Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 401 Wimbledon will once again stage a war between China and the United States

After once again reaching the semi-finals of a Grand Slam event, Chen Ran once again became the focus of the entire country.

Both the national official media and major portal websites have given key reports, and CCTV News has also specially provided a live broadcast link.

Nowadays, the sports atmosphere in China is very strong.

This is related to Yanjing's successful bid for the Olympics, and the reason why the Athens Olympics is getting closer. It is also because today's Chinese sports are at their most prosperous period in history.

From Chen Ran to Yao Ming, then to Liu Xiang, and now Zheng Jie, the emergence of sports superstars one after another has also greatly stimulated the Chinese audience's enthusiasm for sports events.

Of course, the athlete who played the biggest role in this is undoubtedly Chen Ran.

Three Grand Slam championships and being ranked number one in the world for a long time have greatly stimulated the domestic sports craze in China.

A championship is always the best catalyst. Just like Liu Xiang's previous World Championship win, it also made the domestic 110-meter hurdles popular.

"A perfect victory, Chen Ran successfully overcame the curse of Court No. 2."

In the first three tournaments of this year's four Grand Slams, a Chinese player broke into the semi-finals at each stop.

Many Chinese people realized this belatedly.

The much weaker Chinese Men's Tennis Network has risen at the speed of light, and in just two years, someone has been able to challenge for the glory of the Grand Slam.

The winner between them will be Chen Ran's opponent in the semi-finals.

Since Chen Ran reached the semi-finals, the attention of the other quarter-finals has also increased.

"In the upcoming semi-finals, Chen Ran can definitely compete at his best. The finals can be expected!"

Sports fans were surprised to discover a pattern.

After that, Zheng Jie, Li Na and others continued to emerge in women's tennis.

C5 Sports commented on this game so excitedly.

It turns out that we can really achieve good results in tennis, which is dominated by Europeans and Americans.

Obviously this Chinese fan has brought his love for Argentine football to tennis.

Roddick VS Nalbandian.

"Support Nalbandian, I am an Argentine football fan!"

This also made CCTV smile.

Ever since Chen Ran was born, there has been an unreal feeling throughout China.

If both men and women blossom, the advertising revenue will be even more substantial.

"What's more important is that Chen Ran has not played a full five sets in a game along the way, which has greatly reduced his physical consumption."

It was Chen Ran at the Australian Open, and although Chen Ran retired from the French Open due to injury, Zheng Jie also persisted to reach the semi-finals. At Wimbledon, Chen Ran successfully broke into the semi-finals and created her best result at Wimbledon.

"Wimbledon, which has the longest history and greatest influence among the four Grand Slams, will be the last fortress that Chen Ran needs to conquer."

"Roddick is obviously tougher than Nalbandian, so I hope Nalbandian wins."

Since tennis is the sport with the smallest gap between men and women, whether Chen Ran or Zheng Jie can reach a deeper level in Grand Slam events, it is very considerable advertising revenue for them.

This person is thinking about the problem from Chen Ran's perspective.

Of course, many people hope that Roddick will advance.

Not only for the anticipated "China-US war", some people also said in a tone of "knowing the emperor of football" that only by passing Roddick can Chen Ran increase his chances of winning the championship.

What's more, in last year's Wimbledon quarter-finals, Chen Ran lost to Roddick after five sets.

He should get his revenge by defeating the defending champion at Wimbledon this year.

The analysis by "knowing football emperors" can be described as reasonable and well-founded.

What did Chen Ran think? His mood was a little complicated.

Roddick is indeed very strong on the grass court, but there is no such figure in the "simulated training ground".

Regardless of Roddick's previous life, he has always been firmly suppressed by Federer whether on hard courts or grass, but when he faced another giant player Djokovic, his record was superior.

Competitive sports are sometimes so wonderful. A can beat B, B can beat C, and C can beat A.

Chen Ran was also present in person for this game.

Wearing a baseball cap, he sat very low-key in a box in the corner of the stadium.

After all, he is now a life member of Wimbledon.

In a place where votes are hard to come by, this benefit must be taken advantage of.

In the previous rounds, Roddick still continued his good competitive form, sweeping the opponent 3-0 in all games, showing his strength on the grass court.

“This guy is so strong on grass, but he’s such a noob on clay!”

Chen Ran complained silently.

On the clay court, Roddick even lost to the Chinese second brother Zeng Shaoduan in the Masters.

When apps like Douyin and Kuaishou become available in the future, Zeng Shaoxuan will be able to certify himself as a "famous Chinese tennis player" and note that he once defeated Roddick in the Masters.

After all, he did beat Roddick, and of course there was no need to specifically indicate that it was a clay court.

Then after a little marketing, it will naturally become an Internet celebrity, and then attract a group of netizens who don’t know the details.

While Chen Ran was imagining the scene a few years later, Roddick had already won the first set very efficiently.

6 is better than 2!

With a huge disparity in the score, he took away the game without any delay.

With his sharp serve, crisp forehand, cool backhand and flexible net, this guy can really bring out his characteristics perfectly on the grass.

The biggest difference between grass courts and other types of courts is that in the latter, chipping is a passive defensive hitting option, while on grass, due to the low bounce, chipping can also become a sharp offensive weapon.

Both Roddick and Federer are very good at this.

How to use cutting skillfully, as well as make full use of low bounce, is the secret of grass masters.

Chen Ran even felt that Roddick's cutting ability had improved compared to last year.

Of course, his own understanding of cutting has become deeper and deeper.

Argentinian Nalbandian's ability to reach the quarter-finals is enough to prove his competitiveness on grass courts.

But in this game, he was still completely suppressed by the stronger Roddick.

From the first set, there was no chance.

The score in the second set was 6-1, and Roddick once again completed two strong breaks.

After the second set, Chen Ran left the court directly.

There is no point in continuing to observe, and there is no suspense in this game. His opponent in the semi-finals is already a certainty.

By the time Chen Ran returned to his hotel, the third set was over at the same time.

Roddick eventually took the game away easily 6-2.

The total number of games won by the opponent in the three games was just 6 games.

The war between China and the United States will once again take place as scheduled.

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(End of this chapter)