{"id":16589,"date":"2024-01-20T02:41:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T07:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/australian-open-2024-zheng-qinwen-takes-inspiration-from-li-na-as-she-reaches-fourth-round\/20\/01\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T02:41:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T07:41:31","slug":"australian-open-2024-zheng-qinwen-takes-inspiration-from-li-na-as-she-reaches-fourth-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/australian-open-2024-zheng-qinwen-takes-inspiration-from-li-na-as-she-reaches-fourth-round\/20\/01\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2024: Zheng Qinwen takes inspiration from Li Na as she reaches fourth round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Li <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/25875113\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">beat Dominika Cibulkova on Rod Laver Arena<\/a> in 2014 to win her second Grand Slam title but retired later that year because of injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three years earlier she became Asia&#8217;s first Grand Slam singles champion with her French Open victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following her victory over Wang, met face-to-face with Li for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She said to me don&#8217;t think too much, just keep [it] simple. I think that&#8217;s what I need to do as well,&#8221; Zheng said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zheng will play French world number 95 <b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Oceane Dodin<\/b> in the fourth round after she beat compatriot Clara Burel 6-2 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russian <b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Anna Kalinskaya<\/b> beat American Sloane Stephens 6-7 (8-10) 6-1 6-4 and with Italian <b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jasmine Paolini<\/b> awaiting for Kalinskaya in the next round, there is guaranteed to be a first-time major semi-finalist in Zheng&#8217;s section of the draw,<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paolini reached her first Grand Slam fourth round by beating Anna Blinkova, who stunned Elena Rybakina on Thursday, 7-6 (7-1) 6-4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/68040197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li beat Dominika Cibulkova on Rod Laver Arena in 2014 to win her second Grand Slam title but retired later that year<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/australian-open-2024-zheng-qinwen-takes-inspiration-from-li-na-as-she-reaches-fourth-round\/20\/01\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1123,681,1340,725,1819,1707,146,1818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16591,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions\/16591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}