My mistake - Astro, Malaysia's local satellite station, was showing highlights of China Open 2008 in Beijing and I managed to catch a glimps of the match between China's Zheng Jie and reining French Open winner, Ana Ivanovic and I'm happy to say, it was a cracker!
I'm always amazed at how aggressive the pint sized, 5ft 4, Zheng Jie plays, both at the baseline and at the net. The angles she seems to find is just so amazing and she's so fast around the court!The young Serb, Ivanovic is recovering from injury and is returning to the form that brought her first Grand Slam this year on the clay courts of Roland Garros. She's just got such a fluid forehand motion and her backhand is equally formidable.
Unfortunately, her serve was letting her down at crucial moments and she succumbed to the slightly more aggressive Zheng, 7-6 2-6 6-4.
Zheng will meet Russian, Svetlana Kutznetsova, who easily overcame 19 year old, Dominika Cibulkova, 6-2 6-4.
Joining them in the China Open semi-finals are Vera Zvonareva and Jelena Jankovic.
Action continues on Astro CH814 Eurosport (GMT+7).
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