Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 527 An unexpected scandal detonates the world (4K)

This year's Shenzhen Masters is the first time that the championship prize has exceeded the US$60 mark.

This is of course a good thing, and other Masters tournaments in the coming year will surely follow suit.

At the beginning, the ATP was worried that after the Masters final was adjusted from best-of-five sets to best-of-three sets, tournament prize money would decrease.
Facts have proved that the ATP's worries were unnecessary, and the Masters prize money actually increased instead of falling.

The Shenzhen Masters is a high-standard Super Masters tournament with a total of 96 draws and 32 seeded players.

Among them, 32 seeded players enjoy first-round byes. If unseeded players want to win, they need to win seven rounds, which is the same as the rounds required to win a Grand Slam tournament.

The Super Masters is also a stage where top players must compete.

About a week before the start of the competition, more than 130 players from major players around the world began to arrive.

Players ranked outside the top 100 in the world who want to enter the main draw of the Shenzhen Masters must go through two rounds of qualifying to determine the 12 places. The competition is fierce.

There are 8 wild cards in the main game, 4 of which are given to Chinese players.

Nadal smiled and remembered some interesting things, "I have been living in Madrid, but is the Madrid in the magazine really the Madrid I remember?"

Except for a few international students, most people will not criticize the beautiful world outlined by "Yilin" magazine.

The young Spanish boy is very sure that no city in Spain is as modern as Shenzhen.

This is so good that many French people have begun to read Yilin magazine seriously.

As a result, "Yilin" magazines in various Western languages ​​were immediately launched in major European countries.

How they describe it is how everyone imagines it.

At that time, Chen Ran smiled and said to the French reporter: "The authors of our country's Yilin magazine know more about publishing than you French people."

Immediately afterwards, European countries were also shocked.

After becoming famous, Roddick never wanted to take the New York subway again.

This was nearly 20 years earlier than the spread of Douyin in later generations.

“The air in Paris is fresh and sweet.”

Then, "Yilin" magazine sold well from Europe to the United States.

China is still Chen Ran's home field. He has taken advantage of the right time, place, and people, and he has become a foil.

"It seems that this magazine also has a Spanish version."

You must know that this is not the Magic City or Yanjing.

He made up his mind never to do this kind of thing of giving away favors for nothing again.

There are also international students from China who are not too worried about watching the excitement and are the first to play the role of translators.

Roddick, who comes from a beautiful country, curled his lips in disgust, "Compared with the Shenzhen subway, the New York subway looks like something from the last century, and it's full of garbage, feces and urine, and it simply stinks!"

After that, he raised the English version of "Yilin" in his hand and shouted: "Really, I really want to get to know the author of this book. Which parallel world does the New York subway this guy writes about come from? ?”

In 2005, Shenzhen was already a very developed big city.

Madrid is the city that never sleeps.

The European media, represented by the BBC, were talking nonsense before.

The first Shenzhen Masters can be described as a star-studded event.

What makes Chen Ran dissatisfied is that I have helped you promote it like this, why doesn't "Yilin" magazine give you some introduction fees?

You can’t truly visit Madrid without experiencing its nightlife.

“The Champs Elysées in Paris is spotlessly clean.”

"New York?"

In fact, from a Swiss perspective, he really doesn't want to come to China to compete.

Spaniards are among the most noisy people in Europe, they are crazy, especially at night, they become even crazier.

In addition, it is also the first time for super star Nadal to compete in China, and he is full of curiosity about his surroundings.

After all, in competitions all over the world, he was suppressed by Chen Ran and couldn't hold his head up.

Before he became famous, he often took the New York subway to attend youth competitions with a tennis bag on his back. The memory was simply too painful to look back on.

However, except for Chen Ran and Zeng Shaoxuan, the current Chinese men's players have no experience in the Masters, and they can basically be guaranteed to be in the first round.

It turns out that in the few months after the French Open, the magazine "Ilin" started to become popular in Europe because of the jokes made by the tennis king.

If the year-end finals are not included, this is the first time that the Swiss King Federer has participated in the Chinese season competition.

