Beijing, August 2 (Xinhua) according to the China Taekwondo Association, on the 1st Beijing time, the World Taekwondo Federation Joint Conference was held in Bulgaria. At the meeting, the first members of the World Taekwondo Hall of Fame were officially announced. Chen Zhong, a Chinese taekwondo player and two taekwondo Olympic champions, was selected. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, taekwondo became the official Olympic event for the first time. At the age of 18, Chen Zhong won the first Olympic gold medal for China among the 67kg women’s superiors and the first in the history of taekwondo in the world. In the Athens Olympic Games four years later, Chen Zhong became the first Olympic defending champion of taekwondo with more comprehensive technical and tactical capabilities. Since then, Chen Zhong successively won the gold medal of the Doha Asian Games and the world championships in 2006 and 2007, becoming the first taekwondo player who integrated the three championships of the Olympic Games, Intercontinental games and the world championships. According to the introduction of China Taekwondo Association, Chen Zhong has always insisted on devoting himself to sports and devoted himself to the popularization and promotion of taekwondo among teenagers. Chen Zhong participated in the award ceremony through video connection on that day. In her speech, she said that after becoming a member of the Hall of Fame, she would keep in mind the taekwondo spirit and make more contributions to the development of World Taekwondo. (Finished)
Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, September 14 (Reporter Prince Jiang) the investigation into the bribery case of Takahashi, a former member of the executive committee of Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, made new progress on the 14th, the special search department of the Tokyo local procurator’s office arrested the chairman of the publishing giant jiao chuan (KADOKAWA), jiao chuan Liyan, on suspicion of bribery. He also became the former chairman of AOKI Company, a Japanese men’s clothing company. After the expansion of the Constitution, the second person in charge of a well-known enterprise involved in the arrest of the case. According to the Kyodo News Agency of Japan, the Ministry of Special search believed that the 79-year-old akawa Riyan was suspected of offering a bribe of about 69 million yen (about 3.35 million yuan) to Takahashi, in order to thank Takahashi for the “favorable arrangement” provided in the bidding of Olympic sponsors “. It is reported that koakawa Liyan was suspected of conspiring with two people, including Yoshihara Shixing, who served as a consultant for KADOKAWA. From September 2019 to January 2021, nine times from the bank account of KADOKAWA company, he remitted bribes to the account of COMMONS2, a consulting company represented by Gao Qiao Zhizhi’s old acquaintance. Shen Jianhe was Gao Qiao Zhizhi’s colleague when working in advertising giant telecom company. 78-year-old Takahashi Zhizhi, 73-year-old Deep View and politics, and 64-year-old Yoshihara were arrested earlier, the special search department also carried out a house search on the headquarters of KADOKAWA and the home of akakawa Liyan.
Beijing, September 19 (Xinhua) according to media reports, Swiss king Federer, who announced that he would retire after the Laval Cup this week, has arrived in London to fully prepare for the last ATP event in his career. On the evening of 15th Beijing time, 41-year-old Federer announced his retirement on his personal social platform. The Laval Cup will be his last ATP (Professional Tennis Federation) event. Federer was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1981. In the men’s singles final of Wimbledon in 2003, the 22-year-old Federer won the first Grand Slam singles championship in his career. After Australian Open won the championship in 2004, Federer ascended the world’s first throne, which lasted for four years. According to statistics, Federer’s 20 Grand Slam champions include 8 Wimbledon, 6 Australian Open, 5 beautiful grenadine and 1 French Open, which is the first to win 20 Grand Slam champions, and the only man who won the championship at least five times in three Grand Slam. He was the first in the world of men’s singles for a total of 310 weeks. After Wimbledon in 2012, Federer faced the Grand Slam famine for nearly five years, which made countless people think that he had stepped down from the altar and no longer had the edge of that year. But when he was close to 36 years old, he snatched the champion of Australian Open from Nadal, and won two Grand Slam trophy in the season and found himself again. However, in recent years, Federer has been suffering from injuries. In 2020, after losing to Djokovic in the semi-finals of the Australian Open, Federer underwent knee surgery and was absent for a long time. He originally planned to return to the grassland season in June 202020, but affected by the epidemic, Federer’s return plan was not implemented, and he announced in advance that the 2020 season was over, after that, his knee underwent a second operation. After the return of the 2021 season, Federer’s status is far from the peak. In the season Wimbledon men’s singles 1/4 final, Federer, as the No. 6 seed of the competition, was eliminated by No. 14 seed Huer Kagi, and his career stopped for the fourth time in Wimbledon men’s singles 8. Then, Federer also announced his withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics due to injuries. In August, Federer announced that he would undergo knee surgery again, which was only five months after his last recovery. On July this year, Federer ATP ranking points were cleared. (Finished)
BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhuanet) — According to FIFA, in order to solve the problem of discrimination and protect players’ mental health, FIFA will launch social media protection services during the World Cup, this measure can prevent players from seeing insulting, discriminatory and threatening remarks during the World Cup. FIFA president Infantino said: “During the World Cup in Qatar, we are pleased to launch a service to protect players from the adverse effects that social media may have on them.” It is reported that Brazilian player William was once troubled by negative information from social media, and his family was threatened and abused online, this also enabled him to transfer from the Brazilian club Corinthians to England again. “I suffered a lot, and my family suffered a lot, because people began to attack us on social media, my family, my daughter. This is also why I support FIFA’s decision.” William said so. (Finished)
BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — according to ATP’s official website, the latest ATP ranking was announced. With the top eight points earned in Naples, Chinese player Zhang Zhizhen’s world ranking was increased by 12, ranking 97th, he became the first male player in mainland China to break into the top 100, and he also got the qualification for the Australian Open next year. Entering the top 100 is a qualitative leap for players. Zhang Zhizhen once said, “it is a big step for us to men’s mesh, hoping to catch up with the results of the women’s network.” Since October, Zhang Zhizhen has successively participated in competitions such as the ATP500 Astana station, the ATP250 Florence station and the Neapolitan station. He has broken through the qualifier for three consecutive stops, and the world ranking has steadily improved. Moreover, at the end of this season and the first half of next year, Zhang Zhizhen has the opportunity to further stabilize and improve the ranking. (Finished)
Beijing, August 1 (Reporter Bian Liqun) on the evening of July 31, the launching ceremony of municipal social football activities in Beijing was held in Wangjing Sports Park, the first opening of Chaoyang district in 2022. A variety of creative football games were set up at the launching ceremony, more than 900 citizens were attracted to attend. This municipal social football activity will continue until December. It is understood that the current municipal social football activities in Beijing include more than ten competitions such as Beijing football culture festival, fun football activities entering the community, parent-child carnival series activities, and middle-aged and elderly Football League. The activity highlights extensive participation, covering the whole population and the whole life cycle, taking the government as the leading factor, integrating various social resources to participate, and integrating football matches, social welfare, mass entertainment, parent-child interaction and other forms are integrated to comprehensively promote the development of social football, cultivate healthy football culture, and promote the physical and mental health of citizens. At the launching ceremony, a variety of creative football games were set up, such as football darts, super obstacle race, Yue Longmen, Wen Wu Shuangquan, football Bigfoot, etc. It attracted more than 900 citizens, especially many children who like football. According to the introduction, this activity is hosted by Beijing Social Sports Management Center, hosted by Beijing Football Association and Beijing Yiyang cultivated Sports Culture Co., Ltd. Kong Xianfei, director of Beijing Social Sports Management Center, said in an interview: “We have been committed to carrying out social football activities and sincerely hope to expand the football population. The hope of football lies in teenagers, and more people pay attention to football and participate in football. Comments and ridicule are not the best way to participate in football. We advocate to experience football on the ground, and we have been working hard for it.” Sun Chao, the founder of shengris Football Academy, who hosted the event, said that the event had two characteristics, one was the nature of public welfare, and the other was presented through the game modes of the football carnival. “Youth football is not just about competition, competition and training. If you want more children to participate in football, games are a very good entry point, so that more children can learn about football through activities, experiencing football and falling in love with football are the practical significance of our activities.” Sun Chao said. (Finished)
On October 14, the main force of China badminton team will leave Jinjiang base for European competitions such as Denmark and France open. In the past month, Guoyu’s main force prepared for the battle in Jinjiang and strengthened the ideological construction of the team. At the same time, some lower-ranking players and young players participated in low-level competitions to exercise themselves and compete for points. In order to strengthen the ideological construction of the team, China badminton team and the Chinese badminton training team held a party day activity on the theme of “welcoming the 20th National Congress and striving for a new journey to learn and inherit Jinjiang Experience” on October 10, visit and study in Jinjiang Experience Hall. China badminton team the Party branch further encourages athletes to train hard and strive to compete in the following competitions with a better mental outlook. Huang Dongping, the Olympic champion, said that by visiting Jinjiang Experience Hall, she had a deeper understanding of Jinjiang. She was shocked by the rapid development of Jinjiang city and the fighting