Simona Halep is defeated by Qinwen Zheng (6-2, 2-6, 1-6) and the Chinese reaches the round of 32 of Roland Garros 2022. In a very unexpected defeat for the Romanian, Qinwen Zheng was superior to her and knew trace back a match he had in hand. She waits for Cornet or Ostapenko.
Simona Halep y Qinwen Zheng They were in the second round of Roland Garros 2022, which was the second official confrontation between Romania and China. In the only precedent, dating from the semifinal of the WTA 250 in Melbourne this year, Simona had won the Asian in two sets. On this occasion, the Romanian was again the clear favorite to take the cat to the water, this time in Paris.
Halep reached the second round after having beaten Nastasja Schunk in a comfortable debut at Roland Garros. Qinwen, for her part, was able to defeat the Belgian Maryna Zanevska to get into the top 64 at the French Open.
Zheng, superior
At the start of the match, events went according to plan. Simona Halep, with absolute ease, would break Zheng’s serve in the first game of the match, and would take her games forward in her service without any difficulty. At 4-2, the Romanian broke Zheng’s serve again. Simona would close the first set with her service for 6-2.
In the second set, the story was going to change when it least seemed like it. Halep began by breaking Zheng on serve to take her out at 2-1, but from there, everything would go wrong for her. Zheng would break for 2-2 in a game where Halep had the edge in her favor to close it out, and she would break again for 4-2 in a game where Simona was 0-40 on serve. Halep would not take a break chance at 4-2, and Zheng closed the second set in his favor to the rest 6-2.
In the third set, the emotional blow of losing the second would take its toll on Halep. Winning ten of the last eleven games of the match, Qinwen Zheng entered the round of 32 at Roland Garros with a final 6-1 in a third set with only one player on the court.