WTA London: Half of the women's singles quarterfinals are decided, and Zheng Qinwen makes his grass debut tonight

With the French Open coming to an end, the 2025 tennis grass court season kicks off this week, with four events taking place in the first week of the tour: WTA 500 London, ATP 250 Stuttgart and WTA/ATP 250 's-Hertogenbosch.

Zheng Qinwen interacts with fans after pre-match training

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China's golden flower Zheng Qinwen reached the quarterfinals of this year's French Open singles tournament, setting a career-best record. After a few days of rest, Zheng Qinwen chose to kick off this year's grass-court season at the WTA 500 in London, where she returned to her personal best No.5 this week as the top seed with a first-round bye.

After the first round of the matchup, Zheng Qinwen's opponent in the second round was produced, and the American Kessler eliminated local wildcard player F. Jones 6-2/6-4 and will compete with Zheng Qinwen for a ticket to the quarterfinals. It will be a encounter between the two sides, with the game scheduled for the final finale of the day at Andy Murray Stadium, which is expected to kick off at 23:30 GMT tonight.

According to the participation plan, Zheng Qinwen will also participate in the WTA 500 Berlin next week to warm up for Wimbledon after this stop. In the pre-match interview, Zheng Qinwen said that the time to switch from clay to grass was tight, and the bounce of the ball on grass was low and flat, fast and irregular, and she needed to lower her center of gravity more, but she always thought that she was a good player for grass.

"Although last year was due to injuries, Wimbledon was not able to play well; The year before last, I changed teams because I hadn't adapted to it myself. But I think I've always been good at playing grass, and I don't want to put too much pressure on myself, I just want to play slowly, because I think tennis needs some workout and I'm still on the way to growth. ”

Murray took to Andy Murray Stadium to pick a side for the game

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In yesterday's competition, the four women's singles quarterfinals were first decided. No.2 seed Keys eased up to qualifier Zakharova 6-3, 6-2 in her debut; No.3 seed Navarro saved match point to defeat Maia 1-6, 7-6(4), 6-3; Eighth seed Anisimova swept past homegrown wildcard Qatar 6-1, 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals. Sixth seed Mukhova lost 7-6(3), 5-7, 1-6 to qualifiers from Germany.

In Women's Doubles, Zhang Shuai/Perez are seeded No.3 and beat Mikhalikova/Nichols 7-6(3)/7-6(5) in the first round and will face Babos/Stefani for a place in the semi-finals tonight at 19:00 GMT.

The full schedule is on June 12th

(Text and editor: Dato)