The red soil is scattered and the wind drifts away, and the green grass comes one after another. Every year in June and July, the tennis season enters a very special period. In front of the French Open, the red dust stirred the hormones and surging passion, and in the blink of an eye, the cool green moisturized things silently came to the side; Looking at the fluttering posture of the white clothes on the court, maybe you can suddenly understand the elegance and gentlemanliness represented by tennis at this time!
As the oldest tennis tournament, Wimbledon, one of the four Grand Slams, finally started the first round of the main draw today. In this Wimbledon, 11 members of the Chinese army participated in the singles main event, setting a record for the most Chinese players participating in a Grand Slam. Today, in addition to Wang Xinyu and Bai Zhuoxuan, Zhang Zhizhen, Shang Juncheng, Zheng Qinwen, Yuan Yue, Zhu Lin, Wang Xiyu, Wang Yafan, Zhang Shuai, and Wang Qiang all appeared on the stage.
Zhu Lin made her debut on Court 9 against Romania's Begu, ranked 127th in the world, and the two sides met once in the first round of the 2019 French Open, when Zhu Lin lost 2-0. This time they met again in the first round of the grass, and Zhu Lin vowed to avenge with one arrow.
After experiencing rapid progress last year, Zhu Lin's form this year is not stable enough, and she regrets losing her qualification for the Paris Olympics. At Wimbledon, Zhu Lin's best result was reaching the second round. Zhu Lin has a total record of 5 wins and 8 losses at Wimbledon. 2023: Round 1. 2022: Round 1. 2021: Second round. 2019: Round 1. 2018: Qualifying round 1. 2017: Qualifying Decisive Round. 2016: Qualifying Decisive Round 2015: First Round. Last year's first-round lottery was not good, and he lost 0-2 against the world's No. 1 sister Swiatek.
Zhu Lin's signing luck at Wimbledon this year was good, and her opponent in the first round had a mediocre result. In the first set, Zhu Lin relied on good footwork and fast connection, so that the opponent was powerless, and did not win a game, Zhu Lin only took 23 minutes to sweep 6-0 to win the first set, and Begu only scored 8 points. Zhu Lin also gave away the first egg of this Wimbledon! Surprised, surprised?!
In the second set, Zhu Lin still remained strong, coming up to break first and then protect, taking a 2-0 lead. In the third game, Begu seized the opportunity to finally hold serve after losing eight games in a row, 2-1. After that, Zhu Lin seized the opportunity to break serve again and led 5-1. In the 8th game, Zhu Lin won the game with a serve, looking a little absent-minded, the quality of the serve declined, and the opponent broke back, 5-3. In the 9th game, Begu had to hold the serve, which was very tenacious, saving 2 match points to hold serve. 5-4。 In the 10th game, Zhu Lin served again to win the game, and Zhu Lin did not waste another opportunity, successfully held serve and won the second set 6-4.
Congratulations Zhu Lin! In the first round, he got off to a good start and earned £93,000. However, when he was leading 5-1 in the second set, there were fluctuations in his mentality, he didn't dare to play, and he was burdened with a certain amount of ideological baggage, so he still needed to sum it up!
This year's Wimbledon Zhu Lin is in the same three-quarters with Zheng Qinwen, Yuan Yue, Zhang Shuai, and Wang Xiyu. Zhu Lin's second-round opponent will be the winner between 25th seed Pavlyuchenkova and Townsend. If she can break through to the third round, Zhu Lin will probably have a derby with Zheng Qinwen, looking forward to the arrival of the derby! Come on!
Tonight, the rest of the Chinese team will play against:
18:00 Shang Juncheng vs Garin (Court 6)
20:00 Zhang Zhizhen vs Jean Viere (Court 5)
20:30 Yuan Yue vs Ruth (Court 7)
20:30 Zhang Shuai vs Kasatkina (Court 14)
22:30 Zheng Qinwen vs Sun Lulu (Court 18)
22:30 Wang Yafan vs Schmidrova (Court 5)
23:00 Wang Xiyu vs Vekic (Court 6)
+2:00 Wang Qiang vs Navarro (Court 16)