Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 52 Three years later, I will appear here

Chen Ran indeed guessed correctly, Korean Li Xiangze was here to score points.

Li Xiangze has missed several tours in the Asian season because he has to participate in the Busan Asian Games.

Every September and October is the Asian season of the ATP World Tour.

During this time, most ATP Tour events are held in Asia, the highest level of which is the ATP500 Tokyo Tennis Open.

Because the tennis competitions at the Asian Games are not recognized by the Professional Tennis Federation, there are no ATP points. This caused Li Xiangze, who missed several Asian Tour stops, to suffer a sharp decline in his world ranking.

Before participating in the Asian Games, he was still among the top 100 in the world, but after winning the silver medal at the Asian Games, the world ranking dropped to 119th.

Today's Asian season has come to an end, and the ATP500 Tokyo level is too high, making it difficult for him to be ranked.

Unless the organizing committee of Little Days is so kind-hearted that they are willing to give a precious wild card to a Korean who they have always disliked.

This possibility is very low, and they will definitely give priority to domestic players.

Therefore, the ATP100K Challenge held in Shanghai became Li Xiangze’s inevitable choice.

As long as he can win this tournament, he will get 100 ATP points and his ranking will return to the top 100 in the world.

"This is……"

Chen Ran carefully observed the match list, and the expression on his face was wonderful.

If all goes well, he will face the Korean player Li Xiangze in the quarterfinals.

This means that if Chen Ran wants to enter the semi-finals, he must surpass Li Xiangze, the number one seed.

What a terrible fortune!
However, Chen Ran did not show any disappointment, instead his eyes shone with excitement.

What's the point of being abusing people all the time? Only by fighting against strong opponents can you make progress.

Chen Ran started browsing some other news.

The little giant Yao Ming has arrived in Houston, USA, and officially signed a four-year rookie contract with the Rockets worth 1800 million US dollars. From then on, Yao Ming began to officially lead the wealth list of Chinese athletes.

The sales of the third album "Eight Degrees of Space" by the little Chinese king Jay Chou in Asia exceeded 220 million, and it was once again the best-selling album without any suspense.

Zhang Yimou's first martial arts movie, "Hero", which brings together countless Chinese movie stars, is officially scheduled to be released in December.

This is truly a bright era with stars shining brightly.

Another piece of news is...

National football player Li Tie's consecutive starts at Everton mean that he has established a firm foothold in the fiercely competitive and cruel Premier League. However, Tiezi 20 years later...

Chen Ran silently turned off the computer, patted Hu Jie on the shoulder, and left the Internet cafe.

Not far from this Internet cafe, there is a newly opened KFC store.

Chen Ran, who has great ambitions, naturally avoids junk food like "KFC".

But when Chen Ran passed by the KFC store, an acquaintance opened the door and walked out. It was Zhou Jing, his classmate in the third grade of junior high school.

"Chen Ran, you are here too!" She saw Chen Ran's expression of surprise and took the initiative to say hello.

Chen Ran stopped: "I just came out of the Internet cafe to check some information."

He saw Zhou Jing holding a cup of Coke in one hand and a bag in the other. Standing next to her was a girl whom Chen Ran didn't know. She was also a pretty girl.

Chen Ran was not surprised to see Zhou Jing here. After all, both of their families lived in this area.

"Chen Ran, you haven't been to school these days. I haven't seen you."

"The game is about to begin, and I have been training hard these past few days."

"Then... come on, come back with another championship!" In a daze, Zhou Jing didn't know what to say and could only say some nice things.The girl next to her suddenly said: "Zhou Jing, this is the junior high school classmate you often mentioned to me. You said he played tennis well and won several championships and many bonuses."

The smile on the girl's lips was a bit thick.

Zhou Jing's face turned red, and she pulled her directly and shouted: "Let's go, let's go!"

When leaving, she turned back and waved to Chen Ran to say goodbye.

Chen Ran vaguely heard the intermittent voices of the girl next to Zhou Jing.

"You often mentioned him in front of me and told me not to tell Wang Luting..."

Soon, the two girls walked away.

Chen Ran was in a daze for a while, and his cell phone suddenly rang. It was from that guy Sun Kai.

He answered the phone and heard the young man's voice.

"Chen Ran...I want to discuss something with you."

……

Two days later, Chen Ran got on the bus to Shanghai with a guy, his high school classmate Sun Kai.

This guy called a few days ago, clamoring to follow him to the Magic City, saying he was cheering with Chen Ran.

I need you to cheer me up?

However, Chen Ran couldn't bear to refuse the kindness of his classmates, so he had to take this oil bottle to the Magic City.

Along the way, Sun Kai also enthusiastically shared with Chen Ran the female teachers from the island country that he loved so much. He was gushing and beaming.

Chen Ran had no interest in listening to Sun Kai's nonsense, and his mind was full of the upcoming game.

He even wondered, is this guy Sun Kai really going to cheer for himself?Or maybe I had another purpose in going to the magic city, I just felt bored alone and wanted to make a companion with myself.

More than three hours later, the bus pulled into the bus station in Shanghai.

There were many people sleeping soundly in the car. Even Sun Kai said he was tired and went to pretend to be cool with Duke Zhou in his dream.

However, Chen Ran was not sleepy at all. On the contrary, he was getting more and more excited.

Coming out of the bus station in Shanghai, Sun Kai said with some trepidation, "Brother, I have something to deal with. I'm going to take a step ahead. I'll cheer you on after you compete."

This guy seemed to have something urgent to do. He ran away as soon as he finished speaking.

You didn't even ask where the fucking match address was and why did you come to cheer me on?Even if it's a lie, can you be more careful?
Of course, Chen Ran wouldn't take this incident seriously.

He hailed a taxi, threw out a hundred-dollar bill, and headed to the Qizhong Tennis Center in the MH District.

Because the Year-End Masters Cup will be held next month, the square outside the stadium is filled with banners and posters of the eight participating players, including Federer, Hewitt, Agassi, Safin and other world-class tennis players.

Among them, the American player and seven-time Grand Slam winner Agassi’s poster is located in the most conspicuous C position.

Today's Federer, the king of Federer, is just a rookie player who has just become famous. The focus of the audience is focused on Agassi, the American bald man.

Chen Ran's small figure stood in the huge square, looking at the huge posters, and he had a very strange feeling in his heart.

The year-end Masters Cup is held in rotation around the world, and the next time it will be the Magic City will be three years later in 2005.

Three years later, I want my poster to be here too.

……

(End of this chapter)