After the 40% decline rate swept the big dark horse, Zheng Qinwen will fight the bitter lord Samsonova

What is the dark horse of the 18-year-old Canadian girl Mboko? After 86 minutes passed, Zheng Qinwen, as a quality inspector, gave the answer.

Before the focus of the battle between Zheng Qinwen and Mboko started, everyone's evaluation of this game was: This is a game that has been endowed with too many surprises by the outside world, and there are many things to watch.

In a survey launched on the official website of the WTA "Which of the top 10 seeds on Friday is most likely to withdraw early", Zheng Qinwen was seriously underestimated with a high vote rate of 40%, and it was difficult to escape the fate of being upset by Mboko.

Foreign fans are so optimistic about Zheng Qinwen, mainly because of Mboko's blockbuster appearance at the French Open this year.

The 18-year-old Canadian rose from the qualifying rounds and advanced to the round of 32 with five consecutive wins, which can be called the dark horse of this French Open; In addition, Mboko's strength is amazing, and she can combine offense and defense very well, which also makes her favored to the fullest.

Add to that the fact that Mboko is looking forward to fighting Zheng Qinwen before the game, and soaring from 300 at the beginning of the year to 120th at the current level, all these factors push the mystery of the infinite possibilities that Canadian girls can create to the extreme.

"Whether Xiao Zheng can equal the best record in the round of 16 of the French Open, this battle is the key." Foreign fans are frantically hyping Mboko, which also makes many people quite worried about Zheng Qinwen, bluntly saying that it is not so easy for the first Chinese sister to abuse vegetables in the third round like the second round.

However, the odds offered by the bookmaker are diametrically opposed to the views of many people in the outside world, Zheng Qinwen is 1 to 1.22 to 4.5 to 1 to 4.5 for Mboko, which belongs to the more optimistic side.

Judging from the performance of the two men at the beginning of the first set, it seems that the outside world is so much in favor of Mboko and does make sense. Her application of strength, as well as the various techniques and tactics of hardening the clay play, did bring a lot of pressure to Zheng Qinwen for a while.

But as the game continued to move forward, Mboko's instability soon became apparent, far from being as godly as the outside world said before the game.

With Zheng Qinwen taking the lead in the fourth game to break serve against the Canadian girl, the steady performance of the Chinese sister after that also helped her hold the lead tightly in her own hands, and successfully won the first set 6-3.

Zheng Qinwen is one thing that is commendable in this match is that against Mboko, a big dark horse in the "god-making movement", even though she was behind at the beginning of the second set, she was always able to maintain a stable performance, not only did not let the Canadian girl widen the gap with herself, but used it as motivation to catch up.

Especially at the end of the second set, in the face of the pressure that Mboko created on him, he was still able to resolve and finish the game 6-4, which made people see the improvement of Zheng Qinwen's current ability to read the game and release the pressure.

Zheng Qinwen's performance in advancing to the round of 16 of the French Open to tie the best record in history was praised by everyone, but Mboko's performance disappointed many people after the match.

"Zheng Qinwen is already a top 10 player in the world, she has beaten a lot of very good players, you can think of it, it must be very difficult for me to play against her, I can only say that I will do my best to play my own characteristics." After Mboko's words before the game were turned out by everyone after the game, many people ridiculed her, this game is indeed as difficult for the Canadian little black girl as she said, but she did not play the kind of tennis on the road to promotion that combines strength and offense and defense quite perfectly, this dark horse is actually a little average.

In fact, it is not that Mboko does not want to play the kind of pleasing tennis that is praised by others, but Zheng Qinwen has done the corresponding preparations before the game, and she is not given the opportunity to perform at all.

For example, Zheng Qinwen skillfully used the change of the landing point and the transfer of the angle, so that Mboko could only figure out how to save the ball, and it was difficult to have enough time to stand still and pick, but it made her empty body and difficult to use.

With this victory over Mboko, Zheng Qinwen also set three personal records: first, he won nine consecutive victories at Roland Garros, which is well connected with the victory in the Paris Olympics last year; 2. Reaching the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the fifth time in his career; 3. The instant world ranking has reached fifth place, tying the best ranking record.

Seeing that Zheng Qinwen is now getting closer and closer to meeting Sabalenka, everyone is very much looking forward to what will happen if the two meet for the second time on clay.

However, if Zheng Qinwen wants to meet Sabalenka in the quarterfinals, he must pass Samsonova in the fourth round.

The Russian girl swept 6-2 and 6-3 to advance when she competed with Ukrainian beauty Yastremska for a ticket to the round of 16, showing excellent competitive form and solid defensive skills.

Zheng Qinwen and Samsonova have played each other five times before, and the Russian girl leads 3-2, which can be called another bitter master for Zheng Qinwen. If coupled with Samsonova's current hot state, it also makes it full of suspense whether the Chinese first sister can advance to the quarterfinals to challenge Sabalenka!(Source: Tennis House Author: Starry Sky of Moon River)