Three minutes a day to know about tennis in the world. Hello fans, today is Friday, February 26, 2021, welcome to listen to the news noon offered by Tennis House.
Two days ago, British star Murray started the new season at at the ATP250 Montpellier. However, he was confident before the game and was defeated by Belarusian Gerasimov in two sets in the first round and missed the promotion. The losing Murray expressed disappointment in an interview with the media that he failed to win the first win of the season. At the same time, he also expressed his deep regret that he did not make it to this year's Australian Open because he was infected with the new crown virus. "I barely watched the Australian Open, I wanted to go there and play, it was really torturous. I closed all the player accounts I had followed before, and I really didn't want to see those event messages. ”
As we all know, the Australian Open is Murray's most regrettable Grand Slam tournament, he has reached the final five times, all of them with plates. Therefore, even if he had hip replacement surgery, his competitive state was much worse than before, but he still hoped to give himself a chance to make up for his regrets. Before this year's Australian Open, Murray conducted a large amount of pre-race training and abandoned the Auckland race, which had already won a wild card, in order to reduce the risk of infection and successfully travel to Melbourne. Unexpectedly, just before he was about to board the charter flight of the Australian Open Organizing Committee, his new crown virus test result became positive, leaving only isolation and treatment.
By the time he reached the end of the quarantine period and smoothly "turned from yang to yin", the time before the start of the Australian Open could no longer meet the epidemic prevention regulations, and he had no choice but to announce his withdrawal. This frustrated Murray, who was full of anticipation before the game. Now, in an interview, he can hardly hide his deep regrets, and he also expressed his great love for the Australian Open to fans and friends. May Murray, like Nadal and Djokovic, recover from injuries as soon as possible, return to peak form, and strive to realize his dream in Melbourne next year!
Let's focus on another piece of good news. Yesterday, Beijing time, the International Tennis Hall of Fame officially announced the list of members to be settled in 2021, and Hewitt, the former world's first and Australian hare, was successfully settled. He was joined by nine founders and legendary coaches of women's professional tennis, Dennis van der Meer.
Born on 24 February 1981, Hewitt moved to the professional stage in 1998 and is known as the Australian Hare. In 2001, at the age of 20, Hewitt defeated American Sampras in the men's singles final of the US Open to win the Grand Slam title for the first time. On October 23 of the same year, Hewitt, 20 years and 8 months old, became the youngest world number one in ATP history. In 2002, Hewitt won his second Grand Slam title at Wimbledon. In 2016, the Australian Hare announced its retirement, ending a 19-year tennis career.
This year's induction ceremony will reportedly take place in Newport in mid-July. Last year, due to the inability to hold the entrance ceremony due to the impact of the epidemic, the two members of last year's settlement, Spanish star Martinez and Croatian star Ivanisević, will participate in this year's entry ceremony with Hewitt.
Let's take a look at the game. Yesterday afternoon and evening Beijing time, the WTA500 Adelaide station ended the competition for the quarterfinals. American rising star Gauff, who broke through from the qualifiers, reversed compatriot Rogers 2-1 and will compete with Swiss girl Bencic for the right to the final, who defeated homegrown player Sanders 2-0.
When polish rising star Swatek, the 5th seed, led 6-3, 3-0, opponent Collins withdrew due to injury. Switzerland's Teichmann narrowly defeated Latvian girl Sevastova 2-1 to reach the final four of the WTA 500 class for the first time in her career, and will challenge Svatek in the semi-finals.
In the women's doubles arena, China's Jinhua Xu Yipan / Yang Zhaoxuan defeated a pair of local pairs 6-3 to reach the women's doubles semifinals. The No. 2 seedEd Zheng Saisai / Duan Yingying lost to an American pair in two sets, regrettably stopping in the quarterfinals.
Finally, let's guess and recognize. The picture below shows a player hitting the ball. The ball is blocking her face, can you recognize her by her body shape and other details?
Yesterday's guess, the golfers all gave the correct answer. That's right, the person in the picture is none other than Federer, the King of Switzerland. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Maverick)