Aryna Sabalenka vs. Zheng Qinwen | 2024 Wuhan Final | WTA Match Highlights 

Well women's tennis is more boring than men's but this one was entertaining for sure. Most other matches are usually a lot more boring though.

First the player must be quite so people could enjoy watching

Habido buenos torneos en el circuito femenino que el masculino

Now all you need is for Quinoa to give some respect to the line judge. Watch the game and be quiet, if only some players could playe the game and be quiet ??

Congratulations Sabalenka! 🎉🎈🎊🎈🌹🎉🎈 Keep up good job 👏 👍 ❤

Don't mind them. There's nothing boring about women's tennis. Some people are just hung up on nostalgia. There's incredible depth in women's tennis.

@@kofipokuantwi-boateng5446agreed

The crowd was absolutely disrespectful!!!

Lol the crowd was dumb as fxxk🐵

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Yea she improved a lot. Before this match Qinwen won only 13 games against Sabalenka in 3 matches. Today she doubled that to 26 games. Props to Qinwen for making it competitve this time around and grats to Sabalenka who won despite not playing her best today.

about time

where is puffs?

​@@terry.lkm5992 Sabalenka was just a mess today, she should have finished it in 2... Played terrible after she broke Zheng in second set

@@djordjenikolic9059 ... it happens when u cheat. it's ok.

For me that Muchova's points vs. Volynets is still the point of the year

No argument

Hands down. Male or female.

Absolutely

@@Maliilse75 Best Women's point yes, but not Male. not even close

Why do you say Zheng needs more mental preparation? Also, she's on home turf, so I don't think it's much surprise she played better against Sabalenka this time.

​@@nortexoidAs for the mental part. I don't understand why a lot of comments these days people are talking about mental toughness. It is just that SABALENKA is at a higher level.

Don't think that's the case here. At this point, Saba is a better player, as Pegula said, Saba is the best player on hardcourt at this moment. Zheng needs to continue to improve her game, that's all.

I think Zheng's mental game is actually part of strength, she's very good at problem solving and fighting from behind. Her issue came mostly from a game perspective. The deadly first serve fell apart in the third set, otherwise she could have maybe gotten it to 4-4 and used the momentum to cross the finish line. Her return game this year in general is not good, in fact, her return games won stat is less than 40% and lower than her 2023 stat. You just can't beat Sabalenka, who is probably the most aggressive player in the WTA right now, without a strong defensive game (like Coco in her first set in the semi finals or Muchova at the China Open, where they were able to handle her power and get the ball back while keeping her from getting into a dominant rhythm). If she can work with a serve specialist to make the 1st serve more consistent, develop a stronger 2nd serve (Sabalenka herself worked with a specialist for just a few months to fix her serve) and improve her return game, she should be able to hang with anyone in the WTA.

​@@notapplicable4283 Zheng's first serve win rate is the best in WTA, two years in a row. Her first serve fell apart in the 3rd set today mostly because Saba's return was too good, giving pressure to the server. Zheng didn't have a problem with her 1st serve when playing, say Paolini. In my view, She can't serve the same to Saba vs playing with Paolini. Zheng needs to develop more variety when her first serve is less better and finds a way around when her opponent's returns are good.

They're so frustrating. American media never seem to have an intuitive sense of occasion.

@@saffanna725 American media?

@@potzysk2 Yes, that covers the WTA, no? And all other US media that broadcast tennis matches.

Thats absolutely true, the handshake at the net is one of the most important highlight in a match and they are just ruining it....

@@TIGER-xl7xg They cut away from important "face time" and emotional cues all the time - and don't get me started on the race to the ads.

Sur dur elle est difficilement prenable 😅

Why's this written like it was made with ChatGPT... and what's your problem with umpires?

@@88kakashi88 I was thinking exactly the same, reads like CGPT lol

You need to tick the box "i am not a ROBOT" !!

@@88kakashi88 nah sounds more like broken English.

banshee queen

Screamalenka

It's premature for congrats. She isn't No. 1 yet, and she won't be until she or someone else takes out Iga at the WTA Finals.

@@alpinescope4441 That's correct. I thought she has overtaken Iga after her win in Wuhan but Iga is still in the lead.

@@alpinescope4441 I think she will be 28.10.2024 number 1. The points will be deducted before finals will start. maybe for one week maybe longer😅

@@kasiaxxx8141 Good thinking but that's not quite true. Officially the 52 week window cuts off on 11/4/2024, when Iga's WTA Finals points from last year would supposedly be taken off. But the WTA will not publish a new ranking while the WTA Finals is taking place, so the official ranking won't change until the WTA Finals ends on 11/09/24. (You can check this out on last year. There was not a new ranking published on 10/30/23 while the WTA Finals started on 10/29/23.)

@@alpinescope4441 I dont know, I heard in few places that ranking will change 28.10 and Sabalenka will be nr 1

Yeah, she quitre incorrectly fought with the line judge !!

@@robertmartin7594 Zheng is a brat pretending that the line judge got in the way, which the replay showed he was not even close to her. NAVARRO WAS RIGHT.

yup and Iga should be well rested so it be interesting

iga has chance as well as saba.. the rest 6 girls are too weak ...

Agreed

Now if only the WTA doesn’t F-UP the event for these women. They deserve the promotion, crowds, and attention.

