the china Qinwen Zheng and the American Sofia Kenin will compete this Sunday in the final of the Toray Pan Pacific Open at Tokyotournament WTA 500 which will be held on hard court, according to wins against Russian Diana Shnaider and British Katie Boulter.
First favorite and seventh player in the world, Zheng defeated Shnaider 7-6 (5) and 6-3. The Russian put up a solid resistance in the first set, but in the end was unable to cope with either her rival’s greater composure or her strong serve. The Chinese added six aces and won a very high percentage of points playing her first.
Zheng, Olympic champion at the Paris Olympics, will face in the final a player who entered the final draw in Tokyo by invitation and is ranked 155th in the WTA rankings. Sofia Kenin, who in March 2020 became fourth in the world, again surprised and eliminated the third seed that came to her at Ariake Coliseum.
Katie Boulterseeded ninth and 33rd in the rankings, suffered the same fate as China’s Xinyu Wang and Russia’s Daria Kasatkina in previous rounds. Sofia Kenin defeated the Englishwoman 6-4, 6-4 and he will look tomorrow for the sixth title of his career and the first since 2020. For Zheng this is the fourth final of the year after those in Palermo, where he won, Melbourne and Wuhan, where he lost to both Belarusians Aryna. Sabalenka, world number one.
Source: La Verdad
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