Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 720 The Italian Master!

In the subsequent quarterfinals, the Chinese team defeated the German team 2-1.

After Chen Ran and Zheng Qinwen won one game each, they simply sent in substitutes for the third game.

Anyway, losing will not affect promotion.

The rules of the Confederations Cup require that all three games be played, but in the knockout stage, since there is no competition for small points, the Chinese team sent in substitutes after qualifying.

In fact, not all tennis powerhouses participated in this Federation Cup.

Countries like Russia and Belarus cannot participate in the event in the name of their country.

In the semi-finals, China's opponent is the host Australia team.

Today in Australia, the level of women's basketball has declined significantly, with the highest ranking in the world being only 80th.

In the previous few games, they relied on their enthusiasm and stumbled to the semi-finals, but they could not pose any threat to Zheng Qinwen.

On the men's side, the most talented Kyrgios was also eliminated.

That guy vowed that he wanted to make a comeback in 2024, but the first thing he did at the beginning of the year was to announce that he had opened an "onlyfans" account, which made many fans excited.

You said you wanted to win the championship, but ended up going into the adult entertainment industry?
Is that the area in which you want to win the championship?

But Australia is indeed a strong country in men's tennis. When Kyrgios became useless, new young talents immediately took his place.

Today, De Minaur is ranked 15th in the world and is considered Australia's current number one player. Although his talent is far from comparable to Kyrgios, he is also hailed as the next Australian male player who is very likely to break into the TOP10.

However, for Chen Ran today, De Minaur is still too young.

Soon, the Chinese team took a 2-0 lead.

The Chinese team once again decisively gave up the third game and advanced to the finals with a score of 2 to 1.

Chen Ran originally thought that his opponent in the final would be Serbia.

After all, Djokovic, who has always been very patriotic, also represented Serbia in the Confederations Cup.

But something unexpected happened.

Djokovic lost to Sinner again in the semifinals.

In the semi-finals of last year's year-end finals, Djokovic and Sinner played three sets before losing.

But this time, Sinner won the crucial game in straight sets with a very obvious advantage.

The strength of Serbian female players today is no longer comparable to that of Ivanovic's era, with the highest ranking being 70th.

The Italian team quickly swept the Serbian team 3-0 and met the Chinese team in the final.

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"The final is against Sinner again. Is this kid so strong?" Chen Ran was also a little dazed.

He himself did not know the record of the match between Sinner and Djokovic in 2024 in his previous life, and was a little surprised that the "master and servant" status between Sinner and Djokovic, who was second only to him among the "Big Four", was almost reversed.

Before last year's year-end finals, Djokovic was dominating Sinner, but after the year-end, Sinner was dominating Djokovic.

But in the final of the Confederations Cup, Chen Ran made the Italians realize that even if you can defeat your second master, you still cannot defeat your primary master.

Chen Ran still stands in front of Xinna, an insurmountable mountain.

His technical characteristics completely restrained Sinner.

From beginning to end, Chen Ran was like a cold-blooded killer, leaving no chance for Sinner to win.

He took the first set 2-0.

As long as Zheng Qinwen wins one more women's singles match, the Chinese team will be able to take home the championship of the first Federation Cup.

Zheng Qinwen versus Pauline!

Although Pauline is not tall, only 1 meters, she is very strong and moves very fast, and is also a top player in today's women's tennis. Then, the reporters were surprised to find a set of data.

So far, Zheng Qinwen has won all three matches against Pauline.

This is the only time she has remained undefeated against any of the top ten players in the world.

“I didn’t expect Xiao Zheng to have such a record.”

"You said she usually never admits defeat and likes to brag, but it's a bit surprising that she didn't mention this pretty good achievement."

"So the second set should be fine, we should be able to win the championship."

As expected by many people, Zheng Qinwen firmly took the initiative from the beginning of the game and left no chance for Pauline.

ACE balls come one after another!
比赛仅仅过了1个小时零5分钟，她便以6比2，6比3带走了比赛。

After shaking hands after the game, Pauline looked dejected and almost cried.

This match was even more brutal than the one between Chen Ran and Sinner.

Chen Ran was also somewhat surprised watching this scene, and was shocked to find that Zheng Qinwen now had a maid who was ranked in the top ten in the world.

"and many more!"

"I found a record!"

“A brand new record.”

The Chinese reporters at the scene shouted excitedly.

"What's the matter? Why are you so excited?" Someone next to him was puzzled.

"Only counting tournaments above the tour level, Chen Ran's record against Italian players is 127 wins and 0 losses."

This record is normal.

Because in the past 20 years, Italy has only produced a world-class player, Sinner, in recent years, and in the long period before that, their players could hardly approach the world's top level.

So Chen Ran actually maintained an unbeaten record against Italian players.

Because Italy was not considered a tennis powerhouse in the past, no one paid attention to this record, just like Chen Ran was undefeated against his neighbor Xiao Zi, but no one showed it off.

"This is normal. Is there any need to be so excited?" The Chinese reporter felt that it was natural for Chen Ran to defeat Sinner, even though the latter had beaten Djokovic several times.

"Zheng Qinwen! Her current record against Italian players is 15 wins and 0 losses, including four consecutive wins against TOP10 player Paulini."

"..."

At this moment, many reporters were also shocked.

I didn't expect that Xiao Zheng has such a record that is not obvious but worth reporting.

Soon, tennis bloggers on Weibo also began to report on Chen Ran and Zheng Qinwen's comprehensive suppression of Italian male and female players.

"Have you noticed? The Italian male and female tennis players are actually the male and female servants of our Chinese athletes!"

"A group of male servants and a group of female servants, who destroyed tennis in the entire country of Italy completely by their own strength."

"Haha, it's hard to imagine how desperate those Italians are at this moment!"

After the Chinese team won the first United Cup, Chen Ran and Zheng Qinwen received bonuses of 50 and 35 US dollars respectively, while those substitute players who hardly played also received around 3 US dollars.

But in terms of points, only the number one men's singles and women's singles player can enjoy it.

Chen Ran received 500 ATP points because of his world No. 400 ranking, while Zheng Qinwen also received WTA points because of his eleventh ranking.

The latter successfully rose to tenth place in the world rankings with this victory.

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(End of this chapter)