If Sabalenka wants to be a year-end no. 1, then she has to win all 3 rounds in WTA Finals so she will get 750-625 = 125 points while Swiatek has to defend 1,500 points

Lucky against gauff though

Muchova can play Sabalenka very well. Their H2H is 3-1 for Muchova. But other than her, it is always extremely hard for other players to beat Sabalenka. She's a beast💪🏻🐯

...and I can't forget Anisimova, also tough one for Sabalenka (5:2 for Anisimova)

​@@marek0226 Even for Muchova it's hard to beat Aryna, that is why all those wins are in straight sets. Yet Aryna has beaten her in straight sets. 😂😂😂

"exceptionally talented humans"?? These are two people that had an enormous amount of help to get to where they are. They could never have done it alone and there are hundreds of thousands in the world that have never had the chance like these two have, who are also "exceptionally talented humans". Jeez, calm down!

@@57too Their talent is exactly why they are both in the final of a WTA 1000 event. I find that hard to argue with. Of course they have a team behind them, and perhaps I should have also mentioned them in my comment. I was posting a positive comment after watching the highlights of a sport I really enjoy watching, that's all. And of course, it goes without saying that any human on this planet, with the correct level of mentoring and support can be exceptionally talented at whatever it is they choose to focus on - that's stating the obvious! But for the here and now we are watching two elite level athletes hitting a ball back and forth to one another. I guess I should firstly apologise for taking pleasure and enjoyment from something, and secondly urge you to take a more measured response when replying to comments.

There is two more tournaments. Who knows, maybe Emma will win 🏆 😅

@@kasiaxxx8141 Emma Navarro won't win anything, that ship has sailed. She couldn't even make the WTA 125 Hiong Kong Final !!

WTA should hold a playoff tournament instead of 500-level for those contenders near the qualification line.

She ain't officially in yet. Where you got your information from?

​@@robertmartin7594Navarro is washed.

NOPE

@@57too ... yeap saba dude boi.

Zheng will get knocked out in the 1st round of the WTA Finals. I can't wait to see her poor-sport-handshake after losing!!! 8^)

Nope, Zheng's mentality is great. She needs to sharpen her games, especially on hardcourts. Her game style works better on clay, but playing arguably the best player on hardcourt Saba, Zheng has to play faster and cut short some of her shots.

@@user-hm8nb5jr3w She's between a rock and a hard place with Iga and Aryna. Her game performs best on Hard and Clay Courts yet the two best WTA players of this era are Clay and Hard Court Queens and its clear right now she can't beat them on their best days. There is still room for big improvements and time is on her side, after all Li Na didn't win a slam until her late 20s.

宁波站钦文要么会选择退出，要么也不会在乎是否胜利了，只要休息够了把东京站打好就肯定可以进年终总决赛

This has been asked a thousand times, but ‘tennis’ refuses to do anything about it. There are others doing it too. It ruins the match for me.

she is a CHEATER!!!

@@squidjames7735 like serena sharapova and nadal right ?

@@ismoo78 They were all loud but their grunts were short and did not continue as the other player was about to return the ball.

It's absolutely terrible.

... we can complain all we want, but the spineless wta do nothing about it. for years! it is nothing short of cheating when the screaming is prolonged until opponent hits the ball. how is that fair?

​@@squidjames7735they do nothing because players have already stated that it doesn't hinder them at all. The crowd loves it, its only couch viewer who complain, even then it's some of them. 😂

@@nhlanhlamakhanya2285 The crowd loves it, what?? Are you out of your mind? Every tennis fan I know hates that. It's even more horrible in the stadium.

15.000 capacity ginormous ?? WIMBY has 22.000, Ashe has 25.000 !!

Oh, is that right, couch-coach?

@@57too That was a good comment. Yours is not.

Which she has none and doesn’t care about. Shame on her being so disgusting at her home country and hometown. Now I believe Emma Navarro. Zheng doesn’t deserve respect as a competitor.

"Did show"? What's the timestamp?

For the whole game what i watched there's only one player screaming on the court and who is definitely not Zheng ! It's disgusting to make such rumor!

@@potzysk2 It’s only a non sense accusation!

@@clairey4358You clearly didn’t watch the match. Check the 7th game of the 3rd set (score was 30-15). Zheng did yell and get in the line judge’s face and even tried to blame him for her inability to save the point.

Yes, she is. 28.10 officialy

cheating up ... sure!

it is cheating

The players say it doesn't hinder them, so I believe them. They have no reason to lie.

I don't mind a quick grunt, but she's still finishing the tale end of her yell as the other player is playing their shot. Of course, no hindrance. 🤔

She lost.

@@57too You'll know that feeling well...

Sí, hay que salir a jugar con tapones en los oídos 😁😅. 💚🇪🇸

cheating throughout match

they need to scream long too

the live even didnt show the handshake, the camera cut away

It was the 'live' that cut away because the 'live' was a feed from China and they didn't want the world to see what a poor sport that Zheng is. NAVARRO WAS RIGHT.

Qinwen feels the pressure of an entire people, Asians have a different sense of defeat

I just want to see her continue losing.

@@57too Then you'll both have something in common, won't you...

@@57too Saw many of your comments against Zheng, must really hate her huh?

​@@ck1416 I think that's actually emma!!😀😃

@@tootspogsforever5590 EMMA Navarro ?? It was she who called out Zheng for being disrespectful (she was right) !!

cheater she is

Iga is #1.