The 2025 French Open women's singles quarterfinals are ushering in a key match, and Sabalenka is looking forward to revenge Zheng Qinwen

Zheng Qinwen, the first sister of China's golden flower, broke into the top 8 of the French Open women's singles for the first time, becoming the second Chinese Jinhua to break into the top 8 of the French Open singles in the Open era. Zheng Qinwen was greeted in the quarterfinals by Belarusian top seed Sabalenka, who remembered her defeat last month and said to Zheng Qinwen: "I am waiting for revenge." ”

Zheng Qinwen reached the quarterfinals of the French Open for the first time on the same court where she won the women's singles gold medal at the Paris Olympics, and she celebrated happily after winning the match

On the 1st local time, No. 8 seed Zheng Qinwen defeated Russian player Samsonova 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-3 after a hard-fought battle of 2 hours and 47 minutes at the 2025 French Open, winning 10 consecutive victories at Roland Garros, reaching the top 8 of the French Open for the first time in her career and the top 8 of the Grand Slam women's singles for the fourth time.

In this match, Zheng Qinwen hit a total of 10 aces (with distribution), including 5 in the deciding set, while her opponent Samsonova did not hit an ace. After winning the match, Zheng Qinwen looked unsatisfied, "It was a very intense game, the opponent put a lot of pressure on me, and I had a lot of runs behind the baseline, but I felt like I still had a lot of energy. If I want to play a best-of-five system, I will continue to challenge it, but there is no five-set system in the women's tournament, so I can't do it. ”

Motivate yourself with Olympic gold medals all the time. This is the first time Zheng Qinwen has reached the last eight of the French Open, and her previous best result was the round of 16 in 2022, and she shared her feelings about her breakthrough in the clay Grand Slam in her post-match press conference, and also talked about how she was inspired by winning gold at the Olympics. "I'm so happy and it's hard to put into words how I feel because I've been working hard every year and this is my first time in the last eight of the French Open. To this day, I still remember those moments at the Olympics. In the game I told myself to keep fighting, keep going, don't focus on the score, let's see what happens. In the end, I won. ”

Sabalenka is looking to get revenge on Zheng Qinwen in the last eight of the French Open

Sabalenka has reached the quarterfinals of all 10 Grand Slam matches. Zheng will face Belarusian top seed Sabalenka again in the quarter-finals, who defeated American Anisimova 7-5, 6-3 to maintain her unbeaten record at the French Open.

So far at the 2022 US Open, Sabalenka has reached at least the quarterfinals in 10 Grand Slam appearances. The last woman to do so was former American queen Serena Williams, who also reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam 10 times in a row between the 2014 US Open and the 2017 Australian Open. In the previous seven meetings between Zheng Qinwen and Sabalenka, Sabalenka won 6 and lost 1, and the only defeat came in WTA1000 Rome in May this year, which was also the most recent meeting between the two sides.

Speaking about playing against Zheng Qinwen again, Sabalenka said: "It's always tough to play against her, I'm really looking forward to playing her in the last eight, yes, I want 'revenge'. I was very tired when I lost in Rome last time and now I'm full of energy. ”