In charleston, the eyes of Chinese fans may still stay on Zhang Shuai's women's doubles ranking for the first time in the world's top five, but the czech celebrity Pesczek, who was once the world's first 46-year-old women's doubles, is also worth paying attention to, her partner Mihalikova lost 3-6, 3-6 to the new Australian Open runner-up Dalinina and Belarusian adept Sassnovic in the first round, after the game, the tennis evergreen said that Charleston will be the last stop of her career WTA Tour. She will finish her career at Wimbledon this year.
When it comes to Pesczek, the most impressive thing about her career is the 36 WTA-level women's doubles titles of her career (including the 2011 Wimbledon women's doubles title). The golden duo of Pesczek and Slebernik impressed Chinese fans, who played zheng jie and a former doubles world number one on several occasions. At Wimbledon in 2011, Peschek defeated Zheng Jie and reached the final four, eventually winning the championship. After the match, she became the world number one in women's doubles at the time, which was also the only Grand Slam women's doubles title in Pesczek's career. In the same year, she partnered Slibernik and won the women's doubles runner-up and year-end finals at the US Open.
Pesczek, who began to retreat semi-recessively after the epidemic, only achieved a record of 14 wins and 10 losses last year. But she won five consecutive games at last year's Chicago top-level tournament with German veteran Petkovic, beating a combination of Melichar/Schuers, Guarazi/Kravzik to win the last WTA Tour title of her career. Peschek only played in Indiana Wells, Miami and Charleston this year, all partnered with Russian player Mikhalikova, but all were out of the first round.
Peschek first met a Chinese player in women's doubles in 2005. When her partner Schneider defeated a chinese team that won nine gold medals at the National Games, Pesczek began a sixteen-year relationship with Chinese players in women's doubles, with a staggering record of 34 wins and 14 losses. In 2006, Pesczek and Schiavoni defeated the then-sunny Zheng Jie/Yan Zi duo at the US Open; in 2018, Wimbledon semi-final partner Melichal saved the match point and defeated Xu Yipan, and repeatedly became the sniper of Chinese players on the road to the Grand Slam promotion. Her last game against a Chinese player was in last year's Cincinnati tournament, when the Zhang Shuai/Stosur combination won 6-3, 3-6, 10-6.
In fact, Peschek's relationship with Chinese players can be traced back to the 1998 Makarska Fourth Division, when Pesczek defeated Li Fang 6-3, 6-1 to win the only WTA title of his career. This also allowed Chinese fans to wait for six years until Li Na won the 2004 Guangzhou Open, ushering in the first WTA women's singles title for Chinese women.
Every parting is extremely sentimental. Shevdova, Jin Jiuci, Bertens and other familiar names have announced their retirement in the past two years; veterans such as Xie Shuwei and Strykova have gradually retired. The figure of one good player after another who was once active in the tennis world will always be sealed in the memory of fans, and fans should see and cherish the games of veterans such as Zhang Shuai, Big Wei, Federer and Nadal. Finally, I wish Pesczek a good result at Wimbledon and a successful career farewell. (Source: Tennis House Author: Mo Chuan)