Beijing time, January 17: At 8:00 a.m. Beijing time this morning, the Australian Open, the first tennis Grand Slam event of the year, kicked off at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. Chinese teenager Zheng Qinwen, who has advanced from qualifying in the already concluded tournament, defeated Belarusian Sasnovich in three sets to win the first grand slam senior event of his career. China's player Wang Qiang, who reached the fourth round of the Australian Open in 2020, swept the American teenager Gauff in two straight sets and also won the first victory of the new season. Xiyu, the Chinese little flower king who played with a wild card, also defeated his opponent in two straight sets to get the opening red. Former men's singles champion Nadal of Spain, the only one to compete, and Naomi Osaka, the defending champion of women's singles, swept the opponents to win the opening. Let's take a look at the latest news from the Australian Open.
At 8:00 a.m. Beijing time this morning, this year's Australian Open regular competition officially began, and according to the schedule, today's competition is the upper half of the men's and women's singles. Today, a number of Players from China played in the first round of the women's singles, and the first player to appear was Zheng Qinwen, a young player who advanced from the qualifiers. Her opponent was Belarusian Sasnovic, who won runner-up in Melbourne. The match began at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on The 8th Stadium, after the game began, Zheng Qinwen quickly entered the state and completed several breaks to take a 5-1 lead, although the opponent counterattacked to break the first set Zheng Qinwen still won the first set 6-3. After entering the second set, Sasnovic adjusted his competitive form to pull back a set 6-1 to bring the game into the decider. In the tiebreaker match, Sasnovic took the lead to break to take a 4-2 lead, but Zheng Qinwen did not give up to complete the return to break the two sides to 6-6 after the need to divide the victory and defeat by grabbing ten. In the game of grabbing ten, Zheng Qinwen has always had the advantage, because he is not familiar with the rules in the case of 7-4 lead, he thinks that he has won the game, and continues to fight under the reminder of the referee, and finally wins the 10-5 grab ten to win the victory against the opponent, and wins the first victory of the professional adult grand slam tournament, and in the next round zheng Qinwen will face the 5th seed Greek macho Sakari.
China's Wang Qiang, who reached the fourth round of the Australian Open in 2020, also made her Australian Open debut this year today, and her opponent is the 18th seed of the 2004 tournament, The American young man Gauff, who has played against each other twice before, has won with a sweeping score. In the new season, Wang Qiang's victory is difficult to find, Gao Fu reached the final four in last week's game, and all parties before the game were also optimistic that Gao Fu could easily win. The match began at 1:30 p.m. Beijing time at margaret court, and the two did not have much temptation after the game began, And Wang Qiang completed the break in the fifth set and maintained the advantage of breaking to the end to occupy the initiative of the game 6-4 first. After entering the second set, Wang Qiang completed three breaks to take a 5-0 lead, although Gao Fu chased two sets in a row, Wang Qiang saved multiple break points in his second serve to save the second set 6-2. In this way, Wang Qiang defeated Gauff in two straight sets to win the first win of the new season and won the Australian Open. In the next round, Wang Qiang will face Belgian Van Ujwank, who defeated Spain's Buquesha in today's qualifying match.
China's young player Wang Xiyu, who played with a wild card, also made her debut at this year's Australian Open today, and her opponent is Slovakia's Kuzmova, who has advanced to the qualifiers. The match began at 1:50 p.m. Beijing time on The 7th Stadium, after the game began Kuzmova took the lead in breaking to take advantage of the scene, Wang Xiyu did not give up the consecutive completion of the breakback to take the initiative of the game 7-5 first set. After the game entered the second set, the two still fought fiercely in the opening game to 3-3, Wang Xiyu improved his competitive state and won the second set 6-3 in the next three consecutive sets to win the Australian Open, which was also the first victory of Wang Xiyu's career senior grand slam tournament. In the next round she will face the No. 4 seed of last year's French Open women's singles women's doubles champion Czech Republic Klečkova. Another Chinese player who plans to play today, Zheng Saisai, withdrew from the game due to injury to end the Australian Open journey.
Women's singles defending champion Japanese player Naomi Osaka made her debut today against Colombian Serrano. The match began at 10:15 a.m. Beijing time at Rodrawall Stadium, and after the match began, Naomi Osaka showed good competitive form after only 68 minutes to sweep the opponent with two 6-3 wins and took the first step to defend the title. In the next round, she will face The American Brungel, who won ukraine's Arthur Tremuska's retirement ceremony in today's tournament.
The only former champion in the men's singles tournament to compete in the 20th Grand Slam champion, Spain's No. 6 seed Nadal, also made his australian Open debut today, and his opponent today is the United States' Geelong. The game began at 11:50 a.m. Beijing time today at rodravol Stadium, after the start of the game Nadal completely occupied the initiative on the field, although Nadal did not show the best competitive state, but the opponent played more restrained, and finally spent 1 hour and 49 minutes Nadal swept the opponent 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 to win the opening of this year's Australian Open.
After the match, Nadal gave a live interview to former tournament champion Correll, who said: "It is difficult to measure how much of a gap I have now and when I was at my peak... The process of recovery needs to be down-to-earth, step by step. Sometimes when things don't go well, you need to understand yourself. Of course, training well and winning will be very helpful. Winning three games last week and winning the championship, it was wonderful... If someone had given me this contract a month ago and said that they would be able to sign it, I would have written my name down. It's great to be back at the Australian Open... (The next round may have to face Kokinakis), he's always been a great player, just a little unlucky to have so many injuries. I'm glad to see him overcome all odds and play better and better. But if I had to face Kokinakis, I would be excited. Because every year I come here in this wonderful season, I just want to challenge the best players. ”
The curtain has been drawn on the Australian Open, and Chinese players have won today to make Chinese fans gain a long-lost happiness, and later today Barty, Zverev Jr. and others will also appear on the field. We will continue to pay attention to the Australian Open events to bring you relevant reports.