Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 712 The Polish Man with a Bad Mouth
After all, since Xiao Ma Ge will not interfere in these trivial matters, Chen Ran, who is "second only to the emperor" in the Penguin Empire, can completely command the Penguin media according to his own wishes.

Therefore, in the Penguin media today, the exposure of tennis is almost comparable to that of football and basketball, two popular team sports, and is not inferior to table tennis at all.

The difference is that Liangzi next door invested a lot of money in the Penguin media to market table tennis and a certain CP fans. Anyway, the wool comes from the wool, and he will reap the leeks in the fan circle in the future. Chen Ran also turned a blind eye and gave a discount on the marketing costs for the sake of the national ball.

The fan circle is crazy? Anyway, it’s not my face that’s being embarrassed!

As for those "boxing" accounts, he was unhappy with them and banned them without saying a word, without even the chance to appeal.

What's more, Penguin also has a certain percentage of shares in Weibo, so some of Chen Ran's decisions can also affect the operation of Weibo.

However, with the rise of ByteDance, especially the popularity of TikTok, Weibo has actually become mostly unpopular today. The number of active users is much lower than during its peak period, with only some fan club fans left to collect data.

From Chen Ran's perspective, although he will do his best to let the media increase the exposure of outstanding domestic tennis players, he does not want to engage in fan circle marketing to avoid unnecessary trouble in the future.

Therefore, it is a good idea to use the "Fat Ball" next door as a tool to hedge the marketing of the skiing girl, so as to prevent the other party from dominating the market.

You see, our Penguin media doesn’t just market tennis players, we also promote the national sport.

In addition, these media outlets have deliberately set "Fat Ball" and the skiing girl against each other. Anyway, the fan circles on both sides are very crazy and may tear each other apart.

During this period, although Chen Ran was in Australia, he was hiding behind the scenes and giving remote commands.

To be honest, it’s really not that satisfying to control the media and call the shots.

Of course, he also knows his limits and knows that there are certain red lines that cannot be crossed.

For the rest, you can do whatever you want.

However, while Chen Ran was on vacation, Chinese tennis fans were not idle either.

Everyone continued to follow the entire clay court season with great enthusiasm.

At the 2022 French Open, the new generation of clay court queen Swiatek and Zheng Qinwen had a wonderful and fierce three-set battle in the quarter-finals, which took nearly 4 hours.

Although Zheng Qinwen eventually lost to Swiatek, this match was also the most difficult match for Swiatek on her way to winning the French Open. In other matches, she defeated her opponents in straight sets and was hardly challenged.

Therefore, Chinese fans gave Zheng Qinwen the title of "French Open Honorary Runner-up".

After all, she was the only player who caused trouble for Swiatek on her way to the title.

"Among this generation of players, she should be the only one who has the chance to win the Grand Slam, at least so far!" Many netizens also commented.

Although Chen Ran was absent from this year's French Open, there were still two women and one man who advanced to the second week of the Grand Slam.

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"Chen Ran, will you not participate in the clay court season in the future?" A foreign reporter deliberately asked during the interview.

"I had to miss this year's French Open due to injuries and my age. Next year, if I'm fine, I will definitely participate." Chen Ran answered without a single mistake.

Everyone sees through it but doesn't point it out.

"What about the upcoming grass season?"

"I'll fly straight to Wimbledon!"

"So what do you think of the war between Russia and Ukraine?"

"No comment!"

"Wimbledon officials have announced that players from Russia and Belarus are banned from participating. What do you think?"

"That's between Wimbledon and the ATP and the WTA."

Chen Ran has remained silent on this matter because this is the official intention of China.

Naturally, he also followed the advice of the Chinese government.

Even if the Chinese government doesn't say anything, he won't get involved in these messy things.

Did you see what Djokovic said? Serbia and Russia have such a close relationship, but he didn't say a word. It has nothing to do with me.

Of course, there are some fanatical "Emperor fans" on the domestic Internet who have been shouting at Chen Ran to speak out and protest against the actions of the Wimbledon Organizing Committee.

Even these ignorant guys asked the "King of Grass" to withdraw from the competition to protest Wimbledon's behavior. Chen Ran simply ignored these "Emperor fans".

What does this have to do with me?
Haven't the ATP and WTA already taken action? They have abolished the points for this year's Wimbledon.

Those guys who changed their Russian citizenship to Kazakhstan did not protest and remained silent. They used the amulet of "change of citizenship" to happily go to Wimbledon.

If I remember correctly, Rybakina, who changed her nationality from Russia to Kazakhstan, took advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win the Wimbledon championship, which was actually a slap in the face to the Wimbledon organizing committee.

You banned Russian players, but you still let a "Russian" like me win the championship here.

So Chen Ran simply ignored those fanatical "Emperor fans", especially those marketing accounts that were jumping around. He simply waved his hand and blocked their accounts.

Wimbledon is a Grand Slam tournament after all, and even if there are no points, the players cannot refuse, and will generally participate unless they are injured.

However, an accident happened. When Chen Ran just arrived in London, Nadal announced his withdrawal.

He said his injury was serious and he couldn't continue.

Then everyone looked at the draw and realized that Nadal might face Chen Ran in the quarter-finals, so he avoided the fight?

In the French Open not long ago, Nadal tried his best and after a hard battle, he finally won the French Open championship again, and finally brought his Grand Slam number to 10.

The title of giant finally fits its bill.

To be a giant, at least you need to have a double-digit number of Grand Slam titles, right?

But this French Open really exhausted him.

Especially in the final, his fierce battle with Zverev almost defeated Nadal.

He doesn't have the energy to play in Wimbledon.

However, a few days after Nadal withdrew from the competition, his team announced that Nadal's entire 2022 season was over in order to prove that he was not avoiding Chen Ran, and they looked forward to his comeback next year.

Can I make a comeback next year?
This is Chen Ran’s question.

After all, Nadal in his previous life also took a year off in 2023.

In this time and space, his physical damage seems to be even more serious.

Forget it, leave him alone.

This Wimbledon is basically a competition between him and Djokovic.

The two remaining super grass court masters.

After taking a break during the clay court season, Chen Ran was in great shape and easily defeated all the top players along the way.

When he reached the quarter-finals, his opponent changed from Nadal to the Polish star Hurkacz.

This Pole is indeed a foul-mouthed person, even a famous tennis player is like this.

After the war broke out, this guy started shouting on social media that the ATP and WTA should ban all Russian and Belarusian players.

After Wimbledon banned them, he finally got what he wanted, but found out that he got no points after working so hard to reach the quarterfinals.

Then, he found out that his opponent was Chen Ran, and he started playing psychological warfare again: Why didn't Chen Ran protest and announce his support for Ukraine? As the No. 1 player in the tennis world, he should stand up and condemn it. He is so irresponsible!
"Why don't you donate money to support Ukraine?" Chen Ran cursed back, "Put away your hypocritical face!"

"During the 2008 Olympics, I remember there was a Polish player who was very bad-mouthed."

"You Poles are really of the same blood!"

Chen Ran was also angered and did not give Hurkacz any face in this game.

6比1，6比1，6比0！

He didn't hold back at all and beat Hurkacz up straight away.

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(End of this chapter)