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"zheng qinwen's nemesis" won the us open for the first time and won the third grand slam of his career

2024-09-08

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at the early morning of september 8th, beijing time, the us open women's singles final officially started, with sabalenka facing pegula. after two sets of competition, sabalenka was stronger, defeating pegula 7-5 twice, winning the us open championship for the first time and also winning the third grand slam championship in her career.

in this us open, sabalenka performed very strongly, defeating zheng qinwen 2-0 in the quarterfinals and navarro 2-0 in the semifinals, reaching the finals for the first time in two consecutive years, while her final opponent pegula advanced to the grand slam final for the first time.

in the first set, both players were in good shape. after each of them held their first serve, sabalenka was broken, but she immediately broke back and the score was tied at 2-2. then sabalenka held and broke again to take a 5-2 lead. pegula did not give up and played harder and harder, also holding and breaking again. in the tenth game, she caused sabalenka to have a mentality problem. due to a double fault, she gave away a break point and the score was tied at 5-5. in the next two crucial games, sabalenka held and broke again and won with difficulty, winning 7-5.

in the second set, sabalenka saved and broke serve at the beginning, taking a 3-0 lead at the start, putting pegula in a desperate situation. the fourth game was pegula's serve game that she had to save, and she finally saved it successfully, and then broke sabalenka's serve game, and the score was 2-3.

facing pegula's counterattack, sabalenka suddenly collapsed and lost five games in a row, from leading 3-1 to trailing 3-5. but she then withstood the pressure and won four games in a row, winning again with a score of 7-5 and taking the championship with a total score of 2-0.

in this way, sabalenka won her first us open title, which is also the third grand slam title in her career.