{"id":924283,"date":"2026-10-11T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924283\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:34:08","slug":"zheng-qinwen-makes-history-with-china-open-wta-1000-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924283\/","title":{"rendered":"Zheng Qinwen makes history with China Open WTA 1000 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/players\/328120\/qinwen-zheng\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zheng Qinwen<\/a> made history Sunday by becoming the first Chinese woman to win the China Open WTA 1000 title, defeating No. 4 seed Mirra Andreeva in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Zheng saved three set points in a closely contested first set before winning the final 11 points to claim it 7-5. The local wildcard earned a late break in the second set to complete the 7-5, 6-4 victory in 1 hour, 43 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It was Zheng\u2019s first WTA 1000 title and her sixth overall on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz. It was also her first title since winning in Tokyo in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The victory over Andreeva, who is projected to rise to No. 3 in the rankings Monday, was Zheng\u2019s 14th career win over a top-10 opponent and her third this season.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zheng Qinwen made history Sunday by becoming the first Chinese woman to win the China Open WTA 1000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747,83],"class_list":["post-924283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924283","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=924283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}