2023-08-31 20:32:19
Taiwanese tennis star Xie Shuwei strives for the Grand Slam women’s doubles championship for 3 consecutive times,US OpenPartnering with Chinese player Wang Xinyu, who won the French Open together in June, they fought fiercely for more than 2 hours in the first round today, defeating their opponents 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 and advancing to the second round.
Xie Shuwei ranks 9th in the world women’s doubles, and won the French Open and Wimbledon women’s doubles this year. The women’s doubles team of the U.S. Open, together with Wang Xinyu, ranked the 8th seed and faced Czech rising star Linda Fruhvirtova and Colombian Camila Osorio in the first round.
The 37-year-old Hsieh Su-wei plays in a variety of ways and does not rely on strength to win. She mainly waits for opportunities in front of the net. The 21-year-old Wang Xinyu deals with young and energetic opponents who play powerfully on the bottom line.
This pair of “Strait Combination” broke serve at the beginning of the game, but they made too many mistakes in the first set. They failed to keep serve 3 times and lost a set 4-6.
In the second set, both sides were evenly matched. After 5 rounds each, Xie Shuwei and Wang Xinyu seized each other’s mistakes and successfully broke serve at the critical moment. Then Xie Shuwei successfully secured serve with a straight-line crossing winning ball and won the set 7-5.
Xie Shuwei and Wang Xinyu came from behind and played aggressively. In the third set, they broke their opponents’ 3 serve games in a row, and they were sure to win. The two seized the second final point in the 8th inning. Xie Shuwei drove the ball back out of bounds with a large-angle dribble. The next set was 6-2, and they broke through.
The campaign lasted 2 hours and 5 minutes. The “Strait Team” broke serve 8 times, with a success rate of 62%. The first serve scoring rate and the number of winning goals were also slightly better.
Xie Shuwei returned in April following recuperating for 18 months due to injury, and won two Grand Slam women’s doubles titles for the first time in her career. She has won the Grand Slam women’s doubles championship six times, all at the French Open and Wimbledon.
Xie Shuwei strives for her first US Open women’s doubles title, and will face the combination of Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States and Anastasia Potapova of Russia in the next match. She also partnered with El Salvador’s Marcelo Arevalo in the mixed doubles, beating the US 6-2, 6-4 in the first round yesterday to advance to the round of 16.
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