2023-09-05 03:26:00
The Tunisian tennis player Ons Janeur, number 5 in the world and runner-up at the US Open last year, was eliminated in the round of 16 of the tournament this Monday (4th), by the young Chinese player Qinwen Zheng.
Zheng, 23rd in the WTA ranking, closed the game in 2 sets to 0, with partials of 6-2 and 6-4, in an hour and 22 minutes on the Louis Armstrong court of Flushing Meadows.
“I am very happy and excited to be playing on a big stage. Today I had a really good performance”, celebrated the Chinese after the match.
“Ons is a fantastic player and very difficult to beat. It’s a really impressive win for me,” he added.
Suffering from physical problems, Jabeur, who in addition to the US Open was also a Wimbledon finalist (2022 and 2023), will end the season without his long-awaited first Grand Slam title.
In turn, Zheng, 20 years old, will play for the first time in the quarterfinals of a Major with the new number 1 in the world, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, who beat the Russian Daria Kasatkina.
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