Iga Swamek, Emma Navarro and Linda Noskova arrived in the last 16 via retirement by Camila Osorio, Loisson and Zheng Qinwes on the WTA 1000 China open on Monday, while Myrrra Andreeva and Jessica Pegula too, Anastasia Potapova.
WTA, with all these mandatory rules, they made this pretty crazy for us. I don’t think a top player will actually be able to achieve this and play the six 500 tournaments. It is simply impossible to press it in the schedule. I think we should be smart about it, not real … Unfortunately … don’t care about the rules, and just think what is healthy for us. Yes, it’s hard. Iga Swiatek
Earlier in the week, Paula Badosa from Spain withdrew against Karolina Muchova from the Czech Republic with a hip injury, while Barbora Krejcíkova, another Czech, put her match with the American McCartney Kessler because of a left knee injury in the opening game.
In addition, for Beijing, both Elina Svitolina van Ukraine and Beatriz Haddad Maia from Brazil decided to end their seasons, to injuries, while also quoting mental tribe.
Top placed Swiateek had brought in the opening set against Osorio, before the 83rd Rankrijf Colombian was forced to retire in their Beijing 3rd round match, which sent the 6-time Grand SLAM champion after just 41 minutes to the next round.
SWIATEK claimed a break at the Get-Go, and although she experienced problems in the 2nd match, the World No 2 managed to keep it in after saving 3 consecutive breakpoints.
The 24-year-old pole then earned 2 extra breaks to go 5-0, when Osorio asked for a medical time-out and received an off-court treatment for what a leg problem seemed to be.
When the piece resumed, Osorio held a breaking point, but could not convert it when Swiatek packed the first set with a 6-0 score, after which the Colombian ran to the net and retired.
“Certainly, I am sorry for Camila, because she always gives her 100%,” Swiatek said in her press conference after the game. “She told me she was injured at the start of the game.
“It is always pretty sad to see that, because we just want to compete. She couldn’t do that. But in general, such as, in addition, I have the feeling that I was playing well in the first set, and my game really used to push Camila.”
The first set would have been closer than the score presented, with 5 of the 6 games that would go to Deuce, but after serving a double mistakes to fall behind 0-40 in the opening match of the second set, Osorio decided to call it with an abdominal injury.
The first set was Swiatek’s 17th 6-0 set from 2025 so far, which is a touring season, 10 more than 2nd placed Russian, Ekaterina Alexandrova, who won 7 bagel sets.
Later, Swiatek again criticized the schedule because he was too demanding.
“WTA, with all these mandatory rules, they went pretty much for us,” she said. “I don’t think a top player will actually be able to achieve this, the six 500 tournaments can play. It’s just impossible to squeeze it into the schedule.
“I think we should be smart about it, not real … Unfortunately … don’t care about the rules, and just think what is healthy for us. Yes, it’s hard.”
There was no response from the WTA to Swiatek’s comments, but with so much retirement so late in the season, this is clearly a problem that resolution needs.
Since last year there have been 10 mandatory events on the WTA Tour on the WTA tour and players are also expected to play six events at 500 levels.
Swiatek, or World No. 1, Aryna Sabalenka, fulfilled that required last year and lost as a result, while those losses led to Sabalenka in the top of the ranking in the top of the ranking last fall.
Emma Navarro, the 16th seed, also went forward through pension by Lois Boisson in the last 32 in Beijing
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Swiatek is now confronted with the 16th placed Emma Navarro in the last 16, after the American also retired, when a left-left Dijbulous Roland Garros Semi-Finalist Lois Boisson forced to draw, with 6-2, 1-0.
De Paal only dropped 5 games to Navarro on 2 previous meetings and won 6-0 6-2 on the Charleston ITF W80 and 6-1 6-2 in the Australian Open Quarterfinals in January.
Navarro routinely took the opener against Boisson after earning 2 breaks and did not lose her serve.
Before Boisson lost the set, Boisson took a medical time-out for a leg problem and, after having easily lost, the French woman was again broken in the first match of the second and decided to call it a day.
Boisson, who tore her ACL in 2024 and reached the semi -finals during this year’s Roland Garros, confirmed an adductor injury after winning her first title at Touring level in Hamburg in July, an injury that forced her to withdraw from the Tour until she appeared in the US Open in the US in August.
Navarro reached the quarters of both Australian Open and Wimbledon last year, as well as the semi -final of the 2024 US Open, which yielded the World No 8 the WTA Most Improved Player Award at the end of the past season.
Linda Noskova stood in the 3rd set against Zheng Qinwen, when the 7th seed with pain in her elbow retired
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Home favorite Zheng Qinwen, the 7th Seed, also withdrew to the Czech Republic Linda Noskova in the 3rd set of their night match, with the score on 6-4 3-6, 3-0.
Noskova, sown no. 26, began to take the first set, but Zheng, who played her first tournament since Wimbledon after the elbow surgery, responded by bringing the second set to level.
In the decision-maker, however, Noskova built a 3-0 lead before Zheng retired because of pain in her elbow, with the Czech handy presenting the victory.
The pension meant a frustrating end for Zheng, who admitted that she had returned this week against the advice of her team to play for her home fans, and is clearly still not at full force after her operation.
