Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 515 Impeccable Power (3K)

Although the "Chen Fei Duel" could not be staged like this, because Agassi is a native American player, this game will only receive more attention.

Especially the topic is "the showdown between the old and new kings."

All 1 tickets were sold out early, with the lowest ticket prices reaching an astonishing four-digit US dollars.

When Chen Ran arrived at the scene, he immediately felt the warm atmosphere like a roaring mountain and a tsunami.

The more large-scale sports events are like this, the more tricks these Americans can play.

The crowd of hundreds of reporters was densely divided into two rows. When Chen Ran's figure appeared, the group of people immediately swarmed up like a beast encountering its prey, and then frantically pressed the shutter on the camera.

At this moment, the atmosphere of the finals has been exaggerated to the extreme.

Since the timing of the US Open is not as friendly as the Australian Open, the final time is exactly 5 o'clock in the morning in China, which is even worse than the French Open and Wimbledon.

Because the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon are around 9 p.m., the games will end later, often in the middle of the night.

But the time for the US Open finals has to pull you up from your wonderful dreamland.

So, the CCTV host was sleepy and inadvertently yawned.

However, this scene was cut off by a clever netizen.

Soon after, the title "On the eve of the US Open finals, the C5 host yawned" suddenly appeared in a prominent position on major portal websites.

Some netizens took the opportunity to add insult to injury and criticized him one after another.

Some netizens said it was understandable, after all, they were sleepy after getting up so early.

Of course, this was just a small episode in the tense atmosphere on the eve of the final.

Time quickly came to the eve of the finals.

First, Chen Ran quickly walked out of the player tunnel carrying a tennis bag, and the audience burst into warm applause.

After a while, Agassi also walked out carrying a tennis bag, and the audience cheered even more enthusiastically.
In fact, this wave of arrangements made by the US Open Organizing Committee has gone against the rules.

Normally, Chen Ran should be the last one to play. After all, he is the No. 1 seed and deserves to be No. 1 in the world.

But this time, they gave this opportunity to Agassi, a local player.

Although these young generation of tennis geniuses, their rise is already unstoppable.

But the American tennis world still wants to maintain its final pride, so they must enthusiastically support the former tennis king Agassi. They want to use this to tell the world that even if American tennis declines in the future, it will end with dignity.

At the same time, there were also arrogant and beautiful Chinese fans holding banners at the scene: Chen Ran, Agassi is the real king of tennis, you can never surpass him.

Some people shouted loudly to Chen Ran: Even if you win this year's US Open, you can't surpass Andre in my heart.

"These Yankee brains are so fucking interesting!"

Chen Ran was also amused when he saw this scene.

Do I need your approval?

What do you think? Does it matter?
At the same time, he silently complained about Federer: Roger, you broke your promise, are you really not willing to play against me in the Grand Slam final?

In Chen Ran's perception, even if Agassi, a bald man, took drugs, he still couldn't beat Federer under normal circumstances.

In the fifth set of the deciding set, Federer's performance fluctuated at critical moments, and Agassi, who was in superb form, found an opportunity.

At this moment, Chen Ran quietly observed his opponent.

The other person's face turned red, and his excitement was obvious.

Suddenly, his fighting spirit began to burn.

"CCTV, CCTV, viewers in front of the TV, what you are watching is the final highlight of the 2005 US Open, the men's singles final."

"The two warring parties are Chinese player Chen Ran and American player Agassi."

"This is a clash between two generations of tennis kings."

"The game is about to start, and Chen Ran will serve first."

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Eight minutes later...

The score is 40 to 40.

Both sides are still in the first game.

Agassi was extremely excited and tenacious.

His forehand and backhand technical characteristics are known for their simplicity, smoothness, and strong sense of rhythm, and he himself is a rhythm master who can mobilize his opponents, wear down their physical fitness, attack their weaknesses, and force his opponents to make mistakes.

During the brief encounter just now, Agassi indeed felt like he was back to the top of his game.

After the two sides experienced 5 draws five times, Chen Ran was able to maintain his serve.

Extremely difficult!

"Thankfully we have Hawkeye now!"

One of Chen Ran's winning points was on the bottom line. The referee signaled that it was out of bounds, but he decisively chose the "Eagle Eye Challenge" and succeeded.

After the introduction of the Hawkeye system, the ATP stipulates that players have two opportunities to challenge in each set, and one additional opportunity if it enters a tie-break.

If the challenge is successful, the number of challenges will be retained; if the challenge fails, one number of challenges will be deducted.

