Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 299 Returning to school, the “dilemma” Nike store

The eighth championship of the year!

2 Grand Slams, 2 Masters, 250 Tour events.

Chen Ran also gave a wonderful and fierce final to the audience on site and in front of the TV.

Although many viewers complained that the world's number one versus the world's number 16 was such an anxious and difficult match, no one would deny that today's final was worth the price of admission.

The three-set battle included a suffocating tie-break and a thrilling offensive and defensive battle.

However, after a brief moment of excitement, Chen Ran quickly regained his composure, and then symbolically raised the championship trophy under the cheers and gazes of the audience.

The first local tournament championship was perhaps the championship that made Chen Ran the most calm.

For the tournament organizing committee in Shanghai, Chen Ran’s victory is obviously the most perfect result, and it can also greatly enhance the reputation of the Heineken Open.

As long as Chen Ran can maintain such a high level of professionalism, it is entirely feasible for his appearance fee to increase next year.

Anyway, for the wealthy Jiushi Group, as long as Chen Ran performs well, it doesn't matter whether he has money or not. It's not his own money anyway.

The post-game interview session is essential.

"Thank you to all the fans who came to cheer me on today!" Chen Ran held up the microphone and waved to the audience, "I hope that every September in the future, I can be in the city of Magic City, and This stadium welcomes everyone!"

This is a promise to a national audience that he will be here every year.

From Chen Ran's perspective, if he can produce good results in the four majors, then the remaining Masters can be played selectively.

From the perspective of income and the popularity of tennis, the benefits of participating in the Chinese season are obviously greater.

Chen Ran also enjoys the feeling of playing in his motherland.

The host at the scene always made insinuations, always trying to hint that Chen Ran should sing a song on the spot.

However, Chen Ran was very alert and cleverly avoided the topic.

I have to say that Chinese hosts can sometimes be very confused.

For example, in the previous life, when the female tennis player Zheng Qinwen won the WTA Zhengzhou 500 championship, the host first asked the Czech player who won the runner-up to learn "I Love Zhengzhou" on the spot, and then asked Zheng Qinwen to sing a song live off guard.

Chen Ran will not spoil you guys.

After a tough three-set battle, please put down this unrealistic idea of ​​letting me sing live again!

So, after trying several times but failing, the host at the scene looked extremely depressed.

As for Chen Ran, after receiving a check for US$6, he took a group photo with several leaders of the event organizing committee with a smile, and then returned to the locker room.

At noon the next day, Chen Ran attended the celebration banquet arranged by the event organizing committee, but he only made an appearance, drank a few sips of tea and left.

Although he came and went in a hurry, no one dared to raise any objections.

……

Now that there is still some time before the Paris Indoor Masters, Chen Ran has a relatively ample time.

He first quietly returned to Dongzhou City and stayed with his family for a while. Then he couldn't bear the warm invitation from the principal of his alma mater and had to go to Dongzhou Middle School again.

Time flies like water, and I am already a sophomore in high school in the blink of an eye.

For Chen Ran, campus life has gradually passed away and become a bit strange, but occasionally there is some nostalgia in his heart.

"You know, the time I miss the most is the days when I was studying in school." When being interviewed by the media in his hometown, Chen Ran decisively paid tribute to the Jack Horse a few years later.

A certain daily newspaper in later generations once said that there are only Jack Horses in the era, and there has never been an era of Jack Horses.

So will one day they also describe themselves this way? You have to be low-key when you should be low-key, and never touch things you shouldn't touch.

Dongzhou Middle School has a brand new tennis court donated by Chen Ran, which also comes with some training equipment.

He can finally train legitimately in his hometown.

So, such an interesting picture appeared.

The sound of Lang Lang reading came from the teaching building, while Chen Ran and several members of his team were sweating profusely on the tennis court.

On the volleyball court not far next door, the high school girls were taking physical education classes, full of youth.

After all, it was a tennis court donated by Chen Ran. When he came to train, the door was closed and a barbed wire fence was designed around it. Those enthusiastic and curious high school students can lie on the wire fence to get a glimpse of the world's number one.

For some unknown reason, when Chen Ran was in the training ground on campus with the blue sky and white clouds above his head, he felt particularly happy and relaxed.

In today's training, Chen Ran worked particularly hard and was in very good competitive shape.

After three hours of training, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his technical attributes had improved a bit, reaching 91 points.

