In the face of a small challenge to advance, Zheng Qinwen: A stable mentality helps a lot, and the results of Rome determine the French Open expectations

In the second round of the women's singles in Rome, China's first sister Zheng Qinwen was slightly challenged in the second set, but in the end, she still eliminated Danilovic in straight sets and successfully entered the third round!

Zheng Qinwen has yet to win a match since entering this year's European clay tournament, losing to the fierce Potapova in the first round of Madrid. His debut in Rome was Serbian rookie Danilovic, who had recently reached his best ranking of No.33 and was in good form. Looking at the past records of the two, the two met once in the United Cup team competition last year, when Zheng Qinwen won in straight sets. However, considering that China's first sister Madrid has just been out of the first round, and the opponent is a left-handed racket, the bottom-line confrontation has a certain intensity, and she is very familiar with the way of clay combat, especially the doubles expert Siniakova was eliminated in the first round, so this game, winning or losing depends on the on-the-spot performance.

In the first set, Zheng Qinwen was full of firepower, using high-quality topspin attacks to frequently mobilize opponents, and broke serve twice in a row as soon as he came up, establishing a huge 5-0 advantage at the beginning. In the 7th game, Zheng Qinwen was forced to break by her opponent 4 times in her service game, but she still managed to hold serve and take the next game 6-1.

In the second set, Zheng Qinwen broke serve as soon as he came up, but the good times did not last long, Danilovic then found the feeling of hitting the ball and made the first break, but at the critical moment, the sluggish service state made it difficult for her to further establish an advantage, and then the two sides launched a break battle, and the second set battle to the 6th game, Zheng Qinwen finally succeeded in holding serve with a 3-2 lead, and then forced Danilovic to the point of no retreat. Under the pressure, Danilovic's mentality fluctuated, and although she successfully held serve afterwards, Zheng Qinwen won the service game in the 10th game to win the next game 6-4.

Throughout the match, Danilovic found a way to deal with Zheng in the second set with the moon ball, but her sluggish serve made it difficult for her to establish an advantage on her serve, and she performed more like a top 100 player today. However, Zheng Qinwen did outperform her opponent today, with a first-serve win rate of 76% and a first-serve goal rate of 60%, which gave her plenty of room for error on her own serve.

After the game, the first sister of China reviewed today's game, she believes that the key is her stable mentality and not rushing, "Today's overall performance is still okay, because before I played, I really thought that I needed to play more consistently." The last game in Madrid was because I had too many unforced mistakes, so today I had to be consistent and then start attacking anyway, which was a completion of my plan. The opponent had three or four break points in the second set, but that's the way it is in tennis, it's important to have a chance to see if you can take your chances, it's normal. ”

In addition, she also said that this tournament in Rome is of great significance to her, because this is the closest tournament to the French Open, and the results of Rome will determine her expectations and goals for the French Open. However, in the end, she emphasized again: the goal now is to calm down and play every game in front of her, one game at a time.

"If Roma play well, it will help the French Open a little bit more, so I still want to calm down and think about what happened today and not think too far ahead. When I'm in a bad mood, I'm not going to be in good shape on the court, so the conversation I'm talking to myself now is 'calm your heart down and don't be in such a hurry'. The first sister of China said.

In addition, some fans found that in this event, Zheng Qinwen's team has an additional sparring partner, it is reported that this person is called Gomez, and Zheng Qinwen was specially invited to join the team. In this regard, she said, "Gomez is in contact with my coach, I have known him since I was a player, including Indian Wells and Miami, which is why I invited him to join my team as a sparring partner. Because we have known each other for a long time, we have become more and more comfortable cooperating. ”

Next, according to the schedule, Zheng Qinwen should be in the field tomorrow night to face Fletcher for a place in the round of 16, who beat Azarenka to advance. Another opponent with a very cerebral bottom line, I don't know what will happen, let's wait and see!(Source: Tennis Home Author: Lu Xiaotian)