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Jonathan White

Follow our live coverage of day three of the Tokyo Olympics here
Chinese No 2 Wang Qiang, the country’s highest ranked player in the women’s singles tennis tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, is out.
Wang was sent packing in straight sets by the Spanish No 7 seed Garbine Muguruza at the Ariake Tennis Park in their second round meeting.
It took just over an hour for the world No 9 to win 6-3, 6-0 as the Tokyo sun baked down on the Olympic hard courts. She will face either the Czech No 10 seed Petra Kvitova or Alison van Uytvanck of Belgium.


Wang had beaten the Spaniard in their two previous meetings, both of which came in 2018, but this first career loss ends her Olympics as she is not playing in the doubles. She will have to take solace from improving on five years ago where she was knocked out in the first round of the Rio 2016 Games.
Both Wang and her singles compatriot Zheng Saisai had skipped Wimbledon and the grass season following the French Open to concentrate on the Olympics.
With Zheng beaten in the first round by Japan’s world No 2 Naomi Osaka on Sunday, Chinese interest in the singles is snuffed out on day three of the tennis in Tokyo.


Zheng also lost her opening doubles match with Duan Yingying. The pair was beaten by Czech duo Karolina Pliskova and Marketa Vondrousova, also on Sunday.
That leaves only Chinese doubles pair of Xu Yifan and Yang Zhaoxuan left in Tokyo.
They face Ash Barty and Storm Sanders later on. Singles top seed Barty, who won Wimbledon earlier this month, was sent packing in the first round and will not want her Olympics to end with defeat in the second round of the doubles.


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Spanish seventh seed sends Chinese No 2 packing with a victory in straight sets, 6-3, 6-0
Doubles pair Xu Yifan and Yang Zhaoxuan are last players standing but face Ash Barty and Storm Sanders in second round



Spanish seventh seed sends Chinese No 2 packing with a victory in straight sets, 6-3, 6-0 leaving doubles pair of Xu Yifan and Yang Zhaoxuan as the last ones standing.


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