Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 694 WeChat and tennis are both green
After completing three rounds of the Golden Slam, Chen Ran was only 26 years old.

He is still young and still competitive enough.

Of course, competition in professional tennis has become increasingly fierce.

"Look at Roger Federer, he is already 31 years old, but he still maintains the state of 25 years old. Can Chen Ran continue to maintain such a state at this age?"

In any case, Federer has won 6 Grand Slams, the second most in the world.

But people were surprised to find that this guy was still making slow progress even after he turned 30.

At the 2012 US Open, Federer, who had just returned from the London Olympics with a failure, returned to his favorite fast hard court and showed an excellent competitive form.

It turns out that the second half of 2012 will be the highlight of Murray's career.

The Scotsman would win back-to-back men's singles titles at the London Olympics and the US Open, reaching the pinnacle of his career.

However, now all of this has been ruined by Chen Ran.

Chen Ran personally destroyed Murray's dream of winning an Olympic gold medal, and also dealt a heavy blow to the latter emotionally and mentally.

During the entire US Open, Murray was in a sleepwalking state and was eliminated after only three rounds.

"I don't know why, I feel so lost, as if I suddenly lost motivation."

At the post-match press conference, Murray said this, then covered his eyes and cried.

This time it was real crying, not PALN.

Even the British media lamented helplessly: "It seems that Andy will need a long time to recover from the defeat in the Olympic final."

It’s all Chen Ran’s fault. Can’t you give up the gold medal?

The British media hated Chen Ran.

In particular, the scene of "scolding the Page 3 girl" that happened the night before the final was highlighted by global media.

After all, it’s no big deal for a Page Three girl to stroll around in the hotel lobby.

But because of Chen Ran's scolding, this trivial matter was infinitely magnified.

The great British Empire has lost all its face.

As time went by, when Murray was in a slump, the 31-year-old Federer was getting stronger and stronger. He even won the first Grand Slam title that originally belonged to Murray at the US Open, bringing his Grand Slam count to seventh.

He once again proved that he was the second best person under Chen Ran.

"I feel that I am still young and I can continue to maintain my excellent form. I believe that my number of Grand Slam titles will be far more than seven." Federer said confidently and began to look forward to the future.

He feels that he is still making progress, is full of desire for the championship, and has never been defeated.

At this moment, Chen Ran, who is far away in China, is also paying attention to this year's US Open.

He also discovered that perhaps because of himself, Federer in this time and space was not troubled by back injuries.

Facing the pressure from Chen Ran, Federer is constantly adjusting his playing style and tactics to make his competitiveness more sustainable.

"He is indeed a giant player of historical level!"

Chen Ran couldn't help but sigh.

Perhaps because of his dominance in professional tennis, many things have changed.

Because of themselves, these guys are constantly improving and surpassing their limits.

The three giants of this time and space are definitely stronger than those in the previous life.

Even players like Murray or Wawrinka would have been extremely competitive in the era of Sampras and Agassi.

So far, starting from 2003 when Chen Ran won the French Open for the first time, in the past ten years, the "one super and three strong" big four have almost won most of the Grand Slam titles, and the only two that fell to Roddick and Wawrinka were taken.

And what about Chen Ran himself?

In addition to grass, he no longer has an advantage in other types of courts. In addition, there are some business matters that will distract Chen Ran.

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In the past two or three years, the development of Jin Man Guan Company has actually stagnated.

For example, some of the games that the company previously developed independently have been experiencing declining revenue due to version updates and the already highly competitive market.

Of course, Chen Ran didn’t take it too seriously.

Especially in this era, e-sports games have become mainstream, and Chen Ran is also very clear that this is an irreversible trend.

Faced with the facts, he even took the opportunity to cancel the self-developed game department and stated that the company would no longer independently develop large-scale 3D online games in the future.

Immediately after the Olympics, Chen Ran took advantage of the residual popularity of the games he had and transferred all of his web games and online games to Penguin in one go.

This also gets rid of a lot of hot potatoes.

As for how Xiao Ma Ge is thinking about the "If you want to become stronger, you have to spend money" plot, that has nothing to do with Chen Ran.

However, as the saying goes, it's good to be under a big tree for shade. With an empire like Penguin behind him, Chen Ran's life in the company is still comfortable.

Currently, Jin Man Guan Company only retains the two businesses of online music and online novels. At the same time, former game programmers have gradually been involved in the research and development of WeChat.

In fact, since last year, Chen Ran has been relying on Penguin to launch the "WeChat" product.

However, because smartphones were just becoming popular and Penguin itself did not attach much importance to this product, the development of WeChat was very slow in the early days, and the number of users was not large, even less than Xiaomi's MiTalk.

If there is no QQ traffic, this product might be a failure.

Of course, Chen Ran couldn't appear too excited.

After all, this is a shopping mall. Even if he has a bird's eye view, there are some things he cannot say too clearly, so as not to arouse other people's suspicion.

"Anyway, the research and development of WeChat is now entirely in the charge of the Golden Slam Company, and Zhang Xiaolong cannot interfere. So even if WeChat cannot become the WeChat of the previous life, the loss is to Penguin, not me." Chen Ran thought it through.

Anyway, he has made great contributions. If he really accidentally cheats the penguin, then it's a cheat. Anyway, Brother Ma can't predict what will happen in the future.

But the development of history has its inertia!
When Chen Ran just returned to China this time, Pony Ma's keen sense of smell seemed to have finally realized that the entire Internet market was beginning to change quietly.

As a successful businessman, I suddenly felt an unknown sense of crisis in my heart.

His intuition told him that Penguin's future could not rely solely on QQ, and it should develop a social software that could become a household name.

At this time, Xiao Ma Ge finally began to pay attention to WeChat, which his good brother Chen Ran had tinkered with last year.

Penguin is preparing to allocate a large amount of promotional resources to the product "WeChat".

However, when Xiao Ma Ge found Chen Ran, the latter realized that the "WeChat" in this time and space might be very different.

"Brother, listen to me. First, you have to become the spokesperson for WeChat, so that you can quickly increase the popularity of this product!"

"Okay, that's no problem!" Chen Ran agreed immediately.

This was his trump card, and he never used it.

"Also, I found that WeChat is green and tennis balls are also green. Did you notice that?" Xiao Ma Ge continued to ask excitedly.

"..." Chen Ran also came back to his senses and said slowly, "Yes, they are all green."

As expected of Brother Xiao Ma, he is very observant.

"That's right, I have an idea!" Xiao Ma clapped his hands excitedly, "We can make some minor adjustments to the WeChat icon design and make it look more like a tennis ball."

Chen Ran was stunned for a moment.

First you made him the spokesperson, and then you designed the WeChat icon to look more like a tennis ball, just because they are both green. You are really a talented person!

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(End of this chapter)