-0 and eliminated uchijima moeka 2-0 in total. her match with zheng qinwen will be held in the early morning of august 31st, beijing time.