Zhang Shuai regretted to stop in the top 8 in the WTA Nottingham match
Guangzhou Daily News (all media reporter Sun Jiahui) Last night, Beijing time, the WTA Nottingham Open started the competition for the quarter-finals. The No. 4 seed and Chinese first sister Zhang Shuai faced the Czech player Martinkova, who was ranked 60th in the world. Losing 0-2, the two-game winning streak was interrupted.
Coming to the grass field, Zhang Shuai regained his touch and made it to the top 8 in both singles and doubles in the WTA Nottingham tournament.
She and Martinkova met once in the Australian Open qualifying match in 2016, when Zhang Shuai won.
It was also in that year that Zhang Shuai ended his embarrassing record of 14 Grand Slams without a win, and broke into the top 8 of the Australian Open women's singles in one fell swoop.
In the women's doubles 1/8 final, Zhang Shuai teamed up with Brazil's Haddad Maya to knock out the multinational team of Grubic/Osorio 6-2, 6-3 in just 57 minutes, and successfully entered the WTA250 event Nottingham Standing women's doubles top 8.
The French Open women's singles and mixed doubles stopped in the first round, and the women's doubles did not have a dazzling record in the end. Zhang Shuai's trip to Roland Garros was not satisfactory.
However, she quickly forgot her displeasure, let go of her exhaustion, and got back in shape during the grass season.
Last year, Zhang Shuai won the women's singles runner-up at the Nottingham Open. She is familiar with this grass field.
In the first two rounds, as the No. 4 seed, she defeated the Spanish player Buka, who is ranked 128th in the world, and Poracci, who is ranked 235th.
There are many Chinese players participating in this competition, but Wang Qiang, Zhu Lin, and Wang Xinyu are all out in the first round of the women's singles.
"My good form last year started from Nottingham. When I came back here this year, my seeding in singles and doubles also showed me the hard work I have put in over the past year." Zhang Shuai said.
As a warm-up match before the Wimbledon Championship, the third Grand Slam tournament this season, the Nottingham tournament attracted a number of Chinese players. The Wimbledon Championship will be held from June 27 to July 10.