On January 20, Beijing time, the Australian Open women's singles arena staged a touching moment, the local famous player and veteran Stosur announced the retirement of singles, and the Australian Open audience at the scene made a touching banner and sent flowers.
Stosur's career is brilliant, the Australian star born in 1984 is close to 38 years old, has played in professional tennis for nearly 20 years, won a total of 9 singles titles, the world's highest ranking has reached fourth, 31 times to beat the world's top ten, the highest moment comes from the US Open to win the championship: in 2011, Stosur won the us open 2-0 victory over the local legend Serena Williams, the first grand slam women's singles championship in his career! In addition, Stosur also finished runners-up at the 2010 French Open.
This year's Australian Open, Stosur's last singles match, the second round against the 10th seed Pavlyuchenkova, Stosur lost 2-6, with the end of this match, Stosur's singles career also came to an end! The Australian Open audience at the scene made a touching banner that read: Thank you, Sam!
Stosur also received a flower blessing, and it seems that the Australian veteran is not sad, and a smile is always on her face. Stosur, holding flowers, waved his thanks to the audience. In the next professional tennis tournament, we will not see Stosur play in singles matches, but Stosur is not fully retired and she will continue to play in doubles matches.
It is worth mentioning that this year's Australian Open, Stosur is the doubles partner of Zhang Shuai, a Chinese women's tennis player. At present, Stosur / Zhang Shuai has passed the first round of the Australian Open women's doubles, they are the No. 4 seeds of women's doubles, and hope that Stosur and Zhang Shuai can go to the end.