Almighty Athlete Chapter 456: Sweep the Chinese net

Federer felt that he was in a disadvantageous year. At the beginning of the Australian Open, he lost to Djokovic in the semi-finals, and then at the French Open, Federer entered the final for the fifth time but lost to Nadal, where he is best. In the Wimbledon game, the quarter-finals lost to French player Tsonga.

Federer has won at least one Grand Slam trophy every year since 2002, and this year, Federer is in a state of worry. If the US Open will also collapse, it will be the worst since 2002. Record.

Not far away, Federer’s twin daughters were playing there, and Federer sighed helplessly while looking at the newspaper.

"Roger, what's wrong? Why sigh?" Wife Mirka asked.

"Look at this, the IAAF has just issued the latest regulations, an athlete can only participate in three Olympic track and field events. This is obviously directed at Zhang Guan." Federer said.

Mirka nodded: "I don't think the IAAF will allow Zhang Guan to dominate the track and field events. I remember that in the last Olympics, Zhang Guan won 10 gold medals by himself! What does this have to do with us?"

"Of course it does." Federer continued: "Zhang Guan can only choose three track and field events to participate, then he can put more experience on other events, such as tennis. If Zhang Guan participates in the Olympic tennis competition, , It looks like I can’t get a gold slam in my life!"

Federer was quite disappointed here, and Mirka came over to comfort her husband. She said, "Zhang Guan hasn't participated in tennis for two or three years. Maybe he is out of state? And he Now the ATP points should be zero? He must pass the Olympic Wild Card Qualification to be on the Olympic stage?"

"You reminded me." Federer took the laptop and searched for information about Zhang Guan.

"Sure enough, Zhang Guan announced to participate in this year's China Open." Federer said by pointing to a piece of news.

"China Open? That seems to be an insignificant event?" Mirka asked.

"It doesn't matter, but the champion of China Open has 500 ATP points, which is enough for Zhang Guan to directly enter the top 100 in the world. And there should be no big players in China Open. It is easy for Zhang Guan to win the championship. Federer continued: "Zhang Guan may be able to recover some status in the China Open game, and then face the next Shanghai Rolex Masters, that is the ATP1000 event, Zhang Guan only needs to get a top four ranking, his points will be Can be firmly ranked in the top 50 of the world, will definitely get a ticket for the Olympic tennis. It seems that the tennis racing of the Olympics will definitely be able to see the figure of Zhang Guan."

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The China Open Women’s Singles event is a WTA first-level event, with a total prize money of 1.34 million US dollars. The total prize money of the China Open Women’s Singles tournament is only 2.34 million US dollars. After deducting the 1.34 million women’s singles prize, the remaining Men's singles, women's doubles and men's doubles share a prize of USD 1 million, so there are not many bonuses for men's singles.

The lack of bonuses is certainly not enough to attract men’s singles big players. The ATP1000 Masters tournament has a total bonus of two to three million dollars, so big players are disdain to participate in the Chinese Open. Those who are slightly famous are participating in the Chinese Open, all for the 500 points. After all, the top players in the world do not participate, and it is relatively easy to get these 500 points.

There are 36 players participating in the China Open men’s singles. The top seed is French player Tsonga. With the outstanding performance of Wimbledon, Tsonga has just entered the top ten in the world. The current world ranking is No. Nine, he is also the only player in the top ten in the Chinese Open.

As the organizer of China, there will be three host contestants. Zhang Guan naturally takes up one, and also takes care of the grouping. The first opponent is Russian Gabashvili, ranking 100 in the world. Most of the results in the four majors are the first round of the game.

An opponent like this is obviously very helpful for Zhang Guan to find the game. After a few rounds of familiarization, Zhang Guan took 6-4 and 6-1 to take Gabashvili lightly and entered the second round.

Zhang Guan's opponent in the second round is veteran Ljubicic. Liubisic was actually only 32 years old this year, but his debut was relatively early, and he was bald early, and he grew older, so he felt like a veteran. However, the state of Ljubicic is already much worse than that of that year, and the history of Ljubicic also announced his retirement in April next year.

Liubicic, who is about to retire next year, apparently beat her strength by fame, and after a game, Zhang Guan gradually found the feeling of a tennis match and finally defeated Liu by 6-3 in two sets. Bisic.

The third opponent of Zhang Guan is Russian player Uzny. This is an old opponent who once played, but with the growth of his youth, Uzny has also come to the top. When he played with Zhang Guan, Uzny It is the top fifteenth player in the world, even in the four grand slams, and it is also a seed level. Now Uzny is ranked more than forty in the world and is not a seed player in the Chinese Open.

The strength gap was also doomed to the result of this game early. After Zhang Guan defeated Yuzny, it finally ushered in a relatively difficult opponent Cilic.

Before this, Zhang Guan met some "old and weak" players, such as Liu Bisiqi, although famous, but has already passed the peak period, this kind of people who are about to retire soon, naturally talk Not much strength. Cilic from Croatia is a rising player.

Silic's world ranking reached the ninth position in the world last year, and successfully reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open. In the future, Cilic also won the championship in the 2014 US Open. Such a young and rising player is the first grindstone encountered by Zhang Guan.

The first time Cilic participated in the Grand Slam match was in 2008. At that time, Zhang Guan had faded out of tennis, so Cilic and Zhang Guan had no record of playing. The newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger. From the beginning, he launched a strong attack on Zhang Guan.

Silic is 1.98 meters tall and tall and burly. He is a typical Croatian man. He is undoubtedly a strong player. His serve is strong and his forehand is full of strength. This player may not be It is very suitable for the French Open clay court, but in the hard court, it is obviously like a fish.

However, Cilic picked the wrong opponent. At the peak of that year, the American cannon Roddick was not as good as the Zhang Guan, and the Cilic was slightly weaker. How could it be an Zhang Guan opponent.

After a while, Cilic defeated very simply. Even spectators who didn’t understand tennis already saw that Cilic failed because of his inferior skills.

After defeating Cilic, Zhang Guan advanced to the finals of the Chinese Open. His opponents are all available to Berdych~IndoMTL.com~ Berdych is also a relatively fast-rising player in recent years. The French Open reached the semifinals and Wimbledon finished second. At present, Berdych is ranked 11th in the world. Among the contestants in the Chinese Open, he is only with Tsonga, and he also advanced after defeating Tsonga. In the Chinese Open final.

Berdić is a famous "nerve knife". At Wimbledon last year, he killed Federer and Djokovic successively. Federer and Djokovic were in good condition at the time, but encountered Berdych, who played well, still suffered defeat. This kind of "nerve knife" is invincible when the state is good, but when the state is not good, it often loses to some unknown people.

Today Berdych’s state is not good or bad, and it can only be regarded as average, but after the game started, his state quickly dropped from "normal" to "bad". Because in the entire tennis court, almost no one cheered for him.

After all, China Open is the home of Zhang Guan. Especially when it comes to the finals, the home audience will definitely support Zhang Guan one-sidedly.

For players of the "Nerve Knife" type, this strong away atmosphere will most likely affect their mood and state.

The nerve knives are always more and more courageous, and the more courageous and more courageous, the fight is to get angry, once it is deflated, it looks like a balloon with a hole. Blow up. No one cheered for Berdych today. He couldn't be brave or able to fight. He soon surrendered his gun.

The final was a three-game three-win system. Zhang Guan had three straight sets. It defeated Berdych smoothly and won the championship of the Chinese Open.

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Sweep the Chinese net and Zhang Guan is back! -"Sports Times" gave a big headline. (To be continued.)

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