Breaking News: Rennae Stubbs says she found what Qinwen Zheng did against Coco Gauff in their match at Italian Open ‘a little concerning’…see more

Their match, which featured two tiebreaks over three sets, lasted a total of three hours and 32 minutes.

The scheduling didn’t go down well with Stubbs, who took to social media to voice her opinion.

The former world number one doubles player wrote on X: “No semi-final should be at midnight! Imagine if Sinner had been a long match!” Zheng came agonisingly close on both the scoreboard and the stat sheet in her loss to the former US Open champion.

The Olympic gold medallist tallied 27 break points and won ten of them, compared to Gauff’s nine break points won from an available 17. Gauff won a total of 135 points throughout the match, winning 74 on her service. Zheng took totals of 121 and 51, respectively.

The biggest difference between the two came in double faults, of which Gauff racked up 16, stacking up against the four from Zheng.

Despite her efforts, the world number eight ultimately fell to the 21-year-old, who became the youngest player since the inception of the Madrid Open women’s event (2009) to reach the final in both the Spanish and Italian capitals.