After her troubled season, where she didn’t record a single win for more than three and a half months, Clara Tauson claimed her second successive win at the WTA 500 tournament at Bad Homburg when she defeated the Chinese reigning Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 to move into the quarter-final of the tournament. <\/p>\n
Clara Tauson<\/a> has apparently hit form after several difficult and winless months.<\/p>\n In the WTA 500 tournament in Bad Homburg, she claimed her second successive win after her troubled spell when she beat the defending Olympic champion,\u00a0Zheng Qinwen<\/a>, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n The match which lasted almost two and a half hours and was played in close to 35 degrees Celsius, but a mobile and focused Tauson, who has struggled with physical challenges in 2026, seemed on top compared to her opponent.<\/p>\n Consequently, Tauson, who occasionally looked close to her best form, followed up her victory over the Russian French Open semi-finalist Diana Shnaider<\/a> in two sets in the first round on Monday.<\/p>\n In her quarter-final, Tauson will face either fourth-seeded Karolina Muchova<\/a> from the Czech Republic or Romanian qualifier Irina-Camelia Begu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Zheng Qinwen was handed a wildcard in Bad Homburg after falling from fourth place in the world rankings to 153rd due to injury over the past year.<\/p>\n In the first set, the Chinese player showed why she has previously reached the Australian Open final.\u00a0In a very close and long first set without many break points, Zheng Qinwen looked sharp on the decisive points and claimed the first set 7-5.<\/p>\n Tauson, who had physical challenges in 2026, remained calm with an ice pack on her head during the breaks, and when she broke to 1-0 in the second set after a game with four Chinese double faults, the stage was set for Tauson to control the set.<\/p>\n With a fearsome first serve as her weapon, the 23-year-old Dane was never threatened in her service games and, at the same time, made a minimum of errors compared to the Chinese player.<\/p>\n The recipe was the same in the third set. Tauson broke to 1-0 and kept her opponent at bay never allowing any break points in her own service games.\u00a0<\/p>\n Zheng Qinwen lacked stability, and Tauson managed to break again to make it 5-2 before serving home the game to book her progress in the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After her troubled season, where she didn’t record a single win for more than three and a half…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-724290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724290","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=724290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}