China News Agency, Beijing, September 18th: "Swiss King" and "Baby Boys": The beauty of sports, no question

  China News Agency reporter An Yingzhao

  Tennis star Roger Federer, known as the "Swiss King", has announced his retirement.

The 41-year-old veteran has presented more than 1,500 wonderful performances for fans in his 24-year career, won 103 singles titles including 20 Grand Slams, and left countless fans with admiration, applause and admiration. .

Among them is a 14-year-old Wa youth from Yunnan, China, Wang Fa.

Wang Fa was on the field with a basket on his back.

Photo by Li Jianyi

  Who is Wang Fa?

Perhaps one of his pictures is better known.

In the photo, a young man with dark skin, smiling and sticking out his tongue, is carrying a small woven bamboo basket with the characteristics of the Wa ethnic group, which contains two tennis rackets.

This photo has become popular on the Internet after Wang Fa recently won the U14 Men's Singles Championship in the Guangzhou Station of the 2022 ASICS Youth Tennis Tournament. People affectionately call him "the boy with a back basket" and wish him to bring his characteristic back basket to the stage of the World Series in the future. .

  He started playing tennis at the age of 8 and became famous at the age of 14. Wang Fa neither complained about the hardships of training nor squandered the joy of success, but continued to train hard towards his dream of becoming a professional player. The idol who inspired him was Federer.

On October 5, 2019, tennis star Federer appeared at the Shanghai Qizhong Tennis Center for pre-match training and participated in the master training camp.

Photo by Tang Yanjun

  The Swiss king came to a curtain call, and the Chinese rookies emerged, showing the beauty of sports.

  The beauty of sports is in no matter where you are from.

  In the sports world, heroes don't ask where they come from.

Wang Fa was born in Cangyuan, Yunnan, on the border of China and Myanmar, but his dream has never been closed due to remoteness or poverty. Behind the championship, he swings no less than 7,000 times a day.

What helps athletes succeed has never been an extraordinary talent or favorable conditions, but hard training.

Federer, who has always been known for his talent, elegance and enjoyment, also said after winning the championship, "People think I have talent and underestimate my diligence"; it".

  The beauty of sports is irrelevant.

  As the Olympic motto asserts, sports should pursue faster, higher and stronger, but the true meaning of pursuit of excellence is not to surpass all competitors, but to overcome yesterday's self.

Among the many records of Federer's career, there is one very moving - never retire.

He inspires many fans, not because he once achieved an "invincible" state, but because he was defeated by opponents and knocked down by injuries and returned to the stadium again and again, bravely challenged himself and challenged the limit.

People will undoubtedly marvel at the creation of a new record, but at the same time, those players who are not afraid of hardships and persevere to the end, even if they are exhausted or even limped after the race, they will still receive the warmest cheers. Abandoned sportsmanship.

The "2022 Tennis on Campus Activity" in Tibet Autonomous Region was held at Hongjun Primary School in Liuwu New District, Lhasa City. Tennis coaches instructed students to practice tennis.

Photo by Gongga Laisong

  The beauty of sports, beauty lies in nothing.

  Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, once said: "The ideal of the revival of the Olympic movement aims to bring tradition and modernity, Eastern and Western civilizations together and integrate them into one." The fireworks above the bird's nest at the end of the festival said "One World, One Family".

Just like Zhang Depei, Sri Chapan, Li Na, and Naomi Osaka, who were once brilliant in tennis history, maybe one day, the new "oriental face" can also take over Federer's "racquet" and become the next "tennis giant". This heritage across the East and West will make the beauty of sports enduring and fresh.

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