Zhang Shuai: Play the tennis you want, and the doubles will return to the "wild" state

On May 20, Beijing time, in the first round of the women's singles qualifying tournament of the 2025 French Open, China's Jinhua and No. 30 seed Zhang Shuai defeated Hunter 6-3/6-2 and advanced to the second round, where she will face Switzerland's Walter.

Zhang Shuai returned to the French Open qualifying tournament after 13 years and won the first victory of the 2025 French Open for the Chinese army! Looking back on the performance and feelings of the game, China Jinhua said: "I played the tennis I wanted today, and my friends who know me well know that I am in a better state now, because I am doing myself. I just heard the fans say that today's scores were all winning points and that's what I wanted. ”

"It's been a long time since I've played a French Open qualifier, and I'm still very happy for myself to be able to win the singles on clay at the French Open, because it's not an easy thing to do, especially for Chinese players or Asian players who are not very good at clay, of course, except for Zheng Qinwen haha, she is very good at clay and has a very good performance on clay."

"I don't have any expectations for the results of the game, just like we talked to Zheng Qinwen yesterday, she said that I am happy tennis now, it is a very good state, and I think it is good to be able to play tennis happily."

Talking about the recent situation of the Women's Doubles partner, Zhang Shuai said: "I originally planned to participate in the ITF singles tournament in Japan for a month in May, but then Siniakova found a partner, so I decided to go to Rome to compete in Rome and adapt to the clay in advance. ”

"Mladenovic and I were expected to start on clay, but it was more difficult for her to recover from her injury than expected. The French Open is her hometown tournament and she must have wanted to play very much, so she made the decision to withdraw at the last minute. It was only after she decided not to play that I started looking for a partner (this year's French Open partner Gadeki). ”

"The future is unknown, let's see how we perform with our new partner. Over the years, I have changed many partners, and they have all become very good friends of mine. No matter what choices they make or what situation they are in, I understand and support them. ”

(Text: Faye Wong, Photo: Li Jianyi)