2017 Jiangwang Qualification Tournament Ends, Chin...
On July 23, Beijing time, the WTA International Tour Jiangxi Tennis Open ended the qualifying match. A total of four Chinese florets entered the main match, namely You Xiaodi, Kang Jiaqi, Lu Jingjing and Xun Fangying. The only one who lost in the final round, Guo Hanyu, still lost the derby against Kang Jiaqi. In this way, the number of Chinese Mainland players in the main match in Jiangxi reached 16, accounting for half of the country.
You Xiaodi took the lead in the central stadium. Faced with Thai player Lepitasincha, who had already eliminated him in the Jiangxi qualifying match last year, you Xiaodi quickly entered a state of play in the beginning. After a love game save, you Xiaodi broke the serve first, and in the third inning, you scored a straight 4-point save. In the fourth inning, you resolved the opponent's innings and broke the serve again. After an easy save, you took a 5-0 lead. The next two players each defended their serve, and you Xiaodi won the first set 6-1. In the second set, the competition between the two sides was fierce, and under the test of physical strength and high temperature, the serve was very difficult to maintain. At the end of the second set, the two of them engaged in a break battle. In the end, Yu Xiaodi achieved a crucial break in the 11th set and scored 4 consecutive points in the serve winning game, winning the second set 7-5. After a year of sweet revenge, he also successfully advanced to the main match.
Subsequently, there was a Chinese derby in the center court, where Kang Jiaqi played Guo Hanyu. The two had previously played on clay twice before, and Kang Jiaqi laughed to the end. At the beginning of today's game, Guo Hanyu broke the game and made a 3-0 start. After mutual protection, she broke the game again in the sixth inning and achieved a second break, leading 5-1. After resisting Kang Jiaqi's counterattack, she won the first set 6-3. In the second set, neither of them broke a break and eventually entered the tiebreaker seven. Kang Jiaqi, who had no way out, dared to fight and fight to regain a set 7-6 (1). In the match of the decisive set, Kang Jiaqi broke the deadlock in the 5th inning and saved two break points in the 6th inning, leading 4-2. With this break advantage, Kang Jiaqi won the decisive set 6-4, achieving a comeback.
In the final round of the qualifying round, Lu Jingjing faced Qingshan Xiuzi, one of the runners up women's doubles in last year's Jiangxi tournament. Recently, Lu Jingjing, who had been in good form, broke twice and took a 4-0 lead. Later, she was slightly relaxed and was chased by the opponent for two consecutive games. However, she still held her ground and won the first set 6-3. In the second set, Lu Jingjing still controlled the situation on the field, breaking through the opponent's innings in both the first and third innings, Having gained a 4-0 advantage, Xiuzi Aoyama no longer had the desire to fight. After losing two consecutive games, Lu Jingjing won with a 6-0 penalty and advanced to the main match.
Xun Fangying's opponent was Thailand's top seed Puyeho in the qualifying round. In the first set, she dared to fight and didn't give a single break point. She seized the opportunity to break in the sixth inning and relied on this advantage to win the first set 6-3. In the second set, Puyeho gradually became familiar with Xun Fangying's ball. In the game of mutual defeats, Puyeho gained a 4-2 lead with one more advantage, and then they both protected their starting positions and regained a city 6-3. In the final match, Xun Fangying boosted her morale amidst the cheers of the home crowd, winning 11 points in a row and leading 3-0 on a break. Afterwards, both of them successfully secured their place, and Xun Fangying won the decisive set 6-3, advancing to the main match.
In the other two matches, Dat defeated Kako 2-1, and Mizuki Hideyoshi narrowly defeated her compatriot Watanabe Junri in three sets, also entering the main match.
