Chapter 843 The Curse of Unbeaten
The 2015 Australian Open slowly kicked off, and the first day of competition was exciting.
The final battle of the day came from the Margaret Court Stadium.
Federer and Sharapova, who played in the night session at Rod Laver Arena, performed well. Both players advanced smoothly without encountering too many challenges.
The match at the center court ended early, and the fans who watched the match went home disappointed. The party was over before they had a chance to enjoy it.
But the fans who left one after another did not go home, but gathered in front of the big screen outside Melbourne Park to continue watching the game outdoors.
Beer and barbecue, popcorn and sausages, beach chairs and moonlight bathing, the party continues because the game at Margaret Court Stadium is not over yet.
The highlight of the day was a thrilling five-set battle between Kyrgios and Delbones that lasted for more than three hours.
When the game ended, it was already midnight local time. In the end, local favorite Kyrgios defeated his opponent and advanced to the second round.
Melbourne Park, singing and dancing.
For local fans, today is indeed a good day to celebrate:
On the first day of the men's singles competition, a total of nine local players competed, and finally achieved a good record of six wins and three losses. Six host players advanced to the next round, including the new generation hopes Kyrgios and Tomic. One victory after another pushed the party atmosphere to a climax.
However, for Chinese fans, this is a day full of regrets.
In the men's singles competition, Gao Wen advanced strongly.
For a very long time, men's singles tennis had almost no presence, but now it has emerged like the 110-meter hurdles did. After Li Na retired, Gao Wen seamlessly became the flagship figure of Chinese tennis, with a fierce upward momentum and high topic popularity.
This is a happy event.
However, the women's singles competition was gloomy.
Women's singles, which once wrote glorious stories time and time again, seems to be in a dilemma of talent gap. After the leading figures turned around, they also lost their backbone.
Previously, all five young players who competed in the qualifying rounds were defeated and no one was able to break through the siege, which also made the number of Chinese women's singles players participating in the main competition fixed at more than "six".
After the first day, two more generals were lost.
Both Wang Qiang and Duan Yingying played against unseeded players and fought hard for three sets. In fact, both had opportunities, but unfortunately they were unable to seize them in the end.
Who could have thought that the men's singles, which had been weak for a long time, would take on a new look because of the emergence of Gao Wen, while the women's singles, a traditional advantage event, would fall into a painful period of renewal and replacement after Li Na retired. Everything happened too fast and too suddenly, so much so that the fans were a little stunned.
There are joys and sorrows, good and bad mixed together.
But no matter what, the first day of the Australian Open came to an end. Although Chinese fans were disappointed, they were still full of hope and turned their attention to the second day of the competition.
The first round of the competition continues.
Unfortunately...the Chinese Army suffered heavy losses.
In the women's singles competition, Zheng Jie and Zheng Saisai both lost in straight sets and were eliminated in the first round.
The most regrettable thing is that both players played against unseeded players. In fact, they had great hope, but they performed poorly, which caused a lot of regret.
In addition, there is... Zhang Shuai.
The curse of not winning in the first round of twelve consecutive Grand Slams has sparked a small-scale discussion among fans. Every time he appears on the list of Grand Slam singles main draws, it always attracts a lot of attention, and people discuss whether this will be a good opportunity to break the curse.
However, Zhang Shuai's luck was average this time as she drew the 19th seed French player Alize-Cornet.
This is a very ruthless character who is particularly dramatic and difficult to deal with——
At last year's Wimbledon, Cornet defeated top seed Serena Williams in three sets in the third round and won two consecutive games against Williams, setting her best Grand Slam record.
There is no doubt that this is a tough nut to crack.
In the end, Zhang Shuai was never able to break the deadlock. There were occasional highlights in the game but they could not be connected, and she was eliminated with a huge score gap.
“2:6”, “3:6”.
After thirteen consecutive defeats, Zhang Shuai's embarrassing record of not winning in the first round of Grand Slams continues to be broken. Even if you don't believe in the curse, you can't help but feel a lingering fear.
After the game, Gao Wen sent a message to Zhang Shuai, "This is not the end."
Because Gawain had tasted the pain of defeat, at that moment, all the reasons were useless. The piercing pain and bitterness were enough to break down all defenses.
Therefore, compared to reason and futile comfort, a fact is more important.
After sending the message, Gao Wen did not wait for a reply, but went straight into training. His training partner today is Dimitrov: Yesterday, facing Dustin Brown, Dimitrov easily defeated his opponent with a very convincing performance and successfully advanced to the second round.
So, what about Zhang Shuai?
In fact, after the game, Zhang Shuai fell into despair. She returned to the locker room in a daze, completely unconscious and seemed to have lost her perception.
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She absolutely did not want to touch her phone, because she knew that it must contain countless sympathy text messages and phone calls. Those messages were all well-intentioned, she knew it, she knew it all; but these "good intentions" were a torture for her now, she had neither the mood nor the energy to reply.
She...just wanted to be quiet.
It was not until a long, long time later that I finally regained my sanity and confirmed the text messages one by one.
When Zhang Shuai saw Gao Wen's text message, he was really very surprised.
Originally, this sentence was nothing, Zhang Shuai just replied with a "thank you" and then turned around and forgot about it; however, after leaving the locker room, on the way back to the hotel, she thought of this sentence over and over again in her mind, and slowly, slowly, she felt the power behind the words.
After returning to the hotel, that sentence could not be shaken off her mind. She hesitated for a long time in the hotel room, like an ant on hot pan, back and forth. Finally, Zhang Shuai picked up her equipment bag again and left the hotel room.
"...Where are you going?" He almost ran into Wang Qiang when he went out.
"Training." Zhang Shuai said without turning his head, and even jogged impatiently.
This isn't the end, is it?
So far, the first round of the Australian Open has not yet been completed, but for the Chinese team, the second day of competition has come to an end.
Eleven female players arrived in Melbourne to compete in the singles competition, but in the blink of an eye, only one player was left to advance to the second round.
Not good!
The situation is very, very bad.
It was clearly felt that everyone, from the fans to the CCTV team that came to Melbourne to broadcast the game, had suffered a heavy blow and their morale was low.
This should be the worst performance of the Chinese Army in Melbourne Park in recent years.
At this time, no one could have imagined that good news would come from the men's singles competition.
Not Gawain.
(End of this chapter)