.NYC-- Qinwen Zheng beat Donna Vekic in a rematch of their Olympic last, improving to the US Open quarterfinals with a 7-6 (2 ), 4-6, 6-2 victory early Monday morning in the most up to date finish of a ladies's match in event history.It was 2:15 a.m. when the No. 7-seeded Zheng finished off the match that lasted 2 hours, fifty moments, a far more durable and also longer exam than she received from Vekic final month in Paris.Zheng won China's initial singles gold in tennis with a 6-2, 6-3 victory that day. She wasn't pretty as prevalent on the United States Open's challenging courthouses, where Vekic feels so much more pleasant than the clay-based at Roland Garros.But Zheng is actually still plenty hard to defeat on hard courts, having actually hit her very first Conquest last this year at the Australian Open, where she shed to Aryna Sabalenka." I feel truly proud of myself considering that it's not easy altering areas from clay to hard, specifically considering that I returned to China, so I do not have the same practice like all the other players," Zheng mentioned. "Thus, primarily, I am actually only attempting to hold on my own, locate a method to obtain the complement, even though I am actually certainly not feeling at my greatest." Editor's Picks2 RelatedShe are going to play once more against Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed that likewise beat Zheng in 2014 in the one-fourths at Flushing Meadows on her method to the final, on Tuesday.Zheng said she'll prepare-- as long as she receives eight or even nine hrs of sleep after eventually returning to the hotel." I truly like to play against her, as well as I'm expecting playing against her," Zheng said of Sabalenka. "I understand she is among the greatest gamers on difficult courts, and also I've been actually anticipating this second." Vekic was actually coming off her finest cause a Grand Slam, reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon. But the No. 24 seed knew she skipped an odds to go also deeper at Blush Meadows.She often took long stops briefly in aggravation after overlooking a try, occasionally moving her hair or even resting her head in her hand.The Croatian gamer damaged Zheng to win the second set and also also the suit, steering Zheng back along with some scorching profits just before using an excellent reduce fired to give herself an established point.But after an ace to open up the 3rd set, Vekic helped make pair of upright unforced errors, and Zheng cracked her. Zheng after that damaged once again at affection for a 5-2 top facing the sporadic group that had actually stayed previous 2 a.m.The previous most recent surface for a girls's paired was 2:13 a.m., when Maria Sakkari defeated Bianca Andreescu in a 2021 fourth-round suit.