About Potapowa recently it was loud by the way tournament in Stuttgart. In the 1/8 final she was to play with Aryna Sabalenko, but she gave up playing this match due to injury. Thanks to this, the Belarusian was promoted to the quarter -finals without playing at least one match.
A qinwen Zheng? She is a tennis player that Iga Świątek knows perfectly well. The Polish representative played eight matches with her and won seven of them. The only defeat, however, came in one of the most important moments of the current career of the WTA ranking. Świątek lost to Chinese in the semi -final of last year's Olympic Games (2: 6, 5: 7).
Sensation in Madrid. Potapowa better than Qinwen Zheng
In Madrid, the Russian woman has avoided health problems for now. In the first match she was better than Ashlyn Krueger (6: 7, 6: 4, 6: 2), thanks to which today she faced one of the best tennis players in the world – Qinwen Zheng. The Chinese woman has played with Potapowa four times so far and lost only once – two years ago in Miami.
Only their Friday game He started better for the Russian woman. Potapowa broke her rival in the second game. Zheng snapped and responded quickly. Chinese led to a draw and the first Set of Dużgo was aligned. The decisive moment took place at the very end. Potapowa broke the opponent twice – once without losing points – and won the set 6: 4.
In the second set definitely better entered Qinwen Zheng, which already led 3: 1. Potapowa, however, did not break down. The end of the set was the key again. First, after a long exchange, the Russian led to a 3: 4 result – although Zheng already had a breakpoint – and then she broke Chinese and won her application without losing points. In the last game she killed the rival and the set 6: 4 won again.
In the 1/16 finals of Anastasija Potapowa he will play with Sofia Kenin. Until now, she played with the American only once – in 2023 – and she did not cause her major problems at the time. Their match in San Diego ended with the victory of Kenin 6: 2, 6: 3.