Preparing for Madrid, Zheng Qinwen: The elbow injury has little impact!

The 2025 clay season continues to be contested, with none of the highlights of this week's tour being the Madrid Open, a 1000-level event for men and women.

In terms of Chinese players who have attracted much attention, Zheng Qinwen is the No. 8 seed in the tournament this time, and the top eight seeds in the women's singles in the draw of this tournament are as follows:

[1] Sabalenka VS [8] Zheng Qinwen

[3] Pegula VS [6] Paulini

[7] Andreeva VS [4] Gauff

[5] Keys VS [2] Swiatek

Zheng Qinwen withdrew from last week's Stuttgart Open after exiting Charleston with an elbow injury, and after a break of nearly two weeks, she returned to Madrid, where the Chinese Jinhua, who received a first-round bye, will face the winner of the second round between Kruger and Potapova.

Recently, Zheng Qinwen was also interviewed on the media day, and she said that the impact of the injury was not great, "Because I have been in a very high-intensity competition, it is difficult to fully recover to no pain at all, and I do need protective gear to help and protect during the game and training." ”

"But what I want to say is that it doesn't have that much of an impact on me right now, because I feel like I can still continue to serve and play in this situation."

Talking about the goal of this year's Madrid tournament, Zheng Qinwen bluntly said that he just hopes to play better than before, "I feel quite good at the moment, because every time I come to Madrid, I always have a little bit of an injury. ”

"That's why I chose to come here early this year to prepare for the race, mainly because I want to be able to play better in this race, because for myself, I really like this race in Madrid."

In addition to Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xinyu will also appear in the women's singles main draw in Madrid this year, the latter's first-round opponent is the Greek star Sakkari, this is also the second meeting between the two, Wang Xinyu has been defeated by Sakkari once before, and hopes that the two golden flowers can go further in the women's singles draw this year.

Looking at Madrid's final singles championship in the past three years, 2022 belongs to Alcaraz and Jabbar; Alcaraz defended her title in 2023, while the women's singles title was won by Sabalenka; Last year, Rublev and Swiatek won the men's and women's singles crowns respectively, and it is still quite suspenseful who will win the trophy here this year.

It is worth mentioning that Ostapenko, who won back-to-back victories over the top two seeds in Stuttgart last week, will continue to play in Madrid this week, as the No. 23 seed in the Women's Singles will also enjoy a first-round bye, and her second-round opponents will be between Sevastova and Pavlyuchenkova.(Source: Tennis House Author: Barbie)