Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 728 Double Four
Overall, the Chinese team's performance in the Paris Olympics was quite impressive.

When Chen Ran had just finished the first game, the shooting team had already won several gold medals, and they were all a group of young men and women born in the 00s.

It has to be admitted that today's competitive sports have ushered in the era of the post-00s.

Among China's athletes born in the 80s, the most famous ones besides Chen Ran are the table tennis champion Ma Long.

This man, who is hailed as the best table tennis player in history, is also attending his last Olympics and even his last world championships.

Ma Long was the first athlete signed by Chen Ran after he established his agency.

In the blink of an eye, the young man has become a 36-year-old uncle.

However, unlike Chen Ran, Ma Long will only participate in the team competition this time and will not take part in the mixed doubles and singles competitions.

Given the strong overall strength of the Chinese Table Tennis Team, his competition pressure is indeed the least.

However, Malone has been caught up in a small storm these days.

A few days ago, he said in an interview: I hope there won’t always be so many girls coming to watch the game, I hope to see more boys.

After all, 95% of today's table tennis fans are girls, and they are very crazy.

Ma Long felt that he was about to retire and wanted to speak freely for once.

Those women were really too loud and disturbed the game.

However, as soon as Ma Long said this, he stirred up a hornet's nest.

Not only did the fans of the "Shatou" group criticize Ma Long, but even Liangzi came out to accuse him of saying that.

"Xiao Ma, how can you offend the fans? They are our customers!"

Liangzi is still counting on these fans to buy tickets!

In his opinion, the more female fans there are, the better.

They are blind and crazy, and the key point is that they are willing to spend money, not just krypton gold.

You see, the ticket prices for some domestic table tennis matches are already more expensive than tennis tickets, and they are often snatched up by these enthusiastic female fans.

Anshan Xiaoma was very depressed and was a little envious of Chen Ran.

As the number one in history, Director Bai of tennis is like a little follower in front of Chen Ran, while Liangzi can be said to have absolute power here.

Ma Long was in a bad mood, so he simply came to Roland Garros to watch the tennis match.

In fact, in the past few years, Liang Zi has always hoped that he would change his agency and has been constantly hinting at him.

As for which company to change to, of course Liangzi wanted to monopolize the power.

But Ma Long kept dragging his feet, saying that this cooperation was approved by the General Administration at that time, and that this cooperation between the national table tennis team and Chen Ran was a model in the industry and a successful interaction between tennis and table tennis.

In short, he kept dragging it out with this reason.

Besides, he has a high status and is very famous, so it is difficult for Liangzi to take action against him.

But there will be no less suppression.

For example, Liangzi can make some small moves in the allocation of coaches and physical trainers.

Then, he was excluded from the singles quota with a clear conscience.

To be honest, his strength is not weaker than the two players participating in singles, and he has more experience.

Ma Long's fans also complained that if he could use his own fitness trainer and coaching team like Chen Ran, he would still be the biggest favorite to win the men's singles at the Paris Olympics.

"Hey, I had a chance to win three consecutive championships." Ma Long saw Chen Ran easily win another game and successfully enter the men's singles quarterfinals. "Could the boss really win a fourth gold medal? This is unprecedented."

At present, in addition to Chen Ran, Durant of the US basketball team is also very likely to win four Olympic gold medals.

But the value of these two people is different. Durant is surrounded by a lot of excellent teammates.

The difficulty of Chen Ran winning the championship is equivalent to Durant representing other national teams to defeat the US team and win the gold medal.

So one is the most difficult path, and the other is the easiest path. At this time, Ma Long opened his phone and rubbed his eyes hard, revealing an unbelievable look.

"What happened? Big Head was eliminated and stopped... stopped in the top 32?"

"Top 32, is this news true..."

"This seems to be a new record, a shameful record!"

On the other side, Chen Ran also received a piece of news from the team leader when he left the court. Zheng Qinwen fought hard for 3 hours in the next court and defeated Navarro of the United States with difficulty to advance to the quarterfinals.

So far, one male and one female singles player from China Tennis have entered the quarterfinals.

This result should be the best since the 2008 Yanjing Olympics.

Last time, he and Li Na both won the championship.

As for the 2012 London Olympics, Na, who was not good at playing on grass, only made it one round.

However, Chen Ran still shook his head disapprovingly: It takes three hours to beat this kind of stuff, it seems that the condition is still not good enough, a medal will be difficult to get, and it will be good enough to make it to the semi-finals.

Forget it, just focus on yourself.

At this time, he also learned that big news had happened in the table tennis team next door.

This is indeed the first time since he participated in the Olympics in 2004.

Of course, he just watched it for fun.

But those female fans will probably cry very sadly, with tears all over their faces.

Chen Ran looked up at the audience and muttered to himself, "As for the tennis audience, apart from those androgynous guys, the normal gender ratio is about 50-50."

"Why are there so many female spectators of table tennis? Liangzi, you have some skills."

However, he felt that this thing was like raising a poisonous insect, and sooner or later it would backfire.

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A day later, Chen Ran faced Italy's second star and clay court expert Musetti in the quarter-finals.

He faced some challenges in this game.

For a while, the two sides fought very fiercely.

It's not just Chen Ran. In fact, many foreign players will also be very motivated and perform beyond their level in the Olympics.

In the first set, Chen Ran won after a tough tiebreak, and in the second set, the two played a full 12 games before Chen Ran won with a score of 7 to 5.

This game took more than 2 hours.

For Chen Ran, who is already 38 years old, the consumption is still very huge.

The semi-finals will be held one day later.

Chen Ran's opponent in the semi-finals is his old rival Djokovic.

This will be the last time Chen Ran VS Djokovic in the history of professional tennis.

The classic showdown will be the final swan song.

On the other side, Zheng Qinwen once again went through a tough 3-hour battle and defeated Germany's Kerber to get a place in the semi-finals.

Chinese tennis players once again appeared in the semi-finals of men's and women's singles.

The opponents of the other men's singles semi-final were also revealed, with Spain's Alcaraz facing off against Canada's dark horse Aliassim.

When the semi-final matchups for the two men's singles matches were announced, many media outlets exclaimed: The Spaniards are so lucky.

The two old guys were going to fight to the death, while he could just sit back and wait for the opportunity.

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(End of this chapter)