China's 38-year-old veteran spoke out after winning the double Australian Open, refusing to participate in the Paris Olympics, angrily saying that "I can't climb high"

On January 30, Beijing time, Chinese Taipei's 38-year-old veteran Xie Shuwei, who recently won two championship trophies in women's doubles and mixed doubles at the 2024 Australian Open, spoke out through her brother Xie Zhengying that she would not represent Chinese Taipei in the Paris Olympics, which aroused strong concern from netizens.

Xie Shuwei's brother Xie Zhengying mentioned in a communication with netizens that "I will not participate, at the moment of the Olympics, there is no one in Chinese Taipei to partner", and then a netizen with good things asked about the two Chinese Taipei tennis players Wu Fangxian (Australian Open partner Chinese Jinhua Zhu Lin broke into the women's doubles round of 16) and Cao Jiayi, Xie Zhengying said: "Above, we can't afford to climb." Just want to have fun playing, thank you. Judging from Xie Zhengying's statement, Xie Shuwei is likely to refuse to represent Chinese Taipei in the Paris Olympics, and the contradiction between the Xie family and the Chinese Taipei Tennis Association has once again become the focus of the media.

Xie Shuwei has a long-standing conflict with the Chinese Taipei Tennis Association, mainly with the interests of the Zhan sisters. If it was limited to verbal warfare before, it was a complete outbreak before the 2016 Rio Olympics. At that time, Xie Shuwei participated in the competition with an injury to grab Olympic points, and won two places in singles and doubles. However, the Chinese Taipei Tennis Association assigned Zhan Yongran's coach to accompany the team, and after the negotiation failed, Xie Shuwei announced that she would withdraw from the Rio Olympics and would not accept the call of the Chinese Taipei Tennis Association in the future, and any event will be participated in in her personal name. In a blink of an eye, on the eve of the Tokyo Olympics, the relationship between the two sides eased somewhat, but in the first round of the Confederations Cup, the Chinese Taipei team "hidden" Xie Shuwei, resulting in the latter being unable to meet the conditions for getting an Olympic quota, and the conflict escalated again.

Since her comeback last year, Xie Shuwei first won the French Open women's doubles title with China's golden flower Wang Xinyu, then won the Wimbledon women's doubles title with Strycova, and now at the 2024 Australian Open, she has become the first female athlete in 24 years to win both the mixed doubles and women's doubles titles, which can be said to be the most dazzling existence in the women's doubles field today. Seeing Xie Shuwei shine at the Australian Open, the Chinese Taipei Tennis Association later issued a statement saying that it would make every effort to promote her participation in the Olympic Games, but now it seems that this is just wishful thinking on the part of the Chinese Taipei Tennis Association.