Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 541: The scheming Chen Ran and the unlucky Roddick
After returning to the Magic City, this year's ATP year-end finals has been very interesting with various topics, and has also raised its already high popularity to a new height.

Especially after Chen Ran appeared in Hanfu, it caused an explosive public opinion effect on the Internet.

However, Chen Ran, the instigator, acted as if nothing had happened and went into battle lightly.

In the opening match, Chen Ran faced his old rival Roddick.

The venue of the game, as the top star and the host player, naturally enjoyed the treatment of playing in the central stadium.

The newly renovated Qi Zhong Tennis Court allows the audience to enjoy a tennis feast.

However, when Chen Ran walked slowly out of the player corridor with a tennis bag on his back, a very interesting scene appeared in his sight.

A group of audience members actually wore Hanfu and sang and danced to cheer him on.

I don’t know if this is a fan of Chen Ran or a Hanfu enthusiast.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

Because of what Chen Ran wore at the ATP year-end dinner, it will inevitably accelerate the revival of "Hanfu" in China.

For example, just the night before yesterday, an extremely brutal fight broke out on the now very popular Baidu Tieba.

If we extend the discussion of this bar bombing incident, Chen Ran can actually be said to be the instigator.

It was his words "real Tang suit" and "fake Tang suit" that caused a war between the two sides in the forum.

On one side are Hanfu enthusiasts, and on the other side are supporters of late Qing Dynasty Tang suits. Both sides want to have control over the "Tang suit" bar, and neither side is willing to give in, so they adopted the most popular decisive battle mode on the Internet today - bombing the bar.

Finally, with the participation of another popular forum "Chen Ran Bar", the supporters of "Tang Dynasty Hanfu" won a complete victory.

Of course, some media also accused Chen Ran of causing cyber violence.

Chen Ran's rebuttal was also very straightforward: "If you want to accuse someone, you can always find a pretext! What the Chen Ran Bar did has nothing to do with me, Chen Ran, just like what Li Yi Bar did has nothing to do with Li Yi. You can't be so hypocritical!"

After all, in terms of combat effectiveness, the "Li Yi Bar" is better than the "Chen Ran Bar".

Let’s get back to business…

Chen Ran returns to the ATP year-end finals after two years.

Once upon a time, the Sino-US battle between Chen Ran and Roddick could attract the attention of the whole world.

But now, whether it is Chen Ran VS Federer, Chen Ran VS Nadal, or even Chen Ran VS Wawrinka, the attention they have received exceeds that of Chen Ran VS Roddick.

The reason is simple: in the past year, this young man from the beautiful country has been performing really poorly.

The Shanghai Organizing Committee's contribution is indeed huge.

For every game of the year-end finals, they will invite top artists from the Chinese entertainment industry to serve as opening guests and take photos with the players from both sides of the game.

For the opening match between Chen Ran and Roddick, the organizing committee invited Huang Xiaoming, the most popular male artist in mainland China.

Ever since he appeared on the stage, he has always had that iconic "Dragon King crooked mouth" smile on his face.

When the three of them took a group photo, the audience excitedly pressed the shutter buttons of their cameras quickly.

Huang Xiaoming stood in the middle, while Chen Ran and Roddick stood on both sides.

In front of the three of them, there was a group of sports and entertainment reporters squatting.

But for some reason, Chen Ran always felt that something was strange, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"Eh..." An entertainment reporter suddenly put down his camera and blurted out, "Xiao Ming seems to have grown taller, taller than Chen Ran."

"Ah... it seems so." A sports reporter said in surprise, "Xiao Ming is almost 30 years old, can he still grow taller?"

"Among the three of them, Chen Ran is actually the shortest."

Chen Ran: "..."

Only then did he notice that Huang Xiaoming next to him was actually taller than him, and only slightly shorter than Roddick.

陈然的身高是1米84，而罗迪克的身高是1米88，这意味着教主的身高在1米86左右。

Roddick could not understand Chinese, but Huang could hear it very clearly.

At this time, the "Dragon King's crooked mouth" smile on his lips became even brighter.

