本报讯（海河传媒中心记者张璐璐）本赛季表现出色的张帅昨天突然宣布，由于身体疲劳等原因，她将退出WTA汉堡公开赛和WTA华沙公开赛女单争夺。她将在充分休息后攒足体能，在北美硬地赛季再当“劳模”。
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A group photo from the 1999 donation ceremony, where Ronald Sakolsky presents $5,000 for afforestation efforts. Photo: Courtesy of Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School
At 2:48 am on early Sunday morning, after a flight of more than 10 hours, Ronald Sakolsky arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport. As he stepped into the arrivals hall, he greeted the waiting reporters with earnest Putonghua "Wo hui lai le," meaning "I'm back."
The thrill of his homecoming had washed over him most vividly during the final moments of his flight. "When I saw the lights in Beijing as we were landing is when I realized that I am back in my second home."
Sakolsky, an American retired teacher from Pennsylvania, is visiting China from Sunday to September 1 for a journey that will take him to Beijing, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Central China's Henan Province. It is a reunion nearly three decades in the making.
That reunion began with a single act of generosity. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by Yin Yuzhen and her husband's tireless efforts to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. He raised $5,000 to fund their local tree-planting initiative. The young saplings bought with the donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
After decades of lost contact, Yin, a national model worker renowned for her desert restoration achievements, launched an online search for her American benefactor in May, hoping to reconnect with the man who helped launch her lifelong desert reclamation mission.
What followed was a remarkable wave of online support: within less than 48 hours, a nationwide search had tracked Sakolsky down. That swift effort led to their long-awaited virtual reunion, a video call that brought them face to face for the first time in 27 years.
Asked what he is most looking forward to about this journey, Sakolsky told the Global Times that "I want to see Ms Yin, see the forests, see the students I have not seen for almost 30 years, my colleagues. I want to see the Chinese people."
The trip itself felt like a dream he never thought would come true, he added.
Now, the dream is about to come true. Later on Sunday, Sakolsky will fly to Ordos, Inner Mongolia, the site of the transformative environmental project that bound his fate with Yin's all those years ago.
During his China visit, Sakolsky will join Yin in a new tree-planting activity. He will also hold exchanges and discussions with teachers and students from the Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School where he once taught, and participate in official China-US teacher exchange events, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
As he prepares to see the transformed landscape with his own eyes, Sakolsky shared with the Global Times about how much China itself has changed over the past two decades. From photographs, he said, he had already seen the barren desert he remembered turn into lush green forests; he had also heard that Luoyang has become far more vibrant and beautiful.
"Hopefully the message gets out to the world that Chinese and Americans can work together and make a peaceful world," he said.
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三 | 张帅今年频频参赛，在草地赛季WTA伯明翰公开赛还上演了一天内连续参加女双和女单决赛的壮举。温网获得女双亚军后，张帅又马不停蹄地出战了WTA帕勒莫公开赛，在女单首轮争夺中击败资格赛选手后顺利闯入次轮。但在女单第二轮对阵意大利球员保利尼前，张帅宣布因身体太过疲劳而退赛。随着身体亮起黄灯，张帅也在调整自己的参赛计划，决定退出接下来的WTA汉堡公开赛和WTA华沙公开赛的女单比赛。不过，目前的WTA华沙公开赛女双签表中，张帅/西格蒙德作为头号种子仍是“出战”状态。接下来，张帅会在充分休息后全力冲击北美硬地赛季，她已经报名四站北美系列硬地赛。根据世界排名，张帅、郑钦文、王欣瑜和王曦雨四人都直接入围了今年的美网女单正赛。
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