On October 4, Beijing time, in the WTT China Grand Slam women's singles 1/4 finals, Fan Siqi defeated Zheng Yijing 4-3 to advance to the semifinals, and Fan Siqi became the only qualifying player in the women's singles to enter the semifinals (He Zhuojia had been eliminated by Wang Manyu earlier).
This battle will go down in history, Fan Siqi won three games in a row 11-9, 11-8, 11-4, but I didn't expect Zheng Yijing to drag the game into the tie-break battle 11-4, 11-5, 11-7, I feel that Fan Siqi has an unbalanced mentality, but Fan Siqi didn't give Zheng Yijing a chance at all, as if everything was a script written by Fan Siqi.
At the beginning of the tie-break battle 1-1, Fan Siqi immediately scored 4 points in a row to open the gap 5-1, followed by an 8-2 lead to 6 points, Zheng Yijing has obviously collapsed, and Fan Siqi won the most critical tie-break 11-4 in a single game.
After this match, Fan Siqi has received 700 points + $40,000 in prize money, she is the last confirmed wild card player in the women's singles qualifiers, and her world ranking points have all expired before the Grand Slam, which means that her world ranking is 0, and she has 700 points in the semifinals, and her world ranking has soared directly to 36th.
We can see that the current 35th place is Australia's 695 points, and Fan Siqi has surpassed her with 700 points, so the next update of the world ranking standings, Fan Siqi will directly enter the world ranking 35th.
Fan Siqi started playing the qualifying round on September 26, and it was only on October 4, and in just 9 days, her world ranking went from 0 to 35, what a feat!
Fan Siqi eliminated Wang Yidi 3-2 in the round of 32, then eliminated Korea's Lee Eun-hye 3-0, eliminated Japan's Mori Sakura Mamoru 3-0 in the round of 8, and eliminated Zheng Yijing 3-2 in the semifinals.
Text/Yan Xiaobai: Ping Pong observation