Zheng Qinwen marked her return to action with a three-set win over Sofia Kenin at the Qatar Open on Monday, while Mirra Andreeva eased into the round of 16.<\/p>\n
Olympic gold medallist Zheng<\/a>, in action for the first time since September last year, beat 2020 Australian Open winner Kenin<\/a> 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 to reach the second round where she’ll meet Alycia Parks<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now ranked 26th in the world, Zheng made a statement as she threw down 20 aces on the way to winning her season opener.<\/p>\n “When you come back from injury, it’s never totally pain-free,” Zheng said.<\/p>\n “But generally I believe my elbow is in a good process because I could feel it.<\/p>\n “I’m in a really good stage, and I can keep going for another two hours serving,” she added.<\/p>\n Fifth seed Andreeva<\/a> kick-started her tournament with a 7-6 (0), 6-1 win against Magda Linette<\/a> after receiving a bye through the round of 64.<\/p>\n However, there were several high-profile eliminations on the day as third seed Amanda Anisimova<\/a> retired when trailing in the third set to Karolina Pliskova<\/a> and former US Open Grand Slam champion Emma Raducanu<\/a> also had to retire in the deciding frame of her meeting with Camila Osorio<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, top two seeds Iga Swiatek<\/a> and Elena Rybakina<\/a> will play their first matches in the round of 32.<\/p>\n Fourth seed Coco Gauff<\/a> will open her singles campaign after falling in the doubles on Monday playing alongside rising star Victoria Mboko<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zheng Qinwen marked her return to action with a three-set win over Sofia Kenin at the Qatar Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-465446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}