Nguyen Thuy Linh (ranked 26 in the world) faced many difficulties when facing American tennis player - Zhang Beiwen (ranked 11 in the world) in the second match of the Paris 2024 Olympic women's singles group stage.
The female athlete entered the game better as she continuously scored points to take the lead. Meanwhile, Thuy Linh's pace is quite slow, there are a few situations where she has to judge and handle hastily.
The Vietnamese tennis player fell into the position of chasing his opponent for more than half of the first set. But her subsequent effort helped her level the score 17-17 with Beiwen, after good defense and luck when the return ball hit the net and fell into the opponent's court.
Thuy Linh even had a chance to win set 1 when reaching set-point 20-19. However, two consecutive serves and returns failed to cross the net, causing Thuy Linh to unfortunately lose 20-22.
In the second set, the match did not change much as the Vietnamese athlete continued to chase, especially when she continuously hit the ball out.
It wasn't until the 18th point that Thuy Linh was able to equalize Beiwen, but her unstable mentality caused the player born in 1997 to fail once again with the same score of 20-22.
In the end, Nguyen Thuy Linh lost 0-2 to Zhang Beiwen, thereby stopping in the badminton women's singles group stage at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Regardless, this was still a commendable match for the Vietnamese athlete in her efforts to The final minutes were 15 places ahead of the opponent.
At the end of the match, Thuy Linh thanked the fans for cheering, accompanying, and staying up all night with her on her journey to conquer the Olympics. The "hot girl" of the badminton industry hopes to continue to be supported by fans and the media in the coming time.
