A few days ago, in the third round of the women's singles competition of the 2022 Australian Open, Tianjin's Zhang Shuai lost 2-6, 2-6 to the No. 19 seed of the tournament, Belgian adept Mertens, and missed the women's singles round of 16. At this point, all Chinese players are out of the women's singles field. Earlier, when Zhang Shuai talked about his birthday wish, he said that he had achieved all the goals he hoped to achieve. What makes her happiest now is that she can continue to compete with her friends in good health.
On January 21, Tianjin's Zhang Shuai, who competed in the Australian Open, celebrated her 33rd birthday, but this birthday may not be wonderful for Zhang Shuai, who was out of the doubles match on her birthday. After losing to Mertens in the third round of women's singles, missing the round of 16, at this time, it may be the most important thing to have a best friend to accompany him, and Zhang Shuai's friend is her women's doubles partner Stosur, the two support each other, touch each other, and achieve a tennis story.
Last Tuesday, after losing the second round of the women's singles match, the 2011 US Open women's singles champion Stosur officially announced the end of his singles career. However, she will not retire from this, born in 1984, she will continue her doubles career, according to Zhang Shuai, Stosur has planned to retire several times, but whenever this idea comes up, she can immediately achieve good results in the doubles field, doubles, is the motivation for her to persevere. In fact, what is not the motivation that Stother gave zhang Shuai? I think that at that time, when Zhang Shuai continued to travel in a grand slam round and almost collapsed to the brink of retirement, it was Stosur who encouraged her to hold on a little longer to see if she could win the turnaround, which also had a major breakthrough for Zhang Shuai at the 2016 Australian Open.
Sharapova's sentence "I did not come to the tennis world to make friends" debunked the false and vicious snake of the women's tennis world. Because of this, like Zhang Shuai and Stosur, who sincerely trust each other and help each other in times of difficulty, they are the touching and sincere friendship behind the championship trophies - they are tacit partners on the field, and they are friends whose friendship can last a lifetime. From the competition between the two, you can see this tacit harmony, no one will have any complaints because of the mistakes of their partners, but always encourage each other. After all, their friendship has transcended winnings, prizes and points.
This year's Australian Open, Zhang Shuai and Stosur's women's doubles match has come to an end, but as Stosur said, their journey will continue, for Zhang Shuai, who just celebrated his birthday, and Stosur, who has just announced that he will no longer participate in singles matches, the best blessing is to be happy and play for a few more years!