{"id":763103,"date":"2026-07-14T21:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763103\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:21:21","slug":"chinese-tennis-star-zheng-qinwen-pulls-off-first-round-upset-at-athens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763103\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tennis star Zheng Qinwen pulls off first-round upset at Athens Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese tennis star Zheng Qinwen secured an upset over No 6 seed Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain in straight sets at the Athens Open on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Currently ranked No 135 in the world, a free fall of 131 places from her career-high world No 4 spot last June, Zheng dispatched the 23-year-old in the first round, but it was not smooth sailing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In her first hard court appearance of the season, Paris Olympic champion Zheng almost lost a 3-0 lead in the opening set, allowing the world No 62 Bouzas Maneiro to level the match at 5-5.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">From there, Zheng won seven games on the bounce, taking the first set and building a healthy lead in the second.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bouzas Maneiro held serve for the first time in the second set before pushing Zheng hard in the seventh game.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Spaniard managed four break points but Zheng fended them all off, and then sealed the match with her fourth match point, winning 7-5, 6-1 in one hour and 49 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese tennis star Zheng Qinwen secured an upset over No 6 seed Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[9246,326475,12083,326476,144,4135,100686,108320,104718,45567,326477,99,428,11883,111092,654,20917],"class_list":["post-763103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-athens","tag-athens-open","tag-australian-open","tag-bouzas-maneiro","tag-china","tag-greece","tag-hubei","tag-jessica-bouzas-maneiro","tag-micic","tag-olympic-games","tag-paris-olympic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us-open","tag-womens-tennis-association","tag-wta","tag-zheng-qinwen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763103","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=763103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}