PARIS, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- China's tennis ace Zheng Qinwen defeated Donna Vekic of Croatia 6-2, 6-3 to win the women's singles gold at the Paris Olympics here on Saturday. This marks the first time a Chinese or Asian woman has won a singles gold in the Olympics.
It is also China's second Olympic tennis gold. The last time China saw gold in an Olympic tennis event was in Athens 2004, when Li Ting and Sun Tiantian secured the country's first-ever Olympic tennis title after they won the women's doubles.
