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Straits Times
4 days ago
- Sport
- Straits Times
Olympic champion Zheng pauses WTA Tour after elbow surgery
Find out what's new on ST website and app. Qinwen Zheng of China in action during her match against Angelique Kerber of Germany. Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen said on July 19 she would take a short break from the WTA Tour after undergoing elbow surgery. The 22-year-old Chinese player was eliminated from this year's Wimbledon tournament in the first round by Czech Katerina Siniakova earlier in July. "Now begins the recovery journey," she wrote on Instagram. "Over the next few weeks and months, I'll be focusing entirely on rehab — doing everything I can to come back stronger and healthier." She powered her way to gold in Paris last year and reached the 2024 Australian Open final. Zheng added she had arthroscopic surgery on her right elbow on July 18. "This is just a short break, and I see it as a necessary step toward a better version of myself on the court," she said. REUTERS
Time of India
4 days ago
- Health
- Time of India
Tennis player Qinwen Zheng shares shocking health update after months of pain
Qinwen Zheng, a Chinese tennis player, just recently provided her fans with an announcement that shocked many. The 22-year-old endured a quiet battle with pain for months. While on the court she seemed tough, she was suffering from something serious in the background. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now On July 19, 2025, Qunwen Zheng made a personal announcement that now puts into perspective her absence from tournaments, over the last few weeks. What happened? Why is she taking a break? And when can fans expect her return? Here's everything we know about her health and next steps. Qinwen Zheng shares elbow injury update after successful surgery Following many weeks of agony, Qinwen Zheng had arthroscopic surgery on her right elbow on Friday, July 18, 2025. She said the pain began months ago and made both training and matches hard. Despite trying different treatments, nothing worked well enough. So, after talking to doctors and her team, they chose surgery to fully fix the issue. The surgery happened just one day before her update. Qinwen Zheng posted on Instagram on Saturday, July 19, saying, 'I underwent the procedure successfully, and I'm grateful to have it behind me.' She expressed thanks as well to her supporters and sponsors for pledging to be with her in trying circumstances. Though this pain caused Qinwen Zheng to withdraw her last games, she has taken part in many in-person Grand Slam events this year, including the Australian Open and French Open. She was an early bright out at Wimbledon 2025 and noticed that the fan was trying to wear an elbow sleeve during her matches. Also Read: Qinwen Zheng starts recovery with full focus on rehab Now that the surgery is done, Qinwen Zheng is fully focused on getting better. She wrote, 'Over the next few weeks and months, I'll be focusing entirely on rehab—doing everything I can to come back stronger and healthier.' Tired of too many ads? go ad free now She said this break is temporary and part of her general objective of coming back better than she has. Qinwen Zheng could miss out on the U.S. Open 2025, in New York on August 24. She had already withdrawn from the Berlin Open, and the Washington DC event due to elbow pain. She is with doctors and rehab professionals to have a full recovery at present. There is love coming from fans everywhere, hoping she is back on the court soon.
Forbes
15-07-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
New Wilson Ultra V5 Racket Enticing Host Of Professionals To Switch
The new Wilson Ultra V5 tennis racket. The new Wilson Ultra v5 tennis racket, launching July 15, already has something the previous versions haven't enjoyed: a host of top-level tour professionals switching to the Pro version of the frame. As Wilson continues to tweak the design of its flagship 'explosive power' frame, the Chicago-based brand has added new technologies designed to complement the modern game while introducing a range of rackets within the Ultra v5 line to appeal to a mix of players, including enticing Alex de Minaur, Qinwen Zheng and Marta Kostyuk to switch frames and join Maria Sakkari as Ultra players. 'The new Ultra v5 gives me a whole new level of confidence on court,' de Minaur says, 'the power and precision are another level.' Marta Kostyuk is switching to the Wilson Ultra v5 and will have a dress to match the racket's ... More colorway. The seven models of the new frame, which include the mainline 100 and the 99 Pro, along with two lightweight 100s, a 111 and two junior frames, 'is all about power for the aggressive baseliner,' David Packowitz, Wilson global product line manager for performance rackets, tells me. 