at the australian open tennis, zheng qinwen admitted it was not her day as she was beaten in the secondchina's zheng was runner—up to aryna sabalenka last year and is the olympic singles gold medallist, but lost to german veteran laura siegemund. the fifth seed is the highest ranked playerfrom either singles draw to lose so far at melbourne. i have a lot of chance to break her in the first set, but in that moment may be my concentration is not there. i was making easy mistakes in that moment plus a bit tricky for me in the first set, a tricky way to lose, because i didn't feel my performance was good enough but at the same time i felt that she was playing very good today. i wanted to come out courageous, i wanted to come out courageous, i wanted _ wanted to come out courageous, i wanted to show the variety of my game, _ i wanted to show the variety of my game, be very aggressive and that is_ my game, be very aggressive and that is what i did and i am particularly happy about howl maintain _ particularly happy about howl maintain that throughout the match — defending champion aryna sabal