The 2022 Billie Jean Gold Cup continues. On the 3rd day of the first group stage of Asia University, although Wang Qiang unexpectedly lost to Han Nalai, the Chinese team still defeated South Korea 2-1 with Zhu Lin’s singles and women’s doubles victory, maintaining 3 rounds of victories and temporarily ranked first in the group. 2. The Japanese team in the same group has won all 9 games in 3 rounds of group matches and temporarily ranks first.
This year’s Billy Jean Gold Cup group match was held on the outdoor clay court in Antalya, Turkey. On the 3rd day, Zhu Lin, who was the first to debut, played against Park So-hyun, who was outside the 300th in the world, in straight sets with a score of 7-5, 6-3 to give the Chinese team the lead.
In the first set, Zhu Lin spent most of the time adapting to the opponent’s ball, and the scores of the two sides rose alternately. From the 7th game, the two broke each other all the way. Zhu Lin took the lead in breaking the deadlock twice and was broken by Park Soxuan before consolidating the break advantage. It was not until the 12th game at the end of the game that China Jinhua resisted the pressure to fulfill the first 2 serves to win the set. In the second set, Zhu Lin broke serve twice in the first 4 innings and opened a 3-1 lead early. Park So-hyun was exhausted and surrendered later, and Zhu Lin secured the victory in advance after breaking the opponent’s inevitable ninth round.
In the second singles match, Wang Qiang won first and then lost, and was defeated by Han Nalai with a score of 6-2, 2-6, 5-7. Wang Qiang easily won the first set with two break points, but then encountered a counterattack from her opponent. After the two sides fought to a tie in the second set, Wang Qiang lost the next 4 games. In the final set, Wang Qiang was behind 0-2 and 1-3 to overtake the score, but China Jinhua missed the 4-3 break advantage and Han Nalai won 4 of the last 5 games.
In the final women’s doubles competition, Yang Zhaoxuan/Xu Yifan cooperated tacitly and defeated Han Nalai/Jin Nali 6-3, 6-2, helping the Chinese team to win 2-1 in total.
Japan in the same group defeated New Zealand 3-0 and temporarily ranked first with 3 rounds and 9 games.
Original title: Billy Jane Gold Cup Wang Qiang lost, China narrowly beat South Korea and temporarily ranked second in the group
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