WTA Dubai, Chinese Jinhua Zheng Qinwen suffered a hard battle in his debut, reversing 2-1 against Nai Ye, and Zhu Lin, Wang Xiyu, Wang Xinyu and Zhang Shuai were all out of the first round, leaving only Xiao Zheng to fight, this round Zheng Qinwen ushered in the rival Potapova, the two are not only of the same age, almost at the same time famous, the level is also indistinguishable, the past two have played a total of three times, Zheng Qinwen two wins and one loss, three meetings played a total of seven games, of which 7 to 6 have five games, and one game 7 to 5, it can be seen how stalemate, Although her recent performance has not been as good as Zheng's, Potapova is destined to be a difficult opponent.
In the first set, Potapova was obviously slow and not in the state, Xiao Zheng's first serve success rate was not high, but Potapova was as low as 44%, and Potapova was also complaining, because she reached the second serve, the scoring rate was only 32%, and the eight break points sent were converted by Zheng Qinwen into three, Potapova herself also had a successful break, but there was a gap with Xiao Zheng, Zheng Qinwen took the lead 6-3.
In the second set, Potapova is still competing with herself, after Zheng Qinwen took the lead in holding serve, Potapova's mistake in the second game came, and the score was forced to be very tight, fortunately, Potapova herself had a serve, the key points withstood it, and it was quite difficult to win, in the third game, Zheng Qinwen's serve fluctuated, and the short board in front of the net came again, the high-pressure ball hit the net, volleyed and went to the net again, and directly sent the break point, this game Potapova sent several high balls at the net port, and as long as she ran to play, Potapova seemed very passive, Zheng Qinwen went through a hard battle, Difficult to hold.
In the fourth game, Potapova started with a double fault, and it was not possible to take the initiative to change the line, the impatience visible to the naked eye, he roared and complained when he lost a point, and sent two break points, Zheng Qinwen dialed a thousand pounds in four or two, and a dashing ball completed the break, in the fifth game, Zheng Qin's fierce serve came back, Potapova was either embarrassed to send a high ball, or threw away the racket, and lost without any temper, in the sixth game, Potapova was not ready to serve, but two straight serves, played fast but did not hesitate, won faster, and the total score came to 4 to 2.
In the seventh game, Potapova continued to help Zheng Qinwen practice before the net, the bottom line confrontation had no advantage, and the initiative was always on Zheng Qinwen's side, but Xiao Zheng's self-loss came to make a mistake again, and sent Potapova to equalize, and Potapova may have realized that she couldn't beat it, and directly pulled up the moon ball, it is true that Xiao Zheng doesn't like this kind of ball, but at the end of the second set, he remembered to play like this, a little late, and sure enough, Zheng Qinwen won two serves.
In the eighth game, Zheng Qinwen put pressure on the whole game, Potapova's moon ball was executed in one game, and it was her characteristic to hit hard and hard, Zheng Qinwen has been mobilizing Potapova this time, and the latter has never been able to get rid of, in the end, Zheng Qinwen won 6-2, defeated Potapova with a total score of 2-0, and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals of the Dubai Championship, and will compete with the No. 1 seed Swiatek for the semifinals.