China’s Peng Shuai wins Taipei Ladies singles trophy
Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai defeated Ayumi Morita 6-1, 6-4 in the finals of the OEC Taipei Ladies Open. The 24-year-old was seated fifth going into the singles tournament, and earned a victory over No.2 seed Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand, 7-6 (9/7), 7-6 (7/4), on her way to the finals. The fourth-seeded Morita overcame an impressive [...]
Tamarine Tanasugarn defeats Kimiko Date Krumm at HP Open
Thai tennis player Tamarine Tanasugarn defeated Japan’s Kimiko Date Krumm in the finals of the HP Open in Osaka, Japan this weekend. Tanasugarn claimed her fourth WTA Tour title and ended Date Krumm’s impressive run. The 40-year-old had upset No. 1 seed Samantha Stosur, ranked eighth in the world, and No. 3 seed Shahar Peer [...]
Chuang Chia-Jung wins doubles at China Open
Taiwan’s Chia-Jung Chuang and her partner Olga Govortsova of Belarus defeated No.1 doubles seeds Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta, rallying from behind to secure the championship trophy in Beijing last week at the China Open. Chuang was once ranked fifth in the world amongst women’s doubles players, but has struggled in the last several years. She and [...]
Kimiko Date Krumm makes impressive run at Japan Open
Japanese tennis player Kimiko Date Krumm celebrated her 40th birthday at the Toray Pan Pacific Open this past week, upsetting 23-year-old Maria Sharapova in the first round and then following up with a victory over Daniela Hantuchova. Krumm turned pro at the age of 19 and played successfully until 26, when she retired from the [...]
Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova win US Open doubles
Following up on our coverage of the US Open, this year’s Wimbledon women’s doubles championship team Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova made it two Grand Slam titles by capturing the US Open women’s doubles trophy this afternoon. The Taiwanese American and her partner from Kazakhstan defeated second-seeded Liezel Huber of the United States and Nadia Petrova [...]
King, Shvedova advance to US Open Finals
Taiwanese American Vania King and Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova improved their Grand Slam record to 11-0, defeating Zimbabwe’s Cara Black and Anastasia Rodionova of Australia 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. The sixth-seeded team of King and Shvedova advance to the final round of the women’s doubles tournament at the US Open in Flushing, NY. They will next face [...]
Vania King, Yaroslava Shvedova advance to US Open semis
Taiwanese American Vania King and her partner Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova advanced to the semi-finals of the women’s doubles tournament at the US Open in New York this morning. The Wimbledon doubles champions upset top-seeded pair Gisela Dulko of Argentina and Italian Flavia Pennetta, surprising everyone with their 6-3, 6-3 victory in the quarterfinals. King and [...]
Jie Zheng makes it to quarters of Rogers Cup
Unseeded Chinese tennis player Jie Zheng upset fourth-seeded Elena Dementieva 7-6, 6-4 last week in the third round of the Rogers Cup in Montreal, to become one of the last eight players left in the tournament. She also beat sixteenth-seeded Iranian-French Aravane Rezaï before facing Dementieva. Zheng eventually lost in the fourth round to eleventh-seeded Russian [...]
Taiwanese American Vania King wins Wimbledon doubles title
Taiwanese American Vania King and her partner, Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova, defeated Wimbledon singles runner-up Vera Zvonareva and her Russian teammate Elena Vesnina in the finals of the ladies’ doubles tournament on July 3rd, in London.
King and Shvedova were an unseeded team, with King having one WTA Tour singles title under belt. Both players, however, have [...]
Yen-Hsun Lu upsets Andy Roddick
Taiwan’s Yen-Hsun Lu, ranked 82nd in the world, upset 5th-seeded Andy Roddick in the fourth round of the Wimbledon tournament in London to advance to the quarterfinals. Lu defeated Roddick 4-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 9-7, losing the tie-break in the fourth set but coming back to win in the last set. The [...]
Li Na wins AEGON Classic against Sharapova
This weekend, top-seeded Chinese tennis player Li Na won her first title of the year at the AEGON Classic. Li beat Maria Sharapova in the semi-finals of last year’s tournament, only to come back and claim the title from Sharapova again, besting her 7-5, 6-1. Li is the first Chinese woman to break into the [...]
