Wang Qiang served in the match. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Beijing News (Chief Reporter Sun Haiguang) The tennis tournament of the 14th National Games ended today, and Li Zhe and Wang Qiang won the gold medal in men's and women's singles. In addition to the mixed doubles event, the traditional strong team Tianjin team won 4 golds and became the biggest winner.
The much-anticipated women's singles final was played between Wang Qiang and Zheng Saisai, who had ensured that Tianjin had won the women's singles gold medal at the Four Consecutive National Games, and the last time a non-Tianjin player won the women's singles gold medal at the National Games was Zheng Jie in 2005.
In order to prepare for the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Shaanxi National Games, Wang Qiang, Zheng Saisai and others have withdrawn from wimbledon and US Open events. As the two highest-ranked players in singles at the National Games, the showdown between Wang Qiang and Zheng Saisai ended hastily after only 7 minutes.
Zheng Saisai retired due to injury. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Just after the pre-match warm-up, Zheng Saisai applied for a medical suspension. After playing less than two rounds, Zheng Saisai tearfully withdrew from the competition and gave up the women's singles gold medal to Wang Qiang.
"Xi'an is where I grew up and the first time I played in my hometown and I really wanted to play this game. I tried my best, sorry. Zheng Saisai said that the shoulder injury was injured during the doubles the day before yesterday, so he also withdrew from the women's doubles semifinals, and has been eating painkillers for the past two days, and the women's singles final really can't go on.
Li Zhe returned the ball in the game. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
In the men's singles final, 35-year-old veteran Li Zhe defeated Zhang Xuan of Jiangsu 2-0 to win another gold for Tianjin. This is Li Zhe's fourth National Games gold medal, and before that, he won the 2009 mixed doubles, 2013 mixed doubles and 2021 men's doubles gold medals.
In the just-concluded mixed doubles final, Jiangsu team Zhang Xuan/ Sun Ziyue defeated the Tianjin duo li zhe / Xu Yipan 2-1 to win the championship. At this point, all the 14-year tennis events were completed, the traditional strong team Tianjin team won 4 gold medals, and the other 4 items except the mixed doubles had gold medals in the account.
Beijing News reporter Sun Haiguang
Edited by Wang Chunqiu, proofread by Wu Xingfa