In the women's doubles final of the 2014 French Open, the combination of Peng Shuai and Xie Shuwei won the championship.
The "strait combination" formed by Peng Shuai and Xie Shuwei has left many beautiful memories for compatriots on both sides of the strait. They have won grand slam doubles titles twice and even topped the women's doubles world number one.
At the Australian Open not long ago, we once again witnessed the tacit understanding and friendship of this pair. They encouraged and cared for each other in Melbourne, not only once again joining forces to break into the women's doubles final four, Xie Shuwei also entered the women's singles round of 16 again after 10 years.
After the End of the Australian Open, Peng Shuai and Xie Shuwei both expressed their willingness to continue to cooperate, and they even hoped to win the Women's Doubles Grand Slam.
But alas, the two men, who have been friends for 20 years, are in crisis due to the distribution of physical training coaches, and the two even attack each other on social networks.
For the two people who have worked together over the years, I hope that they are just like ordinary girls, and they will reconcile again after a small quarrel.
On July 6, 2013, the 2013 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Final, Peng Shuai / Xie Shuwei won the championship and kissed the trophy. Visual China Information
Conflicted by a physical trainer?
At the Dubai Open on February 25, the Peng Shuai/Xie Shuwei combination lost 1-2 to Yang Zhaoxuan/Zhan Haoqing in the final, regrettably passing by the champion.
In fact, finishing runners-up in a WTA tournament would have been a pretty good result. However, some netizens found that Peng Shuai and Xie Shuwei not only had no communication after the game, but even had little communication during the game.
Netizens' speculations were quickly confirmed. After the game, the "Straits Group" successively tweeted to express dissatisfaction with their partners, and the focus of the contradiction was because the two shared a physical coach.
"Powerless, sad, depressed... Yes, I had a conflict with Xie Shuwei... The reason is because of the physical trainer. Peng Shuai revealed the crisis of the two in the early hours of the morning.
Xie Shuwei immediately responded on Weibo, "Thank you for snatching my only physical teacher, bye-bye." ”
Half an hour later, Peng Shuai issued a long article denying that he had robbed Xie Shuwei's physical teacher. She explained that last year, the other party first proposed to hire Yoko, a physically trainer, but later became dissatisfied with the Japanese gymnast's uneven distribution of the two people's time.
Peng Shuai Weibo.
Peng Shuai said that the cooperation between the three of them was going well, but the day before the start of the Australian Open, Xie Shuwei suddenly kicked the gymnast out of the house, and then the gymnast had to go to Peng Shuai to live.
After the end of the Australian Open, the contradictions between the two have not been resolved, and there is even a trend of continuous intensification. Peng Shuai said that Xie Shuwei asked the physical trainer to stop cooperating with her, and even used doubles as a blackmail.
"Don't let the physical fitness continue to take us both, only take you, even if you don't use the time you can't follow me, otherwise you won't play doubles", Peng Shuai said helplessly, "The physical fitness master has explained to you, I have explained to you, but you do not accept."
Indeed, physical fitness is quite critical for the 32-year-old Xie Shuwei, who has not had anything to do with physical fitness before she broke into the Australian Open women's singles round of 16, "The Australian Open makes me feel more important to my physical condition." ”
Xie Shuwei's younger brother Xie Zhengpeng also spoke out for his sister on social media, revealing that in fact, because Peng Shuai needed a Japanese gymnast during the Australian Open, he specially asked an Australian gymnast to assist them.
"Imagine 9 consecutive days of high-intensity singles plus doubles competitions, who has the heart to fight for this? So after the younger brother learned of this news, he immediately asked the local gymnast to support the Australian Open competition. ”
In response to Peng Shuai's statement, Xie Shuwei did not make any explanation or rebuttal, she only said that she gave up singles for the sake of doubles, "For a promise, I came to Dubai, hardened my scalp, put the singles first, doubles. ”
Peng Shuai/Xie Shuwei on the pitch
"Twenty years of friendship stop here"
The result of the spat was perhaps the last thing fans wanted — the duo announced they would no longer partner in doubles.
'Now it's all over, not just the stadium, almost two decades of friendship stop here. Peng Shuai sighed on Weibo that everything is not what it used to be.
To calculate, Peng Shuai and Xie Shuwei have actually known each other for 20 years. They met at the age of 12 in a youth competition in Europe, and the two of them, whose birthdays were only 4 days apart, quickly became good friends, and often went shopping and tasting food together.
On the court, the tennis women's doubles combination of Peng Shuai and Xie Shuwei has brought countless sweet memories to fans. They have created a legend in the history of Chinese tennis: two Grand Slam trophies, ranked first in the world, 100% win rate of Grand Slam finals...
In the Australian Open, which ended in January this year, the two once again joined hands to break into the women's doubles final four after 4 years. During the competition, Xie Shuwei escorted the injured Peng Shuai; after the game, Peng Shuai took Xie Shuwei everywhere to taste the food of Chinatown.
The two used to go shopping and eating together.
"It's a pleasure to be able to play together again because the best memories are created by us and it's not easy to continue to be together at this age." Xie Shuwei once said during the Australian Open that she cherished the cooperation between them.
Peng Shuai also believed that personality is the reason why the two can have such a tacit understanding, "We have very similar personalities, her personality is like a fantasy, like a 'flea', and I am the kind of person who pursues perfectionism a little." ”
After the Australian Open, the two even had a higher goal – a women's doubles grand slam. But sadly, two 20-year-old friends parted ways for this reason.
"Thank you to each other for achieving childhood dreams, and no matter what the future holds, we will not deny these beautiful memories." Peng Shuai wrote that she and Xie Shuwei have since deleted all the Microblogs they had quarreled with before.
Finally, Peng Shuai left a sentence on Weibo: "It seems to be like a dream, we met for such a short time... Don't want to say it again, love your nonsense, bless you and my old partner! ”
In the view of Xie Shuwei's younger brother Xie Zhengpeng, this quarrel is not a big deal, "dismantling the gang and robbing the coach is not too serious in the eyes of our boys." ”
And the fans also hope that Peng Shuai and Xie Shuwei are just like ordinary girls, and they will reconcile again after a small quarrel, after all, we have seen too many "plastic flower sisters" around us.