Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 111 The moment of imagination at the Australian Open (there will be another update later)
Chen Ran is not yet 17 years old, and is even half a year away from turning seventeen.

It may be difficult for him to break Zhang Depei's record and become the youngest Grand Slam champion, but Chen Ran also has an exclusive record of his own - the youngest tour champion.

Wherever he could see, the Chinese spectators were waving five-star red flags and jumping up and down excitedly.

Chen Ran's physical fitness coach Sergey also came down from the stands and shouted excitedly: "Chen, no matter what your results are in the Grand Slam, this Oceania season will undoubtedly be a success."

"No, you are wrong..." Chen Ran clapped his hands with him, "If the tour champion cannot even enter the main draw of a Grand Slam, I will definitely be laughed at by the crowd."

Because the editors of Sina and other portal websites often choose some very exaggerated titles in order to gain attention and traffic.

In their writing, Chen Ran was just a rising star in the tennis world but was touted as if he had been a tennis king who had been famous for many years.

As a result, Chen Hei on the Internet came into being.

Of course, from another perspective, it means that you are popular and out of the circle.

For example, on the Internet today, whenever there is news about Yao Ming, there must be a group of Yao Hei making trouble.

The NBA season is very long. If Yao Ming's performance is slightly poor, the group of Yao Hei will take action.

Fortunately, Chen Ran has remained undefeated since participating in professional competitions.

Even on the brutally competitive ATP Tour, Chen Ran made it all the way and finally won the championship.

Those Chen Hei lurking on the Internet have never been able to find a chance. If Chen Ran really didn't enter the Australian Open main draw because of his carelessness, wouldn't those black people celebrate the New Year happily?
"Yes, the main match is a must!" Zhou Yuan heard this and agreed, "If Chen Ran does not enter the main match, whether it is CCTV or our "Sports Weekly", it would be a bit overwhelming to put up such a big battle."

To be honest, everyone has even prepared the manuscript.

As soon as Chen Ran enters the main competition, he will publish the article immediately.

"Grand Slam main draw, new history!"

Chen Ran sighed, even though he had just won his first tour title, the pressure was still with him.

After completing the CCTV interview, he accepted an interview with Sports Weekly.

The content is similar, such as mood, feelings, and vision for the future.

Finally, Chen Ran and the reporter from Sports Weekly looked at each other meaningfully.

Chen Ran smiled slightly and joked: "Reporter Zhou, please give a message to the editor-in-chief of your "Sports Weekly". We need to create more pages for our tennis."

The other party also understood it and said with a smile: "You said so, I will definitely take the message."

At the turn of the century, all major sports were competing for the Chinese market, especially those young students.

If you don’t occupy this huge market, others will.

There must be a sense of crisis.

After accepting an interview with a Chinese reporter, Chen Ran was preparing to walk back to the locker room.

Some foreign reporters also wanted to conduct an exclusive interview with Chen Ran, shouting loudly.

"Chen, please accept the interview!"

"Chen, walk slowly!"

Chen Ran smiled very amiably, waved to them friendly and raised his thumb, but he had no intention of accepting an exclusive interview.

"My body is very tired, I'm so sorry!"

"There will be many opportunities in the future..."

I really don’t want to waste time with you people by talking nonsense and answering some useless questions.

Facing the cheers and applause of the audience on both sides of the aisle, Chen Ran walked into the aisle without looking back.

He was in a hurry to go back to the locker room to take a shower. He was covered in sweat and felt really uncomfortable.

Later, the organizing committee held an official celebration banquet. This is a social occasion that ATP requires participation in. Fortunately, eating is voluntary, and there is no need to toast.

Chen Ran only needs to wear a dress, hold the trophy, put on a smile, and let reporters take some photos.

In theory, both the champion and the runner-up had to attend, but Sri Chapan was obviously in a bad mood and simply skipped the banquet.

As a result, ATP officials will fine Sri Chapan, ranging from 1000 to 2000 US dollars.

Sri Chapan is not short of money anyway, and would rather be fined than suffer this anger.

Late at night, when Chen Ran returned to the hotel where he was staying, it was almost twelve o'clock.

Tennis is an individual sport, and Chen Ran can push for irrelevant social events. Anyway, there will be no association leaders coming to tell himself sincerely: You can't refuse this, you can't refuse that.

At this moment, Chen Ran was still not sleepy, so he turned on the computer, logged into his QQ, and prepared to surf the Internet for a while.

He mainly wanted to see some news about himself.

The news that he won the championship this time not only made the headlines of the sports section, but also made it to the homepage of the portal website.

Obviously, this championship caused quite a stir in the country.

This is the turn of the century. As long as an athlete achieves a breakthrough in a sport that is not a strong one for Chinese people, it will easily arouse heated discussions among the media and netizens.

