The 2015 Australian Tennis Open slowly kicked off, and the first match day was exciting.
The final game of the day comes from Margaret Court Stadium.
Federer and Sharapova, who played in the night match at Rod Laver Arena, performed well and both players advanced smoothly without encountering too many challenges.
The game at the Center Court ended early, and the fans watching the game left disappointed. The party was over before they had time to enjoy it.
But the fans who were leaving one after another did not go home. Instead, they gathered in front of the big screen outside the Melbourne Park Stadium and continued to watch the game in the open air——
Beer and barbecue, popcorn and sausage, beach chairs and moonbathing, the party continues because the game at Margaret Court Arena isn't over yet.
The whole day was a big one, performed passionately by two players, Kyrgios and Delbones, and it was an exciting five-set battle that lasted for more than three hours.
When the game ended, it was already midnight local time. In the end, Kyrgios, the local darling, defeated his opponent and advanced to the second round.
Melbourne Park, singing and dancing.
For local fans, today is indeed a good day worth celebrating:
On the first day of the men's singles field, a total of nine local players played, and finally achieved a good result of six wins and three losses. Fully six host players advanced to the next round, including the new generation hopes Kyrgios and Tomic.
Victories one 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 long, long time, men's tennis singles had almost no presence, but now it has emerged like the 110-meter hurdles. After Li Na retired, Gao Wen seamlessly became the banner figure of Chinese tennis.
The upward momentum is fierce and the topic remains hot.
This is a happy event.
However, the women's singles arena is in a haze.
Women's singles, which has written brilliant stories again and again, seems to be stuck in the dilemma of talent shortage, and the leader has lost its backbone after turning around.
Previously, the five Golden Flowers who participated in the qualifying round were completely wiped out, and no one was able to break out of the siege. This also made the number of Chinese women's singles participating in the main draw fixed at "six".
After the first day, two more generals were lost.
Wang Qiang and Duan Yingying both played against unseeded players and fought hard for three sets. In fact, they both had opportunities, but unfortunately they were not able to seize them in the end.
Who would 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 traditionally advantageous event, would fall into the throes of renewal in the blink of an eye after Li Na retired. Everything happened too fast and too suddenly.
, so that the fans were also a little stunned.
There are joys and sorrows, a mixture of good and bad.
But no matter what, the first match day of the Australian Open came to an end. Chinese fans were disappointed but still full of hope, and they all turned their attention to the second match day——
The first round of competition continues.
Unfortunately...the Chinese Legion suffered heavy losses.
In the women's singles competition, Zheng Jie and Zheng Saisai both lost, both in straight sets, and were eliminated in the first round.
The most regrettable thing is that the two players played against unseeded players. In fact, they had great hopes, but they performed poorly, causing a lot of disappointment.
In addition, there is... Zhang Shuai.
Because the curse of not being defeated in the first round of the Grand Slam for 12 consecutive times has triggered a small-scale discussion in the fan circle. Every time he appears on the main draw list of a Grand Slam singles, it always attracts a lot of attention and discusses "
Will this time be a good opportunity to break the curse?
However, Zhang Shuai's luck in signing this time was mediocre, and he drew the 19th seed French player Alize-Cornet (Alize-).
This is a ruthless character who is particularly catchy, multi-faceted and very difficult to deal with——
In last year's Wimbledon, Cornet defeated top seed Serena Williams in three hard sets in the third round, and won two consecutive victories against Serena Williams, creating his best record in a Grand Slam.
There is no doubt that this is a tough nut to crack.
In the end, Zhang Shuai was never able to open up the situation. There were occasional highlights throughout the game but could not be connected, and he was defeated with a huge disparity.
"2:6", "3:6".
With thirteen consecutive losses, Zhang Shuai’s embarrassing record of not winning in the first round of Grand Slams continues to be refreshed. Even if you don’t believe in the curse, you can’t help but feel lingering fears.
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 principles were useless. The piercing pain and bitterness were enough to defeat all defenses.
Therefore, a fact is more important than reason and vain comfort.
After sending the message, Gao Wen went straight into training without waiting for a reply. His training partner today was 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 and returned to the lounge in a daze. He was completely unconscious and seemed to have lost his ability to perceive.
She didn't want to touch her phone at all, because she knew there must be countless condolence messages and phone calls in it. Those messages were all well-intentioned, she knew, she knew them all; but these "good intentions" were now nothing to her.
It was a torture, and she had no mood or energy to reply.
She... just wants to be quiet.
It wasn't until a long, long time later that I finally regained my senses and confirmed the text messages one by one.
Zhang Shuai was really, really surprised when he saw Gao Wen's text message.
Originally, this sentence didn't mean anything. Zhang Shuai just replied "Thank you" and then turned around and forgot about it; however, after leaving the locker room and on the way back to the hotel, he thought of this sentence over and over again in his mind, and slowly
Slowly, I began to feel the power behind my words.
After returning to the hotel, those words could not go away. He hesitated back and forth in the hotel room like an ant on a hot pot for a long time. Finally, Zhang Shuai picked up his 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 looking back, and even started trotting along impatiently.
This isn't the end, right?
At this point, the first round of the Australian Open has not yet been completed, but for the Chinese Legion, the second match day 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 a single seedling was left to make it to the second round.
Not good!
The situation is very, very bad.
It can be clearly felt that everyone from the fans to the CCTV team who came to Melbourne to be responsible for the broadcast suffered a heavy blow and their morale was low.
This should be the worst performance of the Chinese Legion at Melbourne Park in recent years.
At this time, no one could have imagined that good news would come from the men's singles arena——
