李娜退役告别信（双语全文）_BEC初级作文

李娜退役告别信（双语全文）

在澳大利亚的时光固然充满了喜悦、幸福，以及一种特殊的成就感。但做出放下球拍的决定，比在澳大利亚的高温中连续赢下7场比赛要艰难许多。在之前我苦恼了几个月，最终，长期以来的伤病让我不能再像以前一样。尽管我做出了100%的努力去争取参加第一次在我家乡举办的比赛，但是，作为一个职业的网球运动员，现在离开赛场对我来说是最正确的决定。

Most people in the tennis world know that my career has been marked by my troubled right knee. The black brace I wear over it when I step on the court has become my tennis birth mark. And while the brace completes my tennis look, the knee problems have at times overtaken my life。

很多朋友知道我右膝的伤病一直“伴随”着我的职业生涯，每当我踏入赛场时，人们都会看到我右膝处的黑色护膝，它就像我胎记一样。尽管我对它已习以为常，但膝盖病发还是会时不时让我疼痛难忍。

After four knee surgeries and hundreds of shots injected into my knee weekly to alleviate swelling and pain, my body is begging me to stop the pounding. My previous three surgeries were on my right knee. My most recent knee surgery took place this July and was on my left knee. After a few weeks of post-surgery recovery, I tried to go through all the necessary steps to get back on the court。

While I’ve come back from surgery in the past, this time it felt different. One of my goals was to recover as fast as I could in order to be ready for the first WTA tournament in my hometown of Wuhan. As hard as I tried to get back to being 100%， my body kept telling me that, at 32, I will not be able to compete at the top level ever again. The sport is just too competitive, too good, to not be 100%。