Regretful! Zhang Shuai stopped in the mixed doubles semifinals for the fifth time

As the No. 2 seed in the mixed doubles at this year's French Open, Zhang Shuai partnered with current Men's Doubles world No. 1 Arévalo at Roland Garros, and she will still play in the third tier at this year's French Open, competing in the Women's Singles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles events respectively.

In the women's singles competition, Zhang Shuai is the No. 30 seed in the French Open women's singles qualifying round, after eliminating Australian veteran Hunt in straight sets in the first round, she was eliminated by Walter in the second round and missed the qualifying decisive round.

In women's doubles, the original old partner Mladenovic withdrew from the French Open due to injury, and Zhang Shuai, who had to form a temporary team, finally partnered with Gaideki. The two had poor luck in signing, and they met the top seeds Siniakova/Townsend in the first round, and were finally eliminated by their opponents in straight sets and failed to advance to the second round, so that Zhang Shuai, who was fighting in the third line, was left with only one event, the mixed doubles.

Fortunately, Zhang Shuai and mixed doubles partner Arévalo still cooperated well in the game, and the two defeated [W] Belgrave/Sanchez, Gonzalez/Stefani and Glaspor/Volmers one after another to reach the semifinals of the French Open mixed doubles, and Zhang Shuai once again became the Chinese player who went the furthest in the Grand Slam draw.

However, in the mixed doubles semi-finals that just ended yesterday, Zhang Shuai faced the challenge of [3] Vavasori/Errani, and was finally eliminated by their opponents with a score of 6-2 6-3, missing out on the final title match.

So far, Zhang Shuai has lost the mixed doubles final of a Grand Slam for the fifth time in his career, and the two have won 31,000 euros in the mixed doubles (122,000 euros for the champion).

As a Grand Slam women's doubles champion, Zhang Shuai is also a competitive in the mixed doubles, reaching the semi-finals with Pierce at the 2018 US Open, where she lost 1-2 to Mactic/Rosolska in the semi-finals.

The next three mixed doubles semi-finals were Wimbledon 2021, Australian Open 2022 and US Open 2022, and although they did not qualify for the final, Zhang Shuai also reached the semifinals of all four Grand Slam mixed doubles semifinals after reaching the semifinals of this year's French Open.

You must know that Zhang Shuai, who was born in 1989, has reached the age of 36, and most of his peers at this age have retired.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Shuai revealed that he and Arévalo have not practiced together at this French Open, "In fact, since we cooperated these few times, we have not trained together, or even warmed up together." It was only at the moment I went from the lounge to the gym to meet him and then spent a minute or two talking and then played, and that's how it went. ”(Source: Tennis House Author: Barbie)