Original title: Zheng Qinwen advances to Adelaide race
Beijing Daily News (Reporter Li Yuanfei, Intern Qi Luyang) Yesterday, Beijing time, the second week of the station WTA500 Adelaide began the qualifying final. Zheng Qinwen, a 20-year-old Chinese women’s tennis player who was promoted the previous day, took 3 hours and 36 minutes to defeat 21-year-old Potapova of Russia 2-1 and advance to the main match.
Zheng Qinwen is currently ranked 28th in the world singles, and Potapova is currently ranked 43rd in the world singles The only previous clash between the two was in the second round of last year’s US Open. 6(3) to proceed.
In yesterday’s match, Zheng Qinwen took the lead in the third game of the first set and scored 4 points to break the serve after 0-15. In the next game, Potapova scored 3 points at the end of the game and responded to Zheng Qinwen. In the next 4 rounds, both sides put on a show of breaking each other, and did not stabilize their positions until the end of the game. After dividing the rounds into 5 to 5 and 6 to 6, the game entered a draw . . Potapova won the tiebreaker 7-3 and won the first set.
In the second set, the drama of “your side breaks serve and I break it back” was still staged. The match points remained balanced until the 12th game, but Zheng Qinwen quickly established herself in this service game which Potapova had to hold. advantage of 40 to 15, they finally won 7 to 5 and tied the set at 1.
In the deciding set, both sides played more carefully in their own service games, and the match went into a draw again. This time Zheng Qinwen went to the state very quickly, and finally won 7 games 7-4 and won the whole game.
