Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 362 The Rising Superstar of Women’s Tennis

PS: After all, this is a novel centered on tennis, and the content in the entertainment industry is just embellishment. But repeating the game is not interesting. I can only try to write some new tricks during the game, and I have been trying.

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The organizing committee of the Miami Masters obviously understands human nature.

They did not arrange top players such as Safin for Federer in the first round. After all, the latter continued to compete with a protected ranking and could not avoid high-seeded players in the early rounds.

They know that Wawrinka, a Swiss, is enough to cause enough trouble for the Swiss brother Federer.

I don’t know about other sports, but in tennis, civil wars between players from the same country are often the easiest to ignite fighting spirit and the most exciting.

Djokovic, who was at the end of his peak, was defeated by his Serbian third brother Jere who was beaten to death at the US Open in two consecutive sets, forcing him to hide in the toilet to calm down and adjust his condition, and finally performed the "Let the second chase" Three” shocking reversal.

Also, do you think Roddick respects Agassi?

He also gets excited as soon as he hits Agassi.

The reason why Chen Ran was able to achieve the "Sunshine Double" last year, an achievement that is more difficult than winning a Grand Slam, was because Roddick beat Agassi to physical exhaustion in the semifinals, which seriously affected his performance in the final.

So, a group of media got excited.

They will not let go of such a God-given opportunity to "add insult to injury".

"Roger, is this your attitude towards becoming No. 1 in the world?"

"He actually lost to a player who is outside the top 50 in the world!"

"Is it because Wawrinka is your Swiss compatriot that you should be merciful?"

"Okay, Chen Ran has kept his number one spot in the world again!"

Thanks to Swiss brother Wawrinka, as Federer stopped in the second round, Chen Ran once again retained his world No. 1 position in advance.

In the subsequent games, he can play lightly.

You can't say that the Miami organizing committee deliberately made things difficult for Federer.

After all, Wawrinka is not a seeded player and he could face any player in the first round.

The organizing committee did not assign Safin to Federer in the first round, and the opponent had nothing to complain about.

At the same time, Wawrinka, who has completed the "top five" kills in the world, has suddenly become the most watched star.

Born in 85, he was only one year older than Chen Ran and not yet 20 years old.

This Swiss guy is also known as the new generation player most likely to challenge Chen Ran.

At this moment, the 19-year-old Wawrinka has overshadowed the Spanish genius Nadal in the limelight.

Maybe there is God's will in the dark.

Nadal and Wawrinka met in the third round of the Miami Masters.

This is the first time these two players born in 85 have played against each other on the tour stage.

So far, there are currently three players born after 100 who can rank among the top 85 in the ATP rankings, namely Chen Ran, Wawrinka, and Nadal.

Looking at the current situation, it seems that Chen Ran is the one who stands out.

But the wonderful thing about competitive sports is that some players become a blockbuster when they debut; some players are late bloomers and come from behind.

So even though Chen Ran is in the lead now, many people still believe that Wawrinka and Nadal will become his strong rivals in the future.

In the following rounds of competition, Chen Ran seized this rare opportunity to increase points, passed all the way, and entered the finals.

During this period, he also defeated Hewitt, Nalbandian and other players from all walks of life.

本来陈然心心念念希望在4分之1决赛和阿加西再交手一次，让双方的H2H记录变成4比0。

But the cunning Agassi obviously did not give Chen Ran this opportunity. He decisively lost the game and left in the 16th to 8th match, and then appeared at a business event in another city the next day.

"Damn it!"

Chen Ran could only curse secretly. He also hoped to increase the potential of Agassi in his twilight years, but the guy just slipped away.

Chen Ran had no choice but to vent his anger on the next few opponents he fought against.

Both Hewitt and Nalbandian were swept cleanly 2-0 by him.

After going through the ordeal in Indian Wells, Chen Ran found his best form again in Miami.

He played from the first round to the final without losing a set, and proved to the world that he was a well-deserved number one.

Chen Ran's ability to maintain the world's No. 1 ranking is not just due to Wawrinka's assists.

In addition, for the other two high-profile players born in 85, Nadal only won two games and stopped in the top 32; while Wawrinka made it all the way to the quarter-finals, but eventually lost to Safin.

In terms of WTA, Li Na is still the same as in the Indian Wells Masters, stopping in the top 16; but another golden girl Zheng Jie showed excellent competitive form and even reached the semi-finals.

With a petite figure, she brings her agile and light style of play to the extreme in the WTA arena filled with fierce women.

In the 8-to-4 match, Zheng Jie actually eliminated the third-seeded Belgian star Kim Clijsters, which caused a lot of sensation.

This also stole Chen Ran's limelight and made headlines in major sports media in China.

And then the miracles continue to happen…

When people thought Zheng Jie would stop in the semi-finals.

Zheng Jie continued to advance and defeated Serena Williams' sister Venus Williams in the semi-finals.

One is as tall as an ox, and the other is small and exquisite.

But Zheng Jie, with her changeable tactics and dazzling shots, defeated Venus Williams and entered the WTA1000 finals.

If the quarter-finals had caused a slight shock in the WTA, then Zheng Jie's performance in this semi-final shocked the whole world.

However, in the subsequent finals, Zheng Jie failed to continue to create miracles and lost to the flourishing No. 1 seed Haining, also from Belgium.

Chen Ran even joked with Zheng Jie with a smile: "If you can really beat Haining and win the championship, your popularity in China may surpass me..."

But even though Zheng Jie unfortunately missed the championship, she accumulated huge popularity in China through her outstanding performance in the Miami Masters.

This momentum is almost heading towards the status of China's first sister.

Even now, no Chinese female athlete can rival Zheng Jie in terms of popularity.

Because of Chen Ran, tennis has become very popular in China.

But there is an indisputable fact that male tennis players will face competition from other players such as football, basketball, track and field, and even F1 players. However, among women's sports, tennis is the leader with no competitors at all.

It can be seen from the Forbes list of female athletes every year that female tennis players account for more than half, almost seventy-eight out of ten.

This situation lasted until the point when Chen Ran was reborn.

The income list of female athletes has always been monopolized by female tennis players, and they deserve to be the number one women's sport.

The only exception is the flexible nationality. Gu is a Chinese in China and an American in the United States. By leveraging the popularity of the Eastern Olympics in his home country and marketing, he has obtained one endorsement contract after another from the Chinese market and successfully broke into Forbes Women's Athletes. at the top of the list.

This is a special case, no other.

However, in this time and space, there has never been such a cool operation.

Unlike men's tennis, neither women's football nor women's basketball can pose a threat to women's tennis.

Whether in the world or in China.

The runner-up in the Miami Masters this time made Zheng Jie's status as the number one sister of Chinese female athletes even more stable than that of Chen Ran's number one brother.

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PS: In the original timeline, Zheng Jie did achieve results earlier than Li Na.

(End of this chapter)