2025 French Open: Wang Xinyu lost to former US Open champion Raducanu in three sets and unfortunately stopped in the first round

On May 26, local time, the second match day of the 2025 French Open tennis tournament began, and Chinese player Wang Xinyu ushered in her debut of this tournament, she lost to former US Open champion Raducanu 5-7/6-4/3-6, unfortunately stopped in the first round.

Wang Xinyu

Wang Xinyu won the only previous meeting between the two sides, and in the second round of the 2021 WTA Linz tournament, she defeated Raducanu, who had just won the US Open women's singles title, in three sets, and moved up to the top 100 in the world ranking for the first time.

In this match, the strong returns of both sides created great pressure on the opponent's serve. In the first set, Raducanu squandered serve to win the set with a 5-4 lead, but she still took a break advantage in one more game to take a 7-5 lead. In the second set, Wang Xinyu seized the opportunity of Raducanu's declining fitness and quickly expanded the score to 5-1, but then the decline in the success rate of the first serve allowed her to miss two consecutive service games to win the set, but fortunately, she broke strongly at the critical moment and tied the set at 6-4. In the deciding set, Wang Xinyu's fitness also began to decline, falling behind 1-5 after losing three consecutive service games, although she stubbornly broke her opponent's serve to win the match, but in the end she was unable to hold serve and lost 3-6.

Raducanu

Wang Xinyu has reached the round of 32 at the French Open in the past two years, and after losing 120 ranking points, Wang Xinyu's instant ranking dropped to No.45. Raducanu's opponent in the second round will be three-time defending champion Swiatek, who eliminated Schramkova 6-3, 6-3 in the first round to make it 22 straight French Open singles wins.

Women's Singles other finishes

Bosas 6-0, 6-1 Navarro[9]

[12] Rybakina 6-1/4-6/6-4 Liela[Q]

[19] Samsonova 7-6(3)/6-2 Sherriff

Montgomery 6-2, 6-1 Parry [W]

Starodubtseva 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 Kopacz[Q]

V. Kudermetova 7-5, 6-1 Tomova

Christian 6-1, 6-0 Birrell

(Text, editor: Dato, photo: Li Jianyi)