Three minutes a day to know about tennis in the world. Hello fans, today is Sunday, February 14, 2021, welcome to listen to the news noon report provided by Tennis House.
This morning, Beijing time, the 7th matchday of the 2021 Australian Open was fully launched. In a women's singles showdown that ended at 9:20, 35-year-old Taiwanese Jinhua Xie Shuwei played brave, swept the 21-year-old Czech rising star Vánderova 6-4, 6-2, and reached the quarterfinals of Grand Slam women's singles for the first time in her career. As a result, Xie Shuwei became the oldest player to reach the quarterfinals of the Women's Singles of the Grand Slam for the first time since the Open Era.
Her opponent in the quarterfinals is Japan's naomi Osaka. The latter overtook Spain's Muguruzza 2-1 in a fierce showdown between Grand Slam champions. In this matchup, Muguruza won her own serve at one point in the decider 5-4 and won two match points, but she missed the opportunity, conceded three consecutive sets, and watched her opponent advance to the quarterfinals.
In the men's singles arena, in a match that has already begun, Canadian rising star Aliassim won a set 6-3 to lead the Russian Karatsev 1-0. As of press time, the second set was still in progress.
Let's go back to yesterday's Australian Open. In the last men's singles match of the third round that ended last night beijing time, the No. 2 seed, Spanish god of war Nadal, was slightly challenged, but still won three consecutive sets 7-5, 6-2, 7-5 to defeat the British Nori and advance to the round of sixteen. In the next round, Nadal will compete with Italian coach Fognini for a place in the quarterfinals.
Fognini played a heroic role in the clash with local player Deminal, advancing with a clean sheet 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Nadal has played Fergenini 16 times before, leading with a total record of 12 wins and 4 losses. However, in the Grand Slam arena, the only time Nadal won two sets first was reversed by his opponents, and the person who lost was Fognini. This time the two meet again in the Grand Slam arena, and it will be another bitter battle.
Also promoted on the day was McDonald, a Young Man of McDonald's, who defeated South African rising star Harris 7-6 (7)/6-1/6-4; Norwegian rising star Rudd eliminated Moldovan brother Albert 6-1/5-7/6-4/6-4, both of whom reached the round of a Grand Slam for the first time.
The Russian troika debuted yesterday, with No. 4 seed Medvedev playing five sets with Serbian Kraginovic and winning the final tiebreaker and struggling to qualify. No. 7 seed Rublev defeated Spanish veteran Fe Lopez in three sets to reach the Australian Open men's singles round of 16 for two consecutive years.
Khachanov, on the other hand, played three consecutive sevens with Italian coach Berrettini, but the winners were all Italians, with scores 6-7 (1)/ 6-7 (5)/6-7 (5). In this way, Khachanov became the first of the three Russian males to be left behind. Berrettini, on the other hand, was unwell in his abs during the game and applied for a medical suspension. Tsitsipas, the No. 5 seed, was bloodless, taking swede m-Immel in three sets.
In the second half of the quarter-finals, Medvedev played against McDonald, Rublev against Rudd, Nadal against Fognini, and Tsitsipas against Beretini.
In yesterday's women's singles match, No. 6 seed Ka Pliskova lost 0-2 to compatriot Mukhova, stopping the third round. Croatian Vicki reversed Estonian veteran Kanepi 2-1 to reach the australian open round of sixteen for the first time in his career. World No. 1 Barty defeated Russian Alexandrova 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the final.
Women's Singles Top Half Quarter-Final Eight: Barty vs Rodgers, Mertens vs Mukhova, Brady vs Wikicchi, Pergula vs Svitolina.
In the mixed doubles first round matchup played yesterday, the cross-border combination of China's Jinhua Duan Yingying and Popana lost 4-6 to Mattek/Jamie Murray and made their debut.
Finally, let's guess and recognize. The black-and-white image below is of a player's frustrated expression after losing. He just went through a five-set battle, winning two and losing three. Do you recognize him?
Yesterday's guess, there are a number of golfers who gave the correct answer. That's right, the person in the picture is the 2004 French Open men's singles champion, Argentine Gaudio. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Maverick)