China's Wang claims Asian Games gold and berth at Los Angeles Olympics

[p]The 25-year-old [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/wang-xiyu/6XSnpS5h/"]Wang[/a] breezed past her compatriot 6-2, 6-1 in 66 minutes at the Higashiyama Park Tennis Center in Nagoya.[/p][p]Tennis is one of seven sports at the Games where the winners receive an Olympic qualification place.[/p][p]Wang paid tribute to the 37-year-old [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/zhang-shuai/OY0ZExo5/"]Zhang[/a], who has won multiple Grand Slam doubles titles and has now added a second Asian Games singles silver medal to the one she won in 2018 in Jakarta.[/p][p]The veteran Zhang also bagged a team tennis gold in Guangzhou in 2010, when Wang would have been just nine years old.[/p][p][b]"She is someone I really respect. Everything that she's been through is also a form of encouragement to me," [/b]said Wang.[/p][p][b]"Still, on the court, the biggest form of respect I can show is by bringing my best to play her."[/b][/p][embed guid="82563793-bd5c-4baf-9ab0-619a030698d8" url="https://x.com/asian_tennis/status/2105916497373884523" social-type="twitter" /][p]The one-sided match was a contrast to the battle Wang had with Philippines star [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/eala-alexandra/ppu9X7PH/"]Eala[/a] 24 hours earlier, when the Chinese world number 85 came through 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 after two hours and 34 minutes of intense action.[/p][p][b]"This is what sport, what elite competition, is like. Your actions speak for you,"[/b] added Wang.[/p][p][b]"It's when you experience success through the trials that you know what it was all for. Keep trying."[/b][/p][p]She then revealed her tennis skills were way ahead of her culinary efforts, but said it was important never to give up.[/p][p]"I tried to make a dish of stir-fried cauliflower, and it all became burnt," Wang said.[/p][p]"There's some difficulty in that dish; it's so easy to get it wrong. I'll keep trying."[/p][p]The men's singles gold medal match on Saturday will see Hong Kong's world number 100 [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/wong-chak-lam-coleman/zJqvgzz6/"]Coleman Wong[/a] take on China's 111th-ranked [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/wu-yibing/8ASNvPfK/"]Wu Yibing[/a].[/p]