'In v5, it was how do we deliver a better experience for those players and give them the ability to execute their game better?' MORE: Roger Federer And Wilson Launch RF Classics Rackets The answer focused on adapting to the modern game, which includes players hitting with more net clearance as they rely on additional spin, players being forced to hit shots from a greater variety of areas on the court, the need for increased shot variety—no longer is it just a serve and big forehand, but players are using chips, high balls, slices and more to set up the winner—and a fresh level of explosivity. 'We wanted to deliver a racket that allows players to accelerate and generate pace off slower balls," Packowitz adds. To make it happen, Wilson reengineered the internal layup of the carbon fiber with a 'tiny tweak' to the flexibility of the racket. While still a stiff power racket, Packowitz says, the result offers more pocketing in the Ultra v5 that offers additional access to control and power that helps keep the ball within the confines of a 78-foot-long tennis court. The change also increased the ability to shape shots, generate spin and create power on slower balls. Alex de Minaur is switching to the Wilson Ultra v5. Wilson, with two power-focused frames—the Ultra and Clash—comes about that power differently in each. The Clash is more flexible with a focus on comfortable power, while the Ultra offers a 'stiff, explosive power racket for the player who takes long cuts and wants something super stable.' Packowitz says both offer a focus on power—the Ultra offers more power than, for example, the Blade—but with a different feel. It's that classic stiffness that attracts elite level players. And now they have a model to fit their needs. MORE: Top-Selling Wilson Clash Racket Back For V3 Release The Ultra v5 features the 99 Pro, a version loaded with additional technology, including an 'elite power flex' that makes it the stiffest racket in the Wilson lineup. There's also a higher balance, meant for stability. The 99 Pro also tweaks the v5's dual tapered beam by creating it in a 'D' shape to make it even more maneuverable on fast swings. The 100 model features power grooves at the top of the hoop, while the 99 Pro moves them to all four corners for an 'explosive feel on contact.' While the 16x19 string pattern is the norm for the Ultra v5, the 99 Pro comes a 16x18 pattern to bring in an additional level of forgiveness and spin because of the racket's stiffness. The Ultra v5 100 weighs in at 300 grams, while the 99 Pro is at 305, making it easy to add weight to, if players want to customize. The power-focused Wilson Ultra v5 tennis racket. 'The 99 Pro is a new model at the top of the food chain in the franchise for the elite power aggressive baseliner,' Packowitz says. 'That is a racket that players are going to find wonders in, with tech that is special and important. It is cool to add to the line and players are asking when they can get their hands on it.' New tech also comes with new manufacturing. Packowitz says that while Wilson is always working to improve quality, the Ultra v5 shows a real step up in improved spec tolerance. 'It is something we are absolutely committed to,' he says about trying to create repeatability between racket specs. 'You are not going to get another racket that plays different but get something consistent.' The Wilson pledge starts with the Ultra v5, but Packowitz says spec tolerance will improve for every product cycle for each racket. Marta Kostyuk and her WIlson Ultra v5 tennis racket. To really accentuate the explosive power focus of the Ultra v5, Packowitz says the design team, along with the product development team, wanted to create a cosmetic that matched the performances. 'We kept coming back to this idea of a blue flame, the hottest part of the flame,' he says. Hence the 'electric indigo' color was born. 'It is bold, explosive and energetic,' he says. 'It is loved by our players.' Wilson will lean fully into the color—the 99 Pro comes in all gloss, while the other versions come in matte—thanks to a head-to-toe Electric Indigo look worn by Kostyuk, who will use the new racket with a matching Headliner Dress and Intrigue shoe. Wilson wants to make an explosive statement with the new Ultra v5. They have powerful stars backing it up. MORE: Wilson Expanding Tennis-Infused Lifestyle Sneaker Style MORE: Roger Federer Lists Most Iconic Rackets In Tennis History
