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today, the 2024 china tennis open will continue the competition for the second round of women’s singles.the three golden flowers zheng qinwen, yuan yue and wei sijia will play, and top seed sabalenka will also make her china open debut this year;the second round of men's singles will also be in full swing. last year's champion and runner-up sinner and medvedev will launch an attack on the quarterfinals.

paris olympic games women's singles gold medalist and no. 5 seedzheng qinwen will be the first to appear in the night game at the diamond stadium. his opponent is the lucky loser and ranked 71st rakhimova. the two sides will face each other for the first time in their careers.this is not only zheng qinwen's first appearance at the china open this year, but also his first appearance in the chinese season.the game will officially start at 19:00 today.

no. 30 seed yuan yue will make her third appearance at lotus stadium.the opponent is last year's french open runner-up and this year's us open semi-finalist muchova. the opponent is strong and the rankings of the two sides are also very close. this will be a focus battle in the second round of women's singles. just won his first tour main draw victory in the last roundwei sijia will make her second appearance at yingyue stadium.the opponent is maya, the 13th seed who just won the championship in seoul last week. both games will be the first meetings between the two sides.

sabalenka, the top seed in the tournament, will face off against thailand qualifier sawang kai. the two sides will also face each other for the first time in their careers.

in men's singles, the world's number one and defending champion sinner will make his third appearance on the diamond court. his opponent is the lucky loser safiullin. sinner leads the match 2-0. no. 3 seed and last runner-up medvedev will make his final appearance at the diamond stadium. his opponent is french veteran manarino. medvedev is slightly behind 3-4 in the head-to-head record. he also hopes to equalize the record between the two sides at the china open.

source: cctv sports weibo, people’s daily client sports channel