Zheng Qinwen won the 5th crown of his career! Bombarded 16 aces to defeat the former Australian Open champion and won another 1.01 million prize money

In the WTA 500 Tokyo finals that ended on October 27, Beijing time, China's "first sister" Zheng Qinwen defeated former Australian Open champion Kenin 2-0 after two sets to win her third championship of the season, which is also the fifth championship trophy of her career.

In this Tokyo tournament, Zheng Qinwen played as the top seed of the tournament, and won 3 consecutive games to enter the finals after a bye in the first round. In the final, she faced United States star Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion and French Open runner-up, Kenin was ranked 4th in the world at his peak, which is quite powerful. Previously, the two had never fought each other.

In the first set, the two sides played very closely. In the first 12 games, both sides failed to break serve, and the battle was tied 6-6 and entered the tie-break. In the end, Zheng Qinwen won 7-5 in seven games and won the first set. Forced by the huge pressure exerted by Zheng Qinwen, in the first set tie-break, Kenin was very dissatisfied with the ball out of bounds on the first return, and threw the racket angrily to vent his emotions.

After holding the first set, Zheng Qinwen became more and more confident in the second set, and finally broke Kenin's serve for the first time in the second game. A 3-0 lead was taken at the start of the game. In the end, Zheng Qinwen withstood Kenin's counterattack and won the second set 6-3. As a result, the opponent was defeated 2-0 on aggregate to win the championship. According to post-match statistics, Zheng Qinwen scored 16 service points in the court. Once again, the style of the "ACE Queen" was shown.

It was Zheng's first career Tokyo 500 title and her fifth title, having previously won two titles in Palermo and last year's Zhengzhou tournament, as well as winning the women's singles gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

After winning the Tokyo championship, Zheng Qinwen gained 500 points and continued to consolidate the ranking of No. 7 in the world, in addition, she also received 142,000 US dollars in prize money for winning the championship in this station, about 1.0111 million yuan. It can be said that Zheng Qinwen gained a lot from this trip to Tokyo. This also added a lot of self-confidence to her who was about to embark on the journey of the year-end finals.