In the 2024 Wimbledon main draw, Chinese tennis made a fantastic start, the first two singles matches to end, Zhu Lin won 8 games in a row after the opening and swept the Belgian player Begu 2-0 to advance to the second round of the women's singles, Shang Juncheng defeated the former quarterfinalist Garin 7-5, 6-4, 6-4 and created a new history of the first victory of Chinese tennis in the Wimbledon men's singles main draw! In the first two Wimbledon singles matches played by Chinese players, Chinese tennis ushered in two consecutive victories, which is exciting!
In this Wimbledon, a historic 11 Chinese tennis players have entered the singles main draw, which has set a record for the largest number of people in the main draw of a Grand Slam! Zhang Zhizhen and Shang Juncheng competed in the men's singles, and Zhang Zhizhen played as a seeded player for the first time; No. 8 seed Zheng Qinwen is leading the Chinese women's tennis Golden Flower 9 players.
On the first match day, Zhu Lin, who won the first WTA Tour title in her career last season, took the lead, facing the world No. 126 Begu, Zhu Lin won eight games in a row to complete a crazy 8 consecutive strikes, 6-0 to win the first set, 6-4 and then the second set, and swept 2-0, winning the first match of this Wimbledon singles for Chinese tennis.
Zhu Lin is not easy this season, because her physical condition is never the best, and it was difficult to find a win in the clay season, but when she came to the grass court season, Zhu Lin finally found her former form, ending 6 consecutive defeats before Wimbledon started, and the first round of Wimbledon women's singles continued her hot state, and won Wimbledon after three years, which was also Zhu Lin's first Grand Slam victory this season.
In the first round of men's singles, 19-year-old Chinese teenager Shang Juncheng also won the victory, and it was of great significance! won the first Wimbledon victory in his career, and it was the first victory in the history of the Chinese men's tennis Wimbledon men's singles main event!
In the rest of the matches, Men's Singles No.121 Shapovalov made his first upset, sweeping 19th seed Jarry in three sets with a 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 winning streak, Ruud and Dimitrov, the two top 10 seeds in Men's Singles, Ruud defeated Usain Bolt 7-6(2), 6-4, 6-4, and Dimitrov hit 16 aces to beat Lajovic 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.
In Women's Singles, there was big news on the first day of match, as the retirement of favourite Sabalenka sparked Wimbledon and Sabalenka's signing will be replaced by lucky loser Erica Andreeva, who will face Bektas in the first round.