The first Grand Slam Australian Open of the year began shooting at Melbourne Park on Monday. On the first day of competition, a number of Chinese players took to the singles court. Among them, 2024 Australian Open runner-up and fifth seed Zheng Qinwen defeated Romanian qualifying player Todoni 2-0. While winning the first match of the new season, zheng Qinwen has made it through the first round of the Australian Open on four occasions.
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Cheng gave himself a 70
After the game, Zheng gave himself 70 points for his performance in the first match. She said that if the first set can win at 5:3, may play 90 points, “When I meet the top players, this error is very fatal.”. Although Todoni, a 20-year-old ranked 110th in the world, pulled the match into a tiebreaker in the first set, the WTA said on its website that he created considerable problems for Jung, but that didn’t stop last year’s runner-up, Zheng Qinwen, from taking a place in the second round of this year’s Australian Open. Zheng is now waiting for a winner between German Sigmund and American Baptiste.
According to the draw table, Zheng Qinwen is expected to match top seed Sabalenka in the quarterfinals, and a women’s singles final last year will be staged ahead of schedule. To this, Zheng Qinwen expresses, want to win a championship to have to beat all rivals. According to British media“Tennis savvy”, Zheng started the Australian Open without any warm-up and knows her physical condition better than anyone else. Cheng finished the 2024 season with impressive results and is expected to achieve even more in 2025, with Grand Slam and WTA 1000 titles as her next big goal.
A total of 11 Chinese players have qualified for the Australian Open, namely Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xinyu, Yuan Yue, Wang Yafan, Zheng Saisai, Wang Xiyu, Zhang Shuai and Wei Sijia, and men’s singles Zhang Zhizhen, Shang Juncheng, buyunchaokete, this is the first time 3 Chinese men’s players by virtue of ranking directly through the men’s singles tournament. Zhang’s first-round opponent was Rune, the 13th seed from Denmark, which was no small challenge for the Chinese No. 1. Bouyen chaokte, who reached the quarterfinals of the men’s singles at the Hangzhou ATP World Tour last year, lost in the first round to Habib, a Lebanese player who made it through the qualifying round.
Sinner is under extra pressure to defend his title
This year’s Australian Open men’s and women’s singles title is still the biggest focus. In the men’s singles, Sinner, Antolín Alcaraz and Djokovic will make their debuts on the 13th. The oldest of the three is the 37-year-old Serbian king Djokovic, his first-round opponent is 19-year-old U. S. Teenager Bassa Varedi.
Before this year’s Australian Open, Djokovic hired retired British star player Andy Murray as coach. From the draw point of view, Djokovic must prepare for a tough game from the quarterfinals onwards, because the imaginary opponent in this round is the Spanish third seed Antolín Alcaraz, in the final, it is possible to meet the Italian world number one, Sinner.
Djokovic is the“King of Melbourne,” with 10 of his 24 Grand Slam titles at the Australian Open and his last Grand Slam title at the 2023 Open. The 2024 Grand Slam season ended without Djokovic, and the Paris Olympic gold medal was his only major 2024 win, bringing his career total to 99. If Djokovic can reach the top of the Australian Open in 2025, he will set a series of records, including surpassing Australian star Margaret Court as the player with the most Grand Slam titles, and 11 Australian Open titles and 100 career titles.
Djokovic, who has won all of the major tournaments in men’s singles, is looking for more and trying to maintain his peak form in 2025, the Olympic website said Wednesday. Djokovic began the 2025 season in Brisbane but was defeated by American Opaka in the quarterfinals. ESPN said Djokovic’s prospects of winning the 2025 Australian Open remain strong despite a poor start to the season and a lackluster 2024.
Sinner and Antolín Alcaraz are Djokovic’s two main rivals for the title. The men’s draw at the Australian Open Antolín Alcaraz Antolín Alcaraz against Shevchenko of Kazakhstan, the only one of the four grand slams not to have won the event, with the best result coming in last year’s quarterfinals. If he wins, the Spanish Starlet, born in May 2003, would become the youngest player to play a career Grand Slam since professional tennis was allowed in 1968.
Sinner, who beat Djokovic to win the Australian Open semi-final last year, faced Chilean Giari in the first round. Sinner’s trial will take place behind closed doors from April 16, meaning the Italian star will be under extra pressure to take the first step towards defending his Australian Open title. Tennis Pro said it was the first time Sinner had played a Grand Slam as a defending champion, but it was not the toughest challenge he faced, sinner could also face a World Anti-Doping Agency suspension from the World Cup’s governing body, which is appealing the case.
Sabalenka looks forward to three consecutive Australian Open titles
On the women’s side, Belarussian Zabalenka has won both the 2023 and 2024 Australian Open. Zabalenka beat former US Open champion Stephens in straight sets Tuesday. After winning three Australian Open titles in a row — Court from 1969 to 1971, Graf from 1988 to 1990 and Martina Hingis from 1997 to 1999 — Sabalenka had the chance to join the legends.
But Zabalenka’s quest for a third consecutive title will not be easy. In addition to Zheng, former World Cup back svatek and U. S. Starlet Gove could also be opponents for Zabalenka. Swartek has won five grand slams so far, but only one on a hard court (U. S. Open 2022) . In addition, svatek was banned for a month last year for his involvement in a doping scandal.
Although she currently holds only one Grand Slam title (2023 US Open) , Gove has excelled in the past two world championships-winning the WTA Women’s singles final, she led the United States to the 2025 Confederations Cup mixed team title and was named the tournament’s most valuable player. The 20-year-old is the No. 3 seed at the Australian Open and aims to win her second Grand Slam singles title, ESPN said.