Coco Gauff said Friday there were “still a lot of questions” about the status of Peng Shuai, as international women’s tennis returns to Beijing for the first time since the Chinese star made sexual assault allegations against a top government official. Peng, a former doubles champion, vanished from public view for weeks in late 2021 after she wrote on social …
Coco Gauff celebrates after defeating Shuai Zhang during the fourth round of the U.S. Open on Sunday. “I think that’s been the hope and I think that she has the maturity and ability to do that,” ESPN commentator Pam Shriver said. It’s like, ‘You can’t get past me today.’” Gauff hasn’t lost a set here, but she had to come …
China said on Thursday that politics should be kept out of sports after the Women’s Tennis Association suspended tournaments in the country over concerns for Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai’s safety. The WTA, the global governing body for women’s professional tennis, on Wednesday announced the “immediate suspension of all tournaments in China”, including in Hong Kong, citing concerns about the …
Sania Mirza and Shuai Zhang pair was beaten 6-1, 5-7, 10-6 by the American wild cards Caroline Dolehide and Coco Vandeweghe in the doubles first round of the $565,530 WTA tennis tournament in the US. $15,000 ITF men, Lubbock, US Singles : Demetris Azoides bt Parth Aggarwal 7-5, 6-1; Suraj Prabodh bt Ozan Colak 6-7, 6-1, 4-0. $15,000 ITF men, …
Experience triumphed over youth as Australian Sam Stosur and Zhang Shuai of China beat Americans Coco Gauff and Caty McNally 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in a tightly fought US Open women's doubles final on Sunday. The duo, who also won together at the Australian Open in 2019, produced a near-flawless first set with just two unforced errors, compared to 10 from …
Samantha Stosur has achieved more glory at the US Open championships, where she pulled off her greatest triumph a decade ago, winning the women's doubles crown with Chinese partner Zhang Shuai. Key points: Australia's Sam Stosur has won the fourth major women's doubles title of her career, taking the US Open with China's Zhang Shuai Stosur and Zhang defeated the …
