Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 426 Positive Examples and Negative Examples

The Chinese men's tennis team's first victory in the Olympics came as expected.

In Chen Ran's first round match, except for some challenges in the first set, the second set was almost effortless.

However, the focus of the media was on the minor disturbance that occurred after the game.

As a result, this little boy named Tsitsipas became famous.

Many foreign media also took the opportunity to criticize Chen Ran verbally and writtenly.

"A grown man like you is actually competing with a child?"

"Chen Ran acted like a big star after the game. This is not a good example."

All kinds of exaggerated titles keep popping up.

In order to prevent Chen Ran from achieving the "Golden Slam" achievement, these guys made all kinds of interference.

Nadal is very young at only 18 years old, but Ferrero is only 24 years old and is at the peak of his career, and he is unwilling to give up his "number one brother" status so early.

After all, with the rapid rise of Nadal, the two sides have begun to quietly compete for the position of Spain's number one brother.

After concluding the press conference, Chen Ran paid special attention to other ongoing tennis events.

This decision also caused many Spanish sports reporters to complain.

The doubles team formed by two famous players had no tacit understanding or any coordination.

At the press conference after the game, he only answered a few questions very perfunctorily and ended the interview very directly.

It is said that the leaders of the Spanish Tennis Association directly made the decision to bring these two guys together temporarily. They even had very little time to train together.

Chen Ran's performance was more straightforward.

Spain's two famous players Ferrero and Nadal formed a men's doubles team to compete in the Olympics.

So these two guys looked completely absent-minded during the game and made constant mistakes.

Chen Ran even found that the two guys were a bit conflicting with each other and had almost no communication.

In terms of singles, Nadal and Ferrero are undoubtedly world-class players, but they have never been doubles players, and they have never studied in depth how to play doubles well, so it is difficult to achieve success in the doubles arena. ideal results.

Chen Ran watched the game in the sports village.

Chen Ran agreed with them on this point and regarded doubles as useless.

After all, some leaders of China's sports associations also like to match athletes according to their personal preferences.

There is a men's doubles team that is very eye-catching.

Does this scene look familiar?

Chen Ran understands it too well.

However, from Chen Ran's perspective, he believes that even if Ferrero and Nadal communicate and train together for a period of time, they may not be able to go very far in this Olympics.

They played as if they were coping with a task given by the Spanish Tennis Federation.

Since you are saying that I am acting like a big star? Then let’s show it to you!

It's just that Nadal and Ferrero still pretended, but Chen Ran didn't even bother to pretend.

In the end, the match took less than an hour. The combination of Nadal and Ferrero lost to a pair of players from Eastern European countries 0-2, stopping early in the first round.

There was no sad expression on the faces of these two guys after losing, it was even more like a look of early relief.

"In tennis, doubles and singles are two different types of players."

"It can even be said that players who are good in singles are not good in doubles."

"This is the biggest difference from table tennis and badminton."

The only exception is the 2008 Yanjing Olympic doubles champions, Federer and Wawrinka. However, these two people specially worked together to find a tacit understanding in the tour for this Olympic Games, and made all kinds of preparations for this gold medal.

Most importantly, the personal relationship between Federer and Wawrinka is very good.

Because the status of the first and second brothers in Switzerland is very stable.

One is a giant player and the other is a first-class player. Both parties perform their respective duties and have a harmonious relationship. There is no intrigue. This is obviously something that can be met but not sought.

Chen Ran knew that he didn't have to count on anything.

He murmured to himself and even glanced at his agent Xue Peng intentionally.

The latter understood it and then quietly gave a gesture.

IMG has huge media resources, and its top players are unwilling to participate in the doubles competition at the Yanjing Olympics, but they are too embarrassed to directly decline publicly. Isn't this a ready-made example?

Under Chen Ran's hint, the agent decided to make a fuss about the doubles combination of Nadal and Ferrero in this game and launch a wave of public opinion offensive.

Let the leaders of the China Sports Bureau know what is at stake.

Chen Ran would rather the leaders use this doubles quota to arrange some related parties, even if they get some benefits for themselves, as long as they don't trouble him.

If something like that guy from the national football team comes to light a few years later, it won't have a dime to do with him.

After the game, the women's doubles Golden Flower Li Ting and Sun Tiantian from China also appeared on the stage.

The huge contrast between doubles and singles in tennis also applies to women's tennis.

Li Ting and Sun Tiantian's opponents are a pair of golden flowers from Russia.

If these two Russian female players were placed alone in the WTA, their strength would be far better than that of Li Ting and Sun Tiantian.

But the level of tacit understanding in doubles is far less than that.

As Chen Ran said before, 1+1 is often not equal to 2 in competitive sports.

At the beginning, the CCTV host was worried.

He even suspected that after the leader of the tennis department shouted that the goal of the women's doubles was to win money and win gold, he even thought that the leader's brain was damaged after being hit by tennis balls?

The CCTV host has heard of Chen Ran and Zheng Jie, but who is Li Ting and who is Sun Tiantian?

However, it was these two little-known little girls who directly pressed the two famous Russian generals to the ground and rubbed them.

At one point, a Russian player even reached out to the referee to signal that a good ball from the other side had gone out of bounds.

As a result, she laughed herself after complaining.

It turns out that this Russian beauty played too many singles matches and was so involved that she forgot that the sidelines of doubles and singles tennis matches are completely different.

In the end, Li Ting and Sun Tiantian swept two famous Russian players 6-3 and broke into the quarterfinals of the Olympic women's doubles competition.

Since there are only 32 Olympic doubles draws, you only need to win two games to lock in a spot in the quarterfinals.

"So strong!"

"It seems that the slogan Director Sun shouted before the game was not groundless!"

"Chinese tennis is expected to win three gold medals!"

The CCTV host shouted excitedly.

Chen Ran once again glanced at the agent meaningfully.

Just now Nadal and Ferrero are negative examples, while Li Ting and Sun Tiantian are positive examples.

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(End of this chapter)