.THE BIG APPLE-- Qinwen Zheng beat Donna Vekic in a rematch of their Olympic ultimate, improving to the US Open quarterfinals along with a 7-6 (2 ), 4-6, 6-2 success early Monday morning in the current end of a women's suit in competition history.It was actually 2:15 a.m. when the No. 7-seeded Zheng rounded off the suit that lasted 2 hrs, 50 mins, a significantly more durable and longer test than she obtained from Vekic final month in Paris.Zheng won China's very first singles gold in ping pong with a 6-2, 6-3 triumph that day. She wasn't fairly as leading on the US Open's challenging courts, where Vekic thinks a lot more comfortable than the clay-based at Roland Garros.But Zheng is still plenty hard to defeat on challenging courtrooms, having reached her initial Grand Slam final this year at the Australian Open, where she dropped to Aryna Sabalenka." I experience definitely happy with myself since it's challenging changing surfaces from clay to hard, particularly due to the fact that I went back to China, so I do not have the very same strategy like all the other gamers," Zheng pointed out. "So, essentially, I am actually simply trying to store on my own, locate a means to acquire the suit, even when I'm not thinking at my ideal." Publisher's Picks2 RelatedShe will certainly participate in once again versus Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed that likewise defeated Zheng in 2013 in the one-fourths at Blush Meadows on her means to the ultimate, on Tuesday.Zheng said she'll prepare-- so long as she obtains 8 or nine hrs of sleeping after finally getting back to the hotels and resort." I really such as to play against her, and I am actually expecting betting her," Zheng pointed out of Sabalenka. "I understand she's one of the greatest players on challenging courthouses, and I have actually been actually hoping for this moment." Vekic was actually going over her absolute best result in a Conquest, meeting the semifinals at Wimbledon. Yet the No. 24 seed understood she skipped a chance to go also much deeper at Blush Meadows.She frequently took long stops briefly in stress after skipping a go, from time to time moving her hair or even relaxing her head in her hand.The Croatian gamer broke Zheng to succeed the second collection and also even the match, driving Zheng back along with some scorching returns just before making use of an ideal drop shot to offer herself a specified point.But after an ace to open up the 3rd set, Vekic made pair of straight spontaneous errors, and also Zheng cracked her. Zheng then broke again at passion for a 5-2 top in front of the sporadic group that had lingered past 2 a.m.The previous most recent appearance for a girls's paired was actually 2:13 a.m., when Maria Sakkari beat Bianca Andreescu in a 2021 fourth-round suit.