Agassi was playing at home, and now it was at a crucial historical moment, so the originally 50-50 game would favor the opponent, and Chen Ran was mentally prepared.

But because the speed of tennis is so fast, and sometimes it goes out of bounds, Chen Ran himself is not 100% sure, so he must plan reasonably. For example, Agassi just thought that a ball did not go out of bounds, but after a hawk-eye challenge, he found that it did.

When Chen Ran succeeded in the challenge this time, Agassi stood there, touching his bald head, with a look of confusion on his face.

He was just a little bit close to breaking serve!
However, he failed to challenge Hawkeye, but the other party succeeded.

"Hey, although taking drugs can temporarily restore your physical fitness to your peak, it can't restore your eyesight." Chen Ran complained mercilessly.

As age increases, vision loss is an inevitable trend.

However, in Agassi's serve game, the opponent still showed master-level control, his playing style was very sophisticated, and his tactical layout was also very clear.

Even though Chen Ran showed the best receiving ability in the world, Agassi still allowed Agassi to easily hold serve.

The master is worthy of being a master. Even though his serve is far less powerful than Isner, he can still maintain the advantage in the serve game through his own rhythm and line changes.

If Chen Ran's opponent at this moment is the serving machine Isner, with the level of return of serve he just showed, he will break serve in all likelihood.

This is the gap.

"Andre, even taking drugs can at most bring you back to the level you were at when you were 30 years old, but now I won't be afraid of you at 30 years old at all."

In his second serve, he decisively accelerated the rhythm of his hitting, and the number of offensive shots on both sides of the forehand and backhand slowly began to increase.

Chen Ran often changes the hitting route first when Agassi is about to change his offensive route, and uses his excellent placement control ability to gain the initiative.

In the third game, he quickly scored four points and gave the opponent a "love game".

In the fourth game, after the two sides fought to a 40-level tie, Agassi struggled to keep serve.

Half an hour later, the two sides were tied at 2-2, with no one breaking serve.

However, it can be seen with the naked eye that Chen Ran has gained some advantages.

Then, he had another "love game" in his serve game.

Coupled with his first serve, in the blink of an eye, Chen Ran had won 10 points in a row in his serve.

Agassi's expression became serious.

"Andre must understand that your opponent is a stronger opponent than Roger Federer, and you cannot leave the opponent any chance!"

"What's more, when you were playing against Federer, you were tied by your opponent when you were leading 2-0. Now your opponent is Chen Ran. Once you fall behind, you will only be more passive."

The host at the scene also realized that the victory balance on the court was beginning to tilt, and there were sighs.

In the sixth game, the break point came.

I saw Chen Ran's forehand raised high, then gently lowered, and just when he was about to release, he changed the way he held the racket.

small ball!

This is a small shot.

In such an important game, he boldly let in a wonderful ball, but Agassi's attention was completely focused on the baseline confrontation between the two sides, and he seemed to be caught off guard.

Finally, he gave up chasing and watched as the ball quickly completed two jumps.

The break point of the first set came.

At the same time, the huge Flushing Center Stadium fell silent.

Chen Ran clenched his fists excitedly and roared.

As long as you can break serve first, you are sure to win!
As the game progressed, Chen Ran, as expected, maintained all the remaining serving games and won the first set 6-3.

The US Tennis Court is worthy of its name as a vegetable market.

After a brief period of silence, the entire stadium erupted into deafening boos, trying to disturb Chen Ran.

In the first set, Chen Ran's performance was too stable.

Even if Agassi dreamed of returning to his peak, he still couldn't break Chen Ran's serve.

Almost unsolvable offense and defense.

Chen Ran sat on a chair and drank water leisurely.

Facing the overwhelming boos, he could even raise his thumb to the stands, as if to say: Your boos are very nice, can you make it louder?
When the audience in Beautiful Country saw this, they were even more excited when they saw that you dared to provoke them, good boy.

All kinds of boos came.

Chen Ran simply leaned back on the chair, listening to these boos very comfortably, and occasionally picked a banana to replenish energy.

The rest time is extremely comfortable.

After the start of the second set, Agassi took the lead in serving.

In the face of overwhelming boos, Chen Ran even scored 0 points in a row after falling behind 40-5 at the start, completing an incredible break.

"What the hell?"

"I am 40-0 ahead in the service game, how can I be reversed like this?"

Although this situation is not very rare in professional tennis matches, it still shocked many people when it happened in a Grand Slam final.

This is the final, and someone can break serve in the most humiliating way.

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(End of this chapter)