Match Point

Latest URL: To some extent, the reactions of social networks and news media just proved Gao Wen's point of view—

Expectations, have changed, and voices from the outside world are becoming a big obstacle for the younger generation to stay focused, and obviously, this is a serious problem.

Everything is placed under the microscope, and the effect is magnified ten times and a hundred times.

A victory may be boasted to heaven; similarly, a failure may be sent to hell.

But in the world of competitive sports, victory is victory and defeat is failure. One or two games cannot represent the entire career.

The media and the Internet need to relax, young players need to relax, only in this way can they grow.

Roar!

Ho **** ho!

The Arthur-Ashe stadium was excited because of Gawain's words, and the applause was thunderous.

Courier looked at Gao Wen with a look of appreciation, and instead of continuing to dig out news about the focus topic, he focused on the next game.

"Gao Wen, for the next second round, your opponent has been announced. Earlier, Mardy Fish had already entered the second round..."

ah!

The cheers and roars interrupted Courier's words. At this moment, it can be felt that Fish is the real home court, with amazing energy.

The smile on the corner of Courier's mouth rose slightly.

"Next, you will compete with Maddy for a third-round spot."

"Before the start of this year's US Open, Madi announced that this will be the last match of his career, the last time he will set foot on the New York court, and the last time he will set foot on the tennis court."

"This is the first meeting between you and Maddy, and it will also be your last meeting. What do you think about this?"

Oh oh oh oh.

Arthur Ashe's cheering and booing continued, and fans could even be seen standing up, raising their hands, and shouting.

Obviously, for the next game, they have already shown great expectations.

Gawain shrugged his shoulders lightly and smiled.

"It's an honor for me, without a doubt."

"In the next game, I will be a supporting role, and the spotlight should belong to Madi."

A simple sentence easily pushed the atmosphere of the Arthur Ashe Stadium to an extreme level, and the applause and whistles came down vigorously.

After speaking, Gao Wen bent down to pick up his equipment bag, finished the interview and prepared to leave. After the game, there was still a series of work to be done.

However, Courier waited for a time difference, seeing that Gawain had already turned and left, he was half a beat behind before shouting.

"Dude, are you ready to leave now? Looks like you can't wait to get rid of me. My problems are not over yet."

As soon as he heard it, he knew that Courier was joking. Amidst the laughter of the audience, Gawain had to stop and looked at Courier again with a smile on his face.

Courier deliberately closed his mouth and refused to speak, his eyes were full of smiles.

Gawain put down the equipment bag and made an inviting gesture.

Only then did Courier put the microphone close to his mouth, "I just want to ask about your equipment. Is this black equipment so chic and fashionable, is it imitating armor?"

Gao Wen was dumbfounded.

Haha, hahaha, the audience burst out laughing.

It is very rare to see Gao Wen's speechless expression, such a picture is really precious.

Courier was full of pride.

Gao Wen couldn't help laughing, but he still approached the microphone seriously, "Actually, this is the equipment imitating Darth-Vader, how about it, are you scared?"

Laughter, can't stop at all.

Including Courier.

An unexpected answer brought back the initiative again.

In the early morning of the next day, the "New York Times" reported the first game of Gawain's defending journey with such a headline, which was very impactful.

"Darth Vader's debut, the Darth Vader is still Arthur Ashe's master of the night scene!"

Even Gawain himself did not expect that Zverev Jr. became the first victim of the Black Warrior's sweep of thousands of troops. Behind the sympathy and regret was an eager expectation, forming a new trend——

The "post-90s" players, including Zverev Jr., are indeed living in a stressful era, facing the most severe and demanding test. There are the Big Four in the front and the Black Warrior in the back, which can be called dark.

This... was absolutely unexpected.

Later, Fish posted a teaser on his social network account.

"Fortunately, I don't need to go through the Darth Vader era, wait..."

It was concise and to the point, but it created an amazing effect of ridicule. Players including Roddick and Federer forwarded it one after another, and it became a new wave of social networks.

The reason is very simple -

Mardy Fish, born in 1981, to be precise, he and Federer, Roddick, Safin, Ferrero, Hewitt, Nalbandian and other players belong to a generation.

At the beginning of the century, in the short five years before the rise of Nadal, this group of players was hailed as the golden generation. They complemented each other with the generation of Sampras and Agassi who had not yet retired, and began to seize power in an all-round way, opening up the stars A period of brilliance that shines.

In 2004, Fish won the men's singles silver medal at the Athens Olympics. He was once known as the twin stars of the American men's singles with Roddick, and became the number one men's singles in the United States in 2011.

Fish and Roddick grew up together, trained together and entered the professional game together. Not only were they classmates in high school, but Fish also stayed at Roddick's house for a whole year. They also experienced an era together.

Of course, everyone knows what happened afterwards.

Like Roddick, Fish entered the peak era of tennis together, first Federer and Nadal, and then Djokovic and Murray, so that the once golden generation was all reduced to a foil.

Roddick has become a representative role of the tragic figure of the giant era. He won the US Open in 2003 and was ranked first in the world at the end of the year. However, he lost to Federer in three Wimbledon finals and one US Open final. Pass the last level.

It is precisely because of this that people often refer to the golden players of Roddick and Fish as "victims of the era of giants". Hypothesis; but never imagined that players born after 1990 still have not been able to get rid of the shadow of the giants, and then the younger generation born after 1995 has already appeared.

Looking at it from another perspective, the retirement of the golden generation also avoided the embarrassment of confronting the younger and more youthful generation head-on.

That's why Fish's self-deprecating sentence came into being, and it caused laughter.

Now that the group of players born around 1980 have retired one after another, and Federer has missed the Grand Slam championship for three years, naturally there is a kind of sadness in the tour that "an era is about to end".

This year's US Open is about to usher in the curtain call of Fish's career.

"Fish vs. Gawain," so, will this be Fish's last fight?

(end of this chapter)

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