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Tennis: Sabalenka beats Zheng to reach French Open semi-finals

# Tennis: World number one Aryna Sabalenka ended Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen’s winning streak on the Paris clay with a straight-sets victory to seal herself a spot in the French Open semi-finals. The top seed from Belarus won 7-6, 6-3 against the Chinese eighth seed in just under two hours on Court Philippe Chatrier. The 27-year-old fought back after struggling in the first set against Zheng, who had beaten her in the quarter-final on clay in Rome last month, and thereby extended her record against the Chinese player to 7-1.