Zheng Qin Wencheng Queen's Cup top seed: I think I am very suitable for grass!

The countdown to the 2025 French Open has begun, and the new grass-court season is waving to the players, starting next week with the Queen's Cup.

The Queen's Cup has been a men's tournament for a long time, and this is the first time in 52 years that the tournament has returned to the WTA Tour. This year's Queen's Cup has a total prize fund of $1.415 million, the highest in its class.

With former top seed Pegula retiring, Zheng Qinwen secured her top seed spot with her fifth world ranking after the end of the French Open, and this is also the third time in her career that she has appeared as the top seed on the WTA Tour (the first two were the 2024 Tokyo 500 and Palermo 250, both of which Zheng won in both tournaments).

For Zheng, appearing on the tour as the top seed is both an honour and a pressure. Because the top seed won the championship "deservedly", given the experience of winning all the previous two tournaments as the top seed, the outside world also has high hopes for her performance in the Queen's Cup.

However, Zheng Qinwen's results in the grass court season have always been not ideal, just from the best results of the four Grand Slams, you can see one or two, the best Australian Open runner-up, the US Open twice quarterfinals, the French Open has just reached the quarterfinals, Wimbledon best record is only the third round of the 2022 season, Zheng Qinwen has been in the first round of Wimbledon in the past two seasons.

"Actually, I always think that I can adapt to the grass court type of player, although the performance in the first two years was not ideal, last year because of injuries, so I couldn't play well at Wimbledon, and the year before last because I had just changed the whole team, I didn't adapt to it at that time"

"Even so, I always feel like I've always been good at playing grass, and of course I don't want to put too much pressure on myself, I just want to play slowly, because I feel like I need some work out in tennis and I'm still growing."

After the end of the French Open, Zheng Qinwen's grass court season chose the Queen's Cup, which officially started on June 9, + the Berlin tournament that started on June 16 (both of which are 500 level) as a warm-up for Wimbledon.

It is worth mentioning that the current women's singles qualifying table for the Queen's Cup has been released, and the two Chinese Jinhua Zhang Shuai and Zhu Lin will play together. Among them, Zhang Shuai, as the No. 11 seed in the qualifying round, faced British wild card player Blake in the first round; Zhu Lin's first match will be against German veteran Maria (the No. 4 seed in qualifying).

I look forward to the excellent results of the Chinese Golden Flower in this year's grass competition!(Source: Tennis House Author: Barbie)