After the focus battle between Zheng Qinwen and Swiatek, everyone was still quite disappointed with the performance of China's first sister. It's not a close fight, it's an almost one-sided match!

Due to the fact that Zheng Qinwen and Swiatek faced such a huge disparity of 1 to 6 in the head-to-head record, almost everyone was not optimistic that Zheng Qinwen could beat Swiatek in an upset, continue to make breakthroughs in Indian Wells, and reach the semifinals of the first overseas 1000 tournament.

Before the start of this focus battle, the bookmaker also did a very interesting thing and directly adjusted the odds. When Zheng Qinwen and Swiatek first confirmed their meeting in the quarter-finals, the bookmakers offered Zheng Qinwen 1 to 4 and Swiatek 1 to 1.14, and after the match time was determined, the latest odds were 5 to 1 for Zheng and 1.17 to 1 for Swiatek.

The odds have changed twice in a very short period of time, and there is a gap of more than 4 times between Zheng Qinwen and Swiatek, which is equivalent to announcing the outcome of this game in advance, and it is difficult for Zheng Qinwen to defeat Swiatek at all.

There is another reason why Swiatek is a difficult mountain for Zheng Qinwen to overcome, and the Polish girl's current state in Indian Wells is so good that it makes people feel terrible. In his debut against the French girl Garcia, Swiatek let her opponent swallow eggs and only won two games to create the first wave of tragedy in Indian Wells; In the third round, he played against Ukrainian beauty Yastremska, repeating the tragedy of his debut against Garcia; In the quarterfinals, he played against the Czech star Mukhova, and Swiatek even scored two 6-1 scores, sweeping Mukhova and creating a third tragedy.

Although Zheng Qinwen also achieved a meeting with Swiatek without losing a set, compared with the Polish girl, the gap in state is obvious. For example, Swiatek's three matches can be controlled to about an hour, Zheng Qinwen in addition to winning against Kostyuk relatively easily, against the 35-year-old Azarenka and Sun Lulu, who is not good at hard court combat, won more difficult, and finally narrowly won the test.

Of course, Zheng Qinwen has one thing that is very rare, no matter how the outside world looks down on her, her own confidence has always remained high.

When deciding to join Swiatek, Zheng Qinwen said, "She is in good shape, and so am I, and I will give it my all to see what happens in the end." In everyone's opinion, what the first Chinese sister wants to express when she says this means that she and Swiatek can fight.

Before fighting Swiatek, the first Chinese sister emphasized one point, "After several years of hard work, my technical level is about the same as hers, and I am evenly matched." The last time I beat her, it was very exciting. ”

It is precisely because of Zheng Qinwen's super-burning mentality that he thinks that there is no gap between himself and Swiatek, and it has completely mobilized the enthusiasm of fans and netizens to watch the game, and he is eager to know whether the first sister of China can really fight with the Polish girl, or will she be taught a lesson in the end.

It turns out that Zheng Qinwen really can't beat Swiatek!

Zheng Qinwen was broken at the beginning of the first set, and quickly fell behind 0-3 to catch up. Although the first sister of China also achieved a break, the initiative of the game was always in Swiatek's hands until the Polish girl took the lead 6-3.

In the second set, everyone thought that this should be the beginning of Zheng Qinwen's performance, but they didn't expect the performance to be worse than the first set. Falling behind 0-4 at the beginning, especially when Swiatek took the lead to reach the commanding heights of the whole game 5-1, the outcome of the game has completely lost suspense.

After being in a desperate situation, Zheng Qinwen woke up like a dream and began to fight back, but there was no way back, and Swiatek finally won the next set 6-3, ending the fight in one fell swoop.

From thinking that he was evenly matched with Swiatek before the match, to being swept away when he actually played against him, some people bluntly said that confidence really couldn't support Zheng Qinwen to defeat a first-class player like Swiatek.

In addition, this game also exposed two major problems in Zheng Qinwen: first, when encountering a headwind, it is easy to be frustrated and slumped, especially when playing against first-class masters, the consequences are more serious; Second, Zheng Qinwen can control the first-serve scoring rate and turnover rate well against an opponent of average strength, but when competing against a master like Swiatek, the situation is completely reversed.

In this regard, some people said that Zheng Qinwen's mentality is still problematic and needs to be adjusted. For example, in this challenge to Swiatek, Zheng Qinwen actually held such an advantage of 40-0 in his two service games, and he was broken, which was really speechless; For example, in the face of Swiatek's return pressure, the Chinese sister will always make some undeserved mistakes, but this situation was not in the face of Kostyuk.

After losing this crucial match, it was also officially announced that the Chinese players had completely disappeared from the Indian Wells singles arena. However, what this defeat left Zheng Qinwen with is not only that the battle record was rewritten by Swiatek to 7-1, but how to show excellent psychological quality when facing first-class masters, and withstand at critical moments to fully prove himself!(Source: Tennis House Author: Starry Sky of Moon River)