In the third round of the women's singles at the WTA1000 Indian Wells Station that ended on March 10, Beijing time, China's "first sister" Zheng Qinwen fell in straight sets and swept New Zealand's Chinese player Sun Lulu with a score of 6-4, 7-5, and reached the top 16 of the women's singles for the first time in her career.

In the second round, she defeated former world No. 1 Azarenka for the first time in her career with a score of 2-0, ending the recent three-game losing streak, and her opponent Sun Lulu defeated Zheng Qinwen at Wimbledon last year. But this time, Zheng Qinwen did not repeat the mistakes of the past.

In the first set of the game, the two sides held serve in the first 4 games, and then each broke the opponent's 1 serve game to draw 3, and in the crucial 7th game, Zheng Qinwen broke serve again, and won the first set 6-4 with the advantage of one more break.

In the second set, the two sides once again launched a break battle, Zheng Qinwen led 2-0 at the beginning and was chased by the opponent to 2 draws. When he was leading 5-3, he was broken back by Sun Lulu in the 10th game to win the game to 5 draws. In the 11th game, Zheng Qinwen broke serve again, and successfully won his second service game in the 12th game, winning the second set 7-5, thus eliminating Sun Lulu with a total score of 2-0 and advancing to the round of 16.It is worth noting that Zheng Qinwen also fell and broke his knee and bled during a save in this set, which made people feel very distressed.

With this victory, Zheng Qinwen scored 120 points and 100,000 US dollars. Instant ranking 8th in the world. After reaching the round of 16 of Indian Wells for the first time in his career, Zheng Qinwen will face the tournament's No. 18 seed Kostyuk of Ukraine.