One generation of legends, she had left sweat and laughter in Wuhan

Jimu Journalist Chen Lingyan

On the morning of September 3rd, Beijing time, the third round of the US Tennis Open (hereinafter referred to as the US Open) women's singles, legendary superstar Serena Williams (Xiaowei) failed to defeat her opponent Tomanovic.

In 1999, 18 -year -old Xiaowei won the first Grand Slam champion of his career on the US Open. 23 years later, Xiao Wei completed the last game of his career here.

Starting from a wonderful victory, at the age of 41, she gave herself a perfect curtain.

Use a tennis feast perfect curtain

When Xiao Wei announced her retirement after the US Open, many people believed that she could "play casually" on the US Open, and some even predicted that she would "travel a round of tour." However, Xiao Wei, who already has 23 Grand Slam championships, still proves her love for tennis with her own performance. The record of single 32.

In the third round of the competition, the two sides must compete for the top 16 seats. Earlier, Xiao Wei and Tomanovic never had a hand. In front of this Australian player who is taller than her and younger, Xiao Wei failed to break through the level.

Although the weakness in physical fitness is very obvious, even in the interval time, Xiao Wei needs to keep taking a deep breath to adjust herself, but she did not let the opponent win easily. Instead, she won 3 hours and 4 minutes. At the last moment, 5 match points were still saved to get the opponent to get the promotion quota.

Xiao Wei, who was once known for high -speed serve and strength, showed more technical strength this time. Her decisive judgment and positive strain, and the control of the ball fell, played a number of amazing scores. But in the end, huge physical consumption still made her lose the chance of victory.

Rather than a fierce game, it is better to be more like a tennis carnival. Each beautiful attack on both sides won the applause and applause of the audience, and the audience appeared in the competition many times in the game. Mr. Hu said that the excitement of this ball is rare in recent years. "Both people are very good. Many times their play performance is more like an art. This ball is not only the beauty of power, but also rare today. See the beauty of technology. "

At the end of the game, the applause at the scene could almost be described by the mountain tsunami, and Xiaowei laughed and raised his hand to grab the fans.

At this moment, the powerful tennis queen shed tears of emotion. Before leaving the field, she raised her hands playfully and compared the audience.

Xiaowei has had an intersection with Wuhan

Since the age of 14, he has entered the professional network altar, and Xiaowei has become a generation of tennis queen in mid -27 years. She has 23 Grand Slam championship trophies, the first single -double -oriented dual gold slam in history, and also has 3 Olympic women's double gold medals and one Olympic women's singles gold medal.

As a professional player, Xiaowei runs around the world all year round. She also had a short intersection with Wuhan. Before the 2014 Wuhan Tennis Open, Xiaowei Dust, who ranked first in the world, rushed to Jiangcheng. The next day, she appeared at the training ground and set off a wave on the Jiangcheng Ball. After the training, she also enthusiastically signed the fans waiting outside. In the face of everyone's enthusiasm, she repeatedly said "Thank You (thank you)". On the same day, she also moved with the little fans, and at night she boarded the cruise ship to travel to the Yangtze River. Blowing the river breeze and overlooking the Yangtze River Bridge, she said, "This feels awesome." Unfortunately, in the first game of Wuwang, Xiaowei's injury recurred announced his withdrawal. In 2016, she exited Wuwang due to the injury of her right shoulder.

Injury and age have always been the enemy of professional athletes. In 2016, her coach revealed that most of Xiao Wei's knee cartilage tissue had grinded, and the bones would directly rub each other. Her injuries also include elbow, shoulders, legs and feet. Over time, she needs to be more and more young people on the field, and tennis movements need strong physical strength to support it, which is even more difficult for her.

In August this year, she announced that she would retire after the US Open. After the second round of the US Open, she once said: "I don't need to prove anything, and I don't have to win anything. There is nothing to lose."

On September 3rd, she did not work with her career on the United States. She was proud of her head, and she was still full of queen.

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Xiaowei's words

After the game, Xiao Wei said with tears: "Thank you so much, I tried my best, thank my parents. Everyone here, you are supporting me, everything begins to start with my parents. Everything, I am very grateful to them, I am a happy tears. Also, if there is no sister Venus, there will be no me in Cyana, I thank her very much! I also want to thank many people, thank me for me Husband, my daughter. This is the most incredible journey in my life. I want to thank everyone who helped me. This is a long time. I should return to the stadium earlier this year. State, thank everyone. "

The stars pay tribute to the legend

Before and after the US Open, a number of tennis stars paid tribute to Xiaowei on different occasions.

Nadal: She is one of the most important athletes in the history of sports. From the perspective of tennis, she left is a huge loss. Everything she has obtained is what she deserves, and she has made enough efforts for such a long time to be determined, dedicated, and self -disciplined. She is a legend. Medvedev: When I was 6 years old, I watched tennis events on TV and Williams was in the game. At that time, I had realized that she was "the most powerful woman in the world's tennis world today." Twenty years later, I came here and had achieved some success in my career. She was still in the competition. She participated in the US Open for the last time. This is a legend. Every time I see her, she has such legendary energy around her. Even if she leaves, she leaves a lot of tennis.

Djokovic: She is a amazing champion, inspiring men and athletes from all over the world. I think that when you see her and everything she passed on and off the field, there is no doubt that she is one of the greatest athletes ever, not just tennis players.

Qi Pipas: Everything she does on the tennis court and outside the tennis court makes tennis an important movement. Everything she does in this sport is phenomenal.

Griego Dimitrov: She has inspired the sport ... to bring the children and all of us. Her style, culture, vitality, and everything are integrated with her.

(Picture source: Xinhua News Agency)

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