china open｜4 hours and 19 minutes! china open’s longest women’s match record set
2024-09-27
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on september 26, the first round of the 2024 china open women’s singles competition continued. chinese women's tennis player gao xinyu won a wild card and played in the china open for the first time. in the first round, she fought hard in three sets with spanish player tomo, and finally lost 1-2. it is worth mentioning that this fight, which lasted 4 hours and 15 minutes, also set the record for the longest time in a women’s event at the china open.
this year, the china open has awarded all eight wild cards in the women's singles main draw to chinese players. after zhang shuai defeated kessler with a wild card and ended his 24-game losing streak, 26-year-old gao xinyu also got the opportunity to play in the main draw of the china open for the first time. gao xinyu, who was born in 1997, made her first tour appearance in 2017. but since losing to hsieh suwei in the first round of the 2017 nanchang tournament, gao xinyu has been struggling to win in the tour.
gao xinyu has made significant progress this season and has reached the french open, wimbledon and us open qualifying rounds. she defeated danilovic in the first round of the us open qualifying round and won her first career grand slam victory. in the just-concluded wta hua hin tournament, after gao xinyu advanced from the qualifying round, she defeated wei jia in the first round of the main draw and won her first career tour victory.
with a new breakthrough in her career, gao xinyu met the spanish player tomo, known as the "king of grinders" in the first round of this year's china open. although tomo is also outside the top 100 in the world rankings, he has rich tour experience. gao xinyu missed many opportunities to serve to win the set in the first set. fortunately, she seized the opportunity in the tie-break and won the first set 7-6. after that, the two men continued to fight fiercely in the second set. gao xinyu fell short at the last moment and was equalized by her opponent 7-5. in the final set, when gao xinyu was trailing tomo 1-5, she stubbornly saved the match point and broke serve, magically bringing the game to 5-5. unfortunately, gao xinyu lost two consecutive games and was defeated by her opponent 5-7. the game lasted 4 hours and 15 minutes, and both gao xinyu and her opponent tomo gave everything.
although this game did not allow gao xinyu to win the first wta1000 match in her career, she and tomo broke the women's match time record at the china open. the final set of this 4 hours and 15 minutes match took 1 hour and 37 minutes. in the history of women's tennis, only the 6 hours and 31 minutes it took dunbar to defeat herbanna at the 1984 richmond tournament and schiavone's victory over kuznetsova at the 2011 australian open could surpass this match in terms of time. 4 hours and 44 minutes, and 4 hours and 19 minutes when strycova defeated kulikova at the 2010 australian open.
