.NYC-- Qinwen Zheng trumped Donna Vekic in a rematch of their Olympic last, improving to the United States Open up quarterfinals along with a 7-6 (2 ), 4-6, 6-2 victory early Monday early morning in the most recent end of a females's suit in competition history.It was 2:15 a.m. when the No. 7-seeded Zheng accomplished the suit that lasted 2 hours, fifty minutes, a significantly tougher and longer exam than she received from Vekic last month in Paris.Zheng gained China's 1st songs gold in tennis along with a 6-2, 6-3 triumph that day. She had not been rather as dominant on the US Open's hard courthouses, where Vekic thinks a lot more pleasant than the clay-based at Roland Garros.But Zheng is actually still plenty hard to defeat on challenging courthouses, having actually reached her very first Grand Slam ultimate this year at the Australian Open, where she dropped to Aryna Sabalenka." I experience truly proud of myself considering that it's challenging transforming surface areas coming from clay to hard, particularly since I got back to China, so I do not possess the exact same method like all the other players," Zheng mentioned. "Therefore, essentially, I'm only making an effort to hold myself, locate a technique to obtain the match, even when I am actually not believing at my greatest." Editor's Picks2 RelatedShe will certainly play again against Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed who additionally beat Zheng in 2014 in the one-fourths at Blush Meadows on her means to the ultimate, on Tuesday.Zheng claimed she'll prepare-- just as long as she obtains 8 or even 9 hrs of sleep after lastly getting back to the hotel." I actually such as to bet her, and also I am actually anticipating playing against her," Zheng mentioned of Sabalenka. "I recognize she is just one of the best gamers on challenging courts, and I've been actually hoping for this second." Vekic was actually coming off her greatest cause a Conquest, reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon. But the No. 24 seed understood she overlooked an odds to go even much deeper at Blush Meadows.She regularly took lengthy pauses in disappointment after skipping a go, from time to time tugging at her hair or relaxing her scalp in her hand.The Croatian player damaged Zheng to gain the second collection as well as even the suit, steering Zheng back along with some scorching gains just before using a perfect decline shot to provide herself a set point.But after an ace to open up the third collection, Vekic helped make pair of upright spontaneous mistakes, and Zheng cracked her. Zheng at that point broke once again at passion for a 5-2 top in front of the thin crowd that had actually lingered previous 2 a.m.The previous most current surface for a females's paired was actually 2:13 a.m., when Maria Sakkari defeated Bianca Andreescu in a 2021 fourth-round suit.