Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 599 My coaching talent is not fake (4K)

what can we do about it?

Chen Ran was also very troubled by this.

My girlfriend really can't play basketball without me.

He is not worried about his country's female tennis players.

Even if Zheng Jie cannot reproduce her past glory and her condition is getting worse and worse, there is still Li Na.

In this time and space, with a guide like Chen Ran, Li Na's performance has been steadily improving, and the number of times she self-explodes in competitions has also decreased a lot compared to before.

In terms of physical fitness, Li Na is much better than Zheng Jie, and she is also one of those people who achieves success late in life.

Most female athletes basically retire before the age of 30, even Chen Ran’s girlfriend Ivanovich is the same.

The talented and beautiful girl Maria Sharapova's condition has been declining rapidly since the age of 28, and after the age of 30, she is almost ready to retire.

But Sister Ke Na won the French Open at the age of 29 and the Australian Open at the "even older" age of 32.

She is different from Serena Williams, who is addicted to drugs. As a Chinese player, she must undergo very strict drug tests at any time and there is no chance for any compromise.

I can only say that Li Na's physical fitness is really outstanding. Even among female players in Europe and the United States, few can match her.

Although foreign media once called Zheng Jie the Michael Chang of the WTA, Chen Ran knew that this was actually an exaggeration.

You know, Zhang Depei's physical fitness is not outstanding in the ATP, but this guy is very durable and has hardly suffered any serious injuries in his career, which makes many European and American players envious.

Many times, your body's endurance is even more important than whether your body is strong.

But durability is a mysterious thing, and even the top medical teams find it difficult to judge.

So Chen Ran doesn’t worry about the female teammates of the national team, but is more concerned about his girlfriend.

"Whether it's about our country's women's tennis or Ana's question, I haven't figured out how to answer it yet. You'd better ask them themselves."

"But I also discovered that I have a natural talent for coaching, and I think I have the Midas touch."

As he spoke, he began to brag about himself, which made the reporters present laugh.

After all, compared to most Chinese athletes who are not good at speaking, Chen Ran is relatively humorous and talkative.

"Let me tell you one thing. Director Sun invited me to temporarily serve as the head coach during the Yanjing Olympics and the Guangzhou Asian Games." When Chen Ran said this, the whole audience was shocked.

This topic has only been discussed privately between Chen Ran and Director Sun, but neither side has made a formal decision.

Chen Ran also wanted to use the popularity of the year-end finals championship to test the reaction of the outside world.

The main thing is the opinion of the Sports Bureau.

After all, the position of head coach of the national team is not something that an association can decide alone. It has to go through an approval process, which is also a Chinese characteristic.

From Chen Ran's perspective, he does not reject this. Of course, this is limited to the Olympic Games and Asian Games held in the local area.

As for those abroad, Chen Ran is not a philanthropist and won't worry about it.

Because this kind of large-scale comprehensive sports event is only held in the local area, and he himself serves as both a player and a coach, he can fully maximize his personal value and influence.

Who are the most talented players and coaches?
"What about Chen Ran... do you agree?" a reporter asked.

Someone else echoed: "Yes, it was also at this year's US Open that you personally guided Ivanovic to defeat Li Na. At that time, many netizens had objections to you."

It is normal to have controversy, but others can only be keyboard warriors on the Internet and cannot change anything.

"Indeed, I discovered my coaching talent when I was instructing Ana." Chen Ran said with a smile.

This talent actually made Chen Ran very surprised and happy.

the reason is simple.

As a player, he does have a hang.

But as a coach, Chen Ran did not cheat. Instead, he made some reasonable arrangements and tactical designs based on the situation on the field and the technical characteristics of the players.

How could Chen Ran not be excited after achieving such great results without any cheating?

Therefore, it is very good to get some guidance occasionally without affecting your own singles performance.

Especially in professional tennis, coaches are often not full-time, but sometimes part-time or temporary.

For example, the simplest example is that Zhang Zhizhen, the future top player in China, once hired the famous Taiwanese player Lu Yen-hsun as his coach.

But Lu Yen-hsun's duties are very simple. Every year he is responsible for the grass season, the North American hard court events, and the subsequent China season. He spends the rest of the time resting at home.

