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Chapter 692 The True King of Grassland

"That's absolutely not common sense."

Murray is still in a state of confusion.

Chen Ran's uncharacteristic behavior at the crucial "tie-break" moment caught Murray off guard and made it difficult for him to adapt for a while.

At the same time, Chen Ran also relied on these two high-quality cutting balls that were like "fairies from the sky" to win the two most important points in the "game seven" and won the championship.

"Actually, I really had a chance in this tiebreaker, but it was a pity that the other party didn't play by the rules!"

At this moment, Chen Ran had already walked to the net and was waiting, while Murray was squatting on the ground, still recalling the attacks and defenses that had just happened.

It seems a little unwilling, but I have to accept this cruel fact.

I have already lost and missed the gold medal while playing at home.

Well... at least that's what Murray thought. He just "missed it" and he had the chance to win the gold medal.

Everything that just happened happened so fast, like a flash of lightning.

Before Murray could react, he realized the game was over.

He was even still thinking about the confrontation just now, with all kinds of complicated bitterness in his heart.

In fact, Murray really wanted to cry for a while in front of the audience, but with the end of the game, he no longer had the need to continue using PLAN.

So he just couldn't bring forth the emotion and he just couldn't cry.

Maybe, I cried for too long and too frequently during the competition just now, which caused my body to become immune to "crying".

Damn!

At the critical moment, my emotions were not in place.

Murray had no choice but to stand up and walk to the net.

In fact, he really wanted to blame Chen Ran. The latter was too cold-blooded and cruel. Seeing how pitiful he looked, he had no sympathy at all.

He really has a heart of stone!

Like in the semi-final, I cried for a while and it affected Federer's mood.

"Congratulations on winning the silver medal, the best result ever in British tennis!"

Murray was still pondering how to start his speech when Chen Ran spoke first.

But why does this sound so hurtful?
What does "Congratulations on winning the silver medal" mean?
Is this really congratulations?
What's more, it is so ironic that these words came from the mouth of a gold medal winner.

Murray controlled his temper because his opponent was the No. 1 player in history like Chen Ran, so he didn't get angry.

"I'm so envious. Not only do you have 22 Grand Slam titles, but you also have three Olympic gold medals. The Hall of Fame is almost full of all the honors you've won."

The implication is that you have so many honors, why can't you give this gold medal to me?

Obviously, Murray is still very unwilling.

The Grand Slam championship was so far away from me. I finally made it to the Olympic finals, but in the end, Chen Ran extinguished my hopes.

"If one honor room is not enough, there is a second honor room."

Chen Ran was not polite and retorted with a smile, "I have a big honor room here! No matter how many honors there are, it can accommodate them all."

Murray took a deep breath and heard the other party's hidden meaning.

What a greedy guy, and he is cold-blooded and cruel enough.

With an extremely aggrieved heart, Murray attended the award ceremony and witnessed the five-star red flag of China slowly rising while the national anthem sounded. He also looked at Chen Ran with envy as he kissed the gold medal.

Playing at home, he could only become a background wall.

At this point, under the witness of the whole world, Chen Ran finally completed the unprecedented feat of winning three consecutive championships in the history of the Olympic Games.

At the same time, this is currently the only Olympic men's singles championship in lawn tennis, which will be difficult to replicate in the future.

After winning the gold medal, Chen Ran announced his withdrawal from the upcoming US Open, just like he did four years ago.

Although the competition on the grass this time was not as exhausting as the competition on the hard court, Chen Ran still tried to avoid overloading his body in order to prolong his career.

For the remaining days, he was very relaxed, wandering around the various competition venues of the London Olympics and watching the competitions of other Chinese athletes.

Overall, although the performance of the Chinese team this time was not as impressive as four years ago, it was still very outstanding and created the best performance in overseas Olympic Games in history.

In addition to the traditional strong events, swimming has also risen across the board.

Chen Ran also knew that starting from this Olympics, China officially became a world swimming power, and then there was endless wrangling with the Americans.

As for why we are arguing?
It’s a matter of interest, of course.

The United States wants to maintain its position as the world's leading swimming nation, so it tries to stir up trouble at every Olympic Games.

They don’t believe why they took drugs. The athletes turned into “little purple men” one by one and couldn’t swim faster than their opponents. So you must have taken drugs too.

Of course, they have certificates, so taking drugs is natural.

Fortunately, at this point in time, Chinese swimming has just risen, so the people in the United States have not yet noticed the crisis and have not become so stressed.

In addition, the Chinese tennis team, which won the men's and women's singles gold medals in the last Olympics, only had Chen Ran win one gold medal this time.

Li Zhe did get a ticket to the Olympics through hard work, but was eliminated in the first round.

However, what surprised the outside world was that the defending champion of women's singles, Li Na, only lasted one round longer than Li Zhe and also stopped in the second round.

At this time, many media and fans began to criticize Li Na.

So far, Li Na has also won two Grand Slam titles.

They were the 2010 Australian Open and the 2011 French Open.

In addition, she also reached the finals of the 2011 US Open, but was beaten by Serena Williams.

The two-time Grand Slam winner was eliminated in the second round of the Olympics.

Many fans and media began to accuse Na Jie of not being patriotic enough, only paying attention to professional competitions and not the Olympics.

Especially now that social media is far more developed than it was four years ago, Weibo has penetrated into the hearts of netizens due to its convenience.

Many marketing accounts set the pace, and today's netizens, who have very little experience, are easily led by the nose.

At this time, Chen Ran stood up to speak for Li Na.

"This Olympics was held on grass, and Na is not good at grass, so she stopped early."

"There is only this reason, no other reason. Don't make assumptions."

"Anyone who knows about tennis knows that your performance can be very different on different courts."

Many netizens then realized that Li Na's best result at Wimbledon so far was only the round of 16.

So you blamed her wrongly.

It’s not that people don’t want to try their best, but they are really not good at playing on grass.

The grass is too difficult for Chinese players.

Chen Ran is the only exception.

With 8 Wimbledon titles and a grass court Olympic title that Sampras doesn't have, he is truly the king of grass court.

With just a few words, Chen Ran not only freed Li Na from the storm of public opinion, but also made everyone marvel at Chen Ran's grass court strength.

Why are Chen Ran’s grass court strength so strong while Li Na’s grass court strength is so weak, even though they are both Grand Slam champion-level players?
Both are Chinese, one is the king of grass and the other is a rookie on grass. The contrast between the two is too obvious.

At this time, even Li Na's die-hard fans lamented: "It seems that Sister Na will not be able to complete the Golden Slam."

At the same time, Chen Ran's image as the "King of the Grassland" has become deeply rooted in people's hearts.

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(End of this chapter)