Zheng Qinwen gets a double victory in Tokyo on Sunday

Zheng Qinwen might be one of the more divisive players on the WTA tour, at least according to different players, but there is no doubt that she is currently having her best season. She has won three titles, including taking home gold at the Paris Olympics. On Sunday, she won the Tokyo Open, which helped her accomplish something else for the first time.

With the win, and the points acquired from that, Zheng confirmed her spot in the WTA Finals. Those finals will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in the first week of November. The Chinese player is No. 7 on the tour, so there was little doubt that she would qualify for the year-end finals, but now she knows she can book plane tickets.

In Sunday's Tokyo Open final, Zheng's serve dominated Sophia Kenin. Zheng faced just one break point and was never broken. Kenin served fairly well, too, but after dropping the first set in a tie-break, she was broken once in the second set and that marked the beginning of the end of the match. Zheng is now 28-4 since the Olympics and is continuing a potential ascent to being a top-three player.

Zheng Qinwen defeats Sofia Kenin to win the Tokyo Open

Besides the Tokyo Open title and the Olympics, Zheng also won the Palermo Open. The key for the Chinese player moving forward will be to win bigger tournaments. The Olympics is not a WTA-sanctioned event, of course, but her other wins are no higher than a WTA 500. To truly be great, she needs to take home titles at Masters 1000s and Grand Slams.

She likely won't care too much about what other players think of her, however. At the Olympics, Emma Navarro told Zheng at the net after the Chinese player defeated the American that Navarro did not respect Zheng "as a competitor." Olympic finalist Donna Vekic complained of Zheng's seemingly slow pace of play in hopes crowd noise would disrupt Vokic.

No matter what other players say, though, Zheng is clearly becoming a threat on the WTA tour. She is only 22 years old and should only get better. A major title could happen for Zheng in 2025.

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