Xie Shuwei's name as "the strongest thigh in tennis" was confirmed again after Indian Wells and Zhang Shuai partnered this time.

After Austin and American Kessler partnered to win the runner-up, although this result was a little short of the expectations of the outside world, considering that the 35-year-old Zhang Shuai can still play like this at this age, everyone still said that this result is completely acceptable.

After switching to the Indian Wells 1000 race, everyone thought that Zhang Shuai was very likely to still partner with Kessler, but unexpectedly, the news of partnering with Xie Shuwei came, which surprised and delighted everyone.

The outside world has such a reaction to the partnership of Zhang Shuai and Xie Shuwei, of course, not because the two are the oldest pair, let alone because both of them hold at least two Grand Slam doubles championships, but because they think that the partner Chinese Taipei star will most likely bring unexpected surprises to Zhang Shuai.

Xie Shuwei has always been known as the strongest thigh in tennis, and any girl who partners with her in doubles often does not end up too bad.

For example, at the 2023 French Open, Wang Xinyu partnered with Xie Shuwei for the first time, and there was a huge chemical reaction, and the two reached the final all the way, and finally made Yu Meiren the first person to win a Grand Slam championship in China's post-00 Jinhua.

For another example, this year's Australian Open and Dubai teamed up with Latvian girl Ostapenko, and Xie Shuwei and the Latvian girl made it all the way to the final. Although it is a bit regrettable that she failed to win the championship, Xie Shuwei's strongest thighs in tennis are still full of color.

Then, partnering with Zhang Shuai in Indian Wells, and both of them have rich experience in doubles, they are naturally favored.

Facts have proved that from the beginning of their doubles debut, Zhang Shuai and Xie Shuwei have indeed lived up to everyone's expectations, and their performance in the doubles arena is quite good.

Especially in the quarterfinals against Kessler and Jones, the American pair, Zhang Shuai, with the full cooperation of Xie Shuwei, the two really fully demonstrated to the outside world what is called super telepathy, and the tacit understanding between the two is simply to turn doubles into singles, giving people a feeling of complete integration.

Such an outstanding performance made Zhang Shuai and Xie Shuwei instantly invincible, and it took only 62 minutes to sweep the American combination in two sets and win quite domineering.

In the quarterfinals, against the combination of Ostapenko and Pérez, the performance of the two made fans and netizens in the live broadcast room sing Faye Wong's "Legend" to pay tribute to these two tennis legends.

How good was Zhang Shuai and Xie Shuwei in the quarter-finals? Not only is the psychological quality strong enough, but the hard power is even more leveraged, which makes people have to be convinced.

Faced with a 3-5 deficit in the first set, everyone thought that when the opponent pair reached the commanding height of the first set, it was almost certain that Zhang Shuai and Xie Shuwei would have lost their skills and would be difficult to turn the tables around.

Unexpectedly, under pressure, the two completely let go and played a wave of climaxes of four games in a row, thus winning the first set 7-5 thrillingly. At that time, the terrifying performance of the two not only made Ostapenko and Perez a little stunned, but also stunned everyone in the live broadcast room, but they didn't expect the two Chinese veterans to behave like the god of war at a critical moment, when they needed to prove them the most, which was really powerful.

From the extreme backwardness of the first set, it can still fly against the wind, and the second set has not yet started, and some people have said in advance that as long as Zhang Shuai and Xie Shuwei can show such a performance in the first set, "I am sure that the game will end in two sets, and the people who will take away the victory in the end must be the handsome sister and the Xie sister." ”

The contest in the second set was really guessed correctly by this netizen.

Zhang Shuai and Xie Shuwei also clearly learned the lesson of the fluctuating form in the first set, and their performances were much more stable, and finally sealed the victory in the second set 6-4, and advanced to the doubles semi-finals of the Indian Wells 1000 tournament without danger.

Although there is still a short distance from advancing to the finals and winning the championship, seeing Zhang Shuai and Xie Shuwei's partnership so powerful, judging from the current public opinion reaction, many people firmly believe that the first championship of the new season will most likely come in Indian Wells.

After the start of the new season, although the effect of Xie Shuwei and Ostapenko's partnership was not bad, it was a pity that they all served the plate in the end. At that time, some people bluntly said that it was still a matter of cooperation with Latvian girls, otherwise the two plates might have become two championship trophies.

Zhang Shuai teamed up with American Kessler in the recently concluded Austin 250 to reach the final, and finally lost to Yuan Yue and Blinkova and unfortunately won the runner-up.

Now Xie Shuwei is partnering with Zhang Shuai, who is more experienced than Ostapenko in doubles, and naturally has more confidence and motivation to impact the championship.

In addition, with the result of reaching the semifinals, Zhang Shuai's doubles instant world ranking has returned to the top 10 in the world. Someone bluntly said that Zhang Shuai can enter the TOP10 in the doubles ranking just one year after his comeback, which shows that it is still worth holding Xie Shuwei's thigh, "If you can win the championship in the end, the picture will definitely be more beautiful at that time!" ”(Source: Tennis House Author: Starry Sky of Moon River)