Chinese women’s tennis team advances to Billie Jean Gold Cup World Group 1 play-off
2022-04-17 16:53:00Source: Xi’an News Network
Xi’an News Network News On April 17, the 2022 Billie Jean Gold Cup (formerly the Confederations Cup) Asia-Pacific region group match ended in Turkey. In the final round of competition, the Chinese women’s tennis team was reversed 1:2 by the Japanese team and advanced to the Billie Jean Gold Cup World Group 1 play-off together with the Japanese team as the second place in the group.
The Billie Jean Gold Cup was formerly known as the Confederations Cup Women’s Tennis Team Tournament. The 2020 International Tennis Federation announced that the Confederations Cup will be officially renamed the Billie Jean Gold Cup in honor of the pioneer in advancing women’s tennis. The best result of the Chinese team before the event was renamed was the top 4 in the world group, which was in 2008, when the players included Li Na and Zheng Jie.
In this year’s Asia-Pacific group competition, the Chinese team won all the first 4 games and qualified ahead of schedule with the Japanese team, which also won all 4 games. The direct dialogue between the two teams in the final round will determine who can become the champion. In this campaign, Chinese team star Wang Qiang left early before the game to rush to the professional arena. In the first women’s singles match, Yuan Yueshuang won the “tiebreaker” and defeated Japanese player Naito Yuki. However, in the following two duels, Zhu Lin and Xu Yifan/Yang Zhaoxuan lost respectively, and finally the Chinese team advanced as the second place. The World Group 1 play-off will be held in November this year. In addition to China and Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, France, Germany, England and Hungary have been confirmed to participate in the play-off. , Netherlands, Romania and Slovenia.
Yan Bin, an all-media reporter from Xi’an Press
