Zhang Shuai needed fifteen Grand Slams to record her first main-draw match victory at such a big tennis event and today that she has done it, it came in style, against world number two Simona Halep in the first round of the Australian Open.
'After ten years on Tour and 15 Grand Slams, emotion gets the better of Zhang Shuai at #AusOpen https://t.co/xc33MjNbvR
— Eurosport UK TV (@EurosportUKTV) January 19, 2016
The 26-year-old, whose pro career started way back in 2003, was naturally ecstatic, but so were the tennis fans in the stands, the TV audience and her fellow WTA players.