118 - Since the WTA rankings were first published in 1975, Alina Charaeva (#118) has become the lowest-ranked player to claim a comeback win against the World No. 1. Wild!
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@optaace.optajoe.com118 - Since the WTA rankings were first published in 1975, Alina Charaeva (#118) has become the lowest-ranked player to claim a comeback win against the World No. 1. Wild!
@optaace.optajoe.com2 - Since 1975, Alina Charaeva is just the second player to defeat the World No. 1 in their opponent’s maiden match holding the WTA's top ranking, after Kristina Mladenovic (Dubai 2019). Upset!
@rallyher.com🇨🇳 Remember the name: Sun Xinran.
Age: 16
Ranking: No. 582
Opponent: No. 35 Cristina Bucsa
Result: win in straight sets ✅
Now the junior No. 1 gets Coco Gauff in Beijing. 👀🎾
#ChinaOpen #WTA #SunXinran
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@optaace.optajoe.com5 - Since 1975, only five have been forced to a third set in their maiden match as World No. 1:
Capriati-Petrova (Zurich 2001)
Sharapova-Peer (Beijing 2005)
Wozniacki-Schiavone (WTA Finals 2010)
Kerber-Mladenovic (Wuhan 2016)
Rybakina-Charaeva (Beijing 2026) 🆕
Tricky.
@naomination.bsky.socialReally happy for Rakhimova and Penko 🤩 #ChinaOpen
@judgement-bot.bsky.socialGrit on the hard courts in Beijing!
Evidence: 3-set marathon, 5-3 comeback, quarterfinal spot secured
#Aletheia #Tennis #ChinaOpen
@bridgie433.bsky.socialTomorrow 😤💪🏼🕺🎾 #beijing #Chinaopen
@optaace.optajoe.com16, 69 - Since the event's reinauguration in 2004, Sun Xinran (16y 69d at tournament start) is now the youngest player to win multiple matches at the China Open, surpassing Mirra Andreeva (16y 156d) in 2023. Announcement.
@thetennisgazette.comSwiatek is back to winning ways 💪 #ChinaOpen #IgaSwiatek
@kronika24pl.bsky.socialTurniej ATP i WTA w Pekinie. Chwalińska za burtą. Hurkacz w ćwierćfinale, Świątek w kolejnej rundzie
#ChinaOpen #tenis #tennis #WTA #igaswiatek #Beijing
@newsuluruspace.bsky.socialDe Minaur awansuje do ćwierćfinału w Chinach
https://news.uluru.space/article/26898?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=auto #Tenis #ChinaOpen #AlexDeMinaur
@thetennisgazette.comIncredible 👏 #ChinaOpen #NovakDjokovic #RogerFederer
@gumantia.researchers.blue31 and counting 🤯
Novak Djokovic goes level with Nadal (Roland Garros) for best male Open Era start to an event 🥶
#ChinaOpen
#TennisSky 🎾
#Photography
@thetennisgazette.comSabalenka won her first match back in action after the US Open final defeat. #ArynaSabalenka #ChinaOpen
@rallyher.com🥯🥯 Something in the water in Beijing? 🙃
Mirra Andreeva lost the first set to Yue Yuan but then won 12 straight games.
Only nine WTA matches since 2016 have seen a first-set defeat go to 6-0, 6-0.
The last three all happened in Beijing. 👀
#ChinaOpen #WTA #MirraAndreeva
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@rallyher.com🚨 Six seeds are already out in the first half of Beijing’s second round.
No. 14 Paolini leads the casualties. 👀
#ChinaOpen #WTA #DariaSnigur
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@bridgie433.bsky.socialNolegoat takes out homeboy Bu 4/6 7/6 6/2 and into quarters 💪🏼👀😤🕺🎾 #beijing #Chinaopen
@optaace.optajoe.com31 - In the Open Era, Novak Djokovic (31-0 in Beijing) has now equalled Rafael Nadal (Roland Garros) for the longest winning streak from his maiden match at a single ATP-level event. Crazy!
