Match point

Chapter 1627
"Just now on the pitch, I've come back with a vengeance."

Dimitrov showed off with a smile on his face, but Sharapova glanced at Gawain's knee and asked seriously.

"Did you break his knee?"

— Tanya Harding was trying to break Nancy Kerrigan's knee.

Dimitrov turned his head to look at Gawain, the two friends exchanged glances, and then both burst into laughter.

Sharapova doesn't know why.

Dimitrov quickly explained, "Just now, Gawain and I were joking about Tanya Harding, but I didn't expect you to have one too."

Sharapova looked cold, "I'm not joking."

Even so, you can still see the shallow smile between Sharapova's brows, and she doesn't look like an iceberg beauty on the court at all.

Gao Wen spread out his hands, and stretched out his right leg gracefully, "All right, take it, take it, at worst I'll start training wheelchair tennis from the second half of the season."

This time, even Sharapova couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing.

Dimitrov hugged Sharapova dotingly and laughed along with her.

Gao Wen shook his head helplessly, and shouted at the staff around him and the players who were warming up, "Couples spew sugar and abuse dogs, people who have nothing to do with it, evacuate as soon as possible, emergency, emergency, please evacuate as soon as possible."

"Ha ha!"

This time, it wasn't just Dimitrov and the others, there was a burst of laughter around, and then, under Gawain's call, one or two started booing, and whistles sounded one after another.

Sharapova, who is always cold and alienated, has always avoided showing affection in public. She rarely goes to Dimitrov's player box to watch games. So far, the most well-known one is Wimbledon Fourth. Strong fight, Dimitrov vs. Djokovic.

Surrounded by laughter at this moment, Sharapova was also a little cautious, and glared at Gao Wen gloomily.

It turned out that Gao Wen made a salute gesture, purely as if he was watching a good show, which made Sharapova almost recover from her breath.

Then, Gao Wen trotted away from the "crime scene".

Sharapova looked at Gao Wen's back as he walked away, and looked up at Dimitrov speechlessly, "I still can't understand how you two became friends."

Dimitrov didn't joke, but thought about it seriously, "Maybe it's because he has the courage that I lack."

Sharapova opened her mouth, unable to refute.

On that side, Gao Wen's footsteps had gradually receded, until he reached the end of the corner, when he made a turn and paused, he still looked back.

Under his eyes, a shallow smile settled down, and he was slightly worried——

If Gawain remembers correctly, in the last life, Sharapova and Dimitrov announced their breakup after Wimbledon.

For both players, that was the beginning of disaster.

After that, Sharapova fell into repeated injury troubles. She missed the US Open that year and came back at the end of the year, but stopped in the semi-finals in the year-end finals; then in the 2016 Australian Open, she lost to Serena Williams again and stopped. The quarterfinals, and fell into the biggest crisis of his entire career in March.

Sharapova received a letter from the ITF informing her that her long-term heart medication was listed as a prohibited drug, but her team failed to update the list in time, which resulted in her failing a drug test at the Australian Open and being suspended for two games. Year.

Although the suspension period was shortened to 2018 months through an appeal, this still became a watershed in her career. She suffered from serious injuries and never returned to the top ranks. After being eliminated in the first round of Wimbledon in 2020, He never played again and announced his retirement in [-].

And Dimitrov, who was playing in his prime, was also having a hard time. He stopped in the second round of the US Open that year. In 2016, his record in the four Grand Slams was still poor. In the third round of the Open and the fourth round of the US Open, although there were occasional good performances, they were always inconsistent.

It wasn't until 2017, after establishing a stable relationship again, that Dimitrov got rid of the two-year downturn and ushered in the best and most successful season of his career.

Sight, back to Wimbledon in 2015, whether Sharapova or Dimitrov, including all professionals and fans, could not have expected that the careers of the golden couple would be based here. The earth-shaking changes in the watershed are inevitably embarrassing.

Gao Wen was no exception.

In the past, as a spectator or a fan, when reading the news, those texts were just a story, and a few words of emotion were all, and when I turned around, I left it behind.

Now, Dimitrov is his friend, and Sharapova is also a half friend. Everything is no longer a story, but a part of his own life, and the turbulent thoughts in his mind can no longer be controlled.

After breaking up for many years, Sharapova finally shared the details of her and Dimitrov's breakup with the media when she published her autobiography.

According to the original historical trajectory, in Wimbledon in 2015, Dimitrov lost to Gasquet in an upset three-set defeat, and his career fell into the darkest and lowest moment, which almost defeated him.

After losing, Dimitrov was very, very fragile. One night, he took out a book that recorded Wimbledon's previous championships, flipped through it quietly, and then saw a photo, which was in the middle of 2014. Photos of Sharapova watching Dimitrov's match in the final.

Dimitrov looked at Sharapova with tears in his eyes. "Did you see that? It means everything to me. Seeing you in my box next to my mother."

At that moment, Sharapova realized that Dimitrov's love was too strong and too heavy, and he put their love in the most important position in life; but for her, she still longed for it. To create more miracles on the field, her victory and failure are the focus of her life.

Sharapova admitted that in 2014, she went to watch the semi-finals live, mainly because she stopped in the fourth round.

The same photo, for Dimitrov, was a moment of glory in life, but for Sharapova, it was a reminder of her early exit.

In fact, it was the same in 2015. Dimitrov stopped in the third round and completely collapsed; but Sharapova lost to Serena Williams again and stopped in the semi-finals. Serena Williams' pain is even more unspeakable, but Sharapova needs to spend energy to comfort Dimitrov.

It was at that moment that Sharapova realized they had gone on different paths.

The breakup was proposed by Sharapova.

Later, Sharapova said that at that time, she still loved Dimitrov, but unfortunately, the right object and the right emotion met at the wrong time.

Not to mention Dimitrov, it took him [-] months to get over that emotional injury. Sharapova has always been special to him.

Even the bystanders couldn't help but regret the end of that relationship.

(End of this chapter)