2023-08-06 03:58:41
2023-08-06 11:58 United Daily News reporter Zeng Siru / real-time report
The 19-year-old Yang Yayi of the China Tennis Team won the women’s singles gold medal match at the Chengdu World Universiade. Today, he faced the landlord Guo Hanyu in a three-set fierce battle. Yang Yayi won 6:2, 1:6, 1 : 6 was reversed, missed the chance to bring back the third gold medal of the Chinese Tennis Team, and Liang Enshuo’s “silver-clad copper”.
Yang Yayi, who is ranked 291 in the world, beat her French opponent in straight sets yesterday, bravely entered the gold medal match, and challenged to become the first women’s singles gold medal following Wang Siting in 1997 and Zhang Kaizhen in 2015. In today’s final match, Yang Yayi faced Guo Hanyu, who had captured Liang Enshuo in yesterday’s top 4 match, and broke serve first. He broke serve twice and won 6:2.
In the second set, the situation was reversed. Guo Hanyu took a 5-0 absolute lead with consecutive breaks. Although Yang Yayi was “broken” in the 6th game, he still conceded 1:6, and the game entered the third set.
Yang Yayi changed into a white jersey in the final set, and kept her serve in the first game. However, in the third game, Guo Hanyu, who was ranked 571 in the world, broke the game point and forced a “break point”. Instead, she took the lead following losing consecutive points. After a break of serve, Guo Hanyu fell behind 1:2 in the number of games; Guo Hanyu continued to hold serve first, and with the overwhelming support of the audience, he took a 40:15 lead in the fifth game, and returned to serve the winning point at the second break point, and broke serve once more Successfully extended the lead to 4:1.
Guo Hanyu continued to keep serve once more, and Yang Yayi scored 4 points in a row to break serve. After winning 6 consecutive rounds, he wrote a comeback victory and raised his hands to welcome the gold medal.
The Chinese team has had a bumper harvest in tennis this year. Yesterday, Wu Fangxian/Liang Enshuo in the women’s doubles and Xu Yuxiu/Huang Conghao in the men’s doubles all won gold medals. Today, Yang Yayi made her debut in the women’s singles gold medal match in the women’s singles. The winners, Xu Yuxiu/Ng Fangxian in mixed doubles in the followingnoon will still face the landlord Jin Yuquan/Tang Qianhui in the gold medal match.
Yang Yayi entered the women’s singles gold medal match. Photo/provided by the general manager of the junior college Yang Yayi scored the women’s singles gold medal match. Photo/provided by the general manager of the junior college Yang Yayi scored the women’s singles gold medal match.Picture/provided by the general college body
The best result of the Chinese Tennis Team in the World Universiade is 4 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes in the 2017 Taipei World Universiade. This year, only the men’s singles did not receive any medals. Originally, they had the opportunity to open the “5 Gold Tour”, but Yang Yayi challenged the women’s singles The loss of the gold medal means that the women’s team cannot reach the top of the points, and has not been able to challenge the record-breaking team history.
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