Zheng’s solely win in eight earlier conferences in opposition to Swiatek was within the semi-finals of the 2024 Olympics on her method to singles gold in Paris.
She’s going to uncover her quarter-final opponent afterward Monday, when former US Open champion Osaka performs second seed Rybakina.
The newest qualifier to succeed in this stage of the ladies’s draw on the US Open was Nice Britain’s Emma Raducanu, who went on to win the title in 2021.
And Zheng shouldn’t be the primary feminine qualifier to carry out effectively at a Grand Slam in 2026 – Poland’s Maja Chwalinska, who started the French Open at 114th on the planet, lost to Russian teenager Andreeva within the closing at Roland Garros.
For Swiatek, 25, a fourth-round exit is a disappointing finish to her Grand Slam season, with a quarter-final look on the Australian Open her greatest end result.
She was crushed in spherical 4 of the French Open, whereas the defence of her Wimbledon title ended within the third spherical.
It implies that, for the primary time since 2021, Swiatek will finish a yr with out profitable one of many sport’s 4 majors.
Swiatek, who acquired therapy to her left thigh when main 2-1 within the second set, had entered the US Open in wonderful kind by winning the WTA 1000 event in Toronto and attending to the semi-finals in Cincinnati, whereas she had progressed by means of to spherical 4 with out dropping a set.
