Olympic champion Zheng takes break after surgery
She won the women's singles title at the Paris Olympics in 2024 and claimed the last of her five WTA titles at the Pan Pacific Open in Japan in October of that year. Zheng has never won a Grand Slam title, but reached the 2024 Australian Open final, the quarter-finals of the US Open twice and the last eight of this year's French Open.The fourth and final major of the year begins at Flushing Meadows in New York on 24 August.
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Scottish Sun
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