In the post-Li Na era, her breakthrough has made the Chinese women's network see hope and led Xiaohua to glory

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Once, I asked some friends around me, if you failed in the same thing 14 times, would you stick with it? In the face of this problem, many friends' answers are negative.

However, in the Chinese women's tennis, there is such a veteran, who has not won any of the 14 main events of the Grand Slam, but has persisted until now and achieved good results. Perhaps reading this, many tennis fans know who I am talking about. Yes, the protagonist of this article is Zhang Shuai. In the post-Li Na era, her breakthroughs have repeatedly seen hope for the Chinese women's network, and many Chinese women's tennis players have been full of self-confidence and enterprising. Today's article, let me tell her story.

On September 19, 2014, Li Na, Asia's first tennis Grand Slam winner, officially announced her retirement. That year, Peng Shuai broke into the final four of the just-concluded US Open; in 2013, Peng Shuai and Xie Shuwei won the Wimbledon women's doubles title; in 2014, Peng Shuai and Xie Shuwei won the French Open women's doubles title, filling an important gap in the "Golden Slam" of the Chinese women's doubles. However, Peng Shuai has just announced that he will no longer cooperate with Xie Shuwei in the future, Zhang Shuai has never won a Grand Slam victory, and Wang Qiang and Duan Yingying and others can only play the second round of the Grand Slam at most. In this case, the arrival of the post-Li Na era has made many tennis fans feel a little worried.

Now, 8 years have passed. On the tour and Grand Slam competitions, we see the number of Chinese golden flowers, sometimes even more than in Li Na's time. Although no one has yet been able to break into the final four of the Grand Slam, the post-00s youngsters Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xinyu and Wang Xiyu have gradually grown up and emerged on the tour and Grand Slam arena, and the future of China's Golden Flower is worth everyone looking forward to for them!

And these are inseparable from Zhang Shuai's breakthrough and her achievements. At the 2016 Australian Open, she played at the Grand Slam for the 15th time, and finally ushered in a breakthrough in her career. In the case that the media and the outside world are not optimistic about her, she defeated the No. 2 seed Romanian star Halep in the first round, after which she sang all the way and entered the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time in her career.

In the 2016 French Open, Zhang Shuai won again and broke into the second round. In the 2016 US Open, she continued to work hard and broke into the top 32 of the US Open. By the end of the year, Zhang Shuai's real-time world ranking had risen to 27th, setting a record for her personal highest world ranking.

Since then, Zhang Shuai has never stopped his steps. In the 2017 French Open, it reached the top 32. On September 23, at the Guangzhou International Women's Open, Zhang Shuai won the championship, the second Tour championship trophy she won in her career. At the 2019 Australian Open, he and his partner Stosur won the doubles title, which was Zhang Shuai's first Grand Slam title. At Wimbledon in 2019, Zhang Shuai broke through to the top 8, which was her second Grand Slam quarterfinals.

In the 2020 French Open, Zhang Shuai reached the round of 16. On 12 June 2021, at the Nottingham Open, Zhang Shuai qualified for the grass court singles final for the first time. In the 2021 US Open, he and his partner Stosur won 11 consecutive doubles wins and finally won the US Open doubles. This is their second Grand Slam women's doubles title since the 2019 Australian Open. This Grand Slam champion has enabled the Chinese women's doubles to win four Grand Slam women's doubles championships and the Olympic women's doubles gold medal, achieving the great cause of "Golden Slam".

On March 6, 2021, in the final of the Lyon Station, Zhang Shuai successfully reversed in the case of losing one set first and breaking the decisive set twice, ending the championship drought of nearly four and a half years and winning the third women's singles championship of his career. It was also her first WTA singles title to be won offshore.

Now Zhang Shuai is still fighting on the women's tour, and in the future, she will be able to bring us more surprises. Zhang Shuai, who has failed to make a breakthrough in the Grand Slam main tournament 14 times, has now made such a breakthrough, such an achievement, without thinking, will inspire more Chinese small flowers to work hard and struggle, hoping that they can achieve good results like Zhang Shuai.

And the Chinese men's network, too lack of characters like Zhang Shuai. Zhang Zhizhen, who once said bluntly that Wimbledon would not be his first Grand Slam trip, is currently ranked 300th in the world. Wu Di and Zhang Xuan, who once made history for the Chinese men's network, have grown old. Wu Yiyu, who once raised his ranking by more than 600 in just one year, is no longer seen on the ATP Tour. I hope that in the future, the Chinese men's network can appear more people like Zhang Shuai, struggling and never giving up, and can leave a strong mark for the men's network.

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(Source: Tennis House Author: One Heart Resident)