Three minutes a day to know about tennis in the world. Hello fans and friends, today is Tuesday, April 5, 2022, Qingming Festival. Let us remember our deceased relatives and friends together, and burn a piece of incense to send our condolences! Tune in to the news afternoon report provided by Tennis House.
Beijing time last night and this morning, the WTA500 Charleston station kicked off. The 16th seed, China veteran Zhang Shuai, who played in the night game, performed steadily, winning the opening game with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over the United States qualifier Di Lorenzo. In the second round, she will continue against the Americans against Chinese player Liu Jingwen, who defeated Britain's lucky loser Watson 6-4 6-2.
Yuan Yue, another Chinese player who played earlier, performed poorly, losing 4-6 2-6 to Ukrainian girl Zavatska and losing his debut. The 11th seed, Czech Kvitova, announced her retirement from the tournament with a left thigh injury when she trailed 6-7 (6) 2-3, sending opponentSlander Fletcher to the second round.
Defending champion and Russian rising star Kudmetova announced her retirement before the match due to ill health, and American Case replaced her. Another American player, Van der Wieg, became the lucky loser, replacing Keith in signing for the main tournament.
In other games, 16-year-old Czech rising star Fluvertova, who played with a wild card, was tenacious, and she lost a set 4-6 before 6-1 6-3 to reverse Croatian Connew and advance to the second round. Next, the Czech girl will wait for the winner between Chinese player Wang Xiyu and Swiss star Bencic.
Ukrainian Karenina beat Belarusian Sassanović 6-2 6-3; Hungarian Anna eliminated Dutchman Arian 6-1 6-4; frenchman Kony 6-0 7-5 to beat homegrown player Parkes. Other winners were Norwegian Ekri, Italian Borini, Russian Alexandrova, American Anisimova and Estonian Kanepi.
The first round of the WTA250 Bogotá station also played last night Beijing time. Frenchman Harmoni Tan 4-6 3-6 defeated Brazilian Piosi, Swede Peterson defeated Colombian Maria 6-4, Italian veteran Elani 6-0 6-3 to eliminate Swiss Vogler.
The two simultaneous ATP250 races this week, the Houston Clay Championship and the first matchday of the Marrakech Open, were cancelled due to rain. Let's look at the Chinese faces in the world rankings. Beijing time yesterday, WTA and ATP have updated the latest edition of the world rankings, Chinese mainland women's players have four ranked in the top 100, namely the 41st ranked veteran Zhang Shuai, the 72nd young player Zheng Qinwen, the 88th new star Wang Xinyu and the 96th famous wang qiang.
Zhu Lin, Zheng Saisai, Yuan Yue and Wang Xiyu ranked 106th, 137th, 143rd and 149th respectively. In the men's side, the highest ranking is Zhang Zhizhen's 305th place, and the youngster Shang Zhencheng is ranked 446th.
Finally, let's guess and recognize. The picture below shows a player changing clothes during a break. Without prompting, can you recognize who he is?
Guess in the last issue, some golfers gave the correct answer. That's right, the person in the picture is the famous Russian player Medvedev. The full picture is presented.
(Source: House of Tennis Author: Maverick)