The treatment of the defending champion is indeed unusual.

Originally, Gao Wen thought that he could maintain a normal mind; moreover, he had experienced countless storms and waves, and he could calmly face any challenge again.

But when I actually arrived at the press conference site, the whole atmosphere was still different after all, which was completely different from any past Grand Slam experience.

Especially when the reporter mentioned the "defending champion", the joy and excitement burned like fireworks in the lower abdomen. From the position to the state to the expectation, everything was quietly changing.

Only then did Gao Wen realize that defending the title was indeed the first time.

"Hehe, I'm sorry, I didn't really realize that I am the defending champion until now, and I feel a little strange."

"I feel like I'm wearing a distorting mirror now, and the world in front of me is different."

There were no pleasantries or politeness, Gao Wen showed his honesty and humor as soon as he opened his mouth, and the reporters on the scene started booing one after another—

Undoubtedly, Asian journalists accounted for the majority and were more supportive than anyone else, because for them, this was also a brand new experience.

"Of course, it's not the same, everything is different."

"First of all, my world ranking is different. At this time last year, I was ranked 193, which should not be on anyone's radar."

boom!

It was laughter again, and shock again.

Don’t say I don’t know, I really looked back at this time and realized that Gao Wen had never started without a world ranking for a whole year, and participated in professional competitions for the first time with a wild card as No. 193. It's an illusion like a world away, everything happened too fast.

"Although this is not the first time for me to compete as the second seed, being the defending champion is indeed a new experience. It can be used as a small reference for the future."

Modesty with a little arrogance—

The subtext is that he is looking forward to winning more championships, and naturally, there will be more and more opportunities to fight as the defending champion.

Sure enough, witty.

"Not only now, but from before, I can slowly feel the difference in the situation."

"People looked at me with a mentality of celebrating an award and also looking forward to it: since the unparalleled results were achieved here last year, this year should also be optimistic."

"But we all know that last year is last year and this year is this year, it's two different things."

"I know how difficult it is to re-enter the semi-finals, the finals and even win the championship. If I think too much, those thoughts will start to slowly occupy my brain, swallowing the concentration and devotion of the game. I will not think about defending the title now. I'm going to try to focus on what's going on in front of me."

"For example, I just passed by the player's cafeteria, and the dinner has started to come to the table one after another. My stomach is protesting. While talking with you, I started to think about the choice of dinner. For me, this is the moment. something to consider."

ha.

A burst of laughter.

Immediately afterwards, a reporter immediately raised his hand and raised a very interesting topic.

"There are some players who believe they were successful last year based on this model, so they replicate the same model this year and expect to be successful as well."

"Do you have the idea? To replicate last year's model and also replicate last year's feat."

Gao Wen shook his head again and again, "No, no no no." His smile also rose.

"I don't want to copy last year's model. With that kind of draw, one time is enough."

The audience burst into laughter.

"As I just said, this year is different from last year, everything is new."

"I don't want to follow the pattern of last year, I am looking forward to making some changes, continuing to improve and improve, and facing new challenges."

"It should be looked at this way, with a new ranking, a new location, a new situation, and even a new team, I am also a new me. Therefore, I also choose a new hotel, a new daily routine, oh yes, because Injury disrupted the plan, which is also a new experience."

Haha, hahaha—

There was nothing in the words themselves, but Gao Wen's relaxed and self-deprecating tone was full of humor, which made people laugh.

"I'm also looking forward to a new tournament."

In the end, Gao Wen drew a full stop, but obviously, the reporter still had more to say, so he asked another question.

"Injury, this is indeed a sudden situation. Now there are many expectations from the outside world, and there are also many doubts. Does this affect you?"

This was also an expected problem, and Gao Wen was not surprised.

"Of course, the impact is objective."

"I need to adjust and I need to adapt. I have started to resume training, but there is no official game, and I am not sure how to perform after entering the game."

"Pete and Andre have given me a lot of advice about the current situation, and I've always thanked them for their unreserved support."

"The first round of a Grand Slam is always not easy, accompanied by some tension and jerky, you don't know your own state, and you don't know the opponent's state, you always hope to enter the game as soon as possible and control the situation, but the reality Accidents happen, so you need to be calm."

"As far as Grand Slams are concerned, the best-of-five set gives us more time to think and adjust, which is a very important thing."

"Combined with the cause of injury, there will be more uncertain things, and there will be more things that need to be explored and adapted."

"So, things like the semi-finals, championships, and defending titles are too far away from me. I hope to be more down-to-earth and focus on the first round first."

"To make an objective evaluation, this is definitely not the best time for my career, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com, but I believe that I am still a threat worthy of attention."

It is definitely polite to be so humble.

"As for outside voices, hey, you guys should know that I'm still living in the last century, right?"

A joke successfully aroused whistles and applause in the press conference hall.

The reason is very simple.

As we all know, Gao Wen's social network accounts are all run by a professional team, and there are only a very few cases where Gao Wen publishes the news himself, so fans have complained that Gao Wen is a grandfather who lived in the last century.

Now Gao Wen responded in such a way that he never cared, wouldn't care, and didn't intend to care about those outside doubts and attacks.

In the era of social networks, being able to completely eliminate distracting thoughts and focus on the game, this maturity and wisdom, not to mention players of the same age, is very rare even among the top ten players in the world. Don’t you see Djokovic and Murray Still suffering from negative online speech attacks.

At this time at the press conference, Gao Wen still followed his usual principles—

Ignore the hate speech.

It was not because of timidity or evasion, but because Gao Wen knew that any little attention, even if it was a rebuttal or attack, would become fuel for those hate speeches to gain more attention and more firepower.

Then.

The most important topic in the pre-match press conference, and one that must not be missed, made its debut—

“…in the pre-match press conference, Sasha said, sorry, allow me to quote:

'I don't mean it to be arrogant, but I think I can beat him'. "