Sinner or Hand in Hand Moya, Xiaobu Wang lost on the right, Zhang Shuai Wang advanced on the left, and Ah Yu was defeated

Three minutes a day, knowing about tennis in the world. Hello fans and friends, today is Wednesday, May 21, 2025, and welcome to the afternoon newsletter brought to you by "Home of Tennis".

Last night, Beijing time, some foreign media broke the news that the world's No. 1 and Italian star Sinner will start the 2026 season and cooperate with the Spanish celebrity Carlos Moya, who is currently at home. Sinner's current coach, Cahill, is retiring at the end of the season, so when it came to finding a replacement, Moya came into the Sinner team's field of vision and emerged as the first choice. After the retirement of the king of clay, Nadal, Moya has not been in charge again. Now, Sinner has thrown an olive branch to him, and the two are likely to hit it off. At present, neither side has confirmed whether this news is true, and it is expected that further confirmation will be made during the French Open.

Let's get back to the field. Last night, Beijing time, the ATP 500 Hamburg Open continued. In a highlight-reel match in the first round of singles, China's new gobin Yun Chaoket lost 5-7 2-6 to second seed and American Tiafoe. French veteran Monfils also suffered a first-round defeat to Spain's Fokina 3-6 3-6. Argentinians Carabili and Echeverri, Italian Corboli, French star Perikade and Canadian star Aliassime defeated their respective opponents to advance to the second round.

ATP 250 Geneva: Frenchman Lindeknech, Poland's Hurkacz and Hungarian Marousanne win the first round and advance.

Women's Field: In a key match in the second round of the WTA 500 Strasbourg singles, China's Wang Xinyu lost 1-6 3-6 to fourth seed Rybakina of Kazakhstan and missed out on the quarterfinals. The winner will face Poland's second sister Linette in the quarter-finals, who eliminated Slovakia's Slamkova 6-4 6-3.

Eighth seed Samsonova of Russia defeated homegrown wildcard Parry 6-4 6-4 to secure a place in the quarter-finals. She will next face third seed Badosa of Spain, who received a retirement from Czech rival Bouzkova at 3-3 in the first set.

Doubles: In a first-round match, Guo Hanyu/Melichar defeated Miki Kato/Sukadi 3-6 6-4 10-8 to advance to the quarterfinals. In the first quarter-finals, Xu Yifan/Buksa lost 4-6 6-2 8-10 to top seeds Dabrowski/Lutliff and missed out on the semi-finals.

WTA 250 Rabat: In the first round of singles, Nahimana,

Jont, Bolsova, Sevastova, Ruth, Mattyas,

Laksimova and other players have won and advanced.

In a first-round doubles matchup, fourth seeds Tang Qianhui/Lumsden defeated Cavalé Lemmers/Kempen 7-6(9) 6-2 to advance to the quarterfinals.

Let's turn to the French Open. Last night, Beijing time, the 2025 French Open singles qualifying tournament continued, and the two Chinese golden flowers played that day won one after another and advanced to the second round. Among them, veteran Zhang Shuai defeated Hunter 6-3 6-2; Wang Xiyu defeated Yanicyevic 1-6 6-1 6-2.

China's Wu Yixuan, who played in the men's singles qualifiers, lost 2-6 3-6 to former US Open champion and Croatian veteran Cilic in the first match.

Finally, let's guess and recognize. The picture below is of a player covering his head with a towel during a break. She lost that game, can you recognize who she is?

In the last guess, some golfers gave the correct answer. That's right, the person in the picture is the retired Austrian star Thiem.

(Source: Tennis Home Author: Maverick)