The women's singles of the 2024 Wuhan Open tennis tournament has produced a place in the quarterfinals, and the two Chinese golden flowers Zheng Qinwen and Wang Xinyu have joined hands to advance, which is also the first time in this event. According to the schedule, Wang Xinyu will play Alexandrova at 12:30 p.m. on October 11, and Zheng Qinwen will play Paolini at 7 p.m. on the same day, which will be broadcast live on CCTV5.
In addition to special reasons, each game is the first game of the night game, which is 7 o'clock in the evening, which is the prime time for domestic broadcasting, of which the third round against Fernandez is scheduled to be played at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, which is related to the opponent's doubles match that night.
In this game, Zheng Qinwen once again showed her style of "reversal queen", losing 5-7 in the first set, and then winning 6-3 and 6-0 in a row, with a total score of 2-1 to turn the tables and advance, and break into the quarterfinals back-to-back, which is also the fourth time this year and the sixth time in her career that she has reached the quarterfinals of the 1000 tournament.
Entering the quarterfinals, Zheng Qinwen, as the No. 5 seed of the tournament, finally ushered in a real challenge, and the opponent was the No. 3 seed of the tournament, Paulini.
According to statistics, the two have only played each other twice in the past, and Zheng Qinwen has won all of them, the first time was the semifinals of the 2023WTA500 Zhengzhou Station, when Zheng Qinwen won 2-0, and then in the 2023WTA250 Palermo Station Finals, Zheng Qinwen defeated Paulini 2-1. It is worth mentioning that Zheng Qinwen has won 18 consecutive victories against Italy.
Compared with Zheng Qinwen's all-out efforts to grab points, Paulini's pressure is not great, because this year's championship points lead is enough to qualify for the year-end finals in advance after participating in the Wuhan Open, but Zheng Qinwen still needs to continue to work hard.
If he defeats Paulini, Zheng Qinwen will break into the semifinals of the 1000 tournament for the first time in his career, and advance to the semifinals of the China Open for the first time before, while receiving 159439 US dollars (about 1.12 million yuan) bonus and 390 points.
First of all, in terms of bonuses, after Zheng Qinwen reached the top eight of the Wuhan Open, the total prize money of his career reached 39.81 million yuan, and then entered the top four of the Wuhan Net, and the total prize money increased to 40.41 million yuan, officially breaking through the 40 million yuan mark.
In addition, in terms of points, after Zheng Qinwen broke into the quarterfinals of the Wuhan Open, he scored 215 points, and this year's championship points were 3675 points, continuing to rank seventh in the WTA Championship Points Ranking (WTA Race), and then entered the top four of the Wuhan Open, and the points became 390 points, when this year's championship points increased to 3850 points, leaving the eighth-ranked Navarro as many as 282 points, and the year-end finals for the first time are getting closer and closer!