Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 582 Agassi's Autobiography Controversy (4K)

The tenth Grand Slam!

After the US Open final came to an end, Chen Ran further strengthened his dominance in professional tennis!
This final.

People have realized Nadal's extraordinary willpower.

Too tough.

In the three-set match, although he did not score even a single point from Chen Ran's serve, he was still able to keep his composure and grit his teeth to hold on to his own serve.

If it were other top players, if the opponent's serve repeatedly gave away "love games" and they were unable to get a point, their emotions would inevitably fluctuate, their will would inevitably slacken, and then they would be broken by the opponent.

It is extremely rare for someone like Nadal to be able to hold on until the tiebreak.

It is his willpower and tenacity that made him the new king of Spain.

It was also because of Nadal that Chen Ran was prevented from achieving the annual Grand Slam.

Four Grand Slams, three championships and one runner-up!
Chen Ran completed the annual triple crown achievement for the second time.

This also shows the value of Nadal's ability to block Chen Ran at the French Open on the clay court.

Without a clay court genius like Nadal, Chen Ran would have swept all types of courts.

Ultimately, it was Nadal who defended the diversity and competitiveness of professional tennis.

Nadal was still a little depressed during the award ceremony.

Although the US Open runner-up is his best record ever in the US Open, this final was too unfair.

When Nadal stepped onto the podium and gave his runner-up speech, he even joked: "You can see that my serve return was so bad that I didn't even get a single point."

"This is a Grand Slam final after all. I didn't expect that I would be remembered in this way."

"I will definitely remember this painful experience."

It's not just Nadal. How to get a breathing space under Chen Ran's strong serve on hard courts, especially on fast hard courts like the US Open, has become a difficult problem facing many top professional tennis players.

Chen Ran's serve is really terrible.

This kind of BUG-level serving ability has never appeared in professional tennis in the past.

It can even be described as follows: Chen Ran's serve perfectly combines Roddick's speed and Federer's control of the landing point, and then produces a change, which is always beneficial.

"I spend much more time serving than any of you." Chen Ran muttered to himself.

Keep training, keep trying.

Every action of Chen Ran's serve has become deeply ingrained in his muscle memory.

It’s too early to think of getting a chance to survive in my serve game!
"Have you ever seen the streets of Yanjing or Modu at four in the morning? I have!"

Chen Ran began to talk, "Because at that time, I had already started to get up and start training. Boring and tedious serves, one after another. Maybe this is why my first serve success rate is so high."

He can't say he has a system.

This is the only way to explain why my first serve success rate is so high.

According to the statistics of the US Open final, Chen Ran's first serve success rate was as high as 90%!

The court is fast and hard, and the first serve success rate is so terrifying.

What's the point of this game?
Just give out the awards and that's it.

Oh, so it’s because he gets up at 4 a.m. to practice serving that he has such a high first serve success rate?
After Chen Ran said this, no one knows how many tennis players will imitate him.

After all, for professional tennis players, any method that can improve the success rate of the first serve is too tempting.

As for whether the other party would believe that I got up at four in the morning.

You don't have to believe it all, just part of it will be enough, and then it will spread on the Internet and be regarded as a good story.

If Kobe Bryant doesn't say it in the future, it's fine. But once he says something like "the streets of Los Angeles at 4 a.m.", others will think he is just repeating what others have said.

Similarly, when people think of the topic of "Four O'Clock in the Morning", they will only think of Chen Ran first.

This is where his brilliance lies.

Finally, the English song "We Are the Champions" was sung again, and Chen Ran held up the championship trophy high.

Suddenly, brilliant and colorful fireworks bloomed all around him.

Tenth Grand Slam title!

It took Chen Ran four years to finally push his number of Grand Slams into double digits.

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"Professional tennis is so fucking boring nowadays!"

"There is no competitiveness when only one company dominates the market. But when I was in that era, the scene of many heroes competing for supremacy was much worse!"

When the curtain of the 2006 US Open just came to an end, Agassi spoke without hesitation in an interview with reporters.

Anyway, he has retired, and it is impossible for him to meet other tennis players every day like he used to.

So he had nothing to worry about and could just fire as he pleased.

"Think about how fierce the competition was in our time! It was also our generation that promoted tennis to the world."

Agassi became more and more excited as he spoke.

"But...Mr. Andre." A reporter retorted, "But you and Chen Ran also competed in the same period."

"That was the late stage of my career!" Agassi emphasized this point, and he even said in an extremely exaggerated tone, "At that time, my real strength was only one-tenth of what I was when I was young!"

Yes, one in ten, you heard it right.

The bald man deliberately used such an exaggerated statement.

Although Agassi knew that others would not believe him, he still did what he wanted.

Because he had other purposes this time.

However, some smart reporters sensed something unusual.

Agassi has been quiet for a long time since his retirement.

Today, he suddenly showed up and said some extremely frivolous words. There must be something fishy about this.

really……

As the interview was coming to an end, Agassi changed the subject.

"Everyone, my latest autobiography will be released soon. I hope you will support it. It contains a lot of exciting content!"

So that’s it, this guy wants to sell books!

At this time, everyone suddenly realized that this was the reason why Agassi made such wild remarks.

How to maximize the sales of the autobiography? Just try to scam Chen Ran.

This is just like when Pippen, the second-in-command of the NBA Bulls dynasty, published a book and tried desperately to copy Jordan for sales. Of course, this was also because his ex-wife was having an affair with Jordan's son.

For Jordan's son, he may have fulfilled his wish: call him aunt when he was a child, and let his aunt call him that when he grows up.

Nor does he care about the awkwardness between Pippen and Jordan.

Agassi is also a man who doesn't mind embarrassment.

