.NEW YORK CITY-- Qinwen Zheng beat Donna Vekic in a rematch of their Olympic ultimate, advancing to the United States Open quarterfinals along with a 7-6 (2 ), 4-6, 6-2 victory early Monday early morning in the current end of a females's match in competition history.It was 2:15 a.m. when the No. 7-seeded Zheng finished off the match that lasted 2 hours, 50 mins, a far tougher as well as longer exam than she received from Vekic last month in Paris.Zheng won China's first songs gold in ping pong along with a 6-2, 6-3 victory that day. She had not been fairly as prevalent on the US Open's tough courts, where Vekic thinks a lot more comfortable than the clay-based at Roland Garros.But Zheng is still plenty hard to defeat on challenging courthouses, having actually reached her first Conquest ultimate this year at the Australian Open, where she dropped to Aryna Sabalenka." I feel definitely happy with on my own because it is actually hard altering surfaces from clay-based to hard, particularly since I returned to China, so I do not have the exact same method like all the various other gamers," Zheng mentioned. "Therefore, basically, I'm merely making an effort to store myself, find a technique to obtain the complement, even if I'm not thinking at my absolute best." Editor's Picks2 RelatedShe will certainly play again versus Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed that also beat Zheng last year in the quarters at Flushing Meadows on her means to the final, on Tuesday.Zheng claimed she'll prepare-- as long as she gets 8 or 9 hours of sleeping after finally returning to the accommodation." I definitely like to bet her, as well as I'm awaiting playing against her," Zheng said of Sabalenka. "I know she is just one of the best gamers on hard courthouses, as well as I have actually been actually expecting this minute." Vekic was actually coming off her greatest result in a Conquest, achieving the semifinals at Wimbledon. Yet the No. 24 seed recognized she missed out on an opportunity to go also deeper at Blush Meadows.She regularly took long stops briefly in aggravation after missing a try, from time to time moving her hair or even resting her scalp in her hand.The Croatian gamer damaged Zheng to succeed the 2nd collection as well as also the match, driving Zheng back with some blistering returns before making use of an excellent reduce shot to offer herself an established point.But after an ace to open the third set, Vekic produced pair of upright spontaneous errors, and Zheng cracked her. Zheng then broke once more at passion for a 5-2 top in front of the thin crowd that had actually lingered previous 2 a.m.The previous most recent finish for a girls's suit was actually 2:13 a.m., when Maria Sakkari trumped Bianca Andreescu in a 2021 fourth-round match.