spirit of Jinjiang people. As a Quanzhou person, the spirit of love and dare to win constantly inspired her to strive for the first place in the field and win honor for the country. In addition, on October 11, China badminton team, an anti-doping training lecture was held at Jinjiang base to prepare for the Paris Olympic Games. The team specially invited Gao Shan, deputy director of Fujian Research Institute of Physical Culture, and Zhao Yuze, a national pure physical education lecturer, to give lectures. Through the training, all participants had a deeper understanding of anti-doping knowledge, improved anti-doping awareness, and enhanced the pertinence and effectiveness of anti-doping work. After the end of half a year of overseas battle in early September, after the national feather troops returned home, there were still a group of young players training overseas and participating in some low-level events during this period to increase competition experience and accumulate Olympic points. At the Vietnam Open that ended on October 2, the Chinese team successfully met the final of the man pair team. Finally, Tan Qiang/Ren Xiangyu defeated He Jiting/Zhou Haodong 2-1 and won the first championship since the team. At the end of the international competition in Croatia on the same day, Liu Haichao and Zhou Xinru/Qiao shizjun of the Chinese team won the men’s singles and women’s double championships respectively. On October 11-16, Beijing time, the Indonesian International Challenge was held in Malang. On men’s singles and man pair, the Chinese team had Sun Fei, Weng Hongyang, Lei Lanxi, Ren Xiangyu/Tan Qiang, he Jiting/Zhou Haodong and others participated in the competition. In the women’s double Project, Lin Fangling/Tan Ning’s new combination also appeared in this competition. At the same time, in the women’s singles project, Gao Yunjie returned to participate in the competition. This was her comeback competition after three and a half years after her Achilles tendon injury in the Indian Masters competition in January 2019. At the same time, there are a large number of young players who participated in the adult international competition for the first time, such as Liu Liang, Wang Zhengxing, Chen Lu, Chen Baiyang/Liu Yi, Sun Wenjun/Cui Heyi, Luo Xumin/Li Yiyi, jiang Zhenbang/Wei Yaxin, Cheng Xing/Chen Fangzhen and others also appeared in the international arena to get the chance to exercise. China sports news
Niche projects are popular, releasing the vitality of fitness -why is emerging sports so hot (on) hot summer, which can’t stop people’s enthusiasm to exercise outdoors. Throwing Frisbee, paddling board, playing waist flag rugby, the former niche projects are attracting more and more attention and participation. Behind this boom, there are business opportunities, trends and industrial chains. The leaping figures one by one reflect people’s yearning for a better life and release the value of sports to social life. This edition has launched a series of reports on why the emerging movement is so popular. Please pay attention. — Editor The Clear Lake like a mirror draws the ripples of the road paddle board; The streets reflected by the sunset glow, the riding figure flies by; The stadium with the breeze at night, Frisbee enthusiasts are in groups, the waist flag rugby players are divided into matches, and the passion of sports is played in the running transmission. On social media, a few beautiful photos, a sports video, sweat and smile hung on the participants’ faces, which also made the visitors eager to try. This summer, emerging sports became a bright color in the city picture, providing fresh and fun choices for the public with high fitness enthusiasm. From less people to the public winter skiing, what do you play in summer? When Mr. Wen, a citizen of Beijing, was thinking about this problem, Frisbee broke into his sight. Join WeChat group and play two or three times a week. Each registration depends on “grab”. More and more people around Mr. Wen fall in love with playing frisbee. Football field, park, community square…… Just a piece of open space, you can jump and run, pass Frisbee. Frisbee has a variety of ways to play. Team frisbee is a common one. It has a variety of sports features: like basketball, you can’t walk on the table, and like football, you can run and chase the whole game, strike score points like rugby. In a contest, the team members should complete the movement of running position and connecting plate through close cooperation, which not only exercises personal comprehensive sports quality, but also tests the team’s cooperation ability. Mr. Wen experienced Frisbee for the first time. After flying to rescue the disk, the whole person fell to the ground. However, as the score was scored, the participants in the same game clapped up their hands at the same time. The full sense of accomplishment made him fall in love with this sport. Play Frisbee unlimited venues, complete a basic operation once passed, low antagonism but interesting. Even if you organize a Frisbee game, you can continue the game without a referee and dispute action. The two sides can negotiate and resolve the game and reach an agreement. This self-judging mechanism based on honesty and trustworthiness, mutual respect and fair competition is convenient for unfamiliar participants to quickly establish contacts and form friendship. According to Xue Zhixing, deputy secretary general of the national Frisbee Sports Promotion Committee, it is this extremely strong social and entertainment attribute that greatly enhances the “stickiness” of Frisbee enthusiasts “, in addition, cross-border cooperation with major sports brands and online communities, as well as communication assistance from variety shows and social platforms, it