Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 371 Tennis Essay and the Curse of Clay

At this moment, many Chinese sports reporters interviewing the team are in a state of confusion.

Is this what you call breaking news?

They were expecting to get some news about the clay court season from Chen Ran, as well as some inside information about the cooperation between Zhang Depei and Zheng Jie.

Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined this kind of news.

What is "Qidian.com"? Many people have never heard of it!

But in this day and age, when many people think of online novel websites, their first reaction is to think of three-no products like leather bag companies.

Which of the companies you signed with is not a big domestic or international brand? Why would you want to cooperate with this kind of three-no website?

He even serialized the first electronic version of such an important personal "Autobiography" on this website.

What is this picture?

No one knows that Chen Ran was a hard-working writer for this website in his previous life.

It's insignificant and inconspicuous, and I have to wait a long time for a recommended location.

In the past few days, they have been in a state of excitement and difficulty falling asleep.

Not only do you save an advertising fee, but countless media will help you promote it for free.

Facing the doubts of many people, Chen Ran spoke eloquently.

Because of Chen Ran's relationship, the search volume of "Qidian Chinese Network" on Google and Baidu has increased dramatically in the past few days, and the website's traffic and number of registered members have also continued to soar, which made the website's management overjoyed.

What they bring is not only real money, but also huge media exposure.

A month ago, who would have dared to imagine that a small family like them could be associated with a world-class sports superstar like Chen Ran.

"You know, the future is the era of the Internet."

Many companies are also ready to take action, hoping that Chen Ran will invest in them.

However, they also felt that Chen Ran seemed different from other traditional Chinese athletes.

"I'm optimistic about the future of this site."

"Big star, would you also consider us?"

But Chen Ran simply ignored them.

Quite knowledgeable and thoughtful.

You, an athlete under the age of 18, actually know about "angel investors"? He seems to have some culture and knowledge, and is not the kind of athlete who only cares about training.

In particular, Chen Ran personally recommended "Zhu Xian" and "Piaomiao Journey", and these two books instantly became popular all over the Internet.

The huge popularity Chen Ran brought to Qidian Chinese Network also made other Internet companies in the industry jealous.

“The scale and grade of our company are much higher than where we started!”

This overwhelming wealth is falling from the sky, and there is no way to stop it.

"You can think of me as an angel investor."

After all, this is a guy who has publicly announced that he no longer needs a head coach.

This time, Chen Ran landed as the top star, attracting everyone's attention, which can be regarded as fulfilling his dream in his previous life.

He has feelings for Qidian Chinese Network, but not for other companies.

What's more, in Chen Ran's memory, many Internet companies do not have a strong sense of existence.

He is not greedy at all, he invested in Qidian, and will use the agency rights of "Warcraft" to board the giant ship of Xiao Ma.

Regarding the Internet field, Chen Ran will cover it, but he will not go too in-depth. Just stop there.

Of course, not only "Warcraft", the future of "Qidian Chinese Network" also belongs to Tencent. It seems that there will be a lot of involvement between myself and Tencent in the future.

So much the better!

The Executive Deputy Basketball Goat once told him that since he has no ability to resist the other party, joining the other party is the best choice.

By the way, Chen Ran suddenly remembered some past events.

In fact, before Qidian Chinese Network was acquired by Tencent, it was first acquired by Shanda.

The time seems to be just this year, 2004.

But because it was so long ago, Chen Ran could no longer remember how much money Shanda spent on the acquisition.

However, no matter how much money Shanda spent to acquire Qidian, Chen Ran would not sell the shares in his hands.

In the long years to come, he will grow with Qidian.com.

"Tencent's acquisition should have started around 2015. I hope I was still playing basketball at that time!"

Chen Ran roughly browsed the sports section of Qidian and found that football and basketball novels accounted for a lot, while the number of tennis novels was relatively small, which made him a little dissatisfied.

But thinking about it from another perspective, this situation is much better than in the previous life. At the same time, on the Qidian website, tennis novels were almost rare.

