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Jonathan White

China’s No 1 tennis player Zhang Shuai celebrated qualifying for the WTA Finals with a first round women’s doubles victory at the Tenerife Ladies Open.
The US Open champion has been invited to the end of season event in Guadalajara with her grand slam winning partner Samantha Stosur but the pair have not played together since victory in New York.
After partnering with India’s Sania Mirza, with whom she won the Ostrava Open last month, Zhang has now partnered with Japan’s Eri Hozumi in the Canary Islands.
Zhang and Hozumi moved on to the second round of the WTA event in Tenerife with a 6-4, 6-3 win over India’s Ankita Raina and Rosalie van der Hoek of the Netherlands.

The second seeds now move on to play Beatrice Gumulya of Poland and Thailand’s Peangtarn Plipuech in the next round.
In the singles, China’s No 3 player Zheng Saisai beat Spain’s Rebeka Masarova in straight sets.
Zhang and Hsieh qualify for WTA Finals doubles
The world No 86 beat the world No 169 in an hour and 23 minutes, and Zheng will play the tournament’s No 7 seed Clara Tauson of Denmark in the round of 16.
Tauson needed a tiebreak in the deciding set to overcome Britain’s Heather Watson.
China’s Wang Xinyu is also in the round of 16 where she plays Alize Cornet of France. Wang beat sixth seed Zhang in their first round singles match.
The WTA Finals take place in Guadalajara next month after being moved from Shenzhen.

A Clara Tauson tussle to the very end

The No.7 seed pips Watson 8-6 in the deciding-set tiebreak to advance to the #TenerifeLadiesOpen last 16! pic.twitter.com/Q9wlIqmHiq
— wta (@WTA) October 19, 2021



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Zheng Saisai makes light work of Spain’s Rebeka Masarova to join Wang Xinyu in singles second round
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Zheng Saisai makes light work of Spain’s Rebeka Masarova to join Wang Xinyu in singles second round as Zhang Shuai marks WTA Finals invite with doubles win.


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Zhang Shuai and Eri Hozumi into WTA Tenerife Ladies Open doubles second round

Zheng Saisai makes light work of Spain’s Rebeka Masarova to join Wang Xinyu in singles second round US Open champion Zhang celebrates WTA Finals invite with doubles win

Zheng Saisai makes light work of Spain’s Rebeka Masarova to join Wang Xinyu in singles second round

US Open champion Zhang celebrates WTA Finals invite with doubles win