is not surprising to Frisbee” breaking the circle. Xue Zhixing introduced that it has been nearly 20 years since the Frisbee movement was introduced into China, forming three enthusiasts gathering places: Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta. Currently, about 500000 people participate, “folk clubs, colleges and universities and related enterprises have played an important role in promoting the development of Frisbee movement”. Not long ago, a new frisbee event was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The game set up the rules of the game inspired by the stories of monsters in traditional culture, named the team by the Gods and Beasts in the book of mountains and seas, and the uniforms were designed with their own ingenuity, bringing the participants a unique experience of vision and participation. “Frisbee sports comes with fashion genes, and packaging games with interesting scenes can stimulate the brand-new charm of this sport.” An Chenran, the organizer of the event and the deputy general manager of Ningbo Yizhong Sporting Goods Co., Ltd, said. From leisure parties to industrial extension “Frisbee is the ‘square Row’ of young people nowadays ‘.” Wu Qiao, executive director of Shanghai Zhiyi Sports, was deeply touched: more and more people have known and understood frisbee over the past three years since the operation of Frisbee events. He keeps several frisbee in the trunk of the car, and will be sent directly when he meets interested friends. Because of love, Shanghai superlight Club is a frisbee club founded by a group of Frisbee enthusiasts and has 3,000 members in 5 months. A special theme fun competition every month, a regular team mass League every week…… Abundant offline activities have kept the club a good momentum of development at present. “Participants enjoy Frisbee happiness in different communities, and people with outstanding personalities may set up their own new communities.” Liu Diyang, founder of Shanghai superlight Club, said, “there will always be someone who will become a new force in the future and make the team of Frisbee grow.” Senior enthusiast Guo Wei founded the first women’s Frisbee team in Shanghai, “it is easier for girls to build confidence and improve their level in team training and competition, thus forming ‘sticky ‘”. Building a large-scale competition system is undoubtedly a good opportunity for niche projects to go to the public. The reporter learned from the social sports guidance center of the State Sports General Administration that the first China Frisbee league will be held from August 2022to may 2023. grassroots communities, enterprises and institutions, social organizations and schools can form teams to participate in the competition. What the industry expects more is that the Frisbee movement is also expected to join the 2028los Angeles Olympic Games. “If you successfully enter the Olympic Games, it will promote the further growth of the domestic Frisbee sports participants and bring opportunities for the extension of the relevant sports industry chain.” Xue Zhixing said. From the beauty to the integration and development since the summer, Beijing citizens have been full of amateur life in the United States. In addition to participating in Frisbee activities, she also follows different fitness groups every week, riding along Chang’an Street, or paddling boards in Shunyi Olympic Park. “These sports are not only healthy, but also fresh and fun, which can be described as Xianyi for all ages.” Yu Mei said. In the outdoor fitness boom in recent years, Frisbee took the lead in “knocking on” The door of the market. Other niche projects also smell business opportunities and accelerate the expansion of their positions. Low technical threshold, less equipment requirements and good exercise effect are the common feelings of most people when getting started with related sports. The mutual drainage between different projects has also marked the integration and development of emerging sports. On Frisbee, Liu Wei, a senior enthusiast, introduced that in the team Frisbee competition, the players should keep running and connecting the plate. After a competition, the running distance is usually about 5 kilometers, “Many football and waist flag rugby enthusiasts will regard playing frisbee as physical training, but they become fascinated when playing.” In the view of Wang Shirley, director of the Sports Industry Development Research Center of Tsinghua University, because most of the emerging sports have low thresholds and are easy to use, other sports enthusiasts can use their existing skills and have low learning costs, it is beneficial to the “cross-border” attempt. For example, she said, “for example, fans of paddle board and land surfboards have changed from skiing and skateboarding”. Emerging sports gradually gather popularity and create a good participation experience has become the service direction of many clubs. In Beijing, it takes 100 or 200 yuan to participate in a two-hour basic training and competition course on Frisbee. People of different levels can find their own points of interest in it, from newcomers to advanced games to actual combat games. In the camping activities that have become popular in the past two years, more and more new sports scenes such as Frisbee, paddle board, and cycling have been added to create new ways of leisure and fitness. “Emerging sports are on fire, which is the projection of people’s lifestyle changes in the field of fitness. With the increasingly diversified, personalized and fashionable development pace of national fitness, I believe more niche projects will release vitality.” Wang Yuxiong, director of sports Economy Research Center of Central University of Finance and Economics, said.
