Zheng Qinwen ready for Billie Jean King Cup return after recovering from elbow injury

Zheng Qinwen looks set to feature at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen next week, with reports suggesting the world No 9 has fully recovered from elbow surgery.

The 22-year-old missed this month’s US Open, the last grand slam of the season, after going under the knife in July to deal with a persistent injury that had plagued her season.

Zheng had the operation about two months before the team competition in the mainland city was expected to start, casting doubt over whether she would recover in time.

But the Olympic gold medallist was named in China’s team to face Italy just days after revealing she had undergone treatment, and on Monday, Italian website Spazio Tennis said Zheng had completed her rehabilitation at Rennbahnklinik, a sports medicine and physiotherapy centre in Muttenz, Switzerland.

Physiotherapist Gabriel Echeva, meanwhile, shared a video of Zheng exercising her arm at the Dr Boffa Medical Sport Centre in Barcelona. Echeva thanked and tagged the centre in his Instagram story.

In early March, Zheng said that Shadi Soleymani, her then physio, had not travelled with the team to Indian Wells because she needed a rest and China’s No 1 “wanted to bring a fresh dynamic to the team”.

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