Zhu Lin won the first victory of the main draw of the tour after her comeback, Zheng Qinwen and Wang Xinyu appeared tonight!

On June 16, local time, the first round of women's singles competition at the 2025 WTA Nottingham Station began. China's Jinhua Zhu Lin, who returned from injury this year, competed in the protection rankings and won her first Women's Singles main draw match since Wimbledon last year with a 6-4, 6-1 win over qualifier Sasnovic.

Zhu Lin data map

Photo: Visual China

After reaching the third round of Wimbledon last year, Zhu Lin stayed away from the court due to injury. She made her comeback at the Australian Open and WTA Singapore this year, but failed to pass the qualifying rounds, and then went on to compete in four ITF tournaments, finishing runner-up in the women's singles at W35 Gaoyang.

In the previous two meetings between the two sides, Sasnovic won both of them. In this game, Zhu Lin suffered two breaks in the opening two and fell behind 0-3, but then Sasnovic suddenly fell into gear, and Zhu Lin completed three consecutive breaks to take the next game 6-4. In the second set, Zhu Lin continued the good momentum to take a 3-1 lead, and after completing the hold after falling behind 0-40 in the fifth game, the game completely lost suspense, and finally Zhu Lin sealed the victory 6-1. Zhu Lin's opponent in the second round will be between top seeds Maya and Kessler.

The results of the remaining matches of the first round of singles

[4] Putintseva 6-2, 6-2 Krugman[W]

[7] Noskova 6-4/3-6/7-6(6) Todoni [L]

[5] Fernandes 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 Lamens

[Q] Rudjic 6-0, 6-4 Bronzetti

Yastremska 6-4, 7-6(4) Danilovich[9]

Blinkova 6-2, 6-3 Rasimova[Q]

[2] Towson 7-5/6-2 Birrell

Zheng Qinwen

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Sixth seed Andreeva was upset at the WTA 500 Women's Singles tournament in Berlin at the same time, losing 6-2, 5-7, 0-6 to Poland's Fresch to a stellar start to the grass-court season. In the doubles, the Straits pair Jiang Xinyu/Wu Fangxian lost 2-6, 5-7 to Nichols/Mihalikova in the first round.

Today, Zheng Qinwen and Wang Xinyu will play in the first round of the WTA 500 Berlin Women's Singles. Fifth seed Zheng Qinwen will take to the centre court for a clash with former Wimbledon champion Rybakina in a match that is expected to kick off tomorrow at 23:30 GMT. Rybakina looked ahead to the match against Zheng before the match, saying that Zheng Qinwen played aggressively and had a good first week of the grass season, and she had a hunch that it would be a tough game and that she would give it her all to win.

Wang Xinyu will face Kasatkina in the first match on Court 1, which will be played at 17:30 GMT tonight. In addition, Sinner and Alcaraz will make their grass-court debuts at the ATP Halle and ATP Queen's Cup respectively.

The results of the remaining matches of the first round of singles

Masarova 6-3, 6-2 Kenin[Q]

Siniakova 6-1, 6-2 Tomova[Q]

[L] Abdul-Jabbar 7-6(5)/6-1 Dolehyde[Q]

[8] Bardosa 6-1, 6-3 Leis[W]

Navarro 6-2, 6-3 Kostyuk

WTA Berlin will be held in full on June 17