Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 671 The Unique Chen Ran Charity Fund

A few days later, Li Na, who was far away in the United States, showed Chinese fans what "the upper limit is infinitely high, and the lower limit is infinitely low" means.

Without Chen Ran's on-the-spot command and fatigued by the series of battles after the Olympics, Li Na's US Open journey ended in the second round.

This also led Li Na's former close friend Safina to insinuate: So what if you play well in the Olympics? It's impossible to win respect if you play so badly in the Grand Slams!
She was clearly still smarting from her Olympic semifinal loss.

In China, a group of cyber trolls took the opportunity to stir up trouble, mocking the women's singles gold medal as undeserved, or saying that the player couldn't play without Chen Ran.

Of course, many netizens also expressed their understanding. You see, Chen Ran has withdrawn from the US Open, but Sister Na is still competing continuously. However, due to the influence of the Olympics, her poor condition is understandable.

The Olympics are held every four years, while the Grand Slam tournaments are held four times a year. If you don’t play well this time, you can just play well next time. It’s not a big deal.

Most people are still encouraging and believe that Li Na will win a Grand Slam title sooner or later.

In fact, from Chen Ran's perspective, it was somewhat unexpected that Li Na did not get eliminated in the first round of this US Open.

You should know that in her previous life, after winning the French Open, she was eliminated in the first round at Wimbledon, shocking many new tennis fans.

This time, too, shocked new Olympic fans.

Her extremely unstable emotions and mentality can easily affect her on-the-spot performance, which is her shortcoming.

"The Olympics were tiring, and her first-round opponent at the US Open was also very strong. The two played three full sets, so it was normal for her to lose in the second round due to lack of energy."

"In tennis matches, it's normal to have ups and downs."

When Chen Ran attended a business event, he was immediately surrounded by the media asking "what do you think about Li Na being eliminated in the second round?"

Some media even asked: "Without your coaching, has Li Na's true colors been exposed?"

Everyone knows this.

With or without Chen Ran's coaching, her performance is indeed quite different.

"She is already an Olympic champion. I believe she will be able to overcome this problem in the future," said Chen Ran.

Damn, these damn reporters just know how to dig holes.

After winning the Olympic women's singles gold medal, Li Na's popularity soared, surpassing Zheng Jie and second only to Chen Ran.

But she is not as smooth as Chen Ran, and her hot temper will probably cause many conflicts with those reporters.

Although Chen Ran chose journalism in college, his goal was to pay tribute to LeBron and learn from him to control public opinion so that it would always be in his favor.

But it is impossible to change the nature of journalists who like to dig holes just because you control public opinion. This is completely different.

"How is your injury now? Will you participate in the year-end finals?"

"I haven't decided yet, but I'm likely to participate. I hope everyone won't expect too much from me when I attend the year-end finals." Chen Ran joked, "There is no such thing as an invincible general in tennis matches. I have lost countless times in the tour."

Are you in Versailles?

Don't even look at how many games you won in the Grand Slams.

On tour, outside of the year-end finals, you often hold back.

However, judging from Chen Ran's words, he still seems to hope to participate in this year's year-end finals.

After all, this is the last year-end finals held in Shanghai.

Chen Ran still hopes for a perfect ending.

Starting next year, the year-end finals will move to London, England.

London is even considering whether to hold next year's year-end finals on indoor grass rather than indoor hard courts.

"Four consecutive championships?" "I hope so!"

However, Chen Ran has won the year-end finals championship in Shanghai for three consecutive years. If he can further break the record and win four consecutive championships, it will indeed be an unprecedented achievement.

Then Chen Ran announced an important news that he would set up a charity fund to help poor children and give back to society and the country.

In addition, Chen Ran promised that he would not solicit donations, but would only donate his own money to charity.

Forget about fundraising, but don’t use other people’s money, so as to avoid being caught up in the “fraudulent donation” scandal like other celebrities.

Therefore, Chen Ran did not set up the "Yao Foundation" like Yao Ming did to raise funds for charity. There was no need for that at all.

Not only is it difficult, but you may also end up in all kinds of controversy.

After all, as the person involved, it is impossible for you to pay attention to the flow of every sum of money, and it is impossible for you to be responsible for the management and execution, so there are too many unpredictable factors in this matter.

You can't guarantee that everyone has no ulterior motives and is wholeheartedly doing charity. Some guys may just want to use this platform to make a fortune for themselves.

What is there to say?

If something goes wrong with the staff under you, you will also be affected.

After all, you are more well-known and have more traffic, so it is easy for you to be noticed by the media.

The boss must take the blame and cannot escape.

What's more, when you set up a charity foundation, you entrust the staff to people you don't even know, and you have to take the blame for them for no reason. This is not cost-effective.

Chen Ran’s principle is very simple. He would rather donate less money than solicit donations.

In this way, many situations become controllable. Even if there are some problems with the entrusted managers and executors, such as embezzlement or personal gain, the money lost is their own.

The outside media and netizens are also at a loss as to what to say.

Of course, Chen Ran also consciously linked the establishment of this charity fund with his own job.

He announced that for every ace he hit in a tennis match, he would donate 1 Chinese Yuan to his foundation.

And he emphasized that the real count began with the Yanjing Olympics.

After all, this is an Olympic Games of such special significance that Chen Ran is unwilling to exclude it.

In this Yanjing Olympics, after 6 games, Chen Ran hit a total of 52 aces, which means a donation of 52 Chinese yuan.

In the future, whether it is a tour, a Grand Slam, or an Olympic game, as long as you can hit an ace, it will be a donation of 1 Chinese yuan.

As soon as this news came out, the outside media was amazed.

Chen Ran is really good at making things happen. He can actually come up with such an idea.

Also, what's with the rule about refusing any donations? How dare you!

You should know that many celebrities nowadays like to organize fundraising after setting up charitable foundations.

In other words, using other people's money to enhance one's own reputation.

In fact, this is a bit hypocritical. Everyone is just hanging around in this circle and sees the truth but doesn't point it out.

But what Chen Ran did seemed to be a slap in everyone's face.

Look at Chen Ran, if you want to do charity, you should use your own money, don’t always think about getting others to donate to your foundation!
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(End of this chapter)