In three minutes a day, you can learn about tennis in the world. Hello fans, today is Tuesday, January 9, 2024. Welcome to the afternoon news report provided by "Tennis Home".
Beijing time last night, in a focus match in the first round of WTA250 Hobart singles, No. 3 seed Zhu Lin of China played steadily and defeated Italian Bronzetti 7-5 6-1, making her debut a good start. In the second round, Zhu Lin will face the winner between Sharif and Dolehead.
The top seed, Belgian star Mertens defeated American Collins 6-2 6-3 and also advanced smoothly. In the second round, she will face Slovakian Schmidlova, who reversed Colombian Osorio 1-6 7-6(4) 7-5. Other first-time winners include Frenchman Gracheva, Dutchman Ruth and Australian Saville.
In the first round of the doubles match held yesterday afternoon, Beijing time, the Chinese Golden Flower combination Guo Hanyu/Jiang Xinjue was in great form. They swept the local wild card combination Bolton/Pozovic 6-2 6-2 and advanced to the quarterfinals.
wta500 Adelaide Station singles first round: The former world No. 2 and Spanish rising star Badosa, who returned from injury, lost five games in a row after 3-1 in the final set, and finally lost 6-3 2-6 3-6. The loser, the American left-hander Pera, reversed the situation and got off to a bad start in his first show of the new season. Czech star Krejitskova also failed to get past the first round and was defeated by Russian star Kalinskaya who broke through the qualifying round 7-5 3-6 7-5.
Another Russian player Pavlyuchenkova who broke through the qualifying rounds was also in good form. She defeated the Brazilian sister Maya 6-3 6-4 and successfully advanced to the second round. Others who won and advanced include Ukrainian star Kostyuk, Spaniard Buksha, and Romanian Bogdan.
Let’s focus on the men’s game again. Yesterday afternoon, Beijing time, the atp250 Adelaide Open started. In the first round of men's singles, Serbian Lajovic reversed local player Kokkinakis 3-6 6-1 6-4 and got off to a good start in his debut. British rising star Draper was in hot form, sweeping Argentinian rising star Baez 6-1 6-3 to advance strongly.
Others who won in the first round were Russian star Shevchenko, Serbian Kecmanovic and Australian O'Connell.
atp250 Auckland Station: In the first round of competition that has ended, French rising star Van Asher defeated American Wolff 6-4 6-2; Dutch second brother Van der Shamshup defeated him 7-6(5) 6-2 American Eubanks; Japanese Daniel Taro defeated Australian Vukic 7-5 7-5; German Altmaier defeated American Giron 7-6(5) 6-2; Chilean Tabby Luo defeated Croatian Gaujo 1-6 6-3 6-2; Frenchman Muller defeated compatriot Bonds 6-3 7-5.
The comeback of Canadian star Shapovalov suffered a bad start and was eliminated by Austrian Ofner 6-4 6-2.
Let’s focus on the world standings again. In the latest ranking list released at noon yesterday Beijing time, many players from mainland China have refreshed the highest world ranking. In men's singles, in addition to the first brother Zhang Zhizhen ranked 53rd and the second brother Wu Yibing ranked 122nd, young player Shang Juncheng rose to 142nd in the world by virtue of his performance in the semi-finals in Hong Kong. Hit a new high.
Jinhua, the first sister Zheng Qinwen rose to 13th in the world ranking due to her outstanding performance in the United Cup; Zhu Lin, Wang Xinyu, and Wang Xiyu ranked 33rd, 34th, and 62nd respectively; young player Yuan Yue also refreshed the highest world ranking. to No. 73.
Finally, let’s guess and identify. The picture below is of a player returning a ball during a game. He has been retired for many years, can you identify him?
Guess the last issue, a golfer gave the correct answer. That's right, the person in the picture is the Norwegian star Rude.
(Source: Tennis Home Author: Maverick)
