{"id":412207,"date":"2023-02-10T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412207"},"modified":"2023-02-10T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:46:37","slug":"zheng-upsets-kasatkina-to-reach-abu-dhabi-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/zheng-upsets-kasatkina-to-reach-abu-dhabi-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Zheng upsets Kasatkina to reach Abu Dhabi semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Zheng Qinwen reached the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open semi-finals after upsetting top seed Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-2 in just 78 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Top 10 win number 3\u20e3 \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>Zheng Qinwen breezes past the No.1 seed Kasatkina, dropping only 3 games!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MubadalaAbuDhabiOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MubadalaAbuDhabiOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6UPWkHkrNF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6UPWkHkrNF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/1624054370672181250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old recorded her third career Top 10 win, following her 2022 defeats of Ons Jabeur in Toronto and Paula Badosa in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The result puts Zheng into her third tour-level semifinal, and second at WTA 500 level following her run to the Tokyo final last September.<\/p>\n<p>Number two seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland advanced to the last four with a 7-6(5), 6-2 defeat of qualifier Shelby Rogers, her fifth in a row over the American.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers dropped just four points through her first six service games, but after Bencic proved steadier in the tiebreak, the Swiss player took control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Zheng Qinwen reached the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open semi-finals after upsetting top seed Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-2 in just 78 minutes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412208,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16844,17385],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Number two seed Belinda Bencic beat Shelby Rogers","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412207"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412207"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}