Chapter 245: The First Domestic Clay Tournament 5
In the evening, the last women's singles match of the day was also the one that attracted the most attention. Pushkareva, the third seed in the tournament, faced off against my country's Xiaojinhua, a 14-year-old player named Zhao Yixuan who had just broken out of the qualifying round.
Since being selected for the national team last year, under the support and leadership of coach Qi Sheng, Zhao Yixuan's performance has improved rapidly and she has been playing games like crazy in recent months.
Zhao Yixuan was not qualified to participate in Anning, an international tour-level event, and could not participate even in the qualifying rounds. However, Qi Sheng resisted the pressure and applied for a wild card in the qualifying rounds.
Zhao Yixuan lived up to the cultivation and respect of her coach. She struggled to break through the qualifying round and entered the main draw of the tour for the second time in her career. This attracted the attention of young players at home and abroad, as well as fans and tennis people who follow Youth Storm.
14 years old, such a young age. In today's tennis world, apart from An Yuexi, a terrifying existence that cannot be judged by common sense, Zhao Yixuan has faint signs of becoming famous at a young age.
At the end of last year, at the Guangzhou Open, she participated with a wild card in the qualifying round and advanced all the way to the main draw for the first time. This time, the signs of a powerful new star gradually became apparent.
Unfortunately, these two times I entered the main draw, I met top players in the first round.
Guangzhou meets An Yuexi, An Ning meets Pushkareva, the top five in the world are not just decorations on the vase, Zhao Yixuan cannot win the first main draw of the tour in their hands.
In the end, Xiao Jinhua lost in two sets.
But those who followed this game were deeply impressed by this 14-year-old player.
Her fierce and violent style of play, the hard work of attackers who are not afraid of losing, and their tenacity when falling behind are all excellent qualities that young players should learn from her.
After the first day of women's singles competition was over, major media and organizations compiled the results of the first day and found that almost all the Youth Stormers advanced! It's really scary!
After these few seasons, more and more young players have emerged and achieved great results. Even those who are not discerning can see that WTA is surrounded by the youth storm.
I just don’t know if ATP will also lose a lot of territory to Youth Storm.
The men's singles match was held at the same time as the women's singles. The first round went very quickly. As night fell, the last match of the men's singles was between the top seed of the tournament, the eighth in the world Angus Adelaide Joe, and the Thai qualifier.
Player Di Jessedabon's match was held at Mulan Stadium on Court No. 1.
Thai player Jesse Dabon played very patiently, but he was still no match for the talented rookie. The strong impact of the world's No. 8 player could not resist for long.
There is not much suspense in this game. After entering the Chinese clay court season, the German genius Adelaide easily won the championship of the Jin Open Challenge. This stop of the Anning tour is just a further warm-up for him to participate in the European clay court season.
The second match day started early in the morning on Court No. 3.
When the first ray of sunshine shines into the stadium, the morning wind is still a bit chilly, the players put on their coats to warm up, and the crisp sound of hitting the ball is accompanied by passionate roars, the whole town is filled with youthful vitality.
Half of the players were eliminated in the first round the day before. There were fewer players, but the game was even more exciting.
The second round of the competition progressed very quickly. There were nine golden flowers participating in the competition on the Anning clay court. However, the performance of Chinese players on the clay court was the worst among the three types of surfaces.
After the second round, I counted and found that six of the nine Jinhua players were eliminated. This is in line with the fans' grasp of Jinhua's clay clay strength.
However, although the performance of Chinese players on red clay is not good, this year is obviously different from the past. The 'Queen of Hard Court' and the 'Light of Chinese Tennis' An Yuexi has won the first clay court championship on red clay. Things are getting better on the land.
In the second round, she sent out two fried dough sticks, sweeping Japanese player Keiko Ohta out of the competition, demonstrating her super ability to learn and absorb, as well as her aura as a future overlord.
The other two Jinhua who advanced to the third round are familiar to everyone, Shen Qingqing and Yan Jie.
The two performed well at Jinwang and Changsha Wangcheng. When they came to Anning, their condition seemed to have improved again.
It's just unfortunate that Shen Qingqing met An Yuexi in the third round, so he probably had to stop there.
As for Jie Jie, she will meet the German genius Hannah in the third round, and the result is very uncertain.
Looking at the four clay court tournaments that have been held in China, we can find from the draw sheets that more and more young players tend to come to China to compete. There are almost no veterans, and half are from the Mesozoic generation.
Therefore, in the Anning Tour, except for the young players who account for most of the players, the players at the top of the Mesozoic world rankings performed fairly steadily, and there were not many upsets.
But by the third round, it was a deep round, and upsets gradually surfaced.
For example, 'Tour Queen' Buryakova. The intellectual player ranked 14th in the world is the fifth seed of this tournament. She played very easily in the first two rounds. In the third round, she will meet the clay court expert and talented girl Justin Shah. You can imagine what kind of fight it will be.
In the third quarter of the quarter, Haas, a talented girl from the United States, although she lost to the final champion Abella in the Zhuhai Clay Challenge, she came to Anning and performed exceptionally well on the red soil.
In the first round, she defeated Cui Minshan, the No. 12 seed in the tournament, and in the second round, she eliminated the 16-year-old Russian beauty Vishnyak Blinkova of the same age. In the third round, she will face Pushkareva, the No. 3 seed in the tournament and the fourth in the world. It will be a fierce battle again.
In the third round, there were more than just one or two games mentioned above that had fierce collisions.
Of course, the premise is that these players continue to perform stably, and in the end of a game they will not compare who makes more mistakes, who is more stupid or stupid.
For example, in the quarters of the second quarter, Abella, who just won the Zhuhai Challenge, will compete against No. 7 seed Molyana, and the world's fifth-ranked Vladimir Putintseva will compete against the world's No. 23 Larry King Lan.
For example, in the three-quarters area, 19-year-old German clay-court girl Anna Fogel competes against the 14th seed, India's powerful Mesozoic player Ansari Priya.
There are also two fierce duels in the four-quarters area, the world's third-ranked Perte vs. the world's 36th-ranked Indonesian Tajiyana, and the German talented star Hannah vs. China's Jin Huayanjie.
Seeing the draw of the matches, as well as the performance of the WTA players who are becoming more and more stable, the attendance at the stadium is gradually increasing, and finally there is a dignified atmosphere like an international tour event.
The war is about to break out.
An Yuexi's attendance rate has always been the highest. The third round of the Golden Flower Civil War was arranged at the Mulan Stadium, the center court, with more than 6,000 spectators occupying more than half of the seats.
Shen Qingqing is a baseline offensive player, with a light style of play and quick reactions. Some people say that her reflexes are second only to An Yuexi, ranking second in Jinhua, so she is nicknamed "Qinggong".
However, facing An Yuexi, who quickly became the dominant player on clay, this light skill was not enough.
Without giving her any chance, An Yuexi defeated Shen Qingqing in two straight sets.
The fans cried out that it was terrible and called King An to spare his life.
In this half, the talented Belgian girl Justine Shah also defeated her opponent in two sets. In the next round, she will face her good friend An Yuexi, who gave her two consecutive losses on hard and mud courts.
Chapter completed!