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Reuters / Sonay Kartal made the quarter-finals of the China Open in 2025 Great Britain's Sonay Kartal maintained her winning return to the WTA Tour with an impressive straight-set victory over home hope Wang Xinyu at the China Open. Kartal, 24, produced a dominant display to see off the Chinese 31st seed Wang 6-3 6-2 in only her second tour match after six months out with a back injury. She was expected to face newly crowned world number one Elena Rybakina in the last 32, but the top seed from Kazakhstan fell to a shock three-set defeat by Armenian world number 118 Alina Charaeva. Elsewhere, men's top seed Alexander Zverev cruised past China's Juncheng Shang 6-0 6-3 to book a quarter-final against Novak Djokovic. Kartal made the quarter-finals in Beijing in 2025 but had slipped down to 129 in the world after missing the majority of this season, including the past three Grand Slam tournaments. She retired injured from a last-16 clash against Rybakina at Indian Wells in March and did not return to competitive action until last month's Billie Jean King Cup Finals. Yet after earning a comfortable win over Spain's Andrea Lazaro Garcia on her return to tour duty at the China Open, Kartal followed that up with a clinical performance in beating Wang. She produced 12 winners and made just 11 unforced errors, compared to her opponent's 24, converting five of her 14 break points with some impressive groundstrokes. "I am super happy to play here and I think that shows in my tennis," Kartal said in her on-court interview, as she recalled her run to last year's quarter-final. "I've had a long time out but I am happy to make a return to this event - I am looking to equal or hopefully do better this year." To do that, Kartal would have been preparing herself to face Rybakina, but the US Open champion was well below her best in a disappointing 6-3 4-6 3-6 defeat by unseeded Charaeva, who had never before faced a top 20 player on the WTA Tour. Meanwhile, Kartal's British team-mate Harriet Dart produced an encouraging display in a three-set defeat by American 10th seed Iva Jovic. The 30-year-old British qualifier looked capable of causing an upset after claiming three breaks of serve in the opening set to charge into an early lead before eventually losing out 2-6 6-3 6-3 to the rising 18-year-old. Zverev into last eight as Sinner puts off comeback Getty Images / Alexander Zverev has never topped the men's world rankings Zverev maintained his fine form in a season that has seen the German win his first two Grand Slam titles - the French Open and US Open - to set up a tantalising clash with Djokovic on Sunday. Djokovic, 39, has won the China Open six times and has never lost a match at the event in Beijing, but Zverev knows that he will rise to number one in the world for the first time in his career should he win the China Open and Shanghai Masters, which starts on Wednesday (7 October). The 29-year-old German's chances were boosted on Saturday when current world number one Jannik Sinner announced his decision to withdraw from the Shanghai Masters. Italian Sinner is recovering from a knee injury and has not played since beating Zverev in the final of Wimbledon in July. Sinner took the number one spot in April from Spain's Carlos Alcaraz, who returned from four months out with a wrist injury at the US Open in September. World number three Alcaraz made it through to the quarter-finals of the Japan Open in Tokyo in Saturday, saving four set points in the opener against Italian Matteo Arnaldi before powering back to win 7-6 (8-6) 6-1. Alcaraz will next play Canadian Denis Shapovalov following his 7-5 3-6 6-4 victory over Chile's Alejandro Tabilo.

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