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Zheng Bounces French Open Champ from Wimbledon

Saturday, 28th June 2008 ~ Maggie ~ Link ~ Comments (1)

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In a huge upset, China's Zheng Jie (郑洁) stunned French Open winner Anna Ivanovic in the third round at Wimbledon. Zheng, ranked 133rd in the world and a wild card entry in the tournament, won in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4.

Zheng is from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, and turns 25 next week. She won the Australian Open and Wimbledon doubles titles with Yan Zi (晏紫) in 2006. She has three WTA singles titles, winning at Hobart in 2005 and Estoril and Stockholm in 2006. The Serbian Ivanovic won the French Open earlier this month. She had a hard time in Wimbledon's second round, taking 3 1/2 hours to beat Natalie Dechy of France.

Zheng will face Hungary's Agnes Szavay, seeded 15th, in her next match. She is also playing in the ladies' doubles tournament with Yan. The pair are seeded ninth and won their first match against Arantxa Parra Santonia and Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain.

China has two other ladies' singles players in the tournament. Peng Shuai (彭帅) faces Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia in her third-round match. Yuan Meng (袁梦) lost in the first round to Dechy, Li Na lost in the second round to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia and Yan Zi lost in the first round to Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain. No Chinese men are playing at Wimbledon.

Image: Wimbledon.com

Tags: Meng Yuan, Tennis, Wimbledon, Yan Zi, Zheng Jie

Comments

  • hocking
    Monday, 21st July 2008
    informative___brief and to the point. Appropriate for keeping updated to Chinese Spoerts figures.

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