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According to a report by the Global Times on August 14, after winning China's historic first Olympic gold medal in Paris, Zheng Qinwen immediately started preparing for the North American season. The Cincinnati Open Tennis Championships kicked off on the 11th local time in the United States. Seven of the top ten players in the world will appear. As the seventh seed of the tournament, Zheng Qinwen was placed in the lower half. She had a bye in the first round and will have her first match after the Olympics on the 14th.

Zheng Qinwen (Photo source: Xinhua News Agency)

According to reports, Zheng Qinwen has been conducting recovery training under the guidance of her coach after coming from the red clay courts in Paris to the hard courts in North America, striving to achieve good results in Cincinnati. If all goes well, Zheng Qinwen will face Grand Slam champion and defending champion Gauff in the quarterfinals. In 2023, Zheng Qinwen reached the top 16 of the women's singles in Cincinnati. The Chinese tennis "No. 1" has not yet reached the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 level event in her career. She was blocked by Gauff at the Rome station in May this year.

The latest data from the WTA official website shows that the WTA year-end finals will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from November 2nd to 9th, when the top eight women's singles players will compete for the Billie Jean King Trophy. Therefore, the current North American season is very important for Zheng Qinwen to secure his qualification for the year-end finals. After the Cincinnati tournament, the last Grand Slam event of the year, the US Open, will be held from August 26th to September 8th. In the first three Grand Slam tournaments this year, Zheng Qinwen won the runner-up at the Australian Open, reached the third round at the French Open, and was eliminated in the first round of Wimbledon. At the 2023 US Open, Zheng Qinwen reached the quarterfinals. Zheng Qinwen said after the Paris Olympics: "In the future, I hope to fulfill my childhood dream, which is to win a Grand Slam championship."

After the US Open, the China Open will start on September 23. As a WTA 1000-level event, the top 75 players in the world will appear in this year's China Open, and Zheng Qinwen will compete with many top players.

In addition to Zheng Qinwen, other Chinese tennis players will appear in Cincinnati. In the final round of the qualifying round on the 12th, China's "Golden Flower" Wang Yafan fought hard for nearly 3 hours and defeated Russian player Andreeva 2:1 to advance to the main competition. In addition to Zheng Qinwen and Wang Yafan, Yuan Yue, Wang Xinyu and Zhang Shuai will also appear in the main competition. For male players, Zhang Zhizhen, who just won the silver medal in the mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics, will face French player Perricard on the 13th.

Zheng Qinwen (Photo source: Xinhua News Agency)

According to previous reports, on August 3, in the women's singles final of the Paris Olympics tennis event, Zheng Qinwen defeated Croatian player Vikic 6:2, 6:3, winning China's first Olympic tennis singles gold medal. At the same time, she is also the first Asian athlete to stand on the highest podium of the Olympic Games in this event.

According to official data from the Women's Tennis Association, Zheng Qinwen is currently ranked seventh in the world after the Paris Olympics with 3,800 points, a personal best. She is also the only Chinese player among the top 30.

Jimu News Comprehensive Global Times, International Women's Tennis Association official website, Xinhua News Agency

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