Most people can only understand foreign countries through some unique media channels.

In fact, in this era, only tens of millions of people in China have had protective shields, and there are no video travel bloggers like Douyin or Kuaishou.

"In Paris, if you lose money and someone picks it up, the person will stand there and wait for the donor to show up."

Especially the developed transportation facilities and the numerous high-rise buildings made Nadal feel like he was in New York, a beautiful country.

Basically, all the famous tennis players who can come here are here, except Agassi, who was forced to retire by Chen Ran not long ago.

Then the French were shocked.

But the voices of a few foreign students could not make waves at all.

But because of Chen Ran's relationship, "Yilin" magazine unexpectedly became a best-seller in Europe and the United States. Of course, most people read it for fun.

At this Shenzhen Masters, some foreign players also talked about this magazine that made them laugh and cry.

Especially a beautiful and upright young man like Roddick, Happy Boy, who would openly question even the "American moon landing", how could he have a good impression of the New York subway?

This greatly embarrassed the large number of Chinese journalists who came, especially some self-respecting Chinese journalists.

The literati in "Yilin" magazine shamelessly flattered others, but they didn't appreciate it. They photographed them on the horse's legs and were laughed at.

Some angry Chinese reporters were not polite and wrote down the opinions of these players in newspapers for everyone to watch.

But there are exceptions.

For example, a short and fat musician praised India, saying that it was clean and hygienic, with a very low crime rate and almost no police on the streets.

The Indian players were very happy after hearing this, shaking their heads and saying yes, this is how we are in India.

Of course, this is just an example.

Frankly speaking, if it hadn't been for Chen Ran's unexpected scene, this magazine could have continued to fool people for more than ten years.

A few years later, Chinese netizens who did not take it too seriously to watch the excitement launched an activity on Douyin to read "Yilin" magazine to foreign friends, and then observed the extremely shocked expressions of the other people.

But this time, because of Chen Ran's unintentional words, some world-class tennis players were shocked, and the influence became even greater.

Listening to Roddick cursing the New York subway, and listening to the French players complaining that Paris is full of thieves, it seems that a brand new, but imperfect, world has appeared in the eyes of more than one billion Chinese people who have never been abroad. …

Although the recent Shenzhen Masters has been a hot topic, the schedule is tight and the competition is still proceeding in an orderly manner.

First of all, after the two rounds of qualifying, none of the participating Chinese players broke through.

Most of them were defeated 0-2 in the first round of qualifying.

This made the local Shenzhen Organizing Committee and the China Tennis Management Center cry out: The opportunity given to you is useless.

The annual Masters Tournament, such a good opportunity is not cherished.

Do you think that overseas Masters tournaments will give you wild cards?
Under Chen Ran's light, young Chinese athletes, especially some male athletes, your life is too easy and comfortable.

Some provincial players even became famous because Chen Ran was a sparring partner during domestic training, and then opened training classes as coaches and made a lot of money.

Fortunately, there are no Douyin and Kuaishou in this era. Otherwise, you could create a tennis coach persona, market it, and directly become a big Internet celebrity, with a group of fanatical fans behind you.

As for Chen Ran himself, he sighed secretly after seeing the results of the qualifying round.

This is just like Yao Ming caused the basketball craze in China, and a bunch of ghosts and ghosts jumped out, trying to make money by taking advantage of this wave of craze.

It turns out that the players in the system, because they have no money and no attention, can only train honestly.

Now the heat is coming, the surrounding industries are exploding, and relevant people are coming to get a share of the pie.

But the difference is that basketball is a team sport and can easily be interfered with by various negative factors, thus affecting performance; while in tennis, as long as there are a few talented players and sufficient financial investment, some results can always be achieved.

After all, the influence of the outside world on individual sports is minimal.

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Two days later, the main draw of the Shenzhen Masters officially started.

Finally, at least around this court, there is a strong tennis atmosphere.

Like other areas around the world where major tennis events are held, this place is like a grand tennis carnival.

The big screen in the square outside the stadium is also crowded with people and there is an endless flow.

