Olympic champion Qinwen Zheng will also seek the ‘master’ title at the WTA Finals

The Olympic champion Qinwen Zheng reached this Friday with total authority the finals of the WTA Finals in Riyadha ‘masters tournament’ where the Chinese will be looking for the perfect culmination of his amazing year. Zheng lost Barbora Krejcikovawhich he won 6-3 and 7-5 to reach his first final at a Masters.

Gold in Paris 2024, finalist in the Australian Openchampion in Palermo and Tokyo and finalist in Wuhan, Zheng, trained by Pere Ribawill be looking for the perfect end to their great season this Saturday in a final where the winner of the second semi-final awaits, who measure up to number 1 Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff.

has signed Zheng was an absolutely dominant matchwith an accurate forehand from the back of the court and a serve that made the difference. Zheng had the match fully on track in the second set, but she allowed Krejcikova to gain confidence and claw her way back into it, forcing her to keep paddling to close it out.

The Chinese player broke her rival’s pattern early on, in the second game of the match where she was able to attack Krejcikova’s second serves. The Czech made some mistakes on the right and delivered the key serve for the future of the first set.

Because, since then, Krejcikova has been reliable in her serve, but Zheng saves with good first serves the complex moments that arise. Krejcikova saved two set points from another on her serve in the eighth game of the set, but in the next game she made a serious error at the net that sent Zheng to 6-3 in the first set.

The match looked to be going well for the Chinese player, especially as Zheng showed power through the serve and forehand at the start of the second set. In just a few minutes he achieved a double break that put him 3-0 and with the game on track.

But Krejcikova has yet to say her last word. A game full of errors from the Chinese gave the Czech the first break. Krejcikova grew on serve, began refining her backhand and earned a second break to reach 5-5 and force a tie end to the set. However, Zheng struck again at the decisive moment: a break for 6-5 allowed him to seal his victory on serve, after saving a breaking ball..

In this way, Zheng reaches Masters final (this Saturday, 5:00 pm)where she will fight this Saturday for another grand title against Aryna Sabalenka or Coco Gauff. In her passage to the final, Zheng overtook Elena Rybakina in the rankings to jump to the ranked number 5 in the worldwith the option of moving up to fourth place or even third depending on the arrangement of the final and winning the title. The Chinese player continues to establish himself as one of the great sensations of 2024.