Zheng beats weather to reach Birmingham semi-finals
- Published: 17 Jun 2012 at 04.48
- Online news: Sports
China's Zheng Jie reached the semi-finals of the Birmingham WTA grasscourt tournament on Saturday, but torrential rain left organisers with a nightmare backlog of matches.
China's Zheng Jie, pictured in May 2012, reached the semi-finals of the Birmingham WTA grasscourt tournament on Saturday, but torrential rain left organisers with a nightmare backlog of matches.
Zheng got the better of Italian fourth seed Roberta Vinci 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in a quarter-final already held over from Friday.
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