German tennis participant Angelique Kerber’s taking part in profession has ended with a defeat to China’s Qinwen Zheng within the 2024 Paris Olympics girls’s singles quarterfinals at Court docket Philippe-Chartier. Within the males’s part, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz, who battled within the Wimbledon closing just lately, continued their quest as they reached the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Angelique, a three-time Grand Slam champion and silver medalist on this occasion on the 2016 Rio Olympics, had introduced earlier than the beginning of the Paris 2024 quadrennial occasion that this event would mark the end of her skilled tennis profession.

Within the quarter-final conflict which lasted shut to a few hours, Angelique took the lead in opposition to Zheng by successful the primary set 7-6 (4) in a tiebreak. However Zheng hit again and took the final two units, ending with a third-set tiebreak to win 6-7 (4), 6-4 and 7-6 (6).

Zheng turns into simply the second Chinese language tennis participant after Li Na to make the ladies’s singles semi-finals on the Olympics. She is going to face the winner of the quarter-final between world primary Poland’s Iga Swiatek and USA’s Danielle Collins for a spot within the closing and assure herself a medal.

In the meantime, 24-time Grand Slam title winner Novak Djokovic’s quest for a primary Olympic gold medal continued after the Serbian defeated Germany’s Dominik Koepfer 7-5 6-3 at Roland Garros within the morning. The highest seed will now meet Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas in a mouth-watering quarterfinal conflict.

Spain’s French Open champion Carlos Alcaraz, who might be in doubles motion later alongside Rafael Nadal, has additionally made it to the quarterfinals after being Roman Safiullin 6-4 6-2. He’ll face USA’s Tommy Paul within the quarterfinals.

Djokovic, the World No. 2 participant within the ATP Rankings, is making his fifth Olympics look. Djokovic’s greatest outcome got here in Beijing in 2008 when he gained a bronze medal. The Serbian, who is keen so as to add an Olympic gold to his trophy cupboard, revealed he’s loving his time in Paris.

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