In order to promote tennis, Chen Ran and Qidian.com launched the "Tennis Essay Collection", and even the prize money adopted the progressive model of the Grand Slam quarter-finals.

The first place will receive 10 yuan, the second place will receive 6 yuan, the top four will receive 3.6 yuan, and the top eight will receive 8 yuan.

In this day and age, even the essay prizes for the top eight are still very attractive.

I believe that for a long time to come, there will be many more tennis-related novels on the Internet.

However, Chen Ran also set a rule. It must be a realistic tennis novel. "Prince of Tennis" does not count as human beings, and it cannot include any supernatural plots.

As for how exaggerated the content is, for example, breaking Chen Ran's youngest Grand Slam and Masters records, reducing him to a background, even if he achieves the Golden Slam and the Golden Master within a year, it doesn't matter.

Sure enough, since the publication of this call for essays, the number of realistic tennis novels on the Internet has greatly increased.

Even though some authors don't know much about tennis at ordinary times, they have gained some knowledge about tennis for the sake of the attractive bonuses.

……

The Monte Carlo Masters, known as the French Open's benchmark, finally kicked off.

Unlike later generations where participation is no longer compulsory, the Monte Carlo Masters in this era is still full of gold and has many experts.

There is also a superstitious saying in the professional tennis world. If you can achieve good results in Monte Carlo, your results in the French Open will not be bad.

This is Chen Ran’s first time participating in the Monte Carlo Masters.

Last year, Chen Ran missed the Monte Carlo Masters.

Because after he won the "Sunshine Double Crown", he was really tired and needed a good rest.

This season, he travels lightly.

Similarly, this is also the first time that Chinese players have appeared in this event with a long history of more than 100 years.

In addition, Chen Ran also discovered something that surprised him slightly.

The future Big Three appeared in the same competition at the same time for the first time.

Due to the 17-year-old Djokovic's outstanding performance in the challenge, he also received a wild card in the qualifying round.

Then in the two rounds of qualifying, Djokovic won two games in a row and got a wild card in the main draw.

The Big Three are finally on the adult stage.

Chen Ran was in a daze after seeing this scene.

"The first goal is to suppress those players born in the 90s until there is no hope."

"By the way, in the original time and space, until the timeline when I was reborn, players born in the 90s only won two Grand Slams in total."

"Both are US Open champions, Medvedev from Russia and Thiem from Austria!"

"Then this time, I will try my best to prevent players born in the 90s from winning a Grand Slam."

The Big Three plus myself, Murray and Wawrinka, just thinking about it makes me sympathize with those players born in the 90s.

……

In the Monte Carlo Masters, Chen Ran and Federer still sit in the lower half.

Among the high-ranked players, only Agassi and Hewitt were absent.

As for Roddick, who has never been a fan of clay, he still signed up to compete honestly even though he cursed.

As the third seed, he enjoyed a first-round bye.

However, this guy didn't practice much on the clay court at all, and his opponent in the second round happened to be Zeng Shaoxuan from China.

One's morale was high, while the other's was dealing with it half-heartedly. However, a shocking upset happened again.

Roddick, who had no desire to compete, lost two sets in a row, an upset loss to Zeng Shaoxuan, which also allowed the opponent to create the best result in his career so far - the third round of the Super Masters, which was the top 32.

You must know that in the previous life, although the first Masters victory of a Chinese men's tennis player was also created by Zeng Shaoxuan, it occurred at the 2009 Shanghai Masters.

It was only 2004, and Zeng Shaoxuan had already won his third victory in the Masters.

Thanks Roddick!

After Roddick lost, he went directly to his next stop, Madrid.

He didn't seem to take the loss to heart.

However, the American media was obviously not willing to let go of this opportunity to add insult to injury, and sarcastically said: "If you, the first American brother, can't beat China's first brother Chen Ran, forget it. Why can't you even beat China's second brother now?"

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PS: This chapter was written in the Luckin store...

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