Zheng Qinwen lost to Gauff in three sets and missed the opportunity to win the first 1000 tournament in his career

Mountains and seas can be flat! Zheng Qinwen wrote these five words through her personal social media after defeating Sabalenka, which once made people have high hopes for her in the semi-finals against Gauff "reclamation", but unfortunately it ended in failure. The American girl is still the sea in front of her, and the first Chinese sister has to continue to work hard if she wants to fill this sea!

After the Rome women's singles semi-finals were confirmed, the bookmaker's latest odds for winning the championship were also released for the first time! At that time, when they saw that the bookmaker was looking down on Zheng Qinwen in advance this time, and offered odds of 3.75 to 1 and 2.1 to her and Gao Fu respectively, many people laughed!

The outside world has such a reaction, mainly because the betting company gave Zheng Qinwen the odds to win the championship against the world No. 1 Sabalenka is also extremely unoptimistic about Zheng Qinwen. At that time, the degree of depreciation of China's first sister was better than the odds given against Gauff this time: Sabalenka was 2.05 to 1, and Zheng Qinwen was 1 to 16.

However, against Sabalenka, Zheng Qinwen directly interpreted the script of "My fate is up to me", defeated the world No. 1 in two straight sets and advanced to the semifinals of the Rome 1000 tournament, and slapped the bookmaker's odds in the face with an unexpected result.

With injuries and illness, good form, high morale and confidence, and Rome being the absolute blessing of Zheng Qinwen, it is certainly possible for the Chinese to pull off any miracle on this clay court. Everyone thinks that the odds of the bookmaker in the end are very likely to be slapped in the face again, because after the baptism of Roma vs. Sabalenka, Zheng Qinwen does feel different.

Moreover, Zheng Qinwen can shout the bold words of "mountains and seas can be flat", which shows that the small universe in her heart has been burning, and she must be very confident in revenge Gauff.

The outside world is so optimistic about Zheng Qinwen's upset of Sabalenka after upsetting Sabalenka, and it is related to another reason: the clay winning rate!

According to relevant data, Gauff's clay win rate so far is 52%, and Zheng Qinwen's is as high as 72%; The first-serve scoring rate of American girls has dropped by 15% from their peak, and the Chinese sister has recently reached 82% in this regard.

Speaking before the match, Gauff said of the match against Zheng Qinwen, "Zheng Qinwen is a much better threat on clay than I expected, and it will be a tough battle. ”

The American girl's statement was also considered by many fans and netizens to be a rare show of weakness, and it is obvious that she is not sure whether she can defeat Zheng Qinwen this time.

At that time, seeing that Gauff broke Zheng Qinwen's serve at the beginning of the first set, some people in the live broadcast room thought that Gauff's weakness was obviously a smoke bomb and a modest act. But later, as the process of the game continued to move forward, the two fought to the death, and even Zheng Qinwen once had an advantage, everything was indeed as Gauff said, the game was not easy, everyone knew that Gauff was indeed telling the truth.

Even if Gauff won the first set through the tie-break in the end, it was not easy to win, and Zheng Qinwen also lost, and this duel was indeed a five-five matchup.

Especially when Zheng Qinwen was leading in the second set, his state suddenly fluctuated, and finally he was able to stabilize in time at the critical moment, winning the next set 6-4 without danger, and tying the big score in one fell swoop, it also made people think that the Chinese first sister did have the possibility of having the last laugh.

Everyone trusts Zheng Qinwen so much because even though he was in the first half of the deciding set to catch up, he could always quickly break back after being broken, so that the game returned to the balance of power, and did not give Gauff the opportunity to continue to expand the lead, which shows that Zheng Qinqin Qinwen can indeed wrestle with the American girl and compete.

It's a pity that when Zheng Qinwen didn't win his own serve, it invisibly changed the trend of the game, and at that time, the fans and netizens in the live broadcast room shouted, there will be endless troubles after letting the tiger return to the mountain!

Gauff has to praise that when he needed to prove himself the most, he did show the strength and big heart that a Grand Slam champion should have.

After breaking Zheng Qinwen's serve to win the game, he never lost his serve as before, and maintained a stable performance better than Zheng Qinwen until the tie-break in the deciding set, and had the last laugh in this match that took a total of 3 hours and 30 minutes, and achieved the feat of scoring two 1000 clay tournament finals from Madrid to Rome back-to-back, which is really amazing.

After Zheng Qinwen lost in three sets, he also had to face Gauff to rewrite the record of the two to 3-0. Although the semi-finals are also an acceptable and breakthrough result, but when the opportunity comes to us, we can only watch it slip away, and it is a pity that the first sister of China missed the opportunity to enter the final of the clay 1000 tournament for the first time and win the championship.

Before Gauff and Zheng Qinwen did not decide the winner in this game, after seeing the Italian girl Paulini take the lead in the finals, almost everyone thought that if there was no big accident, Gauff and Zheng Qinwen would win the championship in the final who entered the final, because with the overall strength of the Italian girl, whether it is an American girl or a Chinese sister, it is very difficult for Paulini to defeat anyone.

So, there is obviously a great chance to beat Gauff to advance to the final, but in the end it is a godsend, so you can imagine what the reaction of fans and netizens will be.

After Roma paid a heavy price for not showing enough determination at the critical moment, it is really hard to say whether Zheng Qinwen will have such a chance in the future. I hope that the first sister of China can get out of the shadow of defeat as soon as possible, quickly cheer up, and prepare for the French Open that is just around the corner!(Source: Tennis House Author: Starry Sky of Moon River)