US Open is hot! Chinese tennis sees hope, world superstars write legends
2022-09-07 17:20:15Source: Xi’an News Network
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Five Chinese players entered the third round of the single, which raised the attention of this US Open in China.
The reigning men’s and women’s singles champions came out early, legendary star Serena Williams greeted in tears, Spanish king Nadal stopped in the round of 16, and Chinese players played well … The 2022 US Open recently attracted l ‘attention of fans around the world Eyes, among them, Chinese fans and sports fans account for a considerable share.
Chinese fans see the legacy and see the hope!
33-year-old Zhang Shuai is ushering in another peak period in his career.
Why the popularity and attention of this year’s US Open is heating up among Chinese fans is naturally closely related to the performance of Chinese players.
Zhang Shuai’s (left) performance and achievements over the past two years are obvious to everyone.
Leading the way is Zhang Shuai, who made a breakthrough in his 10th trip to the US Open and advanced to the top 16 of the US Open women’s singles for the first time in his career. As the “first sister” of the current Chinese professional tennis body, the 33-year-old Jinmen woman will start in 2019 and seems to have found a “winning feeling” in the international arena, first at the Australian Open 2019 with Stosur. The team won the championship and tasted the taste of winning the Grand Slam championship. Last year, the multinational team won the US Open women’s doubles championship again. In March of this year, the WTA250 Lyon Open women’s singles championship further enhanced self-confidence. In this US Open women’s singles competition, Zhang Shuai not only entered the top 32 for the fourth time after Zhang Shuai in 2016, 2017 and 2019, but also reached the top 16 after defeating Canadian player Marino, refreshing the his personal US Open. at the same time, she also became the second Chinese player to make it to the top 16 in the four main singles games. Previously, she reached the top 8 of the Australian Open in 2016, the top 8 of Wimbledon in 2019 and the top 16 of the French Open in 2020.
Although in this US Open women’s 16-8 singles battle, due to the superb performance of guest player Gaofu, she failed to go further, but after switching partners, the women’s doubles still made it into the top 16, the double mixed and Pavic successfully advanced to the top 4 and completed the feat of reaching the Grand Slam mixed doubles semi-finals for the fourth time in his career, all of which allowed fans to see the effort and perseverance incessant of Zhang Shuai over the years.
After qualifying for the US Open, Wu Yibing (right), Zhang Zhizhen (left) and Yuan Yue took a happy group photo.
In addition to Zhang Shuai, the rise of the “new force” of Chinese tennis is also very exciting for the Chinese people. Wu Yibing, born in 1999, and Wang Xiyu, born in 2001, are both former US Open youth group champions. Now, the boys who take charge of the mission and the girls who keep the baton of their predecessors have begun to pour their sweat and youth on a larger stage. Of particular note is 23-year-old “Golden Boy” Wu Yibing, who has made it through the qualifying round and will become the first male player from mainland China to make it through the US Open in the Open era. Subsequently, he broke this record in the first two rounds of the main competition and updated the best result of the Chinese Men’s Open in the Grand Slam in the top 32. In addition, Wu Yibing’s friend Zhang Zhizhen also passed from the qualifiers. Ze and Wu Di teamed up to compete at the Australian Open in 2014, the main Grand Slam competition finally appeared again simultaneously with two mainland China men’s singles players fighting together Everyone realizes that Chinese tennis will no longer be alone “golden flowers blooming” in the future.
Wu Yibing’s performance won the respect of his opponents.
Yuan Yue, Zhang Shuai, Zheng Qinwen and Wang Xiyu progressed to the third round of the US Open, setting a historic women’s singles record in Mainland China. A total of seven people participated in the single male and single female. Except for Zhang Zhizhen and Wang Xinyu, who all progressed to the second round, creating the best result in mainland Chinese tennis history. The trip to the US Open this year is truly worthy of the joy of Chinese fans for a long time, because they have seen the legacy, they have seen the hope and the future.
There are talented people in the country, each at the forefront for decades
Serena Williams created a tennis legend.
In the competitive sports arena there are rising stars of hope, but also reluctance and tears when the legends end. 23 singles Grand Slam champions, 16 doubles Grand Slam champions, ranked first in singles world for 319 weeks and the only singles and doubles gold slams … Serena made it to the US Open in her hometown. as a perfect ending to his 27-year tennis career.
In this year’s Oscar-winning “King Richard”, the story of “tennis father” Richard Williams accompanying his two daughters Dawei and Serena all the way through has moved countless fans. In real life, the accomplishments of this pair of tennis sisters truly reflect their father’s vision and self-confidence everywhere, especially their invincible power play style, and he even created the “queen” Serena of her own. era, he definitely deserves it. The best player of the Open era. “This year’s US Open, in the spotlight of Arthur Ashwann Stadium, after fighting for three hours and saving the opponent’s 5 match points in succession, the audience was raised and sent a wave of cheers and blessings. Serena tearfully greeted the stadium she loved and at the age of 41 she thanked many people, her mother, her sister, her husband, her daughter, the fans and of course , his father Richard.
Nadal
Compared to Serena’s success and retirement, 36-year-old Nadal is still struggling with his racket. The Spanish clay king, who has maintained a streak of consecutive Grand Slam wins this season, has lost to the American teenager. Tiafoe at this US Open and missed a mighty 8. After being shocked, “Natto”, whose streak of 22 streak Grand Slam victories was interrupted, wrote on social media: “Thank you New York, see you next year.”
Like Nadal, who finished the current US Open journey ahead of schedule, they are world number 1 and reigning men’s singles champion Medvedev and reigning women’s singles champion Radukanu. Lebakina, Ostapenko, Anisimova, Mertens and other leading players are also depressed.
Disruptions and accidents are important factors in the endless appeal of professional tennis, and in the hearts of many tennis fans, “Flushing Meadows Park” has almost become synonymous with “US Open”, and has also become the world’s most powerful new force. tennis Big stage. In the decisive battle in Flushing, I expect Zhang Shuai and fellow mixed doubles partner Pavic to go further, and I can’t wait for the men’s and women’s singles finals to arrive, which will make the fans shine and breathe!
Text / Jin Pengtu, Omnimedia Reporter of Xi’an Newspaper Industry / Xinhua News Agency
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