The tennis star won a gold medal for China, defeating Donna Vekic of Croatia in straight sets at Roland Garros.
In three appearances at the French Open, Qinwen Zheng of China announced herself and gave an amuse bouche of her considerable skills, once reaching the fourth round. But on Saturday, she fully announced herself. Under gorgeous conditions, above the clay at Roland Garros, the 21-year-old scored the biggest win of her ascending career, taking out the Croatian veteran Donna Vekić 6–2,6–3, to take the women’s singles gold-medal match at the Paris Olympics.
The triumph also spoke to Zheng’s ability to reset. In her first match—a bit of foreshadowing—she turned in a double bagel in a 6–0, 6–0 defeat against Italy’s Sara Errani. From there, her campaign got increasingly more difficult. In the third round, she defeated Emma Navarro of the U.S. and then deftly deflected Navarro’sthat Zheng was not a competitor worthy of respect.
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