You must know that in the past two months, Chen Ran felt like he was stuck in a bottleneck. No matter whether it was competition, training, or putting himself in the "simulation training ground" due to doubts, he was still unable to realize his potential.

Today, on a whim, Chen Ran changed the training environment and finally made a breakthrough.

Does that mean that after encountering bottlenecks in several attributes in the future, if you go to the school tennis court to train, will there be unexpected results? Especially in an era without smartphones, these high school students would not hold their mobile phones while watching, which made Chen Ran feel very comfortable.

After all, it is a provincial key high school. Although these talented students are curious, they are still very measured and know how to keep their distance.

After finishing the training, Chen Ran looked up at the sky with his hands on his hips, and suddenly a thought flashed through his head.

“Which college should I choose?”

Whether it is Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, or Nanjing University, they all extended an olive branch to Chen Ran, who is now a sophomore in high school.

As long as he nods, these 985 famous schools are up to you to choose.

What a happy worry!

"How about choosing Zhejiang University? It will be closer to home." Chen Ran thought.

Anyway, for him, no matter which 985 college he chooses, it won't make any difference. It's all in name anyway, so he might as well choose one closer to home.

"It's done, it's done!"

Chen Ran waved to the high school classmates who came to watch, hummed a tune and left the training ground. He also met his class teacher on the way.

His nominal head teacher, Teacher Xu, pouted and had a bad temper every time he saw her: "Chen Ran, can't you let my idol win once?"

This English teacher's idol is Agassi, but now Agassi's record against Chen Ran is 3-0, and he is almost being beaten into a manservant.

Looking at the still childish head teacher, Chen Ran always felt that he was older and more mature.

How to answer?

"There is no room for compromise in competitive sports. They are all done with real swords and guns! Andre doesn't want me to give in. He would rather not win such a meaningless victory." Although Chen Ran said this, he felt in his heart That bald man is eager to let himself go.

However, reporters discovered his amazing act today and posted the news on the Internet.

"Take the team members to train on the school tennis court?"

"The training ground was donated by Chen Ran!"

"I can't describe it at the moment, but I have to admit that Chen Ran can always play some new tricks."

"Haha, Chen Ran donated the training ground. He may think that he should train a few more times to repay the money, this stingy guy!"

Some sentimental and thoughtful female fans also left messages: "Chen Ran is different from other Chinese athletes. He did not follow the traditional sports school-provincial team-national team model."

"He went directly from campus to professional tennis."

"So working alone around the world for a long time will make him miss his time in school. Well, that must be the case."

Some netizens retorted: "Lonely? You are overthinking! How can the world's No. 1 be lonely! You didn't see him and Sharapova hugging each other at Wimbledon last time. People's private lives shouldn't be too rich!" "

As a result, netizens with different opinions started arguing again.

"Uh... I'm a fan of Faye Wong. I want to ask... I don't know when the single they collaborate on will be released."

……

In the remaining days, Chen Ran went to the school's tennis court to practice in the morning and did some basic physical training. In the afternoon, he visited and inspected some shops he bought under the leadership of his cousin Zhu Xiaoli.

Some places are deserted now, but will become bustling commercial areas in the future; some places are already very lively now, and will continue to appreciate in value in the future.

In order to avoid others being suspicious, Chen Ran will not always buy shops in areas that are not popular now but will be prosperous in the future.

From Chen Ran's point of view, as long as you are not in a hurry to cash out these shops with money, you will definitely make money without losing money.

Shops are fixed assets that will continue to increase in value over a period of time in the future, while rents are part of the additional net income.

At the turn of the century, China's economy was developing at a rapid pace. You didn't need to calculate how many years of rent it would take to repay the money you paid for the shop. They were your fixed assets and no one could take them away.

"Chen Ran, in the busy pedestrian street over there, can I put the Nike store and the Adidas store side by side?" His cousin Zhu Xiaoli asked with some uncertainty.

"Why not?" Chen Ran raised his eyebrows, "On the left side of the Nike store can be Adidas, and on the right side can be Li Ning, it won't get in the way. And the one opposite Nike can be rented to Anta, Converse, or Reebok! "

"Is this really okay? Are you not a spokesperson for Nike?" Zhu Xiaoli opened her eyes wide and looked in disbelief.

"What does it matter? Just rent it out like this and the rent will be high!" Chen Ran said nonchalantly.

He is a Nike spokesperson and not the CEO of Nike. Why should he care about such things?

Besides, whether these shops are rented or not will not affect the war situation between these companies at all.

Why do I care so much?

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(End of this chapter)