Zheng Jie upsets world No 1 in LA
China Daily | Updated: 2009-08-08 08:26
LOS ANGELES: China's Zheng Jie, the 2008 Wimbledon semifinalist, said she may have discovered the most effective way of defeating current world No 1 Dinara Safina, who has won all four of their head-to-head meetings. Keep her moving.
Zheng, seeded 14th, overcame a barrage of powerful groundstrokes from the Russian in the third round of the LA Championships on Thursday and won their fifth career clash 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 in a 130-minute tussle.
Zheng snapped the four-match losing streak to Safina that dates back to 2005 when they met in the early rounds of the Australian Open. Safina beat Zheng in last year's French Open and the Beijing Olympics and another three setter earlier this year on the clay courts in Rome.
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