After four and a half years, Zhang Shuai once again added a trophy to his singles honor book: the third crown of his career! It also adds more convincing power to her domestic Jinhua sister identity.
Seeing Zhang Shuai's smiling face after winning the championship, behind this joy, it was really full of too many difficulties, fortunately, Zhang Shuai withstood the test and finally held the trophy tightly in his arms.
When reaching the final of the Lyon station, many people could not imagine that Zhang Shuai had actually done it. Because she was not in good shape before, she was almost on the verge of becoming a marginal person in the singles arena, and she was 33 years old.
Although Zhang Shuai still did it in an unexpected way, she was not the most optimistic person to win the championship, and many people expected her to be swept by her opponent Jast remka in two sets.
Sure enough, at the beginning of the first set, Zhang Shuai's physical fitness problems, the pace was heavy, and he was soon in an extremely passive state. What makes Zhang Shuai angry is that the situation is not good for him, and the referee misjudged the ruling on the key points in the competition between the two sides, resulting in Zhang Shuai being very dissatisfied, but helpless, and losing the first set without suspense.
It is gratifying that Zhang Shuai quickly adjusted his mentality, and after surviving the physical fitness level, stabilized the situation, won the second set, and equalized the big score.
However, Zhang Shuai's state was not maintained, and the decisive set was quickly pushed to a more dangerous situation by the opponent 2-4. As long as the opponent wins two more sets, he can win the game.
At this stage of the game, Zhang Shuai was even less optimistic. Because before she played in a lower level ITF tournament, she reached the final, facing players who were not as strong and ranked as her, she would always collapse inexplicably and eventually lose the game. Now that the game has reached this stage, the opponent's confidence is bursting, and Zhang Shuai wants to turn the tables over.
Originally, Zhang Shuai had already encountered huge trouble, but at this time, the fans on the scene were desperately cheering for the opponent, and they also cheered at Zhang Shuai, and did not have to think that Zhang Shuai's heart was very unhappy.
It was precisely at this time that the game took a great turn, Zhang Shuai seemed to be like a different person, not only did not collapse and lose the game, but quickly found his state, made a return break, and launched a counterattack.
Seeing that Zhang Shuai was like this, the situation began to be unfavorable to himself, in order to disrupt the rhythm of Zhang Shuai, Yastremska regained control of the game in his own hands, began his own small actions, untied the good shoelaces and re-tied them, sat on the advertising board in a cute way, and tried to have a certain impact on Zhang Shuai.
Fortunately, Zhang Shuai's glass heart in the previous key moments did not appear, withstood the test, and finally reversed the game in an incredible way, laughed to the end, took the championship into his arms, and received 250,000 euros in prize money and 280 championship points, and the real world ranking has come to 41st.
Winning this championship, Zhang Shuai's happiness is no less than winning the Grand Slam title, bluntly saying that she has had an incredible week.
Indeed, this championship has many meanings for Zhang Shuai.
First, this is the third singles crown of her career. With this title, she rushed to the third place in the current number of Chinese Golden Flower Champions, behind Li Na's nine championships and Zheng Jie's four championships.
Second, after the previous two WTA Guangzhou champions, she finally won the third crown abroad, proving her strength, joining Li Na, Zheng Jie and Wang Yafan, who had all won the championship abroad, ranking fourth.
Third, before ranking at the top of the domestic golden flower list, it was considered to be unworthy of the name, and now a champion can also be regarded as a justification for his domestic sister status. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Starry Sky of The Moon River)