DJOKAVIC PRAISE
It was a rollercoaster match for Zheng, who wanted back-to-back three-hour matches to defeat Navarro after which former world primary Angelique Kerber.
In each matches, she needed to claw again deficits whereas towards Navarro she even discovered her status underneath assault when the American described her as “cut-throat” with “no respect”.
Nonetheless, her run to the ultimate created one fan within the form of Novak Djokovic.
“She’s a terrific particular person. I actually like her quite a bit,” stated the Serbian star on the eve of the gold medal match.
“(Attending to the ultimate) is a big deal for China, for her, but in addition for our sport. China is such an enormous nation, an enormous market, they usually’ve been ready for an enormous champion and an enormous identify since Li Na.”
Australia’s Matthew Ebden and John Friends gained the lads’s doubles gold with an exciting victory over Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram of the US.
The unseeded pair got here again from a set and break all the way down to win 6-7 (6/8), 7-6 (7/1), 10-8 towards their fourth-seeded opponents.
It was Australia’s second Olympic males’s doubles title after Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde triumphed in Atlanta in 1996.
For Friends, it was a second Video games medal to go together with the bronze he claimed alongside Ashleigh Barty within the blended doubles in Tokyo three years in the past.