The 4th round of the 2022 Australian Open women's singles ushered in a cold battle, with the 32-year-old French veteran Cornett defeating the 2018 French Open women's singles champion 14th seed Halep of Romania 2-1 (6-4/3-6/6-4) to finally reach the quarterfinals of the women's singles in 63 grand slam tournaments in his career. Cornett will face 27th-seeded U.S. youngster Collins in the quarterfinals of the women's singles, who eliminated Belgium's Mertens 2-1.
Cornett is a talented girl in the French tennis women's singles, as early as the age of 18, she won the women's singles championship of the WTA, and has since been galloping in the WTA international arena for many years, the world ranking has reached the highest place at 11th, but she has never reached the top 8 in the women's singles at the Grand Slam, and has played 62 times in the women's singles competition before her career, the best result is the women's singles round of 16, the fourth round of the Australian Open in 2009 lost to Safina, the fourth round of wimbledon in 2014 lost to Bouchard, The fourth round of the 2015 French Open lost to Svitolina and the fourth round of the 2017 French Open lost to Garcia. This year's Australian Open is the fifth time that Cornett has reached the fourth round of the Grand Slam, and the opponent Halep is the 2018 French Open women's singles champion, and the world ranking has come to No. 1, but the duo's record is that Cornett has a 3-1 lead.
In the first set, Cornett's first serve was severely tested, Halep received a full of aggression and forced out 3 break points, fortunately, Cornett improved his serve status, saved 3 consecutive sets of points to save, the two sides in the subsequent preservation of a set, Cornett in the 4th set caught Halep a wave, took the opportunity to break the hand, to lead the opponent 3-1, but the 5th set Halep successfully achieved a return break, and after saving the 6th set, the two sides drew again 3-3, It is a pity that Halep failed to save his serve in the 8th set and was broken by Cornett, although halep broke in color in the 9th set, but in the 10th set Cornett unceremoniously broke again 6-4 to win the first set.
The first six sets of the second set became a break battle between the two sides, with each two breaks and then a 3-3 tie, but Halep was hot, and this set broke twice in the 7th and 9th sets and saved the 8th set, thus equalizing the score 6-3. In the third set, Cornett and Halep played more cautiously, not easily handed over the starting round, the first 6 sets of each of them saved a 3-3 draw, the 7th set Halep took the lead in making mistakes, continuous bottom line mistakes led her to return to the ball out of bounds, and finally Wasenet seized the opportunity to break successfully, in the 8th set Cornette unceremoniously and smoothly saved, to the end of the set 5-3, Halep stubbornly saved after resolving 2 match points in the non-guaranteed serve, came to the 10th set was also Cornett's serve to win the game, Cornett smoothly saved, Defeated the No. 14 seed 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals of grand slam women's singles for the first time in her career.
Cornett's opponent in the quarter-finals was 27th seed Collins, who advanced after a three-set reversal against Mertens. Mertens once easily defeated Zhang Shuai 6-2, 6-2 to reach the women's singles round of 16, but he still appeared to have more than enough and insufficient strength against Collins, and the first set was finally reversed.