.NYC-- Qinwen Zheng defeated Donna Vekic in a rematch of their Olympic final, developing to the US Open quarterfinals with a 7-6 (2 ), 4-6, 6-2 victory early Monday morning in the most recent end of a ladies's suit in event history.It was 2:15 a.m. when the No. 7-seeded Zheng finished off the match that lasted 2 hours, fifty minutes, a significantly harder and longer examination than she got from Vekic final month in Paris.Zheng gained China's first songs gold in tennis along with a 6-2, 6-3 success that time. She wasn't very as prevalent on the US Open's challenging courtrooms, where Vekic feels much more pleasant than the clay-based at Roland Garros.But Zheng is still plenty challenging to trump on hard courthouses, having hit her first Conquest ultimate this year at the Australian Open, where she dropped to Aryna Sabalenka." I experience actually proud of myself since it's not easy modifying surface areas coming from clay to hard, specifically considering that I went back to China, so I do not have the very same strategy like all the various other players," Zheng pointed out. "Therefore, primarily, I'm simply trying to keep on my own, locate a means to receive the complement, even though I am actually not experiencing at my finest." Publisher's Picks2 RelatedShe will certainly play once more versus Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed who likewise trumped Zheng in 2013 in the one-fourths at Blush Meadows on her technique to the last, on Tuesday.Zheng claimed she'll prepare-- as long as she gets 8 or 9 hours of rest after eventually returning to the resort." I definitely as if to play against her, as well as I'm awaiting betting her," Zheng pointed out of Sabalenka. "I understand she is just one of the greatest players on difficult courthouses, and also I have actually been expecting this moment." Vekic was coming off her absolute best lead to a Conquest, reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon. Yet the No. 24 seed recognized she overlooked an odds to go also much deeper at Flushing Meadows.She frequently took long stops in aggravation after overlooking a go, sometimes moving her hair or relaxing her scalp in her hand.The Croatian gamer broke Zheng to gain the second collection and also even the suit, steering Zheng back with some scorching profits just before making use of an ideal reduce fired to offer herself a prepared point.But after an ace to open up the 3rd collection, Vekic helped make 2 straight spontaneous errors, and also Zheng broke her. Zheng after that broke once more at passion for a 5-2 top facing the sparse group that had lingered previous 2 a.m.The previous newest surface for a females's suit was 2:13 a.m., when Maria Sakkari beat Bianca Andreescu in a 2021 fourth-round fit.