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on september 4, beijing time, the us open continued, and zheng qinwen appeared in the women's singles quarter-finals.

facing the strong no. 2 seed sabalenka, zheng qinwen lost the game 1-6, 2-6 and was eliminated in the us open women's singles quarterfinals.

in previous matches, zheng qinwen defeated anisimova, e. andreeva, and niemeyer in succession, and then defeated vikic in the quarter-finals, advancing to the us open quarterfinals for the second time in his career.

as a result, zheng qinwen tied his personal best record at the us open in 2023 and moved towards a higher goal.

coincidentally, in the 2023 us open, zheng qinwen faced sabalenka in the quarter-finals. at that time, zheng qinwen lost two consecutive sets with scores of 1-6 and 4-6, and was blocked from the semi-finals.

later in this year's australian open final, zheng qinwen met sabalenka again, but lost again with 3-6, 2-6, missing out on her first grand slam title in her career.

sabalenka has repeatedly been a stumbling block for zheng qinwen on the grand slam stage. before this year's us open, the belarusian, ranked second in the world, already had two grand slam titles and one grand slam runner-up. in addition, she had also been eliminated in the grand slam semi-finals five times.

this is also the 10th time sabalenka has entered the grand slam women's singles quarterfinals in the past five years, which ranks first among all female players in the past five seasons. however, zheng qinwen has also been in hot form recently. in the past four games, she hit 49 aces, almost twice as many as the second player on the list, vikic.

zheng qinwen's goal is to challenge sabalenka again at the us open. "i like playing against her and look forward to such moments. to become a top player, i have to climb over other top players, and she is such a mountain."

“my physical and competitive feelings weren’t at their best before, but i kept finding ways to deal with the difficulties, and as the game progressed, i felt better and better.”

sabalenka said that she has made more progress since her defeat in the us open final last year and has become stronger mentally.

in this match, zheng qinwen was in a tough battle after the start of the first set, and her opponent broke and saved to establish a 3-0 lead. sabalenka then continued to expand her advantage and won the first set 6-1.

in the second set, zheng qinwen was also broken early on. sabalenka played steadily, with strong baseline and serve, and hardly gave zheng qinwen too many opportunities. in the end, zheng qinwen still couldn't change the situation. after saving a match point, she lost the second set 2-6, and ended her journey in this us open.

as a result, zheng qinwen missed the chance to break her best record in the us open, and her record against sabalenka was rewritten to 0 wins and 3 losses.

in this match, zheng qinwen's first serve winning rate was 77%, but due to his first serve success rate of only 44%, it was difficult to threaten his opponent, especially in the first set, when his first serve success rate was only 31%. this also made it easier for sabalenka, who had a very high second serve return winning rate, to play.