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Chapter 489: The Footballing of French Tennis

Compared with Federer, who has always been humble and elegant, don't expect anything earth-shattering to come out of his mouth.

But Chen Ran is different. He likes to quarrel with reporters from various foreign media.

Of course, he will eventually defeat the opponent with championships one after another to prove that he has the capital.

This time, Chen Ran once again faced tit-for-tat with the Spanish media.

From the American media before, the British media, and now the Spanish media.

As the number one player in the world, he seems to enjoy this "global away" treatment.

Anyway, he is now a phenomenal signature player in men's professional tennis.

Whether it is the organizing committee of the US Open or the organizing committee of Wimbledon, although they hate it in their hearts, they still hope that Chen Ran can appear on the final stage.

At this press conference, Chen Ran's declaration also caused various media outlets to climax.

His words obviously had two meanings.

The first meaning is, you can't beat me at home in Spain, but you still want to beat me in Paris, France?
The second meaning is that you guys like to hype who is the new "King of Clay" so much. Then I will stop pretending and show my cards, I will be the new king of clay.

After all, Chen Ran’s current clay court performance is very impressive.

Winner of the French Open and all Clay Court Masters tournaments.

In addition, there is a 500 race and a 250 race championship.

Chen Ran’s clay court championship has covered all levels of competition.

In particular, he has only participated in a clay court 500 event and a clay court 250 event once respectively so far, and both ended up winning the championship. This winning rate is %.

Although Nadal is still a little shy today, there is a tennis coach named Toni Nadal in his team, who is also Nadal's uncle. He couldn't sit still and jumped out directly to start a confrontation with Chen Ran.

"Why are you all focused on clay courts?"

"I'm telling you, my nephew is an all-rounder!"

"Not only can he defeat Chen Ran and become the new king of clay, but he will also unseat this Chinese boy on grass and hard courts in the future!"

"Also, can I tell you what I'm most looking forward to?"

"hey-hey……"

"Chen Ran is very arrogant. He said he defeated my nephew in Madrid and Barcelona."

"I can say today that my nephew will also defeat Chen Ran and win the championship in Yanjing."

"Yes, it will be the finals of the Yanjing Olympics three years later!"

"My nephew will definitely defeat Chen Ran and win the gold medal!"

Who wouldn't steal a home?
Don't think that you are the only one who can steal a house!
My nephew can also steal the house, and it is the more important Olympic final.

This time, Nadal's uncle was firing on all cylinders.

He had unlimited confidence in his nephew.

Therefore, fueled by these off-court wars of words, the popularity of this French Open has reached the highest level in history.

Of course, the pressure on Chen Ran and Nadal is also unprecedented.

At this point, if any of them misses the French Open final, they will become the laughing stock of the world.

I boasted loudly, but the results did not come true, which makes me feel embarrassed just thinking about it.

Although Nadal has been very quiet and said nothing, everyone will also assume that his uncle is Nadal's mouthpiece.

No matter what this guy says, it represents Nadal's true inner thoughts.

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"I enjoy competing under extreme pressure!"

"Enjoying the boos from the French fans too."

Chen Ran has long been used to this. But it seems that the boos given to him by the French fans are not as good as the cheers.

His opponent in the second round was a French native Tsonga who was one year older than him.

It turns out to be this person!
More and more players born after 85 are beginning to emerge.

This guy is a black man, and he will be the No. 1 player in French men's tennis for a long time to come.

Tsonga is also considered the most promising French tennis player to win a Grand Slam championship in the past ten years.

"France, France!"

Chen Ran looked at the tall black player in front of him and muttered in Chinese: "You France even have to rely on black uncles for tennis!"

Therefore, during the match against Chen Ran, Tsonga's relatives and friends outside the stadium kept shouting and yelling, obviously trying to disturb Chen Ran in this way.

These guys have the same skin color as Tsonga.

So, this is not surprising at all.

Today, Chen Ran is aiming to become the new "King of Clay".

Even though Tsonga's friends and relatives have been causing trouble, it has not affected Chen Ran's competitive state at all. He has always firmly controlled the rhythm of the game.

Tsonga was indeed very powerful at his peak, having defeated the Big Three several times in Grand Slam matches.

But Tsonga, who is only 20 years old, is still a little immature.

Therefore, he fought very hard and was firmly suppressed by Chen Ran.

However, Chen Ran is also quietly observing Tsonga's technical characteristics.

He knows that in the entire men's professional tennis world, Tsonga is the best player in mixing one-handed backhand and two-handed backhand.

It is difficult for ordinary players to be proficient in both, and Chen Ran only occasionally uses one-handed backhand for sneak attacks.

However, with Tsonga, one-handed backhand and two-handed backhand have become his regular weapons, often catching his opponents off guard.

"I don't know if I can learn from it." Chen Ran had this plan.

So in this game, he was quietly controlling the game.

Of course, this is also due to Chen Ran's absolute confidence in his own strength.

6比4，6比4，7比5！

After three sets, Chen Ran didn't seem to win easily.

But if you observe carefully, Chen Ran has a huge advantage in his serve game, and there is not even a break point.

But Tsonga’s dark-skinned family and friends obviously couldn’t see the reason behind it.

Seeing that the score was close, they kept making noises and screaming throughout the game. In the end, they found that it was to no avail and they screamed in vain for more than two hours.

Two days later, the third round of the French Open began.

Somewhat surprisingly, Chen Ran's opponent turned out to be another French player, and he was still a black uncle - Monfils, and he was even a lot darker than Tsonga.

Monfils and Chen Ran are of the same age and will participate in the French Open for the first time this year.

Since we are the host country, our fortunes in the first few rounds were very good. We passed all the rounds and made it into the third round somewhat unexpectedly.

In the golden generation of French tennis, Tsonga is the first brother, and Monfils is the second brother.

Their highest world rankings are one is fifth and the other is sixth, the difference is very small.

Just like the last round, the entire French audience was cheering for Monfils, and his group of relatives and friends, just like Tsonga's, kept disturbing Chen Ran, showing no etiquette.

陈然也不客气，直接以2个6比1，一个6比3带走了胜利。

But after the game, he couldn't help but sigh: As expected of France, your men's tennis is turned into football!

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(End of this chapter)