Na Li top seed in third round of AEGON Classic
Despite the troublesome rain in Birmingham, England, top-ranked Chinese player and world No. 11 Na Li defeated Britain’s Anne Keothavong in the second round of the AEGON Classic.
Keothavong,the 26-year-old Laotian from London, is Britain’s former no. 1 female tennis player and was hoping to make a successful comeback from her second cruciate ligament injury.
The first-seeded Li [...]
Getting to know Kimiko Date Krumm
With the French Open in full swing, the people at Roland Garros are have put together a profile on professional tennis player Kimiko Date Krumm, the 39-year-old who returned to the circuit in 2008 after a 12-year hiatus. Krumm, who is married to German race driver Michael Krumm, spent those years doing everything from running [...]
Zheng moves onto quarters at Paribas Open, semis of doubles
Continuing our coverage of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Chinese tennis star Jie Zheng defeated Alicia Molik in the fourth round of the women’s singles tournament, winning the first and third sets against the Australian (6-3, 4-6, 7-6). Zheng moves on to the quarterfinals and will face No. 4 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark [...]
Jie Zheng defeats Sharapova at Indian Wells
After making it to the semi-finals of the Australian Open in Melbourne, Chinese tennis star Jie Zheng, seeded 18, upset another highly-ranked player by beating tenth-seeded Maria Sharapova yesterday at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
26-year-old Zheng and Sharapova faced off for almost three hours before Zheng was able to push past the former [...]
Li Na, Zheng Jie out at Australian Open
Li Na put up a valiant fight, only losing to 11-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams 7-6, 7-6 after two hard-fought tiebreakers. Fellow Chinese tennis player Zheng Jie did not fare as well, easily capitulating the semifinal match 6-1, 6-0 to former world No. 1 player Justine Henin.
Despites their losses, however, both Li and Zheng’s [...]
Li defeats Williams to join Zheng in the semis
Chinese tennis player Li Na beat American Venus Williams in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open to join her compatriot Zheng Jie in the semifinal round in Melbourne. She is the second Chinese woman, after Zheng, to make it this far in the tournament.
Li lost the first set to Williams 2-6, then rallied to win [...]
Zheng defeats Kirilenko, reaches semifinals of Australian Open
Zheng Jie defeated Russian Maria Kirilenko (6-1, 6-3) to make it to the semifinals of the Australian Open in Melbourne. This will be the second semifinal in a major tournament for the Chinese tennis player. Zheng’s next match will be against Justine Henin, who beat Nadia Petrova earlier on Wednesday.
More Than the Games: “Zheng eases [...]
Zheng Jie, Li Na to quarterfinals of 2010 Australian Open
China’s Zheng Jie was the first player to make it to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in Melbourne, defeating 31st-seeded Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko. Zheng’s fourth round victory makes her the Chinese tennis player to make it this far in the tournament. She is also the first Chinese player to reach the semifinals of the [...]
2010 Australian Open: China’s Li Na and Jie Zheng survive to third round
At the 2010 Australian Open in Melbourne, both Li Na and Zheng Jie–China’s top tennis players–made it past their opponents to make it to the third round. Along with Li and Zheng, Taiwanese American Vania King pulled off a minor upset by beating 23rd-ranked Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova, only to be defeated in the second round by [...]
Hong Kong Tennis Classic 2010
In Hong Kong, Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova faced off in an exhibition match against China’z Zheng Jie. Zheng, who is currently ranked 35th in the world, put up a formidable fight, coming back from a 3-1 deficit to take the first set in a tie breaker. Sharapova (now ranked 14th in the world) came [...]
“Zheng Jie happy to be out of China’s state sports system”
Several sites, including the Taipei Times and China Daily, have posted news that China’s number two tennis player Zheng Jie has decided to continue with self-management, having freed herself from the management of the China Tennis Association.
Zheng, who was ranked 35th in the world last year, is one of the first tennis players to leave the [...]
