Three minutes a day to know about tennis in the world. Hello fans and friends, today is Monday, December 13, 2021, welcome to listen to the news noon news provided by Tennis House.
Last night Beijing time, the results of the 2021 season "WTA Coach of the Year" voted by the members of the WTA Coaching Program were announced, and the coach of Spanish star Muguruza, Conchita Martinez, was successfully elected. Martinez began working with Muguruza in the 2017 season and helped espanyol win the Wimbledon title. The two then broke up for a while, but continued the frontier in the 2020 season.
This season, under the tutelage of Martinez, Muguruza reached the tour final five times and won the cup three times, especially at the WTA Mexico year-end finals, and the world ranking returned to top 3. With his disciple's extraordinary record, Martinez became one of the most successful coaches of the 2021 season and was successfully elected "Coach of the Year". Congratulations to her!
Let's look at the game again. Last night, Beijing time, the WTA125 Angers station ended the women's singles championship battle. Although China's veteran Zhang Shuai tried his best, he still did not return, losing two sets in a row 0-6/ 4-6 to defeat Russia's lucky loser Diachenko, and was relegated to the second place. Diatchenko won the women's singles title in the WTA 125K for the third time since 2014 and 2019.
Zhang Shuai, who lost the final, continued to compete this week, and she will play as the top seed in the WTA125 Limoges race. Belgian Ujtfank, French girl Garcia, Meladenovic, Russian Zvonareva and other players will also participate.
Let's turn our attention back to the country. The 2021 China Tennis Tour Finals (Macau) and National Tennis Championships ended successfully yesterday afternoon. In the women's doubles final, Yang Zhaoxuan / Jiang Xinxuan defeated Zhu Lin / Han Xinyun 6-3, 7-6 (2) to lift the championship trophy.
In the men's singles title battle that followed, defending champion Wu Yiyu played well, defeating Terrigal in 6-3, 6-4 sets to successfully defend the title. In the women's singles final, Wang Yafan was in a hot state, sweeping the harvest 6-0/6-1 and reaching the top strongly.
In the final men's doubles final, Wu Yiyu, who won the men's singles championship, partnered with Gao Xin and reversed Wu Di/Bai Yan in three sets of 4-6/6-3/10-8 to win the one-day double in the finals.
Let's look at a few more pieces of good news. Beijing time last night, the British celebrity Kong Ta, who retired for more than 10 days, posted on his personal social platform to announce the good news of his marriage. However, on Conta's tweet, there is only a sentence of "Yesterday I was married", not pictured. Some fans said that Conta is also too low-key, even life and marriage events are so indifferent, it is really admirable! As a result, many fans quickly turned over the photo of Conta and her husband to help everyone get to know the newlywed couple.
In addition to Conta, 30-year-old Spanish star Busta also got married yesterday. Let us wish these two tennis couples a happy and happy future life!
In addition, Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion Bencic successfully won the "Swiss Female Athlete of the Year" competition. Congratulations Tonci!
Finally, let's guess and recognize. The picture below shows a player playing golf. Without prompting, can you recognize who he is?
Guess in the last issue, some golfers gave the correct answer. Yes, the person in the picture is the retired Czech player Berdych. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Maverick)