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Chapter 420 Familiar Military Orders
This is Chen Ran's first clay court 250 championship. Although it is not worth mentioning in terms of his outstanding glory, a championship is a championship and can make people feel happy physically and mentally, especially at the foot of the beautiful Alps.

As the victim of Swiss superstar Federer, Grand Slam winner Chen Ran has been warmly welcomed by local residents in the beautiful town of Gstaad these days.

"Roger has never come here to compete, but Chen Ran is here."

"I am now a fan of Chen Ran!"

The simple town residents began to change their families and began to support Chen Ran.

In the past few days, Chen Ran had rarely been able to relax physically and mentally and take a vacation to recuperate.

In addition to competitions, he also visited many nearby tourist attractions and took a cable car tour of the beautiful Alps. It can be said that he enjoyed himself very much.

Of course, Chen Ran also always pays attention to domestic developments.

As the Athens Olympics approaches, the atmosphere in the Chinese sports world has become increasingly solemn.

Although leaders in the sports world have said that the Athens Olympics will be a warm-up for the Yanjing Olympics.

But is this really the case?

What's more, for athletes, they all have Olympic gold medals, so there is actually no difference whether they are from Yanjing or Athens.

Zheng Jie? At least for now, she is Haining's loyal maid.

However, in the minds of athletes, this may not be the case.

According to the leaders of the Sports Bureau, tennis is much more competitive than football. Both Chen Ran and Zheng Jie are likely to win the championship.

But this is very common in the Chinese sports world.

But in competitive sports, it’s not as easy as just issuing a military order to be effective.

"In the original time and space, the men's singles champion of the 2004 Athens Olympics was Chilean Masu, and who was the women's singles champion?" Chen Ran recalled carefully.

The Olympic Games is held every four years, which is affordable for leaders, but not for athletes.

Four years is too long, there are too many variables, and they are seizing the day.

According to the gossip obtained by Chen Ran, the leader of the Sports Bureau issued an order to the tennis department to require double championships in men's and women's singles, and even asked Director Sun Jinfang to issue a military order for this purpose.

The Chinese athletes are very enthusiastic and devote themselves wholeheartedly to preparing for the competition for the sake of national honor and personal future.

That's Henin, the only one who can suppress Serena Williams at her peak.

After all, the leaders of the Sports Bureau often ask the leaders of the Football Association to issue military orders. For example, the men's football team must enter the World Cup and Olympic Games.

Who knows where I will be in four years' time.

He was very impressed because the women's singles was not as upset as the men's singles, and the champion was the Belgian tennis queen Henin.

This is a bit...

In particular, this group of leaders heard from some reporter who said that many tennis players in Europe and the United States did not attach much importance to the Olympic Games, which made them feel that the possibility of Chinese tennis winning the championship was greatly increased.

Even the top female tennis star Zheng Jie, who has gone solo, gave up the two WTA1000 events in the North American season to concentrate on preparing for the Athens Olympics. This was also an agreement she reached with the Tennis Sports Management Center before her solo career.

However, in the just-concluded Wimbledon Open, Henin was absent due to injury.

Chen Ran even suspected that Haining deliberately gave up Wimbledon this year in order to prepare for the Athens Olympics.

Therefore, many fans say that tennis players despise the Olympics for major Grand Slam events, which is not true. Perhaps ordinary stars will have reservations when they know that they have little hope of winning an Olympic medal, but for top stars, the gold content of that gold medal is extremely precious.

"Those reporters don't know shit, but they just like to talk nonsense! Those leaders really believe it." Chen Ran cursed silently.

Although Director Sun Jinfang is a nice person, he comforted Chen Ran on the phone and told him not to be stressed because he had issued a military order, and to just relax and compete.

But Chen Ran was still very speechless about this.

Fortunately, I am a player outside the system. Otherwise, it would be a big headache to deal with these old-timers in the officialdom who would issue military orders at every turn.

After Chen Ran left Switzerland, he quietly went to Corsica to stay for a few days. After being in love with Alizee for a while, he went to Canada.

It is difficult to win the championship in two Masters tournaments.

After all, he will have reservations and cannot let his body wear out too much.

The main reason why Chen Ran signed up for these two tournaments, in addition to keeping himself in competitive shape, was mainly to get the year-end bonus for perfect attendance from the stingy ATP.

The premise is that you must maintain full attendance at all 9 Masters events.

However, starting from next year, as long as you participate in 8 Masters tournaments, you will be considered as full attendance, which can be regarded as a compromise made by the ATP to the players union.

In the view of some narcissistic ATP, they put Masters champions and Olympic champions on the same level, with less importance than year-end and Grand Slams. However, tennis players, especially top players like Chen Ran and Federer, may not necessarily Will agree.

At least in Chen Ran's mind, the Olympics and the Grand Slams are equivalent and far more important than the year-end and Masters.

Therefore, Chen Ran, who was traveling lightly and without any pressure, played very casually during the North American season and played with a training mentality.

In the end, Chen Ran stopped in the third round of the Rogers Cup in Toronto, and in the following Cincinnati game, Chen Ran stopped in the second round.

mission completed!

As long as Chen Ran participates in the Paris Masters again at the end of the year, he will get the ATP year-end attendance bonus.

This made ATP grit his teeth in anger, but there was nothing he could do.

After all, he didn't miss work, so you have no reason to deduct Chen Ran's bonus.

However, many Chen Ran fans are disapproving of his poor performance in the North American season.

They all know that Chen Ran's top priority now is to strive for the glory of the "Golden Slam", and other competitions can be put aside.

Although the US Open matches are almost seamlessly linked to the Athens Olympics, the time interval is very tight, which will make many tennis players have strange thoughts.

But Chen Ran has already won the US Open, so even if he misses this year's US Open, it won't be a big deal.

The first half of the North American season ended like this. Chen Ran did not go back to his country to adjust, but took a plane directly to Europe.

At the same time, the Chinese army also began to march toward Athens, Greece.

However, judging from the internal information obtained by Chen Ran, almost every department has issued a military order. As for the basketball department, the top eight men's basketball team and the top four women's basketball team.

And table tennis, be sure to win four gold medals.

"But I remember that the men's singles lost the gold medal, right?"

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(End of this chapter)