The French Open begins
Retelling the Centennial Legend of the Chinese Red Song
Guangzhou Daily omni-media reporter Sun Jiahui
Yesterday, Beijing time, the 2024 French Open opened at Roland Garros, which additionally implies that the place has begun to enter the transition interval of the Paris Olympics, as a result of in additional than a month, the Olympic tennis competitors will likely be held right here, Be the primary within the historical past of the Games Olympic For the primary time, a tennis match was held on a clay court docket and after a century, it created the legend “China Red” made an amazing debut. Zhizhen and Wang Yafan each tear via, including a contact of brilliance to the occasion.
Zhang Zhizhen obtained a “good begin”
Yesterday, Beijing time, the 2024 French Open began within the first spherical of males’s singles, China’s “huge brother” Zhang Zhizhen fought laborious in 4 units, gained 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 , 7 Over the Australian. participant Vukic, ranked 89th on the planet, at 5-5, turned the primary male participant to advance to the second spherical of the French Open. This was additionally Zhang Zhizhen’s sixth Grand Slam victory.
The match lasted 2 hours and 46 minutes. The two began a service battle. Zhang Zhizhen hit 18 ace balls, 1 greater than his opponent. His first scoring fee was as excessive as 83%. serving was as excessive as 58%, each of that are a mean of just about 10 factors greater than the opponent.
This is Zhang Zhizhen’s second look on the French Open. Last yr, he unexpectedly reached the third spherical at Roland Garros and located inspiration on the clay court docket.
In the subsequent spherical, Zhang Zhizhen will face world No. 49 Soniger, who upset No. 17 Eber 3-1.
Enber misplaced to Italy’s Soniger 4-6, 6-2, 4-6, 3-6 after 4 hard-fought units, turning into the lads’s first seed to be eradicated.
Wang Yafan wins the primary victory of the French Open
This is the third time Wang Yafan has performed on the French Open in her profession, and the primary time she has reached the second spherical of girls’s singles. In the primary spherical of the ladies’s singles match, Wang Yafan took 1 hour and 41 minutes to defeat the 20-year-old Russian teenager Timofeyaeva in straight units 6-3 and efficiently entered the second spherical.
Wang Yafan, 30 years outdated this yr, held the racket along with his proper hand and reached the forty seventh place. He has gained the WTA championship twice in 2018 and 2019 within the first spherical. His greatest document within the 4 Grand Slams was reaching the third spherical of the 2024 Australian Open, Wang Yafan, who’s step by step getting into the ranks of the elite, has been pursuing a comeback and reappearing in his marriage. A little bit bit.
Timofyaeva is at present ranked one hundred and fifth on the planet and is a rising participant. She made her Grand Slam debut earlier this yr and reached the fourth spherical of girls’s singles on the Australian Open. He clearly did not have a lot expertise on the clay court docket. After 101 minutes of opposition, he misplaced 0-2.
In the subsequent spherical, Wang Yafan will face No.
The clay court docket of the French Open embodies a century-old legend
For skilled gamers, participation within the French Open has a particular significance, as a result of in late July this yr, the Paris Olympic tennis event was additionally held on the Roland Garros Tennis Park, and the French Open was the very best alternative to arrange for the Olympics. A complete of seven gamers from the Chinese tennis staff participated within the French Open singles fundamental event, together with Zhang Zhizhen and seventh seed Zheng Qinwen.
Speaking of the French Open, Chinese followers are little question aware of Li Na’s triumph at Roland Garros in 2011, turning into the primary Asian Grand Slam champion. This modified individuals’s pondering that “Chinese gamers should not good at taking part in on clay courts”.
In reality, 100 years in the past, the Chinese had signed as much as take part within the Olympic Games. As everyone knows, the primary Chinese to take part within the Olympics was Liu Changchun who appeared within the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932. But in recent times, via the recording of many dusty histories, individuals had been shocked to search out that within the eighth Paris Olympics 100 years in the past in 1924, 4 Chinese individuals registered to take part within the males’s singles and doubles tennis tournaments and Wu Shizhang, Wu Shiguang, and Wei Rongluo Unfortunately, they failed to seem within the Paris Olympics.
Today, this Chinese reminiscence of the century of the Paris Olympics is thought everywhere in the world, and one can’t be unhappy that point is passing. This yr would be the third time Paris has hosted the Olympics after 1900 and 1924. This century-old legend has reappeared as “China Red”, which could be stated to enhance one another.
In 1920, a tennis court docket in Paris, France, was named Roland Garros after the World War I pilot and French nationwide hero. Soon, the occasion was referred to as “Roland Garros” by the French. (Guangzhou Daily)