{"id":926784,"date":"2026-10-09T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926784\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:38:09","slug":"china-open-elise-mertens-reaches-semifinal-against-zheng-qinwen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926784\/","title":{"rendered":"China Open: Elise Mertens reaches semifinal against Zheng Qinwen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BEIJING \u2014 Elise Mertens beat Iga Swiatek 7-6 (0), 6-3 on Friday to book her place in the semifinals of the China Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mertens\u2019 run has now seen her beat three Grand Slam winners in Beijing, following victories against Jelena Ostapenko and Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She took 1 hour and 50 minutes to see off six-time Grand Slam winner and No.8 seed Swiatek in straight sets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSometimes you just grow into a tournament,\u201d said Mertens, who is through to her first WTA 1000 singles semifinal since 2021. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mertens next faces Olympic gold medalist Zheng Qinwen after she put out No.6 seed Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-6 (8).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zheng was a quarterfinalist at the U.S. Open as a qualifier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt was a really great win for me,\u201d she said. \u201cI think she also played her best tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING \u2014 Elise Mertens beat Iga Swiatek 7-6 (0), 6-3 on Friday to book her place in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-926784","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\/926784","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=926784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}