{"id":2639,"date":"2024-08-01T14:42:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympics-tennis-iga-swiatek-loses-to-zheng-qinwen-at-paris-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:42:04","slug":"olympics-tennis-iga-swiatek-loses-to-zheng-qinwen-at-paris-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympics-tennis-iga-swiatek-loses-to-zheng-qinwen-at-paris-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics tennis: Iga Swiatek loses to Zheng Qinwen at Paris 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Polish top seed Iga Swiatek saw her 25-match winning streak on the Paris clay ended by China’s Zheng Qinwen in the Olympics semi-finals.<\/b><\/p>\n

Swiatek, 23, has won the past three French Opens at Roland Garros, but was beaten 6-2 7-5 by sixth seed Zheng at the same venue.<\/p>\n

Losing there for the first time since 2021 was a tough blow for the long-time world number one to take.<\/p>\n

Swiatek was visibly upset when she tried to speak to broadcast journalists about an hour after the match and decided not to speak to written journalists – as she is entitled to do under Olympic rules.<\/p>\n

Zheng, 21, lost in the Australian Open final earlier this year and now has a shot at earning the biggest title of her career.<\/p>\n

The world number seven will play either Croatia’s Donna Vekic or Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in Saturday’s gold medal match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Polish top seed Iga Swiatek saw her 25-match winning streak on the Paris clay ended by China’s Zheng Qinwen in the Olympics semi-finals. Swiatek, 23, has won the past three French Opens at Roland Garros, but was beaten 6-2 7-5 by sixth seed Zheng at the same venue. Losing there for the first time since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}