Autumn is getting stronger, and a Frisbee sports venue in Panyu district, Guangzhou city is brightly lit, with a lively figure and enthusiasm of enthusiasts, mapping out the trend of the times in pursuit of health-it is countless fitness people who are active in the land of Shenzhou that jointly build an important cornerstone for building a strong sports country and a healthy China. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s sports industry has made great progress. National fitness has been vigorously carried out. In 2014, national fitness has become a national strategy. In 2022, Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games have been successfully held, achieve the goal of “driving 0.3 billion people to participate in ice and snow sports. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed, “carry out nationwide fitness activities extensively, strengthen youth sports work, promote the all-round development of mass sports and competitive sports, and speed up the construction of sports power.” This will make the beautiful blueprint for the development of China’s sports industry clearer and will definitely promote the national fitness to a higher level. National fitness is integrated into public life Sports is an important part of people’s healthy and happy life. To build a strong sports country and healthy China, the most fundamental thing is to enhance people’s physical fitness and protect people’s health. The data shows that the number of people who often take part in physical exercises in our country has exceeded 0.4 billion, and urban and rural residents have reached more than 90% of the qualified people in the National Physique measurement standard. In August 2021, the State Council issued the National Fitness Program (2021-2025), which clearly stated that by 2025, the proportion of people who often take part in physical exercises would reach. From the far-reaching national strategy to the lifestyle that benefits tens of thousands of families, national fitness has been integrated into public life. On June this year, the 2021 China Fitness industry data report, which was guided by the State General Administration of Sports and the China Bodybuilding Association, was released. The report showed that, in 2021, the penetration rate of Fitness members and fitness population showed a growth trend for 5 consecutive years. As of December 2021, the number of fitness members nationwide reached 75.13 million, an increase of compared with 2020, the penetration rate of fitness population also increased from in 2017 to in 2021. Guiding the masses to keep fit scientifically is an important prerequisite for carrying out national fitness. In recent years, sports departments at all levels have studied and standardized various fitness methods, combining online and offline, bringing scientific fitness concepts and methods to the masses, and strengthening the selection and training of social sports instructors, the team of grassroots sports workers continues to grow. By the end of 2021, more than 2.7 million social sports instructors had obtained technical grade certificates. In June 2022, the sports law of the People’s Republic of China was revised. Ding Dong, director of the mass sports department of the State Sports General Administration, introduced that the newly revised sports law changed the title of the original Chapter II “social sports” to “national fitness”, making it clear that the country implements the National Fitness Strategy, build a public service system for national fitness, encourage and support citizens to participate in fitness activities, and promote the deep integration of national fitness and national health. Nowadays, people’s fitness awareness is constantly increasing, and people gain health and happiness from sports. Sports play an increasingly important role in meeting people’s yearning for a better life and promoting people’s all-round development. The playground is built beside the people The Yangming Mountain Fitness Trail in Chongyi county, Ganzhou City is winding and winding, with full of green along the way. It has become a famous fitness “clock-in place” in Jiangxi province, and the citizens who exercise here every day are in constant stream. In recent years, Chongyi county has built and transformed a number of public stadiums, community fitness centers, fitness trails, etc. with the help of the National Sports General Administration, a counterpart support unit. The “10-minute body-building Loop” has basically taken shape. Where to go for fitness? What the masses expect and think has become a breakthrough in carrying out mass sports work. In recent years, local conditions have been adapted to local conditions. Some have transformed the corner plots of the city into “Golden Horn and silver edge” for residents’ fitness, while some have opened up the “last kilometer” for serving the masses “, build the stadium to the masses…… By the end of 2021, there were 3.971 million national sports venues; The national sports venues area reached 3.41 billion square meters, and the per capita sports venues area was 2.41 square meters. “The