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WIMBLEDON – If Wimbledon kept data on impossible shots, Su-Wei Hsieh would dominate the stat. Throughout his shocking revolt in the third round of the world premiere, Simona Halep, did Hsieh use an endless merry-go-round of did he just-see-it? the most aggressive base defenders in the game.
"I know she's going to really fight I have to try to be stronger than normal mentally," Hsieh said after the match. "I just want to feel free and enjoy the game."
The latest in a series of unblocked players whose staggering surprises from Wimbledon send Wikipedia's servers overdriven, Hsieh (pronounced "Sh-eh") is virtually unknown to tennis fanatics casuals. But her unique playing style, which even she struggles to describe and instead simply "Su-Wei style" label, has been a source of confusion for her opponents for years. Former world No. 1 doubles and Wimbledon doubles champion in 2013, this 32-year-old is the first Taiwanese player, male or female, to climb among the top 25 singles and be the first double. She is currently the 48th singles player in the world and will play Monday at Wimbledon for the first time in her career.
"I'm just trying to enjoy tennis and enjoy the city," said Ms. Hsieh, who travels to London with her family and boyfriend, whose support, she said, he provides an extra sense of calm on tour. "I'm really lucky to be a tennis player, I stay here until the second week, I'm very, very grateful and grateful for all that." [19659004] Hsieh's 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 Halep is first to win first place, but this is not his first faceoff of the top 10. Earlier this year, she sent the number 3 Garbine Muguruza from the Australian Open and last June, she beat number 8 Joanna Konta in the first round of the French.Now she adds a win on the best player in the world to this list, and to the surface that is perhaps best suited to his eccentric style of play.As difficult as this to describe, Halep said that it's even harder to get ready to play.
"She mixes rhythm, she plays everything, it was very hard on a grass field to do better," said Halep. "The ball does not bounce twice in a row, it's very difficult to stay low, to play every ball, to expect nothing because you never know where the ball bounces and where it goes. She was playing on grass, but the difficulty was greater today because of her play. "
Hsieh's nearly two-and-a-half-hour match against Halep on Saturday was one of the most entertaining thrillers of the first week at All England. Halep uses all of his 5-foot-5, 135-pound body muscles to shoot through each shot, his athleticism and reach to the bottom line a key signature of his game. But Hsieh's stretch was even more Superb and its off-tempo strikes so flat that it seemed impossible that they would erase the net. When they did, they often fell just beyond Halep's stretched forehand.
While it's Halep who usually puts his opponents out of pace with astute winners who kiss the line, Hsieh, herself only 5-foot-5 and 125-pound, chased every shot like a golden hunter pursues , wells, tennis balls and used a seamless mix of dropshots, slices and winners forehand with both hands to force Halep into mistakes. Unlike many of his top-ranked peers who left this week, Halep has not melted. She threw everything she had to Hsieh, and she was simply surpassed.
"I had 5-2 in the third set, I had a match point," Halep said. She did not deserve a victory today.
At that time, in the 5: 2 third-third match, it seemed like Hsieh's return from a gap would end quickly. . But it has never been shaken. "Down 5-2, against that big player on the big yard, you could be crushed," said Hsieh. "I'm just trying to run as much as I can, trying to catch all the balls, she's hitting close to the line, I have to run and fight for each point, if I do not do not beat, I do not pass. "Incredibly, Hsieh has taken the last five games of the game.
But of all the remarkable moves in his game book, his wisest came just before his last serve.
Up to 6-5 but two breaking points in the final game, Hsieh went back up to win three points in a row and served for the match.The crowd, as she had done in the last few games of the match, broke out and was swept away. by the chair umpire When Hsieh failed in his first serve, the crowd dropped an "Ahhhhh!"
At that time, Hsieh thought back to a fourth-round match against Lucie Safarova at Nottingham last year, that she lost in a third set tiebreak. "I have two match points," she said about that game. "I'm doing a double fault, then a match point, redo the double fault So today, when I have a fault, I thought: "Oh, my God, [this is] is not going well anymore "
Hseih walked away from the line, looked in the stands and waved to the crowd like a cheerleader before a big fourth, begging them to lend him their energy. She imitated the move again in her post-match press conference, which, for the record, is perhaps the only thing more entertaining than a match from Su-Wei Hsieh [19659004"OkaynowIfeelmorerelaxedhisstateofmindbeforethislastservicethatHalephasreturnedtothenet"(ItisworthnotingthatthediminutiveHsiehservedatanaveragespeedof82mi/h)TotherealizationthatshehadwonthematchHsiehletoutacrythenasteadystreamoftearsLaterwhenaskedwhatshethoughtofthereactionofthecrowdtohisrequestbeforehislastserviceshesimplysaid"Ithelpedalot"
The euphemism of the year of a woman who enters the last week England is no longer under the radar.
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