郑钦文太飒了!赛后接受外媒采访:“我还能为国再战3个小时”
China's Zheng Qinwen stunned top-ranked Iga Swiatek of Poland with a 6-2, 7-5 victory on Thursday in the women's singles tennis semifinals in Paris. Her achievement surpassed Li Na's fourth-place finish and made her the first ever Chinese player to reach the women's singles final in the Olympics.
Zheng, 21, was defeated by Swiatek, four-time French Open champion, at Roland Garros, in all of their six previous meetings.
"This means everything to me because finally I broke the stage I always have in my head, I finally showed I could beat the world No 1 on her best surface, at Roland Garros,"Zheng said. "It really does mean everything. I always knew I could do it but there’s a difference between knowing you can and showing it."
"I feel more than just happy — happy isn't enough to describe how I feel," said Zheng, who played back-to-back three-hour matches to make the semifinals. "I remember in the Australia Open I was also really tired, but you know, I just feel I’m not able to push. But today even I’m tired, I feel I’m able to push. If you ask me to play three hours more for my country, I could do it again."
No 6 seed Zheng will face either Croatia's Donna Vekic or Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia in the gold medal match.
"I’m so happy that I can make this story for China’s tennis, because I always wanted to be one of the athletes who can get a medal for China," Zheng said. "Right now I’m one of them but I know the fight is not over," she added. "I’m really happy. But in the same time, I want to say I’m waiting for war, and of course I made a story already — but I don’t want to stop here."
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