There is also Zheng Qinwen, who temporarily hired former Chinese men's tennis player Wu Di during the Chinese season.

However, her most glorious moment was precisely during this period.

During this period, she won the Zhengzhou 500 Championship and the runner-up of the WTA Mini Year-End Tournament. (The Mini Year-End Tournament is unique to women's tennis, which means that in addition to the eight players in the year-end finals, the best eight players will participate in the Mini Year-End Tournament.)
As for the runner-up in the Australian Open? He defeated all kinds of duds all the way to the finals, but the quality of his opponents was totally different. (In short, Zheng Qinwen is really useless recently)
Different coaches have different focuses.

"If I want to be a guest coach, I will only choose a specific time. From my personal point of view, the Guangzhou Asian Games will not be very interested, but I will not completely close the door to it. Everything will be discussed later."

"As for serving as the guest head coach during the Yanjing Olympics, after careful consideration, I think there is no problem with it." Chen Ran smiled slightly.

A reporter immediately asked, "Is it the head coach of the men's and women's teams?"

"Good question!" Chen Ran nodded. "It depends on the situation. First of all, I have to focus on singles. Second, as you know, I'm a super...super noob in doubles."

“So there’s no way I could coach doubles players.”

After all, he was terrible at doubles, so doubles coaching was naturally ruled out.

Of course, it’s not that Chen Ran can’t play doubles well, but that he is unwilling to conduct targeted training in order to play doubles well.

Doubles tennis is also tennis. If Chen Ran really wants to practice, he can become good at it.

However, he felt it was unnecessary.

If you are a man, you should play singles.

Upon hearing this, the reporters present nodded as a matter of course.

Among these guys, who is interested in doubles?
If it is a mixed doubles, and if the partner is a beautiful woman, then there might be some topical interest.

Therefore, it was completely within their expectations that Chen Ran only wanted to coach singles players.

But the question is, will Chen Ran coach men's singles players?

After all, today's men's singles players, except for Chen Ran, are really too lame.

Even in a low-level competition like the Asian Games, no one won a medal, and they didn't even make it to the semi-finals.

With this level, is he worthy of being coached by the world's number one player?

You're thinking about ass!
Their thoughts were obviously the same as Chen Ran's. He obviously would not do such a thing which was not only useless but also would damage his reputation.

"My main focus is still on coaching women's singles players, so that some people won't always say that I only coach my girlfriend and don't help my female teammates on the national team."

A bowl of water must be held level, this is called rain and dew are evenly distributed.

Upon hearing this, everyone expressed their approval.

But Chen Ran also knew the way Chinese people speak, which is that they will not make their words final on the surface, otherwise it would seem inhumane.

"For men's singles players, my door is not completely closed. For example, you are at least ranked in the top 100 in the world. However, the Olympic stage is full of masters, and it is meaningless to just play in the challenge tournament to get into the top 100."

Chen Ran obviously thought of this and then blocked the BUG.

"You have to win at least one Grand Slam main draw or reach the quarterfinals once in a tour event. If you can meet the above conditions, I can consider taking a male player."

This statement may not seem to be a final word, but in fact it has already blocked the issue completely.

Being in the top 100 in the world, plus winning the first Grand Slam main draw, or reaching the quarterfinals of a tour tournament, even a 250-level tournament, is as difficult as climbing to the sky for a male singles player of this era.

Not to mention this generation of players, even the next generation of players, such as Wu Di and others, cannot achieve this achievement.

Chen Ran even cunningly blocked the opponent's possibility of entering the top 100 in the world by scoring in low-level competitions.

You should know that Taiwan’s famous athlete Yen-Hsun Lu’s highest world ranking was once 33rd in the world.

But this guy's nickname is the Challenge King. He has won countless Challenge Championships, but has basically no outstanding performance in the tour.

Of course, high-level challenge competitions are still difficult for today's Chinese male players.

"Yes, that's how it should be!"

"After all, you also have singles tasks. If the male players are too uncompetitive, it would be a waste of your energy to coach them. There is no point."

