Xu Yifan/Yang Zhaoxuan win first tour championship
News from this newspaper (Reporter Li Yuanfei) On March 20, Beijing time, Chinese duo Xu Yifan/Yang Zhaoxuan won the women's doubles final at the Indian Wells station of the WTA1000 event in straight sets, defeating the multinational duo Mohammed/Chai Yuanyingcai to win the championship.
This is the first women's doubles title on the WTA Tour since the pairing, and the level of the event is second only to the majors.
In the first set of the women's doubles final, Xu Yifan/Yang Zhaoxuan were broken in the second game, and Mohammad/Chai Yuanyingcai took a 3-0 lead after securing serve in the third game.
However, the Chinese combination did not give up. In the 9th and 11th innings, they broke Mohammad/Eina Shibahara's serve in a row, and finally won the first set with a 7-5 reversal.
In the second set, neither side was able to break the opponent's serve, and the game entered the tie-break.
The Chinese girl scored 5 points in a row after falling behind 1-3, won 3 match points with 6-3, and finally cashed in the second match point, winning the first championship since the pairing of the two.
After the game, both Chinese girls were very happy.
Yang Zhaoxuan said that we were lucky to enter the game because someone quit in the last half hour.
Xu Yifan/Yang Zhaoxuan were the women's doubles champions at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, and they were also the women's doubles champions at the Shaanxi National Games last year.
In the WTA Tour, the cooperation between the two only started at the WTA500 Abu Dhabi station in January last year.
However, in only the fifth leg, they reached the women's doubles final of the WTA500 Dubai Championship.
Later, the two broke up for a time, and they cooperated again at the Tokyo Olympics in July last year.