“I already know in the second set, I couldn’t push anymore,” Zheng said in her press conference after the game. “Maybe I can play the first set, but to get to the third set is too much for my elbow. I believe it gets better with time.
“Repeated portions added to a certain extent pressure to my elbow. The pain only exists if I serve. Even with that I was happy with the serve tonight.
“One thing that always comes to my head is” should I keep pushing or should I stop? ‘I think it is difficult to really compete in a competition if you have this doubt mentality, because you are going full or nothing. “
The victory marks Noskova’s 10th career victory on a top 10 -arranged opponent and her 4th of 2025.
She also became the 2nd-year-old Czech Czech Czech since 1990 to score 10 career top 10 victories, behind only Nicole Vaidisova, while it was her 31st victory of the season, a career-best total after ending of 2024 with 26.
The 20-year-old next will be confronted with the Russian Anastasia Potapova for a place in the quarterfinals.
Potapova, which continued with a 6-3 7-5 victory over the Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey, has a 1-0 career record against Noskova, collected a set to beat the Czech in the opening round in Roland Garros earlier in the year.
It is the 2nd WTA 1000 of Potapova last 16 appearance of 2025, after Madrid, after her 88 minutes, wins the straight sets on Turkish No. 1.
4th placed Mirra Andreeva drove past Jessica Bouzas Maleiro in straight sets to reach the last 16 on Monday in the National Tennis Center in Beijing, China.
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In the meantime, another Russian Vooruit, no. 4 seeds, Mirra Andreeva, who remained cool and was composed on a warm afternoon in Beijing, who in an hour and 32 minutes to a routine 6-4 6-1 victory over Jessica Jessica Bouzas, Cruiske.
“I think it’s great because the courts are a little slower, the bouncer is a little higher,” said Andreeva. “It is usually a bit more humid than in New York. Everything slows a bit. The ball gets tough. I like it if I have a little more time to think and create something during the point and during the game. I love the circumstances here in Beijing.
The 18-year-old insured her place in the 4th round and came closer to a repeated quarter-final performance after last year’s run.
“To be honest, if so many people support me, I never feel busy,” said Andreeva, and acknowledged the Chinese fans. “I only feel extra power that is always with me on the field. So I want to thank you for the support. It’s always great to play for you.”
Bouzas Maleiro first hit and broke for a 2-1 lead in the opening set, but it was short-lived because Andreeva brought the score in the next game before he broke the opener again.
After the action, it is planning to start the second, Andreeva won 5 games on the trot to close the game.
The Spaniard was struggling to find the entire consistency and ended with 54 non-forced errors for Andreeva’s 25, the Russian wanted 69% of her first server points, exactly in line with her seasonal average of 68.4%, those 11th were among WTA players with at least 40 games this season prior.
Andreeva will come across the British Sonay Kartal in the 4th round in what their first career meeting will be, and a victory would send the young Russian to its 2nd consecutive China Open Quarterfinals and the 5th WTA 1000 quarter final this season.
Jessica Pegula, the 5th Seed, saved 3 match points and then Bagelled Emma Raducanu in the third set to see Marta Kostyuk, no. 23 Seed for a place in the quarterfinals in China
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No 5 Seed Jessica Pegula won no 30 Seed Emma Raducanu, 3-6 7-6 (9) 6-0, in a tough two and a half hours last 32-confession.
The British No. 1 held 3 match points in a dramatic tiebreak, but could not convert and Pegula improved her career record against Raducanu to 3-1.
The American began to struggle her first set to find her characteristic power and consistency, and her serve was broken to love, before both were held in the next 4 games, leaving Pegula at 2-4.
They then exchanged games and when Pegula did not broke in the 9th game, Raducanu took the opener.
In the second set, with the score on 2-2 in a match with her mistakes, Pegula showed her frustration by throwing her racket on the field, because she made the 24th of more than 30 non-forced errors in the game.
Nevertheless, she took the 5th game after it went to Deuce 4 times, after which they both held the rest of the set and moved a tiebreak.
Pegula stormed back from a 2/5 deficit in the breaker and wiped away the 3 match points that the Brit would have given its first top 10 wins since the Miami Open in March.
The American flowed through the long -term tiebreak and survived Raducanu, whose energy had been taken against the 17th point, and she seemed to spend through the time that Pegula won, 11/9.
Pegula went to the third role, while Raducanu struggled to keep track of, hardly able to put a racket on the ball, and the American droked the set, 6-0, in just 26 minutes.
The No. 5 Seed then plays Marta Kostyuk, the No. 23 Seed, in the last 16, after the Ukrainian qualification Aliaksandra had beat Sasnovich from Belarus, 6-4 6-2, at the Moon Court in 85 minutes.
With the opener bound at 3-3, Brak Kostyuk Servee to take the lead and then drove out the set.
Sasnovich opened the second by holding on to love, only for Kostyuk and then pulling away, to break the serve of the Belarus twice, which struggled and left 5-1 on return.
Although Sasnovich held the next game for love and quickly won points in the next game to reach 30-40, Kostyuk scored a bait that had a series of 4 Deuses, which she conquered to win the game and a crack on Pegula.
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