2025 French Open: Zheng Qinwen won the first match, winning Roland Garros' 7th consecutive victory!

On May 25, local time, the 2025 French Open tennis tournament kicked off, with the upper half of the women's singles and the lower half of the men's singles taking the lead. Zheng Qinwen, the No.8 seed and Chinese Jinhua, defeated former Women's Singles runner-up Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-3 to win the first match and win seven straight matches against Roland Garros.

Zheng Qinwen made his debut at the 2025 French Open

Photo: Li Jianyi

Zheng Qinwen lost the only previous meeting between the two sides, which was Zheng Qinwen's first match after winning the gold medal at the Paris Olympics. However, Zheng Qinwen said in the pre-match interview that the game was not counted in his own place, "Because I had a serious cold, and my body was a little unable to hold on to the shaft at that time, this game will definitely be a different game." This year's clay season, Zheng Qinwen reached the quarterfinals of Charleston and the semi-finals of Rome, while Pavlyuchenkova won only one in Madrid.

In this game, Zheng Qinwen broke serve in the opening game to take a 4-1 lead, but then Pavlyuchenkova quickly adjusted her state to complete the break and tie the score, but fortunately, at the critical moment, Zheng Qinwen played a wave of offensive that scored 8 points in a row, and broke the tie to take the lead 6-4. In the second set, the two sides started a break battle from the fourth game, and finally Zheng Qinwen successfully held serve to win the game with a 5-3 lead, and sealed the victory 6-3. Zheng Qinwen scored 83% of the first serve in the game, and made 22 winning points and 16 unforced errors.

Zheng Qinwen in the game

Photo: Li Jianyi

In the post-match interview, Zheng Qinwen said that he was very happy to have won today. "Pavlyuchenkova is a very aggressive opponent and the first round of the tournament was not easy, so it's really nice to be back at Roland Garros." Zheng's second-round opponent will be Colombia's Arango, who defeated Filipino's Ella 6-0, 2-6, 6-3 in the opening round.

Women's Singles first round finish

[1] Sabalenka 6-1, 6-0 Rakhimova

[13] Svitolina 6-1, 6-1 Semmez

Grubic 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 Kvitova

Leith 6-0, 6-3 Stearns[28]

[Q] Mboko 6-1/7-6(4) Sun Lulu

Bondar 7-6(2)/6-3 Sigmund

Yastremska 7-5, 6-1 Eyeva[W]

(Text and editor: Dato)