In a key match in the third round of the Paris Olympic tennis women's singles that ended on the evening of July 30, Beijing time, China's "first sister" Zheng Qinwen defeated the No. 11 seed and United States star Navarro 2-1 after more than 3 hours of fierce battle, achieving two consecutive victories against her opponent. In his first Olympic appearance, he reached the top 8. The score was 6-7 (7), 7-6 (4), 6-1 in the three sets. Zheng Qinwen also continued the Chinese team's hopes of winning a women's singles medal in tennis at this Olympic Games.

【World Ranking】

Zheng Qinwen is currently ranked No. 7 in the world and is seeded No. 6 in the women's singles at the Olympics, while Navarro is ranked No. 15 in the world and is the No. 11 seed in the women's singles.

【Confrontation Situation】

The two sides have met once before, in last year's Palermo 250 tournament, Zheng Qinwen swept his opponent 6-4, 6-2 in straight sets to advance, and Zheng Qinwen also won the tournament last year and this year for two consecutive years.

【Contest Review】

In the first set, Zheng Qinwen took the lead in the 7th game, and once led 5-3 after holding serve in the 8th game. However, in the 10th game, Zheng Qinwen won the set on serve and was chased back to 5 draws by Navarro. In the subsequent tie-break, Zheng Qinwen scored 3 points in a row after 3 draws and led 6-3, but after that, Zheng Qinwen wasted 4 set points, and finally lost the tie-break 7-9 and lost the first set.

In the second set, Zheng Qinwen's start was still affected by the reversal of the tie-break in the first set. As soon as he came up, he was broken and fell behind 0-2. In the 6th game, Zheng Qinwen broke back to 3 draws, and then in the 7th game, Zheng Qinwen's own service game was broken again. In the 8th game, Zheng Qinwen wasted a good opportunity of 40-0 and failed to break back.

In the 9th game, Zheng Qinwen had no way to retreat from the service game to save the match point, and in the 10th game, he broke Navarro's serve to win the game. In the 11th game, Zheng Qinwen's own service game was broken again with 3 double faults. In the 12th game, Zheng Qinwen once again stubbornly broke Navarro's serve to win the game.

In the tie-break, Zheng Qinwen led 5-2 and was once chased by Navarro to 4-5, and at the critical moment, Zheng Qinwen scored 3 points in a row without softness, and won the second set 7-4 to tie the total score at 1-1.

In the deciding set, Zheng Qinwen, who was greatly boosted, came up and broke Navarro's serve twice in a row to establish a huge 4-0 advantage. In the 7th game, Zheng Qinwen grasped the 4th match point and broke Navarro's unavoidable serve again. In the end, Zheng Qinwen won the deciding set 6-1, thus reversing Navarro 2-1 and advancing to the top 8 of the tennis women's singles at this Olympic Games.

【Next Round Opponent】

After advancing to the quarterfinals, Zheng Qinwen will face former world No. 1 Kerber. Kerber is a three-time Grand Slam champion and has also defeated Serena Williams in the 2016 Australian Open final and the 2018 Wimbledon final.

Kerber also topped the WTA Women's Singles World No. 1 in 2016 and reigned for a total of 34 weeks. Previously, Kerber had already announced that he would officially retire after the Paris Olympics.