Can't beat it! I really can't beat it! I'm afraid that no one in the women's tennis world will be able to beat such Swiatek! In the quarterfinals of the Indian Wells station in the early hours of this morning, China's first sister Zheng Qinwen faced the defending champion and No. 2 seed Swiatek, and lost in two sets and stopped in the quarterfinals of the women's singles tournament.

How would you describe such a game? Face the music? Or is the road narrow? For many fans, in the semi-finals of last year's Paris Olympics, the Chinese sister defeated Swiatek in history and finally won the Olympic gold medal. But after that game, the Polish girl cried for 6 hours directly after the game, and the form of the North American hard court season also plummeted. For Swiatek, "revenge" is her obsession and motivation, while for the Chinese sister, proving that she is not a fluke in defeating her opponent is the key to her match.

In the first set, Swiatek started the game extremely strongly, defending and breaking as soon as she came up, quickly building a 2-0 lead. At this time, the sky of Indian Wells began to drip light rain from time to time, which also caused a little disturbance to the game. At the beginning of the third game, Zheng Qinwen tried to enhance his stability in the baseline hold, but at this time, Swiatek's baseline defense was simply airtight, leaving Zheng Qinwen with no chance. In the middle of the set, Swiatek broke again to take a 5-1 lead and win the set on her serve. Zheng Qinwen, who was behind, began to break out, and even broke the belt to chase the score to 5-3. However, in the ninth game, Swiatek did not waste her serve again to win the first set 6-3.

In the second set, Zheng Qinwen's morale was frustrated, and he was broken by Swiatek in the first service game when he was in the lead, and then Swiatek continued to speed up the pace of his attack and brought the score all the way to 4-0. The subsequent match was like a repeat of the first set, Zheng Qinwen broke Swiatek's serve again to win the game when he fell behind 2-5, but Swiatek's form today was really impeccable, and in the following Zheng Qinwen's service game, the Polish star directly got 2 match points. In the end, with Zheng Qinwen's serve double fault, Swiatek won the second set 6-3 and sealed the victory.

Avenging last year's defeat at last year's Olympics with a 6-3 6-3 defeat over eighth seed Zheng Qinwen, Swiatek also rewrote the head-to-head record to 7-1. Since then, the Polish star has won 10 consecutive tournaments and reached the semi-finals for the fourth consecutive year, making it to the semi-finals for the 19th time in her career.

According to the statistics of the whole game, Zheng Qinwen is at a disadvantage in the first serve success rate (58%-65%), the first serve scoring rate (53%-74%), and the second serve scoring rate (36%-42%), and Zheng Qinwen is also far behind 14-26 in terms of winning points, in addition, her unforced errors are as high as 29, while Swiatek is relatively only 16.

For the loss of such a game, it is bound to bring a lot of controversy, after all, the first sister of China also said in an interview before the game that she and Swiatek are evenly matched, and the game is also a five-five open, but now the facts have proved that the difference in strength between Zheng Qinwen and Swiatek is probably not a star and a half, just like netizens said, "The loss in the semifinals of the Olympic Games is just a tiger napping, Zheng Qinwen can pick it up once, there will be no second time!" ”

Some netizens also sighed, "This game really shows the difference in strength between the two people, and it also brings me back to the shadow of Zheng Qinwen being dominated every time he plays against Swiatek before the Olympics, Zheng Qinwen is completely impatient and not stable enough in the whole game, more than once there was a 40:0 and then was overturned, and finally even double-faulted in her own service game, showing that Zheng Qinwen's hard power is not enough to support her to control the game." And Swiatek is still so brave and terrifyingly strong. ”

In this regard, Zheng Qinwen reviewed today's game, summed up the reasons for the loss of this game and the areas that need to be improved, she said, "It's a pity that I didn't win several 40-0 service games, the night court is very different from the daily game, but in fact, the most affected me today is the pre-match preparation, because it was rainy before the game, I didn't have a good warm-up time, which had a greater impact on me, but in fact, the daytime and night games are OK for me." After that, I still have to improve some details of my technical links, for example, my serve can be more aggressive, and my bottom line I think I need to step on it more, from today's fight with her, I think there are actually a lot of points I want to play yet, and I need to improve in training. ”

In addition, Zheng Qinwen also chose to shake hands with a black face after losing this game, which also made many fans dissatisfied, they believe that the first sister of China is obviously dissatisfied with the opponent. Some fans said, "After the start of the new season, Zheng Qinwen frequently used elbow injuries as an excuse for failure, and this time, it was overwhelming to say that elbow injuries affected performance!" And say that you can't warm up when it rains, which makes people feel very nonsensical! ”

To add insult to injury, however, as Russian teenager Andreeva defeated Svitolina 7-5 6-3 in the subsequent match, she overtook Zheng Qinwen in the instant ranking to No.8! However, for Zheng Qinwen, it is not easy to reach the quarterfinals in Indian Wells this year and maintain the world's top 10 rankings, which is already quite a surprise for many fans!

According to the schedule, Zheng Qinwen will continue to compete in the Miami tennis tournament that will start next week, after losing this match in such a state, in the face of another overwhelming doubt and public opinion, for the first sister of China, where is her spring?(Source: Tennis Home Author: Lu Xiaotian)