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After the press conference, news that Chen Ran might coach the national tennis team during the Yanjing Olympics immediately set off a storm on the Internet.

Netizens have basically no doubts about Chen Ran's coaching ability.

The reason is simple. Chen Ran's coaching ability has been personally verified by tennis goddess Ivanovic.

Although there are rumors that the Serbian beauty's improvement in football skills is due to the "body fluid exchange" between the two sides.

But in previous games, Ivanovic was able to turn the tables with the help of Chen Ran's on-the-spot guidance despite a disadvantageous start or even a large deficit.

This has nothing to do with the exchange of body fluids, right?
It's impossible for them to find time to complete the fusion again in the toilet on site, right?

Therefore, Chen Ran's ability to command on the spot is beyond doubt.

As for Chen Ran's request for the men's singles players, although the Sports Bureau has not yet responded, the majority of fans unanimously agree.

No matter your ranking or level, you are worthy of being coached by the world's number one player.

Are you ashamed of that level?

Just like Lippi, the head coach of this year's World Cup champion Italian team, would it be useful to let him coach the Chinese national football team?

That's definitely useless!

Netizens are just guessing, but Chen Ran witnessed it personally.

The old Italian man was so scared by the Chinese national football team that he didn't even want his annual salary of tens of millions of euros. He resigned voluntarily and ran away, leaving behind a famous saying: I don't want to rob money!

However, Chen Ran was worthy of choosing journalism as his major in college, and the media he controlled also began to market his business by using the topic that "Chen Ran may serve as a coach during the Yanjing Olympics."

"Have you noticed that although Chen Ran did not participate in this year's Asian Games, he has been helping Chinese tennis in his own way."

"For example, he once took the initiative to terminate the contract with Michael Chang in advance and let him become Zheng Jie's head coach, which led to the French Open championship."

"Don't forget, Chen Ran also brought China an Olympic gold medal in men's singles!"

"Also, because of Chen Ran, Nike had to pay a sky-high price to snatch the sponsorship of the Chinese National Tennis Team from Adidas, which also allowed the national team to obtain sufficient funds."

“That benefits a lot of athletes.”

Don’t underestimate Li Na, who later became Nike’s top star in China and even had a higher status than Liu Xiang.

But before 2010, Li Na's status in Nike was not high and her presence was very low. However, at the 2008 Yanjing Olympics, all members of the Chinese national tennis team wore Adidas jerseys to participate in the competition.

Even for Li Na, who has signed with Nike since she was 16, this is not surprising.

Because Nike is not willing to bid higher than Adidas in terms of national team sponsorship.

At that time, they didn't care that Li Na played in the jersey of her arch-rival.

"This time, Chen Ran took the initiative to choose to be the national team coach because he wanted to contribute to the country. After all, doing so will definitely affect his energy, even in singles matches."

“This spirit is truly great!”

"So, please stop saying that Chen Ran withdrew from this year's Asian Games because he only thought about himself and had no heart for the country."

"The level of competitions like the Asian Games is too low, especially when they are held overseas. They are not worthy of players of this level."

"Chen Ran has promised to participate in the Guangzhou Asian Games four years later. Is that because he gives face to the Asian Games? No, it's because he gives face to Guangzhou!"

Soon, the Internet was flooded with comments about Chen Ran's contributions to the country, and media everywhere were praising his patriotism.

You can doubt anyone, but you cannot doubt Chen Ran’s patriotism.

All of a sudden, the Internet was filled with all kinds of praise, and the previous negative public opinion disappeared completely.

……

Sure enough, I made the right choice of journalism major in college.

Chen Ran thought proudly.

The so-called journalism speaks for capital. Whoever controls it can do whatever they want.

Of course, in China, what you need to do is to grasp the scale of news and public opinion, as long as it does not cross the red line.

"LeBron, thank you, you are my beacon of light!"

At this moment, LeBron James, who was far away on the other side of the ocean, also received a suggestion from his agency.

"LeBron, you can learn from that world number one Chinese tennis player and buy some media companies."

"Good idea! If I have time, I can talk to him. He is a goat, and I will become a goat in the future!"

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(End of this chapter)