After the return from the ban, Peng Shuai won two consecutive championships in Houston and the Australian Open Wild Card Tournament. However, Peng Shuai's goal is far more than an Australian Open regular wild card, and she hopes to participate in another Olympic Games before the end of her career.
Returning from the ban, Peng Shuai won 9 consecutive victories. Photo/Visual China
Go to Germany to heal your wounds and let go of your worries
Four months ago, Peng Shuai was banned for three months by the tennis ethics investigation team and fined $10,000 for allegedly dissuading former doubles partner Ujfank in a financially compensatory manner last year.
This incident made Peng Shuai very helpless, and the misunderstanding between the former coach and the other coach's communication made her carry the pot, and it brought some "stains" to her tennis career for more than 20 years. ”
In the past 3 months, Peng Shuai has almost disappeared from the public, and the outside world knows nothing about her. "In the future, we must communicate directly with our doubles partners and communicate better." This is the lesson that this incident has brought to Peng Shuai.
"I came out very quickly." At the Zhuhai Hengqin International Tennis Center, Peng Shuai always had a smile on his face. After the matter first came out, Peng Shuai was very depressed, "There are many things you want to explain, and I find that I can't explain it clearly with everyone." ”
After the incident, Peng Shuai has not been able to meet with Uyvank so far, and the two have not communicated. "In fact, if you think about it, 5 or 10 years later, if you look back at these things, it may not be a big deal at all." Peng Shuai said that this must be a bad experience, but it does not mean that she is a bad person.
The sudden change disrupted Peng Shuai's arrangements for the 2018 season. The 3-month ban means that even after Peng Shuai lifts the ban, this season's WTA Tour has ended.
After calming down, Peng Shuai planned to make good use of this rare "vacation", she went to Germany twice to treat knee injuries and make better preparations for her comeback. After that, Peng Shuai began to travel and put down all his worries, "Since there is nowhere to escape, it is better to be happy than to be relieved." ”
It wasn't until the end of August that Peng Shuai resumed training, and she said she still likes tennis, "losing and winning, happy and stressing, will not affect me." ”
After getting the Wild Card for the Australian Open last weekend, Peng Shuai updated a Weibo: "Love you (tennis), no you will be more nervous." ”
Won the Australian Open wild card to set a record for participation
For many female players, November and December are rare winter breaks. But for Peng Shuai, who has just returned, she has been resting for several months and needs to make up for the "homework" that she has left behind.
On November 8, Peng Shuai's three-month ban expired. A few days later, she rushed to Houston to compete and thanked houston for providing a wild card.
For Peng Shuai, the 2018 season was indeed a bit bad. At the beginning of the season, she suffered a five-game losing streak. After the end of the three-month ban, Peng Shuai's world ranking has fallen to 298, which means that she is almost starting from scratch.
Coming to Houston, Peng Shuai not only had to face the intermittent rain, but also had to face the feel of the long-lost battle. Fortunately, there are not too many strong players in the signing table, and Peng Shuai has risen to 183rd place while ending the 16-month championship drought.
What awaited Peng Shuai was the Australian Open wild card match in Zhuhai last week. As the number one seed, Peng Shuai did not encounter challenges and got a wild card seat as desired. Peng Shuai will participate in the Australian Open for the 14th time, continuing to set a new record for Chinese players to participate in a single Grand Slam.
From Houston to Zhuhai, Peng Shuaihao won 9 consecutive wins, which greatly improved her self-confidence. You know, this season to the time of the ban, Peng Shuai only won 4 games in total.
A week later, Peng Shuai will also compete in the Dubai 100K event, after which the 2019 season will begin at the WTA Shenzhen Open at the end of the month.
In the next year, Peng Shuai will turn 33 years old, but the upcoming 2019 season is far from her end. In Peng Shuai's career plan, she also wants to participate in the Olympic Games again.
"The olympics feel different, not necessarily singles, but I still want to play doubles. Now there are many children in China who have emerged and hope to fight hard. "From next season, Peng Shuai will partner Yang Zhaoxuan in doubles. The 23-year-old Yang Zhaoxuan is now ranked 26th in the world in women's doubles, second only to Xu Yipan in The domestic ranking.
After working with Carlos, Peng Shuai felt very happy. Photo/Visual China
Getting to know Carlos Training made easy
In the final of the wild card match, Zhang Kaizhen was injured and withdrew, and Peng Shuai came forward to comfort him. In addition to the sympathy on the court, Peng Shuai said that he also had to thank Zhang Kaizhen. It was because of Zhang Kaizhen's brother's introduction that Peng Shuai was able to get to know Carlos Rodriguez, who helped her get out of the shadow of the ban for a short time.
In February this year, Peng Shuai learned that Carlos had been at an online school in Beijing and visited him. At first, both of them kept the relationship secret, and Carlos just wanted to help, not to go out again, before he had never coached a player like Peng Shuai who played double-forward and double-back.
Before Peng Shuai, Carlos had coached Haining, Li Na and others, and was a first-line coach in the tennis world. In Peng Shuai's eyes, Carlos was a master, "with the feeling of an old monk who had returned to the hidden mountain forest." Peng Shuai said that training with Carlos is particularly easy, "In the moment I hit the ball, he can feel whether I want to play a straight line or a diagonal line, at this time I just need to execute, I don't have to tell the coach, I have a problem here, there is a problem there." ”
When Peng Shuai got the Australian Open wild card on Sunday, Carlos also appeared at the Hengqin International Tennis Center and accompanied her to the post-match press conference. Talking about how to help Peng Shuai come out of the shadow of the ban, Carlos said that he is from South America, south America is optimistic and likes to look forward, "The 3-month ban is really difficult for Peng Shuai, but I told her that the past has passed, why not take the opportunity to take a good rest and then continue to train." ”
Changes are always more reflected in some details, after training with Carlos, Peng Shuai changed his habits of stepping into the training ground and looking at his mobile phone between training, "He not only asked me this, he also did it himself." Sometimes I get to the venue first, and I'll see him running as fast as he can, afraid of being late. ”
These changes made Peng Shuai, who was in the late stage of his career, feel a rare excitement, "I told him, if only the first person I met was you at the beginning." But he told me that it didn't matter, and it wasn't too late to meet me. ”
Due to the work of the online school, Carlos could not accompany Peng Shuai to all the tour, but Peng Shuai's training plan and event plan were handled by him. For a player like Peng Shuai, the technical level change may not be the most important, in Carlos's words, he wants to help Peng Shuai not only at the tennis level, "I hope she becomes better and really enjoys tennis." ”
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