Zheng Qinwen faces an uphill battle to reach the main draw of the US Open after losing in the quarter-finals of the Athens Open on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Chinese tennis star threw away solid leads in both sets before losing 6-4, 6-4 to Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n
Zheng now faces the real possibility that she will have to go through the qualifiers for the final grand slam of the season due to her ranking not meeting the threshold for the main draw.<\/p>\n
With the next women\u2019s professional rankings released on Monday \u2013 the same day that the US Open cuts off the main entry draw list \u2013 Zheng\u2019s live ranking, currently No 122, indicates it is likely the former world No 4 will miss out.<\/p>\n
Players need to rank in or around the top 104 to meet the direct qualification threshold for the US Open main draw.<\/p>\n
A final chance for the Paris Olympic champion would be a wildcard for the main draw in New York; otherwise, she will need to play in a grand slam qualifier for the first time since 2022, when she made her grand slam debut in Melbourne at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zheng Qinwen faces an uphill battle to reach the main draw of the US Open after losing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[37754,64,63,6571,81320,1805,382085,171487,647,1025,375684,85,747,1751,21417,749,375681,2637,136926],"class_list":["post-807834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-athens-open","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-open","tag-barbora-krejcikova","tag-french-open","tag-greek-capital","tag-hubei","tag-melbourne","tag-new-york","tag-paris-olympic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us-open","tag-weibo","tag-wimbledon","tag-womens-tennis-association","tag-wta","tag-zheng-qinwen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807834","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=807834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}