Zheng Qinwen finally got her first win over Aryna Sabalenka at the seventh attempt to reach the Italian Open semi-finals on Wednesday and the Olympic champion said she had perhaps shown the world number one too much respect in their prior meetings.

Zheng Qinwen decided to tell a story about meeting Aryna Sabalenka for the first time when she was just 14 and how "not treating the Belarusian like a normal player" impacted their early matches.

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Champion Alexander Zverev and world number one Aryna Sabalenka fell by the wayside in the quarter-finals of the Italian Open on Wednesday, while Carlos Alcaraz beat Briton's Jack Draper 6-4 6-4 to reach the last four for the first time at the claycourt event.

China’s Zheng Qinwen said she needed to rediscover “the feeling of the game” to progress in the Italian Open, which starts on Wednesday. The Olympic champion’s year has been blighted by an elbow injury, while she crashed out of last month’s ...

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"I remember I was going to see her in 2017 in China… as a junior,” Zheng recalled in a post-match mixed zone. “My father was there saying, Oh, Sabalenka, you need to learn about her forehand, her backhand.

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