Paris Olympics: Angelique Kerber’s Tennis Career Ends With Defeat; Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz Progress

German tennis participant Angelique Kerber’s enjoying profession has ended with a defeat to China’s Qinwen Zheng within the 2024 Paris Olympics girls’s singles quarterfinals at Court Philippe-Chartier. In the lads’s part, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz, who battled within the Wimbledon ultimate lately, continued their quest as they reached the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Angelique, a three-time Grand Slam champion and silver medalist on this occasion on the 2016 Rio Olympics, had introduced earlier than the beginning of the Paris 2024 quadrennial occasion that this match would mark the end of her skilled tennis profession.

In the quarter-final conflict which lasted shut to 3 hours, Angelique took the lead towards Zheng by successful the primary set 7-6 (4) in a tiebreak. But Zheng hit again and took the final two units, ending with a third-set tiebreak to win 6-7 (4), 6-4 and 7-6 (6).

Zheng turns into simply the second Chinese tennis participant after Li Na to make the ladies’s singles semi-finals on the Olympics. She will face the winner of the quarter-final between world primary Poland’s Iga Swiatek and USA’s Danielle Collins for a spot within the ultimate and assure herself a medal.

Meanwhile, 24-time Grand Slam title winner Novak Djokovic’s quest for a primary Olympic gold medal continued after the Serbian defeated Germany’s Dominik Koepfer 7-5 6-3 at Roland Garros within the morning. The high seed will now meet Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas in a mouth-watering quarterfinal conflict.

Spain’s French Open champion Carlos Alcaraz, who might be in doubles motion later alongside Rafael Nadal, has additionally made it to the quarterfinals after being Roman Safiullin 6-4 6-2. He will face USA’s Tommy Paul within the quarterfinals.

Djokovic, the World No. 2 participant within the ATP Rankings, is making his fifth Olympics look. Djokovic’s finest consequence got here in Beijing in 2008 when he gained a bronze medal. The Serbian, who is keen so as to add an Olympic gold to his trophy cupboard, revealed he’s loving his time in Paris.

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