In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Li Ting and Sun Tiantian filled the gap for Chinese tennis on the Olympic stage, achieving a "zero breakthrough" in the gold medal in one fell swoop.
Also at the Athens Olympics, 21-year-old Liu Xiang became famous in a fight, and "Liu Xiang won" resounded all over the country.
20 years later, at the Paris Olympics, Zheng Qinwen, who was also only 21 years old, won the important women's singles gold medal for the Chinese delegation in tennis in his first Olympic Games.
And Zheng Qinwen himself said that before the final, he watched the video of Liu Xiang winning the championship many times to motivate himself.
She has also said more than once that the Olympics are more important than the Grand Slam because they represent the country.
In fact, after defeating Swiatek in the semifinals, everyone, including Zheng Qinwen, clearly knew that history was really close at hand.
Although it was late at night Beijing time at the end of tonight's game, I believe that the entire land of China was shouting for the same name at that time.
When Vekic returned the ball out of bounds, Zheng Qinwen successfully cashed in the gold medal point, and she once again lay on the court and celebrated emotionally.
13 years ago, I was also here, and everyone always thinks of Li Na that year, the sister who won the first Grand Slam in her life at the age of 29, but paved a "bright road" for the professionalization of Chinese tennis later.
The two Hubei fellows were also successfully crowned on clay after winning the Australian Open runner-up (although Zheng Qinwen was not at the French Open).
In the past 20 years, Chinese tennis has undergone earth-shaking changes, and it has finally ushered in the harvest season of "a hundred flowers blooming" in recent years.
Next up, Zheng Qinwen will also make history and disappoint performances, but let's not forget that she is only 21 years old and has endless possibilities for the future.
Sister Taomi has almost single-handedly re-opened Chinese tennis to more people, and she will undoubtedly become a new idol in Chinese sports.
The little girl who used to cheer for Li Na in front of the TV has now created a new era of Chinese tennis, who can say that there will not be the next "Zheng Qinwen" in front of the TV set with thousands of lights tonight?
The annual rings of time are spinning rapidly, but different eras will always have the same emotional value, Chinese tennis is developing in the inheritance, and so is Chinese sports.
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