On January 20, Beijing time, the second round of the Australian Open women's singles competition began to compete, and the local star Stosur who competed with the wild card met with the 10th seed Pavlyuchenkova. After two sets of competition, Pavlyutchenkova eliminated Stosur 2-0 to reach the third round of the Australian Open women's singles. Stosur regretted not being able to go any further, and after losing the game, the 37-year-old officially ended his singles career.
Pavlyuchenkova broke from the start of the first set, and she took a 2-0 lead after saving in the second set. In the fifth inning, Pavlyuchenkova broke again and she then saved a 5-1 lead. In the 8th set, Pavlyukchenkova defused the break point to save the first set 6-2.
In the second set, Pavlyuchenkova started with a series of breaks to take a 2-0 lead. Pavlyuchenkova broke again in the 5th set and Stosur completed the break in the 6th set to make it 2-4. Pavlyukchenkova broke again in the 7th set, and then she saved her serve in the 8th set to win the second set 6-2.
Before the start of the Australian Open, Stosur had said that this would be the last singles event of her career, and after losing to Pavlyuchenkova, the former Grand Slam champion officially ended his career.
Looking back on Stosur's entire singles career, her highest ranking once came to No. 6 in the world. The highlight of Storthor's career was undoubtedly the 2011 U.S. Open, when she beat Serena Williams to win the only singles Grand Slam title trophy of her career. In 2010, Stosur was runners-up at the French Open and made a total of 25 Singles Finals on the Tour, winning nine titles.
Stosur will still play doubles with Zhang Shuai, and after the end of the season, her entire career will come to an end. I hope that the pairing of Stosur and Zhang Shuai can achieve another good result in this Australian Open doubles.