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What is the greatest happiness in life? Everyone may have a different answer.
But there is no doubt that as a weak person who is looked down upon, when the 14 consecutive defeats in the Grand Slam stand on the verge of retirement, the Jedi counterattacked in one fell swoop, the Australian Open broke into the top 8, and after more than 3 years of grinding, it once again won the Australian Open women's doubles championship and reached the Wimbledon women's singles quarterfinals, what a happy report card.
This happiness comes not only from herself, but also from the media that pays attention to tennis, from thousands of tennis fans in China.
In this case, even the most objective recorder could not help but boil a bowl of chicken soup, Zhang Shuai himself said, "I am grateful for fate, so that I can persist to this day." People always say I'm inspirational, persistent, hard-working. In fact, why don't everyone work and struggle the same? Who has given up so easily?"
Teacher Zhang Bendou, who has been paying attention to and reporting on tennis, wrote: In those long dark nights that Zhang Shuai experienced, if those soul chicken soup once illuminated her way forward like a glimmer, then what was wrong with chicken soup? After he also has a wealth of life experience, Zhang Shuai's self-brewed chicken soup must also be very nutritious.
Let's take a look at this bowl of "Wimbledon Chicken Soup" that touched everyone, how Zhang Shuai brewed it——
At Wimbledon in 2019, Zhang Shuai passed the hurdles all the way, defeating four top players, including Wozniacki, and while winning four consecutive wins at Wimbledon, he also won the first quarter-finals of Wimbledon and the second quarter-finals of grand slam.
Although he regretted losing the game 6:7 and 1:6 in the 1/8 final with Halep, the style of play and spirit of daring to fight also made this former French Open champion and former world number one lament Zhang Shuai's strength and confidence. While the playing style and style of play continue to improve, the team's control of the grass season schedule and the reasonable arrangement of training have also formed a virtuous circle, although Zhang Shuai's Wimbledon journey has come to an end, but we always believe that Zhang Shuai will have a better performance in future games, especially in the rest of the season.
The last time Zhang Shuai saw a breakthrough was in 2016, when she defeated Halep in the first round of the Australian Open, and then the next one was out of control, winning four consecutive games to advance to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, that time, it was also Zhang Shuai's first victory in the Grand Slam regular tournament after stopping the first round of the Grand Slam for fourteen consecutive times.
At that time, Zhang Shuai once said another golden sentence: "Everyone's choices at the crossroads of life do not know whether they are right or wrong." I am thankful for my persistence and for the people who supported me in my difficult times. My persistence, [mostly] for these people who have always supported me, is more than for myself."
Zhang Shuai's words are so touching and moving. Sometimes, we are born as human beings, not for ourselves, when we shoulder the expectations of many people, our dreams become everyone's dreams, we must persist, can not shrink back.
Zhang Shuai is tenacious and persistent, and Zhang Shuai is also lucky, she is insisting on the cause she loves, for the cause that can dedicate her life, from this point of view, persistence itself is a kind of luck.
Countless media have asked Federer when he retired, and Federer would say every time, "I don't know, because I still love this feeling on the field, as long as I still love tennis, I will definitely be on the court and keep it up." 」 Yeah, what's so hard about persistence compared to love?
Zhang Shuai also had the idea of retiring in the Shenzhen tournament in 16 years, and the difficulties of the rising period, the doubts of the outside world, and the doubts of the self made it difficult for Zhang Shuai to continue to insist, but Zhang Shuai still survived. Li Na, as a person who came over, always encouraged Zhang Shuai.
It turns out that when the long night is over, it's dawn. Zhang Shuai also made another breakthrough in his career in that year. Since then, the topic of retirement seems to have nothing to do with Zhang Shuai.
After Wimbledon advanced to the quarterfinals, Zhang Shuai said on Weibo, "The first time I saw Wimbledon's weekend was so beautiful, I prefer this tranquility to the bustle." I sincerely hope that everyone in society who has a dream will not easily wake up from the dream and give up your pursuit, because even I can win on the grass."
Although it is self-deprecating, it is enough to see the helplessness brought to Zhang Shuai by the Wimbledon and grass seasons. You know, before that, Zhang Shuai had never won even one ball in the Wimbledon main game, not a single game. Of course, this is also Zhang Shuai's dream, and this dream, Zhang Shuai did not wake up, and he did it for thirty years.
Today, in the final of the US Open women's doubles, Zhang Shuai's partner Stosur defeated The American Gauff and McNally to win the first US Open women's doubles title with an 11-game winning streak.
For Zhang Shuai, this is undoubtedly another bigger breakthrough.
Each of us has had a big dream of spring and autumn, dreaming of standing on the court, dreaming of winning the championship, dreaming of watching the five-star red flag flying in the sky of a foreign country, dreaming of getting the cheers of the mountain and tsunami, dreaming of touching the golden cup, dreaming of tears in his eyes.
But when we wake up, we will find that those dreams are so far away that we have never even had the method of achieving them, this dream we cannot achieve, zhang Shuai can bring our dreams together to achieve.
When we are old and think back to the Wimbledon arena when we were young, we can also say that there was a girl named Zhang Shuai, she won, she did it! On the road to pursuing your dreams, never stop your steps.