{"id":250634,"date":"2025-10-30T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250634\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:47:08","slug":"hong-kong-tennis-open-last-chinese-players-shown-the-door-as-top-seed-bencic-progresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250634\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Tennis Open: last Chinese players shown the door as top seed Bencic progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s last two representatives at the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open were both sent crashing out of the tournament on Wednesday, as No 1 seed Belinda Bencic marched on.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The first match of the day on centre court at the Victoria Park Tennis Stadium saw Anna Kalinskaya put veteran Zhang Shuai to the sword with a comprehensive 6-1, 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kalinskaya was then followed by Switzerland\u2019s Bencic, who took down veteran Wang Yafan in one hour and 16 minutes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bencic came to Hong Kong off the back of winning the Japan Open, and her 6-2, 6-2 triumph marks her sixth victory in a row.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI felt good on the court,\u201d Bencic said. \u201cI tried to play aggressively, tried to play my game, and it worked out well. So I\u2019m very happy to take the momentum with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zhang Shuai hits a return to Anna Kalinskaya in their round-of-16 match at Victoria Park. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3185de56-d4c9-4b78-8f78-5d8beaae4d5f_e3ead7e0.jpg\" title=\"Zhang Shuai hits a return to Anna Kalinskaya in their round-of-16 match at Victoria Park. Photo: AFP\"\/>Zhang Shuai hits a return to Anna Kalinskaya in their round-of-16 match at Victoria Park. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bencic\u2019s run of wins comes off the back of her missing most of the 2024 season because she gave birth to her first child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s last two representatives at the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open were both sent crashing out of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[25090,64,63,143468,512,10340,110262,146230,85,6221,747,148740,148741,107616],"class_list":["post-250634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-anna-kalinskaya","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-belinda-bencic","tag-china","tag-hong-kong","tag-japan-open","tag-prudential-hong-kong-tennis-open","tag-sports","tag-switzerland","tag-tennis","tag-victoria-park-tennis-stadium","tag-wang-yafan","tag-zhang-shuai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}