In the first week of April 2022, two familiar players in the women's tennis world celebrated their birthdays, one was young but regrettably retired due to injury, and the other was a career evergreen but had mediocre results, so let's get close to Belis and Costia.
#科斯蒂亚
Stable players, lack of eye-catching performance
Born on 7 April 1990 in Bucharest, Romania, Costia achieved good results early in her career as a standard post-90s player.
In the 2007 season, the romanian teenager, who was still an underage, reached the women's singles final in Budapest and was unfortunately runner-up.
Soon after, in 2009, Costia, who played in the Grand Slam tournament for just over a season, rose to the top eight of the women's singles in a historic way at the French Open that year.
In this year's French Open, Costia eliminated opponents including Konet, No. 10 seed Wozniacki and No. 5 seed Jankovic, and the Romanian youngster was eliminated by Australian player Stosur in the quarterfinals.
Just when everyone thought that Costia would shine on the future Grand Slam stage, they did not think that the women's singles quarterfinals was the best Grand Slam result of her current career.
From her first women's singles tour of the 2008 Australian Open to her most recent Grand Slam appearance (2022 Australian Open), Costia's best record except for the 2009 French Open women's singles quarterfinals was just two fourth rounds.
More often, Costia is out early in the first three rounds, and the Romanian's highest world ranking is 21st, can she still make a breakthrough at the age of 32?
#贝丽斯
Appearance and ball skills, ruined by injuries
The most surprising news for fans in January 2022 was the official retirement of Belis , the American teenager born on April 8, 1999 , announcing that he would leave the game at the age of 23.
The reason why Belis had to choose to leave was simple, that is, injuries that professional players could not avoid, and after repeated elbow and wrist surgeries, Belis had to say goodbye to the stadium she loved.
In her retirement letter, she said: "For more than 3 years, I have been in a cycle of rehabilitation, training and injury, and I can't continue mentally or physically. ”
As a teenager, Belis was successful when she was at the top of the world rankings, and in 2014 she became the youngest player to win the WOMEN's Singles tournament since Kurnikova won the US Open women's singles tournament in 1996 at the age of 15.
At that time, Belis defeated the Australian Open women's singles runner-up Cibulkova in the first round of the US Open and became famous in one battle.
In a WTA 125K tournament in Hawaii in 2016, Bellis also reached the women's singles final and eventually defeated China's Jinhua Zhang Shuai to win the championship.
Before retiring, Belis's highest world ranking was set at 35th place in August 2017, and now that she is retiring, belis is about to complete her university degree in economics and finance, and she says she will continue her MBA. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Barbie)