.NEW YORK CITY-- Qinwen Zheng trumped Donna Vekic in a rematch of their Olympic ultimate, improving to the United States Open quarterfinals with a 7-6 (2 ), 4-6, 6-2 triumph early Monday morning in the most up to date finish of a girls's suit in competition history.It was actually 2:15 a.m. when the No. 7-seeded Zheng accomplished the suit that lasted 2 hours, fifty minutes, a significantly more durable as well as longer test than she received from Vekic last month in Paris.Zheng won China's first single people gold in tennis along with a 6-2, 6-3 victory that day. She wasn't fairly as prevalent on the US Open's challenging courts, where Vekic believes so much more comfortable than the clay at Roland Garros.But Zheng is still plenty tough to trump on difficult courtrooms, having actually hit her initial Grand Slam final this year at the Australian Open, where she shed to Aryna Sabalenka." I experience truly proud of myself given that it is actually hard modifying areas coming from clay-based to hard, especially since I went back to China, so I do not have the same strategy like all the various other gamers," Zheng said. "So, basically, I am actually only trying to hold myself, find a means to obtain the match, regardless of whether I'm certainly not believing at my ideal." Editor's Picks2 RelatedShe will definitely play once more versus Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed that also defeated Zheng in 2014 in the quarters at Flushing Meadows on her method to the ultimate, on Tuesday.Zheng said she'll prepare-- provided that she gets eight or nine hours of sleep after lastly responding to the hotel." I truly just like to play against her, and I am actually expecting playing against her," Zheng claimed of Sabalenka. "I understand she is among the best players on tough courts, and I've been actually anticipating this instant." Vekic was actually going over her finest result in a Conquest, meeting the semifinals at Wimbledon. However the No. 24 seed recognized she missed an opportunity to go even much deeper at Flushing Meadows.She regularly took long pauses in irritation after overlooking a go, sometimes tugging at her hair or even relaxing her scalp in her hand.The Croatian player damaged Zheng to succeed the second collection and also even the suit, driving Zheng back with some scorching returns just before using a perfect decrease shot to provide herself a specified point.But after an ace to open up the third collection, Vekic produced pair of upright unforced inaccuracies, and Zheng cracked her. Zheng then broke once more at affection for a 5-2 lead facing the sparse group that had stuck around past 2 a.m.The previous latest appearance for a ladies's fit was actually 2:13 a.m., when Maria Sakkari beat Bianca Andreescu in a 2021 fourth-round match.