Zhang Shuai in the game.
On January 20, Beijing time, the fourth matchday of the Australian Open continued, and Zhang Shuai, the Chinese Jinhua Zhang Shuai, received a retirement ceremony from Laibakina after 6:4 and 1:0, becoming the second Chinese female player after Wang Qiang to advance to the top 32 of the Australian Open. This is also the third time in four years that Zhang Shuai has reached the round of 32 of the tournament, and will play against Meltens in the third round of the 2018 tournament.
The best birthday gift
Due to the impact of injuries, Zhang Shuai's performance in the women's singles field in the past season has not been satisfactory, the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon singles have all suffered a "round trip", "In the first half of last year, my singles results were not very good, because of an arm injury. But I've always loved the sport and I've been involved in a lot of events in the second half of the year, trying to get myself to play every week. Zhang Shuai said.
Lebakina (right) retired from the tournament injured.
Now that we can end the decline in singles at the Australian Open and win two consecutive rounds to reach the round of 32 after two years, Zhang Shuai said that this is inseparable from the continuous participation in the second half of last year, "Last year and Stosur won the Cincinnati and US Open titles was very surprising, which made us feel more confident, and my doubles ranking also returned to the top ten in the world." ”
After winning two consecutive singles wins of the season, Zhang Shuai's challenges are still severe, and she will compete with 19th seed Mertens for the round of 16 in the third round. 'I didn't even look at the draw before I won the second round because I tried to focus on myself.' Zhang Shuai frankly said that he would face every round of the game with an impact mentality.
It is worth mentioning that tomorrow is Zhang Shuai's 33rd birthday, which is also the ninth consecutive year that she has spent her birthday in Melbourne. When it comes to birthday wishes, Zhang Shuai said that she is very lucky, and her wishes on the tennis road have almost been fulfilled, she said: "I enjoy every play. Now the only wish is that the epidemic can be (in the past), get better as soon as possible, so that people around the world can be healthy, especially our motherland, can resume normal life as before, everyone can exercise more, eat more healthy food, and physical health is the most important. I hope that people all over the world will unite to defeat the epidemic and overcome all difficulties! ”
"Five Blessings Linmen" advances the New Year
After the epidemic began to sweep the world in early 2020, most of the Chinese Jinhua did not go abroad to compete again, until the new season of 2021, it resumed playing, but nearly a year away from the field, so that the Chinese Jinhua collective downturn, including Wang Qiang, Zheng Saisai, etc. at the beginning of the year suffered a wave of consecutive defeats, even Zhang Shuai, who did not give up going abroad to compete in 2020, was not spared, and among the five golden flowers that played in the Australian Open, only Zhu Lin passed the first round.
The following 2021 season, China's Golden Flower performance in the Grand Slam singles field was not satisfactory, by the beginning of the 2022 season, the world's top 50 have not seen a Chinese Golden Flower figure, it can be said that Chinese tennis has suffered the harshest winter in the past two decades.
With the arrival of the new season, China Jinhua also began to "stop falling and rebound", and the five Chinese Jinhua who participated in the Australian Open main tournament: Zhang Shuai, Wang Qiang, Wang Xinyu, Wang Xiyu and Zheng Qinwen, all broke into the second round of women's singles, which not only created the best record of Chinese Jinhua in the first round of the Australian Open, but also equaled the best record of the first round of the Grand Slam of the 2016 US Open! So it was jokingly called "Wufu Linmen" by Chinese fans, although there are still more than ten days left before the traditional Chinese New Year Spring Festival, but Jinhua's record at the Australian Open really made Chinese fans celebrate the New Year in advance.
Wang Qiang celebrates the victory.
Among them, Wang Qiang's performance is the most exciting, the ranking has fallen below 100 Wang Qiang's bad luck, the first round encountered the 18th seed, the United States after 00 rookie Gaofu, the two sides last year in the two encounters, Wang Qiang all lost, and this time China's Golden Flower is like a rebirth, straight down two sets of successful revenge. In the second round, facing the Belgian Uit fank, who ranked more than 50 times higher than himself, Wang Qiang fought hard to win in three sets, as if he had changed back to the self who defeated Serena Williams two years ago!
Although there are two Jinhua who reached the third round at the same time, and the grand scene of Li Na and Zheng Jie reaching the top four at the same time is far from being comparable, but for the Chinese Jinhua Army, which is at the lowest point, such achievements are enough to boost morale, coupled with the fact that in the same competition, there are three post-00 players who have made breakthroughs at the same time, and after the Australian Open, Wang Xinyu and Zheng Qinwen will both reach the top 100 and create the highest ranking in their careers, which gives us reason to be confident in the future of China's Jinhua.
Proofread by Faye Wong
Source: Purple Cow News