On the evening of March 6, Chinese female tennis player Zhang Shuai won the women's singles final of the International Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in Lyon, France, against Ukraine's Yastremska, a hard-won victory that was Zhang Shuai's first women's singles champion on the tour in five years.
Zhang Shuai not only reached the final of Nottingham last year, but this time he stood on the final field, but the difference was that during the game, Zhang Shuai faced an extremely unfavorable arena environment this time. In addition to the referee's many unfair decisions, the audience on the field often cheered at Zhang Shuai on the field, and when Zhang Shuai served, a spectator deliberately coughed to try to affect Zhang Shuai's serve.
Even though Zhang Shuai communicated with the referee several times about the scale of the penalty and the impolite behavior of the audience, the referee did not pay attention to the audience's behavior of disrupting the order of the arena, and did not make any response and handling.
Shortly after the opening, Zhang Shuai's opponent Yastremska obviously hit the outside of bounds when returning the ball, but was ruled by the referee on duty that Yastremska scored, and Zhang Shuai and his head coach both expressed their objections, but because there was no high-speed camera on the field that could quickly restore the real-time picture, the referee's decision became the only voice on the field.
Perhaps affected by unfair treatment, Zhang Shuai quickly lost the first set 3:6. In the second set, Zhang Shuai stabilized his mind and entered the game and received a miracle effect, breaking the opponent's serve in the game continuously, establishing a lead, and finally equalizing the score 6:3.
After entering the decider, the European referees began to demonize again, and the Ukrainian player's out-of-bounds ball was once again judged by her to be in bounds. Repeated appearances of favoritism made Zhang Shuai intolerable, and he came directly to the referee to theorize with her. However, the audience began to boo and taunt Zhang Shuai.
After the game resumed, several spectators sitting in the front row suddenly increased their volume, trying to drive more people to cheer Zhang Shuai, and Zhang Shuai also responded domineeringly to the audience: Whoever wants to fight with me will come up, don't TM make trouble off the field. Then Zhang Shuai also scored consecutive points through his anger, always maintaining the lead.
Seeing that their interference can not prevent Chinese players from scoring, these self-proclaimed civilized spectators have another plan, frequently coughing at the time of Zhang Shuai's serve to interfere with her, Zhang Shuai also complained to the referee about this situation many times, but the referee and the staff on the scene still ignored it, and never made effective intervention to these noises that interfered with the game.
However, it is the strength that determines the game in the end, not the outside moves. Zhang Shuai still withstood the pressure with excellent performance, overcame various adverse effects from the referee and the off-court audience to defeat the opponent, and shouted "come on" to the audience, finally shutting up the impolite audience and replacing it with applause from the audience.
After the game, Zhang Shuai also politely praised the performance of the young general Yastremska, and cheered her on: "Many weeks know, now is a difficult time for you, but you play very well, grow very fast, and you are a full fighter."
In the comment area of the game video, audiences from all over the world expressed their heartfelt admiration for Zhang Shuai's performance and sportsmanship, and everyone agreed that Zhang Shuai's performance in the face of prejudice and pressure on the field was very respectable, and as wonderful as the superb skills she showed in the game.