Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 50 The Collapse of Chinese Tennis

As a second-generation rich man, Sun Kai wants to show off all the time, but he has no choice but to find that Chen Ran is even better at showing off than he is.

The coolness he pretended to be was all on the surface, but the coolness others pretended to be was unintentional. It was several levels behind. Sun Kai felt extremely depressed.

Beside the corridor in the distance, the head teacher Xu Jingxu looked at the students of Class [-] with her arms crossed.

Not to mention that she had never seen students like Chen Ran in her several years of teaching career, she had never encountered such classmates even when she was studying.

Teacher Xu had a vague feeling that Chen Ran would bring many wonderful things to his high school life in the next three years.

The week of military training passed by in a flash. When Chen Ran looked in the mirror, he realized that he was really a bit darker.

At this time, he had only been in school for a week, and he was already a famous figure in the entire Dongzhou Middle School.

After all, the news that the famous Nike company came directly to Chen Ran to invest in him, but was rejected by Chen Ran, had already spread like a gust of wind throughout the first to third years of high school.

Whenever Chen Ran walks along the school's green paths or goes up and down the stairs, he always feels like someone is staring at him not far away.

Is this an early taste of celebrity life?
When the class teacher arranged the seats, boys sat with boys and girls sat with girls, which was consistent with the ordinary high school in his previous life.

That guy Sun Kai volunteered to sit with Chen Ran, but he played into the hands of the head teacher.

It would be best for you two "delayed" guys to sit together so as not to affect the study of his good students.

The head teacher also vaguely reminded them that if they were late for class, they should enter through the back door so as not to disturb the teachers and classmates; of course, if they wanted to leave early and skip class, they should also leave quietly through the back door.

This young teacher is indeed more open-minded, which of course is related to the fact that the overall learning environment in high school is completely different from that in junior high school.

The biggest difference between junior high school and high school is that students have more freedom and teachers have less control.

Even in key high schools, it largely depends on students' self-awareness. Teachers rarely interfere outside the classroom. Unless a student's performance has seriously declined, the teacher may have a private interview with you.

For Chen Ran, he didn't have the extra energy or mood to study high school courses again.

As a special being, he sits in the last row of the classroom and can devote himself wholeheartedly to practicing in the "simulation training ground" without having to worry about being called by the teacher's name midway.

For students like him and Sun Kai, as long as it doesn't affect other people's studies and the teacher's lectures, no one will care about you.

This situation is obviously much better than in junior high school.

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Chen Ran knew that he had to hurry up and study English, because to be a tennis player flying around the world, he must be proficient in English.

Those Chinese tennis players in previous lives, both male and female, were all very fluent in English.

Fortunately, he has a ready-made English teacher, his own coach "Zhang Depei", who can speak both English and fluent Chinese.

During these days, Chen Ran was learning English and training at the same time, and his life was passing quickly.

When going to school, Chen Ran would usually come for a walk in the morning and disappear in the afternoon.

Not only Chen Ran, but also Sun Kai, seeing that he missed a lot of classes, also started to learn well.

Otherwise, Sun Kai would always be empty next to him, how uncomfortable it would be.

Teacher Xu, the head teacher, also turned a blind eye to this and was too lazy to worry about it.

The bachelor's degree rate of Dongzhou Middle School is 95%, and the remaining 5% is reserved for these people.

The time soon came to the end of September. Since then, Chen Ran has lost count of how many times he has played against his four "coaches".During this time, he was tortured miserably.

Because players in the real world will always have ups and downs.

But the four coaches in the "simulation training ground" have the same unlimited physical fitness as Chen Ran, so they have always maintained their condition at a high level.

This also has an advantage. Once you get used to playing with such top players, it will be much easier to abuse food in the future.

目前为止，陈然和“张德培”之间最好的战绩是6:7；和“阿尔卡拉斯”之间的最好战绩是4比6；和“纳达尔”之间的最好战绩是4比6；和“费德勒”之间的最好战绩是3比6。

Although the gap between game scores is not big, just a few games, but trying to cross these distances is often like a huge gap, making you feel extremely desperate.

Fortunately, after such arduous battles again and again, Chen Ran's technical attributes finally improved a little with difficulty, reaching 72 points.

"There is still a long way to go before the threshold of 75 points. It is very difficult to improve every point now."

When you reach the tour level, every slight improvement in your skills is a huge leap.

Generally speaking, only players with a stable ranking in the top 150 can participate in the ATP Tour more stably.

Djokovic once said that the gap between the world's No. 1 player and No. [-] player is far smaller than outsiders imagine.

If the top player is in poor form and the top player is in hot form, there is a possibility of an upset.

Chen Ran is already looking forward to the Magic City Challenge next month.

Although the ATP Challenger League is considered a low-level competition, there are often players ranked in the top 200 or even the top 150 who come to score points. After all, the competition in the tour is too cruel.

After losing another tiebreaker with coach "Zhang Depei", the opponent stared at Chen Ran and shook his head.

"You're such a tricky guy."

"Haha, with the strength of the coach, I can't find a way to break serve at the moment, so I can only use this method."

Chen Ran seemed very honest.

"You can't play tie-break just for the sake of tie-break!"

It turned out that Chen Ran couldn't see the dawn of a break in the first few games, so he simply adopted a bad attitude in the opponent's subsequent service games and devoted himself to maintaining his own serve.

Because of this, Chen Ran has fought "Zhang Depei" to the tiebreaker several times.

"With my current strength, it is too difficult to break serve against the world's top players."

In a duel between top players, compared to how easy it is to break serve in women's tennis, Chen Ranke is very aware of how difficult it is to break serve in men's tennis.

Often in your opponent's service game, if you lead 40-0, you are very likely to be reversed by the opponent to maintain serve.

"The ATP Challenger League is different from the previous Hope Tours. They are all professional players with rich experience."

"In the next period of time, you will focus on training your serve-receiving ability."

While Chen Ran was sweating like rain in training, South Korea's Busan Asian Games also came to an end.

Just like the trajectory of the original time and space, the Chinese tennis army was completely wiped out and did not win even a single medal. This is an unprecedented situation, and an earthquake is beginning to brew.

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(End of this chapter)