Professional network altar bid farewell to the "Legendary Generation" after the 1980s

21st Century Business Herald Peng Qiang Beijing report

For the tennis sport, the alternation of new and old stars is a normal phenomenon. But the two legendary characters of the Internet, Cyana Williams and Roger Federer announced their retirement, still produced a lot of shocks.

On the evening of September 15, Swiss tennis star Roger Federer farewell to fans on social platforms, saying that the Ravor Cup in London next week will be his last ATP tour. After that, he will continue to play tennis, but he will no longer participate in the Grand Slam and tour competition.

In early August, American women's tennis star Cyana Williams (Little Williams) also announced that she was about to bid farewell to the Internet, but it did not clearly retire.

The retired news of Xiaowei and Federer set off a tide in the sports and social media. People suddenly discovered that from the time of their students to fighting to married and having children, they have reached the age of 40 in their lives, and retirement is finally in front of them.

In the past three years, Federer has been struggling with injuries and had undergone multiple operations. In the previous public appearances, Federer expressed the idea of ​​returning to the tour competition, but his physical condition never returned to his ideal state. After playing for 24 years of professional tennis and more than 1500 games, Federer realized that it was time to end his career.

Federer was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1981 and entered the professional network altar in the late 1990s. In 2003, the 22 -year -old Federer won the Wimbledon championship for the first time and ranked first in the world in 2004, and then opened his strong era of rule.

From 2003 to 2007, Federer completed his five consecutive championships, and from 2004 to 2008, the five consecutive championships of the US Open were completed. In 2009, Federer finally won the French Open Championship and achieved the "Grand Slam" of his career (that is, at least once the four Grand Slam), and won the sixth championship in Wimbledon, with 15 Grand Slam championships Beyond Sampras, became the player with the largest number of Grand Slam championships in men's nets at that time.

Federer was suppressed by Nadal on the red soil venue in the middle of his career, and after 2010, he encountered a strong rise in Djokovic. After 2011, the men's net altar showed a situation of Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic.

After the Wimbledon winning the championship in 2012, Federer experienced a 4 -year trough period and did not harvest in the Grand Slam stadium. From 2017 to 2018, Federer's status was obviously recovered, and it won the 2017 Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the 2018 Australian Open three Grand Slam championship trophy, setting up 20 their Grand Slam championships.

Outside the field, Federer is also the darling of fashion and advertisers. Federer has gained more than $ 100 million in events in his career, with a total of about $ 1 billion in business endorsements, and has long -term cooperation with top watches and car brands. In 2018, Federer, who expired with Nike contract, harvested a 10 -year -old $ 300 million sky -high endorsement contract, showing his ability to suck the gold in the leading sports.

Cyrina Williams is the sister of the contemporary women's web star Venus Williams, so she is also known as Little Williams. Since entering the professional network world in the late 1990s, Little Williams has created a precedent for women's network violence with its strong and absolute strength and comprehensive technical tactics. Excellent record.

Little Williams has experienced many injuries in her career, and then returned stubbornly. A total of 23 Grand Slam women's singles champions and 14 Grand Slam women's doubles championships, and they have won the London Olympic single gold medal, Sydney, Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, Beijing, Beijing The double -do gold medal of the third Olympic Games in London has achieved rare single -double "Golden Slam" achievements.

In the 2017 Australian Open, in the case of two months of pregnancy, Williams won the Australian Open Women's Singles Championship. At the same time, it was also his 23rd Grand Single Women's Single Championship, which shocked the entire net altar.

After returning after yielding in 2018, Williams was still stubborn in the Grand Slam, hoping to tie the predecessor Margaret Katt's 24 championships in the non -open and Open era. However, due to the gradual age, the decline in physical fitness and the slowdown of movement, Williams often showed fatigue in the deeper competition of the Grand Slam, and repeatedly lost to the opponents that had been defeated before.

This year's US Open was originally regarded as a curtain battle for Xiaowei's career. After the first round of the competition, the event organizing committee arranged her grand commemorative ceremony for her, and she eventually broke into the third round and showed herself. Good competitive state.

Xiaowei and Federer were born in 1981. In addition to the Spanish tennis player Nadal, born in 1986, and Serbian star Djokovic, who was born in 1987, the four people have been in the world for many years in their careers. First, each of them has won more than 20 large -scale singles championships, forming a rare four "20+ Grand Slam" players in the history of tennis history at the same time.

Both Federer and Xiaowei have announced their upcoming retirement. Although Djokovic and Nadal are still competing in the Internet and maintaining high competitiveness, these two stars have inevitably entered the end of their careers. With the strong rise of the post -Nineteenth Five -Year Plan and Zero Star, the professional network altar is bid farewell to the legendary players of the "After -190s".

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