"I think it is mostly in my hand," Zheng Qinwen said after losing to Aryna Sabalenka in Roland Garro’s quarterfinals.
By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_now| Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Photo Credit: Antoine Couvercelle-Rolex
Zheng Qinwen showed a strong sense of faith itself by capturing the golden Olympic medal at the Philippe Chaterrier Court last August.
Today, Zheng said that self-sacrifice dedicated her shot in Roland Garros’s semifinal.
World no. 1 Sabalenka He stopped Zheng 7-6 (3), 6-3 to reach Roland Garros’s semifinals-and to avenge the loss of last month in Rome in the Olympic Champion of the Golden Medal.
Afterwards, Zheng said the nerves cost her the match.
Zheng led 4-2 and was at the 30th at the Sabalenka-Dy point service from a double break-when it blocked a routine attack back into the net. Zheng said those types of mistakes – and five double mistakes – showed jeans.
“I think I’m just tight because they are the quarterfinals of the French Open,” Zheng said. “I think it doesn’t matter who I face.
“I will be really close because I have a lot of hungry in French Open, and then I think it can make me perform even no better, and maybe it’s not, I will say, today I don’t even perform at 60, 70%.”
It is the 11th main semi -final of Sabalenka’s 11th career, including her ninth semifinal in her last 10 Grand Slam tours while continuing her hunt for a crown of girls Roland Garros.
Sabalenka with the high seed, which improved to 7-1 Lifetime vs Zheng, praised the eighth Chinese for a captured battle.
"She played extraordinary tennis. She is a great player and I was expecting her to play a great match," Sabalenka told Zheng. "I liked this battle. I liked that I had to go back to that first set, and the first group was, as if, really tight. Can go the same way.
"So I was really enjoying it. I’m super happy to have won in right groups."
In an Australian Open final match of 2024, Zheng said she felt she lost the game more than Sabalenka won it.
“I think maybe during the match I have to play a little more aggressive, and I think in the first set I did a lot, you know, easy mistakes,” Zheng said. “I give her the chance so easy. Of course, I think I mostly made a match miss.
“I think it is mainly in my hand because I have already made a double guilt in the first set when I am leading my service game. But, yes, it’s tennis. There is nothing more I can do.”
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