Times
10-07-2025
- Sport
- Times
Iga Swiatek, the Queen of clay, finds her feet on grass with Bencic demolition
Iga Swiatek's movement on clay has long been an artform (James Gheerbrant writes). Videos often go viral which show, in glorious slow motion, her incredible knack for sliding on the red dirt, the way she can launch herself into these amazingly controlled movements of balletic balance and superhuman flexion. On grass, where for years she has struggled, the problem wasn't that she couldn't slide. As she explained this week, it was that when she did, she felt like she was never going to stop. At last year's Wimbledon, she arrived as the top seed and world No1 and looked as helpless as ever on the lawns of the All England Club, losing to the unseeded Yulia Putintseva in the third round. Then she went to Paris for the Olympics and lost at Roland Garros, where she had previously been almost unbeatable, to Qinwen Zheng. She began to fall down the rankings, from first to as low as eighth. In Miami in March, she lost to the world No120. She went 12 months without winning a tournament. Chris Evert said she'd lost her aura. Swiatek called this her 'worst season of the decade'. And in her private moments of doubt, she must have wondered if the slide would ever stop. But if you've ever seen one of these videos, you'll know that the really cool thing about a Swiatek slide is how she gets out of it. The way that, just when you think she's about to crash into some poor ballboy, she puts on the brakes, splays her legs so deeply that her knees almost touch the ground, and in one fluid move turns her whole body through 180 degrees and segues into a sprint in the opposite direction. Never, though, has she executed a more spectacular volte-face than she has pulled off this fortnight. At a low point in her career, on her least favourite surface, Swiatek now stands just one match from glory. She will take on Amanda Anisimova on Saturday, bidding to become only the eighth woman to win a grand-slam title on all three surfaces. In her press conference, she admitted that that goal had never even entered her thinking: she felt her grass-court game was so bad that it never even occurred to her as a possibility. Reaching the final in Bad Homburg before this tournament, her first on grass, gave her belief: even though she lost to Jessica Pegula, she said, through tears: 'This shows there is hope for me on grass.' (Pegula replied, with some prescience, 'Trust me, you can play pretty good on grass.') Now, remarkably, Swiatek will go into her first Wimbledon final as a strong favourite, having demolished Belinda Bencic for the loss of just two games: the most one-sided grand-slam semi-final for eight years. Swiatek broke in the second game, a heavy backhand into the corner setting up a simple putaway, and from then on the match was only going one way. She set the second set on the same course by breaking in the second game again, with a magnificent forehand return right onto the line. 'Today was just a different level from Iga,' Bencic said. 'She didn't let me in the match for one second.' It was a measure of the quality of Swiatek's performance that the vanquished Bencic finished with 11 winners to just eight unforced errors: she played a decent match, but came up against Swiatek in that mode where there's nothing you can do against her. She's not the first: incredibly, this was the sixth time in Swiatek's career that she has won a grand-slam final, semi-final or quarter-final for the loss of three games or fewer. Bencic, who gave birth to her daughter in April last year and began the year ranked 489th, has had a brilliant tournament, and will return to the top 20. There may yet be more grand-slam opportunities in her future. For Swiatek, one awaits which she never thought she'd have, in a place where she has finally found her feet. Women's singles finalSaturday, 4pmTV BBC
India Today
30-06-2025
- Sport
- India Today
Wimbledon Day 1, Schedule and Live Streaming: Alcaraz, Sabalenka, Paolini in action