For the sake of the sales of this autobiography, he was too bold. "I admitted that I took the virus, and it was during the tour."

"I cleverly fooled the ATP doping control agency! They are a bunch of rubbish!"

This bald guy just keeps showing off throughout the whole article, saying "I kowtowed, but what can you do to me?"

Then he complained with certainty that there was no way Chen Ran could beat his younger self.

The opponent could only win the game by chance because he was getting older.

In short, Chen Ran’s undefeated record is nothing compared to Agassi’s.

That was my twilight years, and losing was normal.

In short, no matter what, he would never admit that his skills were inferior to others.

Soon, this extremely explosive autobiography caused an earthquake-like effect in the professional tennis world.

"No wonder, it turns out that the main reason why Agassi was able to beat Federer in the semi-finals last year and eventually meet Chen Ran was because he took drugs, which is why he looked so radiant."

"So he retired immediately after the U.S. Open, because he knew he would never be able to recover to his former form."

"All of this is ultimately for sales."

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At this time, Chen Ran also heard what Agassi said.

In fact, he was not willing to pay too much attention to the other party. He had already retired, so why didn't he stay at home, drink some water, water the flowers, but was thinking of making wild remarks to attract attention.

But there is no way, Chen Ran is a top star.

Everyone wants to come and try to make trouble.

"But Agassi didn't know that his retirement would be one year earlier because of me."

Chen Ran knew that if it weren't for his sudden emergence, Agassi's retirement would have been advanced by a year, and the publication of his autobiography would also have been advanced.

Retiring one year early also means Agassi will earn one year less.

Especially in the later period, Agassi was always firmly suppressed by Chen Ran, which made him feel uneasy.

Therefore, Agassi's autobiography is even more explosive than his previous one.

He quoted all kinds of inside information and scandals without hesitation, anything that could attract attention and increase sales.

From Sampras, Michael Chang, to Chen Ran today.

In short, he cursed everything he wanted to curse in his autobiography.

This made Chen Ran speechless.

Bald man, in your previous life you at least remembered to restrain yourself, but now you are acting completely recklessly.

Isn't it just about maintaining your undefeated record?
In Chen Ran's opinion, this is such a common thing, yet it can make you so excited.

Because Agassi added a lot of exaggerated content to his autobiography, the sales of this book became unprecedentedly popular and were once sold out.

Sure enough, this kind of deception method will never go out of style, especially now that the heat of the US Open has not yet dissipated.

Agassi thought very proudly, and was also proud of himself for choosing this time to go online and rotate, but he didn't know that the outside world had already made a big fuss about it.

The first person to fire the shot was the famous Russian player Safin.

He did not tolerate his old rival at all, and even said: Andre was cheating. It was not normal for a drug addict and stimulant user to escape strict testing.

That guy Agassi even wrote it in a book to show off.

what is this?
Openly mocking us?
This cannot be tolerated!
"Listen, my request is to cancel all the championships he won during the period of taking drugs or performance-enhancing drugs, including the Grand Slam. This will show the fairness of competitive sports!"

Safin, known as the "Russian Tsar", has always had such a bad temper and never tolerated his old rival.

"Agassi must pay for this!"

However, a strange phenomenon is that whether it is Nadal or Federer, or even some famous players in the WTA, they are all very secretive about this topic and avoid talking about it.

This also made Safin so angry that he cursed: Are all the professional tennis players today a bunch of cowards? Is there no brave man standing up? Are you still men?

In a trance, Chen Ran finally came to his senses.

Just now his brain was in a state of short circuit.

Agassi's autobiography was released a year earlier, but the content is more explosive and exaggerated than his previous autobiography.

It can even be said that Agassi has given it all for his sales.

This time, Chen Ran and Safin are on the same boat for once.

He must not turn a blind eye to these guys who like to use unconventional methods.

How could Chen Ran just sit there and wait to die when that bald guy was attacking him so aggressively?

"I agree 100 percent with Marat Safin's proposal."

"Since he has admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs and doping during the competition, the ATP should of course cancel all the championships awarded to Agassi during this period."

"Only in this way can the fairness of competitive sports be maintained."

"But I think these punishments are far from enough! The ATP should think carefully about how to deal with these retired tennis stars who made outrageous remarks."

"Their despicable behavior is simply destroying their jobs!"

Chen Ran spoke slowly, but his tone was even sharper than Safin's.

After all, when a professional tennis player officially retires, there is very little that the ATP can do to control him or her.

At best, he can't get into the Tennis Hall of Fame.

The world's number one person has spoken!

"Chen Ran defended the glory of men's tennis."

"Chen Ran believes that there should be zero tolerance for stimulants and methamphetamine!"

"Chen Ran severely criticized Agassi!"

"Chen Ran called on the ATP to punish Agassi and let him know that even if he retires, he still has to pay the price for his words and deeds."

"Chen Ran and Safin are the only two real men in professional tennis!"

"The fans also believe that Agassi should pay the price for his arrogant remarks."

A group of netizens expressed their opinions on the Internet.

They were also delighted because Chen Ran gave up his silence and came forward.

This is the vision and sense of responsibility of the world's number one person. Do you see it?
Chen Ran is right. ATP must take action instead of just letting the other party talk nonsense.

What's more, that guy blatantly mocked the ATP's anti-doping management department in his autobiography, which made everyone even more upset.

Are you going to cut down the bridge after you cross it?
"I used to be a fan of Agassi, but now I feel ashamed of this experience!" Some Agassi fans also left messages, "We just liked each other's rebellious character before, but we didn't expect his character to be so bad."

"Unruly and bad behavior are obviously two different things!"

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(End of this chapter)