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The 2025 Australian Open qualifying rounds have entered the decisive stage of competition.
A key match took place between Chinese player Wei Sijia, ranked 119th in the world, and Serbian player Stojanovic, ranked 237th in the world.
The winner between the two will receive a ticket to the main draw of the Australian Open women's singles.
This match is also a crucial battle for Wei Sijia to make her first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam event.
Currently ranked 119th in the world, Wei Sijia has become the only surviving seed among the Australian Open qualifiers.
In the previous two rounds, Wei Sijia performed outstandingly, first defeating Belarusian star Sasnovich (NO.141) in the first round, and then eliminating German Kopac (NO.174) in the second round, thus advancing to the decisive round for the second consecutive year.
Facing Wei Sijia across the net is Stojanovic, ranked 237th in the world.
Judging from the rankings, Wei Sijia is much higher than the opponent, but it is difficult to determine the gap between ranking and true strength among players outside the top 100.
Judging from the process of this game, Wei Sijia played extremely hard.
This was their first encounter.
Wei Sijia served first in the first set.
As soon as the game started, Wei Sijia gave up the opportunity in the serve, although she resolved the first crisis, she was still broken by the opponent using the second break point, Stojanovic easily held his first serve, and won the first two games with a break and a hold to take a 2-0 lead;
In the fourth game, the opponent made consecutive mistakes, and Wei Sijia broke serve strongly in a love game manner to level the score;
In the middle stage of the set, both sides fought hard to keep their serve intact, and the score alternated upwards.
In the ninth game of the final stage of the set, Wei Sijia gave away two consecutive break points, and the opponent seized the opportunity to achieve a key break, entering the serve-to-win set at 5-4;
In the tenth game, Wei Sijia once had a 40-15 lead and two consecutive break points, but they were all saved by the opponent, and Wei Sijia lost the first set 4-6;
The second set was still served by Wei Sijia first.
In the first seven games, both sides fought hard to keep their serve intact.
In the last three games, there was a serve-breaking battle. First, Wei Sijia broke serve in the eighth game to rewrite the score to 5-3;
Then the opponent fought back to break Wei Sijia's serve-to-win set, but in the must-protect tenth game, Wei Sijia broke the opponent's serve again, setting the second-set score at 6-4;
In the decisive set, Wei Sijia fell behind on the court, and her serve was repeatedly targeted by the opponent.
The two sides engaged in a mutual break battle in the middle of the set, and Wei Sijia bravely leveled the score under the unfavorable situation of trailing 2-4.
After 12 games, the two sides drew 6-6 and had to enter the brutal tie-breaker.
The tie-breaker was full of twists and turns. First, Wei Sijia mini-broke to establish a small score advantage of 3-1, and then lost four points in a row to be overtaken by the opponent;
After the small score was tied at 8-8, Wei Sijia got the first match point, but the opponent stubbornly saved it;
At the second match point, Wei Sijia did not continue to waste opportunities. She used a good serve to come to the net easily and scored, ending the game with an 11-9 victory.
After a grueling battle of 2 hours and 52 minutes, Chinese player Wei Sijia completed an incredible comeback, eliminating her opponent 2-1 to win the decisive round and advance to the main draw of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career, achieving her best result in a Grand Slam event.
The victorious Wei Sijia also became the eighth Chinese women's tennis player to advance to the main draw of the Australian Open this year.
In addition, the victorious Wei Sijia will also receive at least a first-round check worth 132,000 Australian dollars, or about 600,000 yuan, congratulations.
Congratulations to Wei Sijia again for her victory!