Enthusiastic people also shuttled through various large and small arenas.

After all, if you want to host a tournament, you must ensure that there are several courses that can host matches at the same time.

Everyone was eating popcorn, drinking drinks, and enjoying the world's top-level tennis matches very comfortably.

As for the Shenzhen Organizing Committee, as the host, it is within its capabilities.

Except for top seeds like Chen Ran, the other four Chinese players who received wild cards for the main draw all faced players who had broken through from the qualifying rounds in the first round.

Finally, Li Zhe, a newcomer born in 86 with Chen Ran, won a valuable victory.

Although the other three players were all wiped out, China finally had its third male player win the Masters.

Compared with the short-lived Zeng Shaoxuan, the younger Li Zhe made everyone see greater potential.

On the third match day, Chen Ran, who had a bye in the first round, appeared on the stage.

His opponent is none other than another disciple of Zhang Depei, Tian Tianhao, the number one person in his childhood.

The Shenzhen Organizing Committee will obviously do the signing.

Although it was Chen Ran's first game, the 1 seats at the Central Stadium were already occupied, and the tickets were snapped up early by enthusiastic fans.

In the end, amidst the chants of "anti-Japanese" and "slash the Japanese with a machete" from the fans, Chen Ran simply took away the game with a score of 6-1 and 6-0.

It seems that there is no difference between Go Soeda and Kei Nishikori, the number one players in today's childhood.

Only Zhang Debei covered his face and sighed.

He finally understood that there was no need to expect Chen Ran to be merciful to his disciples.

Once this guy meets a player from his childhood, he will really beat him to death.

Why don't you learn from your Chinese table tennis team?
At least the Chinese national table tennis players will be merciful when they meet young players and deliberately miss a ball.

For example, when the big devil Zhang Yining faced Fukuhara Ai.

But you don’t want to think about it. In order to avoid sweeping the opponent, the big devil Zhang Yining deliberately missed a ball without even acting. This is simply a naked humiliation, and it is even more uncomfortable than sweeping the opponent.

Thinking about it this way, Chen Ran seems so real.

However, the media also expressed emotion after the game.

From table tennis to tennis, these talented Chinese athletes have built an almost insurmountable Great Wall for young players.

Table tennis relies on China's strong overall body, as well as its endless inheritance and huge reserve talents.

But as for Tennis, Chen Ran alone is enough.

The Xiaotian media is worried that Chen Ran alone will suppress Xiaotian players in the tennis field from the 70s to the 80s and then to the 90s.

Even the world's top coach like Zhang Depei can't change anything.

"If there is a competition with Chen Ran in the future, should my disciples temporarily avoid it?" Zhang Depei scratched his hair in pain.

……

In the following match days, Chen Ran still performed steadily.

He lived up to expectations, and he didn't live up to the fans' high-priced tickets. He swept all the famous players along the way and easily broke into the semi-finals.

Chen Ran's opponent in the semi-finals is another well-known valet, Grosjean, now France's No. 1 brother.

In recent times, Grosjean has finally usurped the position of France's number one brother from his old rival Clement due to his stable performance.

However, on the eve of the semi-finals, a powerful French reporter broke a piece of news that shocked the world.

"There was an unknown love affair between the famous French actress Alijie and Chen Ran."

As for the person who broke the news, it is even more explosive.

Turns out to be Aili Jie’s fiancé!

What kind of magical plot is this?
Suddenly, the global sports media and entertainment media were in a climax, and of course the excited Chinese media also joined in.

Is this a smoke bomb deliberately sent by the French media before the game to affect Chen Ran's condition?
But according to the news revealed by Ailijie's fiancé, he cried bitterly in front of the media and said that he had been living in Chen Ran's shadow, so he had canceled his engagement with Ailijie.

"You know, I accidentally found a lot of intimate photos of the two of them from her private drawer. Suddenly, I felt like my world collapsed."

"She even secretly wrote a diary, saying that Chen Ran is a man she can never forget in her life!"

Excited, everyone is excited!

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(End of this chapter)