The good news from the WTA500 Charleston Tennis Open, which is being held in the United States, is that China's Jinhua Zhang Shuai and Dolehead defeated the multinational combination of Sassnowicz/Daniele 2-0 (6-3/ 6-2) in the doubles quarterfinals, advancing to the semifinals, and also improving the world ranking of women's doubles by 2 places, ranking among the TOP5 for the first time in her career, so that Zhang Shuai maintains the current high ranking of Chinese tennis in the women's singles and women's doubles.
Zhang Shuai did not choose a truce after consecutive matches in the crown games of Indian Wells and Miami, and continued to register for the Charleston Dirt Field Tournament at the WTA 500 level, actively warming up for the French Open, Zhang Shuai is still a singles and doubles event, losing to Liu Jingwen, a Chinese American in the second round of the singles match, but the doubles teamed up with Dolehead as the number one seed.
Zhang Shuai / Doleheide in the women's doubles 1/4 final opponent is Sasnovic / Danilina, of which the Belarusian fierce woman Sasnovic often plays the role of China's golden flower killer, with a strong bottom line to hit the ball often shows the advantage of strength, the first set of the game is Sasnovic in the bottom line of full firepower, the opening with the strength in the momentum to overwhelm Zhang Shuai / Dolehead, the first set Zhang Shuai / Doleheide failed to save, but soon in the 2nd set Zhang Shuai combination in time to adjust, Break back against your opponent for a set.
In the 3rd set, Sasnovic/Danilina still took the lead in the standoff process, forcing out the break point 3 times, but Zhang Shuai/Dolllehead struggled to save a set after defusing the opponent's break with tenacious will, and in the 4th set, Danielina and Sasnovic buried the good game because of 2 unforced mistakes, and finally Zhang Shuai/Doleheide broke again to lead the opponent 3-1, and the next 2 sets Zhang Shuai/Dolllehead broke the score to 5-1 with a solid bottom line landing point control, but the Zhang Shuai combination's serve win was broken by the opponent. The opponent then trailed to 3-5 after saving the 8th set, and Zhang Shuai/Dolllehead won the second serve to win the set 6-3 without mercy.
After the start of the second set, with a familiar process of mutual confrontation, the two sides began to strengthen the offensiveness of the serve, in their respective service sets were successfully saved 2 sets, Zhang Shuai / Dolehead in the 5th set was the first to break, and then the 6th set faced 2 breaks after the danger of all defused the score to 4-2, with the 7th set Zhang Shuai combination of two breaks, the score has been stretched to 5-2, Zhang Shuai / Dolehead serve to win the game 6-2 to advance to the semi-finals.
After winning this game, Zhang Shuai rose from 7th to 5th in the WTA Women's Doubles World Rankings, which is also the first time in her career that she has entered the top 5 of the world rankings! Zhang Shuai is Zheng Jie/Yan Zi, who can compete with two Grand Slam titles in the Women's Doubles event of the Chinese Women's Tennis Team, and she won the Australian Open women's doubles title with Australian veteran Stosur in 2019, and the two won the WOMEN's Doubles championship of the US Open in 2021. In addition, Zhang Shuai's current women's singles world ranking 41 is also the highest ranking of the Chinese women's tennis.