government should guide the development of the project while providing more venues so that more people can participate in physical exercises.” Ding Dong said. National Speed Skating Museum “Ice Ribbon”, “Ice Cube” ice sports center, Wukesong Sports Center, National Stadium, Capital Stadium…… A number of Winter Olympic venues were opened to the public after the closing of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Games to play a new role. The staff of “Ice Ribbon” said that in the future, we will focus on building a multi-functional ice and snow sports center integrating five functions: sports events, mass fitness, cultural leisure, exhibition and social welfare, become a new landmark for the masses to experience winter sports. In March this year, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council clearly stated in the Opinions on building a higher level public service system for national fitness that by 2035, the public service system of national fitness, which is compatible with the socialist modern country, has been fully established. The document also puts forward 29 policies and measures from 8 aspects. Let the masses enjoy a better supply of fitness venues nearby. In addition to expanding the increment, they should also revitalize the stock and plus-sized the opening of public sports facilities. In 2022, the Ministry of Finance issued a subsidy of 1.08 billion yuan for public stadiums to be opened to the society free of charge or with low fees. Comprehensively promoting the free or low-charge opening of public stadiums and promoting the two-way opening of school stadiums and social stadiums will effectively alleviate the problem of mismatch between people’s fitness needs and venue resource supply. Online fitness expands new space Wang Ke, a citizen living in Yangjiaping, Chongqing city, recently began to try online fitness. What he valued was the flexibility of this fitness method, “for office workers, it is not easy to take regular time to go to the gym every day.” Wang Ke said that because the working hours were not fixed, the previous fitness card had expired. “The rise of online fitness has helped me solve this problem.” Wang Ke said that unlike gym fitness, after participating in online fitness, he can also watch the playback and then find his own problems. Ding Dong said that in recent years, with the general improvement of people’s fitness awareness, people’s fitness habits are also quietly changing. More and more people are gradually accustomed to home exercise through various sports fitness platforms, online clock-in, users become more and more dependent on the platform, and the vertical classification of projects becomes more and more detailed. These platforms are playing the role of traditional offline sports organizations and club associations, gathering people, organizing activities and providing communication and sharing channels. As of the middle of September, the National Fitness online sports games jointly sponsored by the mass sports department of the State Sports General Administration and the mass sports department of the All-China Sports Federation and other departments have organized more than 100 events, A total of 39 national sports associations, 10 sports management centers, 10 provinces and cities, and more than 50 Internet platforms participated. The number of direct participants reached more than 13.63 million, and the cumulative number of clicks in each event exceeded 1.52 billion. In October 2021, the State General Administration of Sports issued the “14th Five-Year Plan” for sports development, encouraging the development of “Internet + fitness” and “Internet of Things + fitness” modes, increase sports products and service resources, optimize online and offline fitness interactions, and increase home fitness scenarios and online fitness activities. Everyone participates in sports, sports benefits everyone and accelerates the construction of a powerful sports country. Chinese sports is developing a more magnificent picture of the times.
Beijing, August 10 (Xinhua) — Williams, an American tennis star and winner of the 23rd women’s singles Grand Slam, wrote an article in American media recently, saying that he was about to bid farewell to tennis, and revealed that she and her husband had discussed to have another child last year. In 1995, 14-year-old Xiaowei officially entered the professional tennis world. Up to now, she has won 23 Grand Slam women’s singles championships in her career, ranking first in the world in 19 weeks and 4 Olympic gold medals. More than 20 years later, this legendary figure in women’s tennis is about to usher in her curtain call. “I know there are fans who imagine that I can catch up with Margaret Court’s record in London, break her record with 25 crowns in New York, and then say goodbye at the award ceremony, say goodbye completely. I understand that this is a good fantasy, but I am not looking for some ceremonial and final playing moments. I am not good at saying goodbye, which is the worst thing in the world.” She also thanked the fans and friends for their support for more than 20 years.
