Just today, Zhao Shuang announced on social media that he would end his personal career and retire. And 2 days ago, she just joined the Inner Mongolia team to lift the 21-22 WCBA championship trophy. Leaving the arena with a medal is the most beautiful ending for a cool girl with a career ups and downs and a troubled fate.
The first goddess of the women's basketball team once became the successor
Zhao Shuang, born in 1990, can be described as a young man. At the age of 18, he played in the WCBA and played for the Shenbu women's basketball team. He averaged 28.9 minutes per game in his first season, scoring 9.8 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.4 assists. In the following two seasons, Zhao Shuang continued to improve, averaging more than 10 points per game, which was also selected for the Chinese national team and represented the Chinese women's basketball team in the 2011 Nagasaki Asian Championship, averaging 4.6 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.
Zhao Shuang is 1.88 meters tall, a forward, although his body is somewhat thin, but his speed, bounce, and explosive power are superior, and his physical talent is outstanding. When she first debuted, she was unanimously optimistic about the outside world, and even regarded her as a new generation of successors to the national team after Chen Nan and Miao Lijie. At that time, Zhao Shuang was also moving towards this road, and no one could think of the ups and downs of her later career at that time.
Injured many times, the peak of the blink of an eye has become a cloud of smoke
Matching his outstanding physical talent is Zhao Shuang's amazing willpower and desire to fight, running tirelessly on the field. I still remember in a game a few years ago, when she was defending the opposing player to shoot three points, she flew out directly in order to block the hat, lost her center of gravity and fell heavily to the ground, and could not get up for a long time. She is so desperate for every ball, of course, she has also fallen a lot of disease.
In 2013, Zhao Shuang, who played for 5 seasons, was once far away from the field because of physical reasons, and subsequent injuries made her miss the Rio Olympic Games, and Zhao Shuang in the Tokyo cycle was also injured continuously, after the 2017 Bangalore Asian Cup, because of continuous injuries, he was not selected for the national team. Even if he is so good, he has to be knocked down by injuries, and in his 13-year career, Zhao Shuang has only represented the national team in 4 major competitions, of which only one Olympic Games, that is, the 12-year London Olympics.
Zhao Shuang also laughed at herself for "playing for a year and two years off", and since she became famous at a young age, injuries have been constantly accompanying her. The thigh muscles, ligaments, and injuries everywhere made it difficult for her to move. So that later, the names of Shao Ting and Li Meng appeared on the front line of the national team, so that Zhao Shuang was gradually forgotten.
Career is full of regrets, but the ending is satisfactory enough
Looking back on Shuang Meizi's career, it is somewhat lamentable, after all, the expectations of the outside world for her are so high, trapped by injuries, so that her peak period is too short, and it has not reached the height of imagination.
In November last year, Zhao Shuang announced that he would join the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team, and together with Li Yueru, Yang Liwei and other national players, the sword pointed to the championship. Their only competitor is the Sichuan team, which is also full of national players. As a result, in the finals of the previous two days, the Inner Mongolia team defeated Sichuan 2:0 and won the championship as desired. And Zhao Shuang also won the WCBA championship trophy again after 11 years.
For her, it was a happy ending, which drew a satisfactory end to this long and ups and downs career. All along, Zhao Shuang's popularity among fans has been very high, not only because of her beautiful appearance, but also because of her desperate, positive style and comprehensive technical and tactical ability. I believe that after overcoming so many injuries, Zhao Shuang's life will be smoother. Bless the cool girl!