{"id":3931,"date":"2025-05-21T00:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/zheng-qinwen-drives-out-aryna-sabalenka-to-reach-the-italian-open-semis\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T00:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:05:38","slug":"zheng-qinwen-drives-out-aryna-sabalenka-to-reach-the-italian-open-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/zheng-qinwen-drives-out-aryna-sabalenka-to-reach-the-italian-open-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Zheng Qinwen drives out Aryna Sabalenka to reach the Italian open semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ROMA &#8211; Zheng Qinwen set up the Italian Open semi-final match against Cocogoff with his first victory against top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 6-3 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s Olympic champion Zheng, 22, has lost all six previous matches against Sabalenka. 8th place Zheng saved all five breakpoints she faced, breaking Sabalenka&#8217;s service three times to reach the final four.<\/p>\n<p>Rome is the last big warm-up before the French opening begins on May 25th.<\/p>\n<p><hl2>Gouf <\/hl2>He expanded his unbeaten streak against Mira Andreva to advance to the final four in the Clay Court Tournament. She played aggressively in a 6-4, 7-6 (5) victory.<\/p>\n<p>Both players hit high quality shots with tiebreakers. This included Andreva&#8217;s super blot shot just behind the net from a tight angle, allowing her to take the level 5-5 before Goff scored the final two points and sealed the match.<\/p>\n<p>Gouf won all four matches against 18-year-old Andreva, beat her at the French Open and the US Open in Madrid two weeks ago in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Jasmine Parini and Payton Stearns will face off in the other semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROMA &#8211; Zheng Qinwen set up the Italian Open semi-final match against Cocogoff with his first victory against top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 6-3 on Wednesday. China&#8217;s Olympic champion Zheng, 22, has lost all six previous matches against Sabalenka. 8th place Zheng saved all five breakpoints she faced, breaking Sabalenka&#8217;s service three times to reach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[223,222,31,32,221,197,224,198,24,220],"class_list":{"0":"post-3931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna","9":"tag-drives","10":"tag-italian","11":"tag-open","12":"tag-qinwen","13":"tag-reach","14":"tag-sabalenka","15":"tag-semis","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-zheng"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}