Chapter 329: Enter the top 8
In the evening, Zhang Huasong, Leng Guanglin, Bi Menghui, Zheng Jie, Peng Shuai, and their coaching team, who are still participating in the Australian Open women's competition, had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at a restaurant with Chinese food service in Melbourne Park.
Li Na did not come to participate in this year's Australian Open because of other delays, while Yan Zi failed to make it past the first round and has returned to China ahead of schedule.
Zheng Jie, like Zhang Huasong today, has already won the third round and advanced to the fourth round, while Peng Shuai's game will not be played until tomorrow.
In the evening, everyone got together again to watch the CCTV Spring Festival Gala on the computer.
This year's Spring Festival Gala originally invited Zhang Huasong, but Zhang Huasong had to refuse because he wanted to participate in the Australian Open.
However, he authorized the song "Happy New Year" to the Spring Festival Gala program team, and the program team selected some stars to sing together.
In the early hours of the morning, I also called my parents, girlfriend, and several relatives and elders to pay New Year's greetings.
Chinese New Year's Eve was spent in Melbourne, and the next day, on the first day of the first lunar month, Zhang Huasong and Zheng Jie went to the scene to cheer Peng Shuai together.
However, Peng Shuai met the top 10 seeded players and failed to make it past the third round.
After a day off on the first day of the first lunar month, on the second day of the first month, on January 27, the fourth round of singles began.
There are only 16 players left in the fourth round, 14 of whom are seeded in the top 20 of the ATP rankings.
There are two other players, not only are they not in the top 20, but they are not even seeded players.
One is Zhang Huasong, a three-no-one without ATP points.
The other is Baghdatis from Cyprus, who is ranked 97th in the world, although he entered the main draw directly by virtue of his world ranking.
As a result, he not only made it past the first round, but also defeated two seeded players ranked No. 16 and No. 22 in the world in the second and third rounds in a row to reach the round of 16.
After all, Zhang Huasong is famous, and he has shown a demonic side in track and field, and everyone is not very surprised.
But Baghdatis, ranked 97th in the world, was able to reach the round of 16 of the Australian Open, and this dark horse is even more colorful, and many people are expecting him to be darker than Zhang Huasong.
However, in the fourth round, Baghdatis met the No. 3 seed Novak Djokovic, and his dark horse path may be a bit dangerous, and it will not be as desirable as some neutral viewers wish.
And Zhang Huasong happens to be in one of the four districts with Baghdatis and Djokovic.
If Zhang Huasong makes it past the fourth round, he will face the winner of Baghdatis and Djokovic.
Zhang Huasong's opponent in the fourth round is not simple, it is Roddick from the Stars and Stripes country, with 3,940 points, ATP world No. 7, and is the No. 7 seed in the main draw of this Australian Open.
This time, Zhang Huasong got the chance to play Roddick at the Hisense Arena, the second largest in Melbourne Park.
Originally, there were not many tickets sold for this fourth-round match, but when the third-round results came out, it was Zhang Huasong who played Roddick here, and the second-largest tennis court in Melbourne Park, which can accommodate 10,000 spectators, suddenly ushered in a ticket buying boom.
Although he is not a local Australian player, Zhang Huasong's appeal is too great, and there are many local Australian fans in Melbourne.
By the beginning of the game, the audience attendance rate of the game reached more than 90%, and there were many Australians and overseas Chinese who came to cheer for Zhang Huasong.
Of course, Australia itself has a closer relationship with the Stars and Stripes than China and the Stars and Stripes, and there are many viewers who cheer for Roddick.
Basically, Australian fans plus overseas Chinese audiences, Zhang Huasong's cheering group can account for about 30%, and Roddick has about 20%.
The remaining 50% are neutral melon-eating masses who don't chase specific stars, but only want to see exciting, ups and downs of the game and dark horse performances.
To the extent that Roddick is ranked seventh in the world, Zhang Huasong's strength in the world's top three can no longer be said to be a steady win, but can only be said to be superior.
Sure enough, after the start of the game, in the first game of the first set, Roddick's serve, Zhang Huasong was served by Roddick with two ace balls, and one ball was not picked up, and finally Roddick took the lead to get the AD winning point and won Zhang Huasong two balls and won the first game.
Seeing Roddick win the serve, the crowd cheering for Roddick in the stands immediately applauded happily.
However, Zhang Huasong is not in bad shape. In the second game, when it was Zhang Huasong's turn to serve, Zhang Huasong gave Roddick two aces to serve directly to score, and finally won the second game.
After the difference in strength between the two sides is not far behind, the game will be more exciting.
In the first set, the two played a total of 10 games back and forth, and Zhang Huasong won the first set with a score of 6-4.
In general, Zhang Huasong's strength and state are still slightly better than Roddick.
In the next two sets, the performance of the first set was almost repeated. Roddick was able to cause some problems for Zhang, but he was never able to win on aggregate in every set.
In the second set, Zhang Huasong won the match 6-3, and in the third set, Zhang Huasong won the match 7-5.
In the end, Zhang Huasong defeated the No. 7 seed Roddick to advance to the quarterfinals with an overall score of 3-0 and without dropping a set.
Playing the No. 7 seed without losing a set, Zhang Huasong's championship is getting better and better!
After the game, the media in both China and other countries around the world focused on Zhang Huasong's game, and Zhang Huasong has become one of the favorites to win the championship.
In the fourth round of the men's singles on the same day, Nadal also won 3-0 without losing a set to advance to the quarterfinals, while fourth seed Murray was beaten by 14th seed Verdasco to reach the round of 16.
World No. 97 dark horse Baghdatis was unsurprisingly defeated by No. 3 seed and last Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic to reach the round of 16, ending his dark horse journey.
However, Baghdatis was still a dark horse and was not shaved by defending champion Djokovic, but won a set and lost the fourth round 1-3.
And there are two sets of Baghdatis that have been fighting until the tie-break, which shows that the strength is extraordinary.
In addition to Zhang Huasong, who was already a world superstar, Baghdatis can be regarded as famous in the tennis world.
Federer won the hardest game, facing Berdych, who is ranked 20th in the world by ATP, Federer played all five sets before defeating his opponent 3-2 to advance to the quarterfinals.
Moreover, the scores of each set were very close, 4-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. Federer fought hard to win after losing two sets in the first two sets.
This game is very much in line with the expectations of a neutral audience: there are stars, there are kings, there are leads, there are reversals, and the process is very ups and downs and thrilling.
But for Federer, that's not a good thing.
It was so difficult to win this game, and the physical exertion was very high, which was not good for Federer's next games.
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