Facing these two professional tennis players who are both about 1 meters tall, I was lucky to have done some preparation in advance. In short, I must lose everything but not the photo.

Chen Ran was speechless about this.

For some unknown reason, I became the shortest person in the photo of three people.

In the future, the trolls on the Internet will use this photo to make a fuss: Look, Chen Ran's height is even shorter than Huang Xiaoming's. Chen Ran looked down, glanced, and cursed inwardly: It's really fucking high!
The interactive session ended and the two sides started the competition.

"Chen...you seem unhappy, what's going on?" Roddick found that Chen Ran was a little depressed when he started to choose sides.

At this moment, he once again showed the cheerful side of the American youth: "Could it be that you were pursuing a certain actress in your China, but was rejected by her?"

"Hmm... that must be it."

The guy nodded in agreement.

"This idiot!"

Chen Ran cursed inwardly, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "Andy, did Nike promise you how much bonus you would get if you beat me? It can't be lower than the $50 for beating Federer, right?"

"No, they didn't ask for that." Roddick shrugged and said casually, "Although I did suggest it, it was not adopted by Nike."

"..."

Chen Ran said with a serious expression: "Very good, Nike is actually right, because they also know that your suggestion is unrealistic. I will prove it."

"Uh..." Roddick scratched his head. For some reason, he had a bad feeling in his heart.

Amidst thunderous cheers from the audience, the opening match of the year-end finals officially began.

Twenty minutes later, Roddick felt more desperate than ever since he entered the professional tennis world.

5 to 0, this is the current score.

He was only one step away from being sent an egg.

Fortunately, Roddick managed to hold his serve with great effort in his third service game, thus avoiding the embarrassment of being "swept away" by his opponent.

But even so, Roddick was still defeated by Chen Ran with a score of "6 to 1".

"God, what's wrong with Chen Ran today? He's even more ferocious than before!"

Roddick was out of breath and irritable.

There is no way we can win the game, I just hope we don’t lose too badly in the next one.

Although Roddick was praised by the American media as Federer's number one manservant, compared with Chen Ran's game, how much pressure did Federer bring? It was far from being so desperate!

"Andy, I feel like I'm in very good shape today. I can win no matter how we play. We are friends... I'm worried about the next game... you know what I mean." Chen Ran spread his hands and said helplessly.

Such a cheerful young man from the beautiful country had never read China's "The Art of War" and had no idea what "provocation" meant, so he fell into Chen Ran's trap unknowingly.

"No, you have to play seriously and give it your all. That's how you respect me. I'm a proud professional tennis player and Grand Slam winner, so I will never allow you to play in a lax way."

"Chen...use all your strength!"

"Okay, no problem." Chen Ran made an "OK" gesture.

Hehe, Andy, this is what you said, so I really don’t need to be at all cautious or show any mercy.

In the second set, Roddick served first.

But Chen Ran actually scored 4 points in a row, completing a reverse "love game".

This hit Roddick hard.

On one hand, Chen Ran was in high spirits and kept hitting brilliant shots; on the other hand, Roddick's condition was getting worse and worse. He was so upset that he even had the idea of ​​not wanting to continue the fight.

Anyway, the appearance fee for the group stage of the year-end finals is as high as 20 US dollars. If you lose in a tiebreak, lose 1-2, lose 0-2, or even get "swept away" by the opponent, you will still get every penny of the money you deserve.

If that's the case, then why bother fighting so hard? You won't be able to beat the other party anyway.

So, in the second set, Roddick showed no fighting spirit and was actually swept by Chen Ran 6-0.

6 to 1, 6 to 0!

Roddick won only one game in the entire match.

At this time, the American media began to mock:

"Andy, do you know? Not long ago, Chen Ran won the National Games gold medal in the finals with a score of 6-1 in two sets. Do you know who his opponent was? Actually, I don't know who his opponent is, I just know that he is ranked outside the top 300 in the world."

"You are now worse than the players ranked outside the top 300 in the world!"

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(End of this chapter)