Qinwen Zheng stunned during her photoshoot at the WTA Finals in Riyadh with the Chinese trailblazer who is used to the camera and spotlight with multiple magazine shoots back home using that to her advantage. But she said that she needs to improve that side. 

She joked that Chinese fans say she looks 40 so she needs to improve those skills. But one part she doesn’t need to is her form with the player known as ‘Queenwen’ losing only four matches since Wimbledon. She comes into this tournament as the form player perhaps alongside Aryna Sabalenka who is in her group and is a tie she will face this weekend.

“Yes, I’m always very confidence in front of the camera. Not when I was 19 years old. I feel really weird. I always ask them, Please teach me some movement. Right now it’s very flowy.. like l’m on the tennis court. It’s the same for me,” she said.

“The dress is really nice. It’s from Christian Dior. It was an outstanding dress for me. I feel the makeup maybe I can improve a bit (laughter). People say I look like 40 years old. The Chinese fans, they say that. I don’t know why. Yes, maybe the makeup, next time I could do it better (smiling).

She also opened up on why she doesn’t have relationships with other tennis players with it being very much similar to Novak Djokovic. The Serbian has often said that he won’t have friendships due to the rivalries that he has currently and other players of course wanting to steal the food from his table.

“My answer is very clear: I prefer always to keep the distance with the player. Has a lot of competition with me. I am, like, the sensitive type with my heart. I don’t feel if I become friends with someone and I have to compete with them on court, I feel I’m not able to 100% focus and fight. When I have to scream, ‘C’mon,’ I’m not able to do that because I will feel a bit weird. In my heart, I feel if it’s a friend, I really want she win or she feels good in her life. This is the opposite side of a tennis tournament. Once I figure out that, I decided don’t try to make a friend on tour because there’s so many people outside of the tennis world. Why I have to just make friends here? I come here to compete with them, to win the match. Yeah, that’s my opinion (smiling).”

She continued that it has been cordial with other players this week but not to forge friendships. “We are just saying hello. Sometimes say congrats to your great season. No more talk with no more people. I never go for more. I don’t try to go for more, as well, yeah.”