In particular, tennis has huge influence and attention in the world.

As one netizen said, I am tired of watching China win table tennis and badminton championships every day, and finally a new project is here.

"Chen Ran is awesome, win a Grand Slam next time!"

"Editor, although your flattery is very disgusting, but this time Chen Ran won the championship, I won't scold you." "This is tennis! Although the leaders say every day that they want to 'revitalize the three major sports,' but if you want me to say , Football can’t compare, it’s hard to say about basketball, but the influence of tennis is definitely greater than that of volleyball!”

"A historic championship!"

Chen Ran vaguely discovered that this champion could not be said to have completely broken the circle, but there were indeed some signs of breaking the circle.

If the time is delayed another ten years, I will win my first tour championship in the era of mobile Internet.

There may be many people discussing it, but the popularity is definitely not as high as it is now.

Maybe the netizens did it unintentionally, but the editors of those portal websites definitely did it intentionally.

These guys deliberately led Chen Ran and Yao Ming to compare, which also caused fans from both sides to criticize each other on the Internet, which was very lively.

Tennis and basketball are both highly professional sports with huge commercial value, which allows editors to find topics that can be hyped and continue to fan the flames...

At this time, Chen Ran discovered that QQ in the lower right corner of the computer had been flashing for a while. He only noticed it because he was too focused on surfing.

The person who sent him the message turned out to be a girl's avatar.

So far, the only person who has added QQ friends of the opposite sex to Chen Ran is Zhou Jing.

His heart moved slightly and he clicked on the chat box.

"Hehe, I don't know if you can see this message, but I still want to congratulate you on winning the championship."

"I don't have a mobile phone, and I don't dare to go to an Internet cafe. I sent you a message in the school's computer class."

It's really her!
Chen Ran is not sure whether this junior high school classmate is his Bai Yueguang, but she is indeed the girl who left the deepest memory in his previous life as a student.

There were beautiful women in high school and college, but I didn't have much contact with them, so naturally I didn't have any impression of them.

The time difference between New Zealand and China is five hours.

At this moment, the time in New Zealand is around 12 o'clock in the morning, so it should be around [-] o'clock in China.

She should probably still study at night.

Chen Ran first typed a line of text, "Your blessing is very special to me." Then he felt something was inappropriate and deleted it.

"Come on, I believe you will be admitted to a key university in the future."

In any case, the other party is just a young girl in the first year of high school, and my mental age is much more mature than that of the other party.

Even if Chen Ran has some feelings for this junior high school classmate in his heart, he can control it relatively freely.

But that may not be the case for the other party. Maybe if there is a slight disturbance, he will worry about gains and losses, thus affecting his studies.

They had no intersection after graduating from junior high school in their previous life, but the intersection between them continued in this life.

You can't let the other person's high school studies get worse because of you.

Forget it, go to bed first!

Women will only affect the speed of my serve, and... my physical fitness!
……

When the sun slowly rose on the Chinese continent the next day, and the golden sunlight fell down and covered the earth, everything began to recover.

"Win! Champion!"

"I'm glad everyone is enjoying tennis!"

These two short sentences made the front page of Sports Weekly, the highest-selling sports newspaper in China.

Not only that, a huge photo of Chen Ran was also published on the cover of the newspaper.

Chen Ran was draped in the national flag, holding the trophy high and smiling brightly.

People can even clearly see the sweat on the cheeks and neck, the muscle lines under the wet jersey, the youthful face, and the youthful vigor and vitality all over his body.

The image of an almost perfect athlete just jumped out on the page, as if he was about to break free and rush out in the next second.

This is a layout designed by tennis reporter Zhou Yuan after painstaking research.

He knows that in order to attract the attention of young people, first of all, the image of the representative figure of this sport is very important.

Sunny, handsome and full of vitality.

I have to say that Chen Ran's image is so good, and it perfectly matches the sport of tennis.

In addition, the height of tennis players is closer to that of ordinary people, which is completely different from tall basketball players, and they must be more approachable.

In order to increase the topic, Zhou Yuan also specially wrote a line of text at the bottom of the front page of the newspaper.

"From now on, we can imagine Chen Ran's Australian Open record. Is it the main draw, the top 64, the top 32, the top [-], or even beyond?"

At present, the best record of Asian players is in the top [-]. Both Sri Chapan and Lee Hyung Taek have always stopped in this round.

The results of the Grand Slam quarterfinals are like a huge gap, close at hand, but insurmountable.

"Sports Weekly" took the lead in launching speculation about Chen Ran's participation in the Australian Open, which immediately triggered a nationwide discussion.

C5 Sports and various portals have followed suit.

Netizens also participated enthusiastically.

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　Thanks to Maxim Xiaomianqiu and Yi Jianruhong for the reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)