For a long time, most fans have focused their attention on the first-line Jinhua. Speaking of which, some netizens may ask which players are the first-line golden flowers? In fact, the first-line golden flower refers to the Chinese girl who can directly enter the main draw of the tour and the main draw of the Grand Slam by virtue of her world ranking. It should be noted that with the change of results in the tour, the first-line Golden Flower team is also changing. For example, less than a year after being married, Zhu Lin, who has won the tour championship, is currently in the ranks of the third-tier golden flowers. And Bai Zhuoxuan, who once broke into the second round of Wimbledon, has fallen to the bottom of the world ranking due to injury. As for Wang Qiang, because he has not fought for a long time, and after his comeback, although he occasionally creates some good results, he can't sustain it, so he naturally withdrew from the ranks of first-line golden flowers.

And the same is true for the second-line golden flower. People like Ma Yexin and You Xiaodi, who won their first career tour victories last season, have become third-tier golden flowers because their performance in the 2025 season has been unsatisfactory. So, who are the current second-tier Jinhua? They are Wei Sijia, Gao Xinyu, Yao Xinxin, Shi Han, Wang Xiyu, Zhang Shuai, and Shi Han. Among them, the most regrettable may be Wang Xiyu, who has won the tour championship. Due to the difficulty of winning a game on the tour in the new season, she has been firmly in the top 100 before, and her world ranking has fallen to outside 115. Although Shi Han has reached the semi-finals of the Hope Tournament in 2025, he has never won consecutive victories in the Challenge, which may be embarrassing. Zhang Shuai, on the other hand, gradually shifted his focus to the doubles court due to his age, and his poor singles performance was understandable. Yao Shin Shin won the career-high singles title at the Nonthaburi Challenge in January, but has not had a decent result since. To be honest, it may be difficult for these five Chinese Jinhua to achieve good results on the tour.

In this way, Gao Xinyu and Wei Sijia have become the most powerful contenders for the second-tier Golden Flower leader. In January, Wei Sijia won four straight matches at the WTA 125 in Canberra and reached the final of her first career tour. Seeing that girls several years younger than herself can work hard like this, Gao Xinyu is naturally not to be outdone, and she defeated Brazil's first sister Maya and Germany's Sigmund in the United Cup, allowing her world ranking to rise rapidly. Since then, although she has not been able to break through in the Australian Open qualifiers, she has been able to win her second career Grand Slam qualifying tournament here, and Gao Xinyu's performance is still commendable. As for Wei Sijia, she won three consecutive matches in the qualifying tournament of the Australian Open and reached the first Grand Slam main draw of her career. In this way, Wei Sijia slowly began to gain the upper hand.

Since then, Gao Xinyu has moved to the Challenger, while Wei Sijia has made her way on the tour. In the past two weeks, Wei Sijia was defeated by her opponent in straight sets in the first round of the WTA 250 Austin station, and then was swept by her opponent in the first round of the WTA1000 Indian Wells qualifying tournament. It's a pity that last week, in the first round of the Trnava Challenger, facing Russia's Rudjic, Gao Xinyu was completely out of shape. In two sets, she won only six games and was swept out. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time since the 2025 season that Gao Xinyu has been eliminated in the first round of the challenge. This week, Gao Xinyu once again ushered in an excellent opportunity to surpass Wei Sijia. However, this time, in the first round of the second Challenger in Trnava, Gao Xinyu faced the Czech Republic's Linda Fruhvirtova, who had reached the second week of the Grand Slam, and despite her best efforts, she was still defeated by her opponent in straight sets. Fortunately, the season is not over yet, Gao Xinyu still has a chance to hit the position of the second-tier Golden Flower leader, and still has a chance to raise her world ranking to within the TOP100. Here, on behalf of all colleagues and netizens of "Tennis Home", let me wish Gao Xinyu can realize her dream as soon as possible!

A lot of times, the world of tennis is really just a teahouse. In this teahouse, there are many, many tea customers who have been here for a long time, and some of them have become quite famous. However, there are always fledgling tea drinkers who come here and look forward to tasting the sweet tea with their own efforts. And the author is just a small scholar in the corner of this teahouse who tells the stories of these tea customers in obscurity. I hope my article can bring some fresh information to all fans. Whether it's compliments or criticisms, maybe it's just to be able to get me far. That's it for today, and it continues tomorrow.(Source: Tennis Home Author: Yixin Jushi)