The first round of the Wuhan Open tennis tournament is also in full swing today, in the first match, China's 35-year-old veteran Zhang Shuai debuted, her opponent was Putintseva, the result of this match only played 72 minutes, Zhang Shuai quickly lost to the opponent with a score of 4-6 and 4-6, 0-2, and missed the next round.
In last week's China Open match, Zhang Shuai also created his own history, Lian Ke strong opponent reached the final 8, and reached the top 8 of the China Open for the third time in his career, which is indeed very difficult for Zhang Shuai, who is 35 years old.
Against Putintseva today, Zhang Shuai was still in good shape in the first set, and both of them completed the hold very easily, and the score came to 2-2.
In the crucial fifth game, Zhang's unforced errors began to mount, allowing Putintseva to take advantage of the break and then hold serve to take a 4-2 lead.
In the 7th game, Zhang Shuai's service game fell behind on the score, although he tried to save 2 break points, but was finally broken by the opponent, and the score came to 2-5, although Zhang Shuai completed the break in the 8th game.
But in the next 2 games, the two each completed the hold, and Zhang Shuai still lost 4-6 in the first set, and in this game, Zhang Shuai's success rate was too low, 18 percentage points behind the opponent.
In the second set, Zhang Shuai was broken by her opponent in the first break game, which made her very passive and had a gap of 2 games with her opponent.
Although Zhang Shuai almost struggled to give his opponent too many chances on his own serve, Zhang Shuai did not have many chances on Putintseva's serve, and did not get a break point in this set.
The score came to 3-5, although in the 9th game, Zhang Shuai struggled to complete the hold, but then Putintseva's serve won the game, Zhang Shuai did not have many chances, and finally Putintseva won another game 6-4, and the big score was 2-0 to complete the sweep of Zhang Shuai and advance to the next round.
Zhang Shuai faced Putintseva, it has been 5 consecutive defeats, although the veteran is very tenacious, but the continuous conquest and doubles matches, the consumption of Zhang Shuai is still very large, this strength is not as good as the opponent, and the loss is reasonable.
In this evening, Zhang Shuai will also partner with Mertens to play in the women's doubles match, two matches a day is also a test for Zhang Shuai, fortunately, the opponent's strength is not too strong, Zhang Shuai and his partner still have a great hope of qualifying.
Coming to China for the season, Zhang Shuai is still looking forward to being at home, getting more points, in order to participate in the Australian Open early next year, the outstanding performance in the Chinese Open has made the fans very satisfied, this time to the Wuhan Open, the preparation may be a little hasty, plus the opponent in the style of play, it is indeed very restrained Zhang Shuai, this loss is somewhat regrettable, the 35-year-old Zhang Shuai has tried his best.
After the end of this week's Wuhan Open, Zhang Shuai will also go to participate in the WTA500 tournament in Ningbo, I don't know if she will get a wild card, if not, she will have to start from the qualifying round, and Zhang Shuai will also participate in the doubles competition, the consumption of the veteran is indeed very large, we also wish her good luck, after all, every athlete who fights for her dreams is worthy of respect!