Aryna Sabalenka, Qinwen Zheng, Carlos Alcaraz and Jasmine Paolini are amongst the top seeds to be in action on Day 1 in the first round of the Wimbledon. Sabalenka, who recently finished as the French Open runner-up, will face Canada's Carson Branstine on Monday, while Alcaraz will play the first match on Centre Court against Italy's Fabio Fognini. Paula Badosa and Alexander Zverev will also take the Centre Court on Monday. Paolini, last year's runner-up, will be up against Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia. Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka will get her campaign underway on Court 18 against Talia Gibson of Australia. advertisementTaylor Fritz will lock horns with Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard of France in the last match of the day on Court 2. Reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys will begin her campaign against Elena-Gabriela Ruse. When and where to watch Wimbledon Day 1 live in India? Matches in the Wimbledon will begin at 11:00 AM local time, 03:30 PM IST and 10:00 AM Sports has the broadcasting rights for Wimbledon 2025. Live streaming of the matches will be available on the JioHotstar app. Wimbledon 2025 Day 1 ScheduleCentre Court[2] Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) vs Fabio Fognini (ITA) - 6PM IST [9] Paula Badosa (ESP) vs Katie Boulter (GBR) [3] Alexander Zverev (GER) vs Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) Court 1[1] Aryna Sabalenka vs [Q] Carson Branstine (CAN) - 5:30PM IST Jacob Fearnley (GBR) vs Joao Fonseca (BRA) Emma Raducanu (GBR) vs [WC] Mingge Xu (GBR) advertisementCourt 2[9] Daniil Medvedev vs Benjamin Bonzi (FRA) - 3:30PM IST [6] Madison Keys (USA) vs Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) [4] Jasmine Paolini (ITA) vs Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) [5] Taylor Fritz (USA) vs Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA) Court 3[20] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) vs Sonay Kartal (GBR) - 3:30PM IST [8] Holger Rune (DEN) vs [Q] Nicolas Jarry (CHI) [32] Matteo Berrettini (ITA) vs Kamil Majchrzak (POL) [5] Qinwen Zheng (CHN) vs Katerina Siniakova (CZE) Court 4[Q] Oliver Tarvet (GBR) vs [Q] Leandro Riedi (SUI) - 3:30PM IST Greet Minnen (BEL) vs Olivia Gadecki (AUS) Ethan Quinn (USA) vs [WC] Henry Searle (GBR) Court 5Christopher O'Connell (AUS) vs [Q] Adrian Mannarino (FRA) - 3:30PM IST Luciano Darderi (ITA) vs Roman Safiullin Lulu Sun (NZL) vs Marie Bouzkova (CZE) Court 6Learner Tien (USA) vs Nishesh Basavareddy (USA) - 3:30PM IST Varvara Gracheva (FRA) vs [Q] Aliaksandra Sasnovich Ann Li (USA) vs Viktorija Golubic (SUI) Matteo Arnaldi (ITA) vs Botic van de Zandschulp (NED) Court 7Anca Todoni (ROU) vs Cristina Bucsa (ESP) - 3:30PM IST Zizou Bergs (BEL) vs Lloyd Harris (RSA) Kamilla Rakhimova vs Aoi Ito (JPN) [Q] Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) vs [Q] Giulio Zeppieri (ITA) Court 8Eva Lys (GER) vs Yue Yuan (CHN) - 3:30PM IST Peyton Stearns (USA) vs Laura Siegemund (GER) Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) vs [Q] Filip Misolic (AUT) Gabriel Diallo (CAN) vs Daniel Altmaier (GER) advertisementCourt 12[12] Frances Tiafoe (USA) vs Elmer Moller (DEN) - 3:30PM IST [24] Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) vs [Q] Valentin Royer (FRA) [29] Leylah Fernandez (CAN) vs [WC] Hannah Klugman (GBR) [32] McCartney Kessler (USA) vs Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) Court 18[14] Elina Svitolina (UKR) vs Anna Bondar (HUN) - 3:30PM IST Cameron Norrie (GBR) vs Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) [17] Karen Khachanov vs Mackenzie McDonald (USA) Naomi Osaka (JPN) vs [Q] Talia Gibson (AUS) Court 9Vit Kopriva (CZE) vs Jordan Thompson (AUS) - 3:30PM IST Olga Danilovic (SRB) vs [Q] Zhang Shuai (CHN) Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) vs Renata Zarazua (MEX) [26] Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP) vs Brandon Holt (USA) Court 10[Q] Diane Parry (FRA) vs [Q] Petra Martic (CRO) - 3:30PM IST [21] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) vs Rebecca Sramkova (SVK) Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) vs [Q] Chris Rodesch (LUX) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) Court 14Viktoriya Tomova (BUL) vs Ons Jabeur (TUN) - 3:30PM IST [30] Linda Noskova (CZE) vs Bernarda Pera (USA) [25] Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) vs James Duckworth (AUS) [31] Tallon Griekspoor (NED) vs Jenson Brooksby (USA) advertisementCourt 15[22] Donna Vekic (CRO) vs Kimberly Birrell (AUS) - 3:30PM IST [20] Alexei Popyrin (AUS) vs [WC] Arthur Fery (GBR) Billy Harris (GBR) vs [LL] Dusan Lajovic (SRB) [13] Amanda Anisimova (USA) vs Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) Court 16Mattia Bellucci (ITA) vs [WC] Oliver Crawford (GBR) - 3:30PM IST [12] Diana Shnaider vs Moyuka Uchijima (JPN) [14] Andrey Rublev vs Laslo Djere (SRB) [24] Elise Mertens (BEL) vs [Q] Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) Court 17[23] Jiri Lehecka (CZE) vs Hugo Dellien (BOL) - 3:30PM IST [16] Francisco Cerundolo (ARG) vs Nuno Borges (POR) [WC] Harriet Dart (GBR) vs Dalma Galfi (HUN) [31] Ashlyn Krueger (USA) vs [WC] Mika Stojsavljevic (GBR)- Ends
