Just yesterday, Zheng Qinwen, China's first sister, suddenly updated her personal social media account, revealing that her meritorious coach, Pere Riba, has officially returned to the team.

Zheng Qinwen posted a photo of him with Pere Riba with the caption "Welcome back", and the other person in the picture is her agent. After last season, Pere Riba had to return home for hip surgery due to a recurrence of an old injury, leaving Zheng Qinwen's team briefly. In the absence of coach Pere Riba, Zheng Qinwen's performance at the Australian Open and the Middle East season was not ideal, with only a record of 1 win and 3 losses, and the world ranking also fell from fifth to eighth in the world.

Therefore, when many netizens saw Pere Riba returning, they shouted "Zheng Qinwen's savior is back", however, will this really be the case?

When it comes to Zheng Qinwen's decline in form in the new season, many people can't help but think that it is caused by too much energy off the field. Previously, "Oriental Sports News" wrote an article commenting on Zheng Qinwen, "Sports need to be commercialized, but the commercial activities of athletes should not be too excessive." Especially when I saw the so-called "face-bumping Kobe" hot topics that portrayed Zheng Qinwen's "chief hydration officer" in a scripted manner, and the scenes where "Zheng Qinwen was tired" and lay in a luxury car of a certain brand to "rest"...... I really feel that the painstaking "screenwriters" are also tired. ”

Too much off-the-court investment is indeed a large part of the reason for Zheng Qinwen's decline, and it seems that it is not complete. Because in a sense, Zheng Qinwen's biggest problem at present is actually that he can't find the right rhythm of the game on the field, and about this, the first sister of China also mentioned it after losing in Dubai.

We always say that the Olympic gold medal is a turning point for Zheng Qinwen, but we must also take into account: what else does the Olympic gold medal bring to Zheng Qinwen's self-confidence? Personally, I think that Zheng Qinwen after the Olympics has more "resilience" and patience. Because, if beating Swiatek in the semifinals is "I can win", then winning the Olympic gold medal is "I really want to win", after such an event, Zheng Qinwen in the next competition, although the technique is still the same technology, but the overall more patient, but also more hard-working, which is very rare. However, in this world, I am afraid of this word, blindly spelling to solve the technical pain points, no matter how high you go, you will only climb high and fall heavy.

If last season's full-blown explosion was due to the fact that the tour did not know much about the Chinese girl, then this season's sudden cold wave may represent more people's research and attention to Zheng Qinwen's style of play.

After the upset in the second round of this year's Australian Open, a comment hit the nail on the head, "If last year's loss to Avanexiang at the French Open indirectly told everyone that Zheng Qinwen is not very good at playing the moon ball, then this year's Australian Open defeat to Sigmund directly told everyone that the downspin ball and the small ball also restrained Zheng Qinwen's style of play." ”

Let's look at the loss to Abdul-Jabbar in Doha and the loss to Stearns in Dubai, as the ace king last season, Zheng Qinwen served almost all of them in a dumb state in these two matches, and what is the reason? On the one hand, it is because Zheng Qinwen's serve is largely the pursuit of the ultimate landing point, and it is not very turning, but such a serve is bound to cause the success rate of the serve to fluctuate greatly, and on the other hand, even if there is a shot, many players can also use cutting to make the subsequent round become a downspin rhythm that Zheng Qinwen is not suitable for, not to mention, more and more opponents have learned to make a weak second hand against Zheng Qinwen, which is why Zheng Qinwen is more passive and has a higher error rate the more he plays.

As netizens commented, "Zheng Qinwen always hopes to use the fast point line change and the first move to grab the rhythm of the game, but in this way, his own rhythm is already a little chaotic." After all, we started with the spin ball, we can't spin out, the speed can't come out, and blindly fighting with the opponent for speed and points, isn't this a sacrifice to the end? ”

Finally, back to the original question - can the return of coach Pere Riba save Zheng Qinwen? From the above analysis, it can be seen that judging from the performance of several games in the new season, the reasons for the sudden decline in the state of the Chinese first sister in the new season are complex and multifaceted, but the very important reason must be their own reasons, and as far as they are concerned, psychological problems occupy a large part. In this case, the coach can only help her, after all, for a player like Zheng Qinwen who has a strong arrangement for training, how to plan the time on and off the field, how to solve the technical pain points, more depends on how she thinks about it.(Source: Tennis Home Author: Lu Xiaotian)