Qinwen Zheng topples Donna Vekic 7-6(2) 4-6 6-2 in the 4th round in New York on Sunday. Zheng will fight against Aryna Sabalenka in the quarter. The match lasted 2 hours and 50 minutes. This run will match her best result in this competition. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Chinese added to her prize money $ 205,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 530,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Chinese will add $ 470,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 1,000,000 in total.
Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs. Donna Vekic U.S. Open – New York
Zheng’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Chinese scored 107 points vs. Vekic’s 100.
Zheng
Qinwen served pretty well to win 81% of the points (51/63) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 41% points (19/46) on her second serve. Qinwen blasted 10 aces and she committed 6 double faults. The Chinese won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points since she converted only 38% (3/8) of the procured opportunities.
Vekic
On the other side, the Croatian was struggling when converting her break points (only 29% – 2/7). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Zheng and Vekic is 3-1 for Qinwen.
Draw and next match H2H: Qinwen Zheng vs. Aryna Sabalenka – stats
Zheng will compete against Sabalenka in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Qinwen Zheng and Aryna Sabalenka play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Sabalenka (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Sabalenka won 6-3 6-2 in the final in Melbourne back in January 2024.
Live score progression and stats
The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Qinwen had no problems to win the tiebreak 7-2.
Tiebreak
Zheng won 3 minibreaks in the 3rd (2-1), 7th (5-2) and 9th (7-2) point.
Qinwen won the tiebreak 7-2 after she conquered a decisive 4-2 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 5-2, 6-2, 7-2
They played 81 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Qinwen won just 3 more points than the Croatian (42-39). Qinwen lost 12 points on serve (28-12). on the other side of the court, the Croatian conceded 14 points on serve (27-14).
Zheng was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Donna Vekic in the 2nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, there was more work to do for Donna to win the set since Zheng succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Donna maintained her cool to break Zheng in the 10th (6-4) game.
Zheng lost the 2nd game (2-0) when she was serving and leading 40-0.
Donna was unerring in converting all her break points in the 2nd (1-0 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (3-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, Qinwen was flawless in converting all her break points in the 3rd game (0-2 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 73 points. Donna was the one to win the set after conquering 5 more points than Qinwen (39-34). Donna lost 11 points on serve (20-11). Regarding the other side of the net, Zheng conceded 19 points on serve (23-19).
Zheng had a strong start of this set after breaking Donna Vekic in the 1st game (1-0). The Chinese extended her lead after breaking Donna in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
They played 51 points. The Chinese conquered the set after winning 15 points more than Donna (33-18). The Chinese dropped 7 points on serve (18-7). On the other side, Donna conceded 15 points on serve (11-15).
Tennis Scores at the U.S. Open
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Yafan WangWang (6-1 6-2)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Donna VekicVekic (7-62 4-6 6-2)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Elise MertensMertens (6-2 6-4)
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Cori GauffGauff (6-3 4-6 6-3)
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