Zheng’s golden summer in Paris fades as focus shifts to Beijing

Zheng Qinwen’s crowning glory, her long-awaited coronation, came this summer in Paris. She defeated Donna Vekic in the Olympic final to become the first Chinese tennis player to win a gold medal in singles.
And now, only eight weeks later, Zheng is trying to pretend it never happened. 
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While a number of Olympians are still making appearances with their medals wrapped around their necks, Zheng is not one of them.
“It’s been a while,” Zheng said Tuesday in advance of the China Open in Beijing. “I’m not going to take my gold medal everywhere I go. I want to focus on the China Open, the tournament.
“I will forget what I have achieved in the Olympics because I have to be grounded in each match.”
Zheng is still only 21 — she turns 22 in a few weeks — the age of a typical college student. But this coming-out season has taught her some hard lessons about attitude and perspective. After reaching the final…