Chinese tennis star Zheng Qinwen secured an upset over No 6 seed Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain in straight sets at the Athens Open on Monday.<\/p>\n
Currently ranked No 135 in the world, a free fall of 131 places from her career-high world No 4 spot last June, Zheng dispatched the 23-year-old in the first round, but it was not smooth sailing.<\/p>\n
In her first hard court appearance of the season, Paris Olympic champion Zheng almost lost a 3-0 lead in the opening set, allowing the world No 62 Bouzas Maneiro to level the match at 5-5.<\/p>\n
From there, Zheng won seven games on the bounce, taking the first set and building a healthy lead in the second.<\/p>\n
Bouzas Maneiro held serve for the first time in the second set before pushing Zheng hard in the seventh game.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard managed four break points but Zheng fended them all off, and then sealed the match with her fourth match point, winning 7-5, 6-1 in one hour and 49 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese tennis star Zheng Qinwen secured an upset over No 6 seed Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":936052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[48],"tags":[5539,377157,38341,377158,74,24918,132612,22950,131706,44831,377159,62,1464,67,132,68,10118,377156,2212,28725],"class_list":["post-936051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-athens","tag-athens-open","tag-australian-open","tag-bouzas-maneiro","tag-china","tag-greece","tag-hubei","tag-jessica-bouzas-maneiro","tag-micic","tag-olympic-games","tag-paris-olympic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-us-open","tag-womens-tennis-association","tag-wta","tag-zheng-qinwen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116922695552695205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}