On January 17, Beijing time, the first day of the 2022 Australian Open was contested, and the first player of the Chinese legion to play was the 19-year-old rising star Zheng Qinwen, who ushered in the debut of the professional Grand Slam main tournament, she was the youngest player to usher in the debut of the career Grand Slam regular tournament at the Australian Open, and the first round of the match against Belarusian star Sasanovic. When Zheng Qinwen won one set first, he was dragged into the decider by Sasnovic to grab a ten-risk victory, and finally won 2-1 on aggregate to advance. Zheng Qinwen became the first person in the Chinese Legion to qualify for the second round, winning her first career Grand Slam regular tournament, and she has maintained a record of winning all of her last ten three-set matches.
The 19-year-old, Zheng Qinwen, has grown rapidly, winning the ITF women's singles title three times last year, and this year she reached the final four of the Tour for the first time in Melbourne, losing 0-2 in the semi-finals to two-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one Halep.
As for Cheng Chin-moon's first time in a Grand Slam senior tournament, she won three consecutive qualifying matches to break into the main tournament. In the first round of the Australian Open qualifiers, Zheng Qinwen won 6 points in the first set 1-6 and grabbed seven 1-5 in the second set to achieve a big reversal, and finally eliminated van der Wieger, who was finally 1-6, 7-6 (5)/6-1. In the second round of the qualifiers, Zheng Qinwen swept Mendes 6-3, 6-2, and Zheng Qinwen played three sets in the qualifier decider round, eliminating Japan's Ben Yuzhenwei 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3, and entered the women's singles tournament of the Grand Slam for the first time in his career.
It is worth mentioning that in this year's Australian Open women's singles tournament, a total of 5 players are competing in the Grand Slam women's singles tournament for the first time: 19-year-old Chinese rising star Zheng Qinwen, 23-year-old Italian player Blonzetti, 26-year-old South Korean player Zhang Xiuzhen, 25-year-old Dutch player Hatano (of Indonesian descent), 28-year-old American player Bequitas (descendants of Bosnia and Herzegovina), of which Zheng Qinwen is the youngest one.
Entering the first round of the Australian Open women's singles main tournament, Zheng Qinwen ushered in a showdown with Belarusian star Sassnovic, and the opponent won the women's singles runner-up in the second leg of this year's Melbourne Series, and the two had never had a confrontation experience in their past careers. In the first set of this game, Zheng Qinwen used his own strength type of play to take the lead in the first consecutive three sets to break the warrant belt and then save the next three sets to take a 3-0 lead, after Sasnovic recovered a set in the 4th set, Zheng Qinwen continued to take a 5-1 lead in the 4th set, and then grasped the second serve to win the set, winning the first set 6-3.
Entering the second set, Zheng Qinwen took the lead in the first set to complete the break, and then was frantically suppressed by Sasnovic to lose 6 consecutive sets, so that he was quickly pulled back by his opponent at 1-6.
In the tiebreaker battle, After Zheng Qinwen saved the first set, he was left behind by Sasnovic in three consecutive sets to make it 1-3. Zheng Qinwen continued to fight back to save the serve, Sasnovic completed the hold in the sixth set to continue to maintain the lead, Zheng Qinwen then broke the warranty belt and then saved the serve, the first nine sets have been 5-4 to win the score. Entering the tenth set of Sasnavich's unavoidable serve, Sasnovic dropped four straight points to blast the love game to a 5-5 tie. In the 11th set, Zheng Qinwen struggled to save his hair, and after Zheng Qinwen fought wildly in the 12th set, he regrettably lost his chance to break and was chased to a 6-6 draw. The two sides entered the grab-10 battle, and Zheng Qinwen won the third set 7-6 (5) thrillingly to advance to the second round.
(Text/Drunken Floating Life)