After ten years, after Li Na, another Chinese female tennis player, Zheng Qinwen, advanced to the women's singles final of the Australian Open.
The final result may have been predicted, Zheng Qinwen lost to Sabalenka 3-6, 2-6 and won
He was the runner-up at the Australian Open and ranked seventh in the world, and received a prize fund of more than 8 million yuan.
On the Internet, Zheng Qinwen broke into the Australian Open women's singles final this time, and finally lost by a big score and missed the championship
Jun also aroused heated discussions among netizens and tennis fans.
1. Chinese tennis would like to thank Li Na!
Li Na's original "escape" attracted criticism from the Chinese people and was scolded miserably.
But I have to admit that Li Na's "exodus" has paved a positive path for the "experiment" of Chinese tennis to move forward, and pointed out the direction for later Chinese tennis people.
Li Na's personal "experiments" have proved that some sports are not suitable for the national system, such as tennis, a highly commercialized sport in the world.
It also shows that laymen command insiders, and they can't produce talents or good results.
2. Compared with table tennis and badminton, why is the prize money gap so big?
Although Zheng Qinwen failed to defeat Sabalenka to win his first Australian Open title, he won the runner-up award
Gold also reached 1.725 million Australian dollars, about 8.14 million yuan.
Looking at our national table tennis again, taking the 2023 Doha Year-end Finals as an example, the women's singles champion Sun Yingsha will only have a prize of $40,000.
Converted into RMB, it is only about 30, which is less than 1/20 of the Australian Open women's singles championship prize, which is indeed pitiful.
Therefore, some netizens concluded from the level of prize money that tennis is a worldwide popular sport, while table tennis and badminton are niche sports.
Personally, I think this conclusion is not very reasonable, and it is too one-sided to define whether a sport is popular or niche by the amount of prize money.
Let's take tennis and table tennis as an example, compare the situation in various aspects, and see who is the real public, and who is the minority?
First, taking the global penetration rate as an example, tennis is mainly played in Europe, North America, and Australia
Table tennis is also mainly played by a small number of people in Asia (China, Japan, South Korea) and Europe.
Therefore, it can be said that the world popularity of tennis and table tennis is about the same, but if you count it in terms of population, table tennis is better than tennis.
Second, in terms of the attention, influence, and prize amount of the event, we have to admit that tennis is indeed better than table tennis.
The Australian Open, the US Open, the French Open, and the Wimbledon Open are the same.
These four Grand Slam Open Championships can be said to be a global concern, even in countries that are not good at tennis
In this way, it is true that the worldwide influence is too much away from table tennis and badminton.
And because the commercialization history of tennis is also longer than that of table tennis, the degree of commercialization is also much higher
The sponsors are also world-class companies, so of course the prize money is much higher.
Third, the level of entry threshold.
In terms of entry threshold, the entry threshold for tennis is definitely much higher than that of table tennis and badminton.
The first is the threshold of economic foundation, just the tennis court, racket and other equipment, which is not something that ordinary people can do
There is no certain economic foundation for playing, and ordinary people can't even cross the threshold of tennis.
Coupled with hiring a professional tennis coach, it is a huge financial expenditure, which ordinary families think
The possibility of hiring a professional tennis coach with a high level is basically zero.
The second is the professional and technical threshold, the technical threshold of tennis, which is obviously much higher than that of table tennis
Question, and tennis, I'm afraid I haven't even learned the basic serving skills.
Therefore, I personally believe that judging a sport by the amount of prize money is not comprehensive.
And some people's reason is that tennis is more popular in developed countries in Europe and the United States, while table tennis is basically only
China and other relatively backward Asian countries are fine, so tennis is popular, and table tennis is niche.
If you say this kind of reason, you will obviously have some wrong intentions, obviously you are worshipping foreigners, and you are obviously growing the ambition of others and destroying your own prestige.
So this reason is no longer as simple as being unreasonable, but very humble and ridiculous.
Combining the two main factors of economic foundation and technical difficulty, tennis is a niche sport.
Even in developed countries in Europe and the United States, tennis is also known as an "aristocratic sport".
First, it costs a lot of money to become a talent, and it is difficult to reach the professional level, and it is even more difficult to become the world's top master, so even in developed European and American countries,
Tennis is also a niche sport, and tennis is even more niche in China and the world.
3. Zheng Qinwen's defeat in the final shows that in the sport of tennis, yellow people, including Chinese, are still 108,000 miles away from catching up with European and American whites.
Although Zheng Qinwen reached the 2024 Australian Open women's singles final, I have to say that her road to the women's singles final is a lot of luck.
And against Sabalenka in the final, Zheng Qinwen was almost beaten to the point of having no power to fight back,
In terms of explosive power alone, the yellow race is really inferior to the white race, including both men and women.
In the end, although Zheng Qinwen lost in the final, she still deserves encouragement, first, for the first time in ten years
To justify the name of Chinese tennis, the second is that she is still very young, only 21 years old, her tennis road is still very long, and she needs our encouragement.
This Australian Open is the first time that Zheng Qinwen has reached the final of four Grand Slam tournaments
With rich experience, I believe that Zheng Qinwen can bring us more surprises in the future!
Come on! Zheng Qinwen!
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