China Overseas Chinese Network, May 16. According to the "European Times" WeChat public account "European Shidashen", in the WTA 125 Paris "Lagardère Championship" that ended on May 15, local time, the women's singles No. 7 seed United States Claire Liu, a 21-year-old Chinese player, took 1 hour and 37 minutes to beat No. 3 seed Brazilian Haddad Maya 2:0 (6:3, 6:4) to win the women's singles championship. It is also the first time that Liu Jingwen has won the WTA championship in his career.
Before this match, Liu Jingwen and Maya had played against each other twice. Lost to Maya 1:2 and stopped in the quarter-finals, and Maya finally won the St Malo Championship.
In this "Lagardère Championship", Liu Jingwen and Maya were both in excellent form. The former eliminated No. 4 seed Graciova and No. 1 seed Kanepi in a row, while the latter defeated the outstanding Australian player Savile all the way. , France's Jacques Motte and Romania's Bogdan.
In addition, in the women's doubles final held on May 14, Maya partnered with French player Mladenovic to win the women's doubles championship.
In this game, Liu Jingwen took advantage of Maya's mistakes after the start of the first set, and started with a 3:0 advantage in the next three games. After that, Maya's state recovered, but Liu Jingwen won the game 6:3; In the set, Maya obviously stepped up her offense, and she won many chances to break serve in the second, eighth and tenth innings, but Liu Jingwen relied on excellent serve many times to recover the disadvantage. Wen won the second set 6:4 and won the game with a total score of 2:0.
In an interview after the game, Liu Jingwen said that the event was a very good experience. She was very happy and fortunate to win the first WTA championship of her career in Paris. Thank you very much to the fans who came to watch her game this weekend. .
"I hope to come here in the future, I am very happy here," Liu Jingwen said.
After the "Lagardère Championship", Liu Jingwen and Maya will travel to Morocco to compete in the WTA 250 Rabat station, and will participate in the 2022 French Open after the Lagart station.