{"id":23322,"date":"2025-07-20T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/23322\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:42:10","slug":"olympic-champion-zheng-takes-break-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/23322\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic champion Zheng takes break after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen is taking a &#8220;short break&#8221; from the WTA Tour after having arthroscopic surgery on her right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Chinese player was fifth seed at this year&#8217;s Wimbledon, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c6288dn2zp4o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lost in the first round;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">lost in the first round<\/a> and said she had been &#8220;dealing with persistent pain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now begins the recovery journey,&#8221; the world number six wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the next few weeks and months, I&#8217;ll be focusing entirely on rehab &#8211; doing everything I can to come back stronger and healthier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is just a short break and I see it as a necessary step toward a better version of myself on court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zheng underwent the procedure on Friday and was &#8220;grateful to have it behind me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She won the women&#8217;s singles title at the Paris Olympics in 2024 and claimed the last of her five WTA titles at the Pan Pacific Open in Japan in October of that year.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Zheng has never won a Grand Slam title, but reached the 2024 Australian Open final, the quarter-finals of the US Open twice and the last eight of this year&#8217;s French Open.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth and final major of the year begins at Flushing Meadows in New York on 24 August.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752997330_300_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen is taking a &#8220;short break&#8221; from the WTA Tour after having arthroscopic surgery on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[20918,20921,20920,20919,99,428,20922,20917],"class_list":{"0":"post-23322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-arthroscopic-surgery","9":"tag-olympic-champion","10":"tag-olympic-womens-singles","11":"tag-short-break","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-womens-singles","15":"tag-zheng-qinwen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}