"Match Point(

"The end of the era of the Big Four", this topic is no stranger to tennis fans. It has entered the public's attention since the beginning of this year's season. The starting point is undoubtedly that Wawrinka won his own at the age of 28. The first Grand Slam champion, the convincing performance of defeating the two giants Djokovic and Nadal on the way to the promotion, and then won the first Masters championship, ranking first in the championship standings.

The ATP ranking actually has two lists, one is the world ranking and the other is the championship standings.

For the former, calculate the points for a full fifty-two weeks. For example, if it is the first week of September, then calculate from the first week of September last year to the last week of August this year, and list the rankings, comprehensively looking at the points within the 12-month period. The best player.

The latter is to calculate the points of the natural year, that is, to calculate the points starting from January 1 of this year. This point can be used to identify the best performing players in the natural year, and then use this list to determine the finalists for each year-end finals quota.

Generally speaking, when a natural year ends, the points of the two rankings will be unified, and the rankings will remain the same; then the championship standings will be cleared, waiting for the arrival of a new natural year.

The strength of the "Big Four" is reflected in the stability of the world ranking list. Even if the occasional championship standings can show that some players performed particularly well at the beginning of the season, as time progresses, the Big Four can always catch up slowly. .

In the first half of this year, Wawrinka's dominant performance was indeed amazing, occupying the top position in the championship standings, which naturally made people focus on the Big Four.

Murray has not won a championship for more than a year because of injuries, and it seems that he has fallen behind in advance. Federer's age and Nadal's injuries are already commonplace. Even Djokovic's attention is distracted by his family. Then the dominance of the Big Four Appears to be visibly loose.

At Wimbledon, Raonic and Dimitrov both reached the semi-finals; at the US Open, Gawain and Cilic went a step further and both reached the final.

The most unbelievable thing is that not long ago, people were still discussing when the "post-90s" would take over, but Gao Wen, who was born in 1995, had already made history and advanced to the Grand Slam final.

If it is enough to talk about Gao Wen upset Djokovic, then after Cilic eliminated Federer in straight sets, it is equivalent to directly igniting the gunpowder magazine.

For Cilic and Gao Wen, both sides are actually good, because the opponents in the decisive battle are all rookies who have no experience in Grand Slam finals. Very limited, whoever can have a stronger ability to resist pressure at the Arthur Ashe Stadium and show his best level at critical moments will have a chance to reach the top:

Then this will also be the third non-Big Four member to win a Grand Slam championship in ten years besides Del Potro and Wawrinka.

History is being written!

Then, the news heat wave directly detonated like this.

This box, the North American continent and the European continent have already been stunned, the kind of dumbfounded——

They were looking forward to "Djokovic VS Federer", but in the end they ushered in "Gauvan VS Cilic".

Cursing, complaining, wailing, complaining, speechless and other emotions are flying all over the sky, not aimed at Gao Wen or Cilic, but just the conditioned reflex of competitive sports fans, "Who wants to watch the dark horse showdown! I want to watch the peak showdown!" "These two Guy, who is it?" "The quality of the final must have been terrible".

The hashtag "Big Four's record of 38 consecutive Grand Slam finals was broken" was on the global hot search list.

Obviously, fans are focusing on the Big Four, not the two dark horses.

But hidden in it, the hashtag "The national champion holds a wild card to write Hollywood fairy tales" has also entered the hot search list.

Obviously, Gao Wen still has a certain appeal.

Whether it is the NCAA All-American Championship and participating with a wild card issued by the USTA, or Gao Wen's act of wearing a team uniform all the way to the competition, this is very kind and very fond of fans and audiences; what's more, from the first game From the "self-introduction" of the game to the "talk show" in the semi-finals, Gao Wen's personal charm also won applause from the fans.

"I think Gao Wen is pretty good. I saw him play very well against John in the first round."

"Am I the only one who likes being tall?"

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I hate Cilic for knocking out my Roger, so I support Gao."

"You should watch Gao Wen's semi-finals. He played well. I think it's good for him to enter the finals."

"Although I can't see the Big Four, it's finally a bit of a fresh face. What's wrong?"

"Thirty-eight times in a row? God, I now understand why those faces seem so familiar to me."

"I support the new faces in the finals, and Gao Wen is not bad."

There are still a lot of voices of support on the social network, especially Tobias just rightly fueled the flames by reposting the video of Gao Wen comforting the young fans after the second round, which made the audience They saw Gao Wen's big boy side in private, and created a wave of topics~lightnovelpub.net~ If you have to choose between the two players in the final, I am afraid that the New York audience already has the answer.

On that side, the Huaxia Continent finally ushered in a wave of chaos after dawn.

"It exploded..."

A burst of bluffing sound exploded in the corridor outside the five conference rooms of CCTV. Through the glass wall, one could see the bustling figures outside completely crowded together. As for the ongoing meetings in the conference room, they were all interrupted.

Zhang Heng didn't hold back, stood up abruptly, pushed away the chair, turned around and pushed open the door of the meeting room, roaring.

"What exploded! The water pipe burst or the toilet burst!"

"Director Zhang... the trending search has exploded, Gao Wen's trending search."

"what's the situation?"

"The top three in the hot search list are all high-quality essays. The reading volume has already exceeded 500 million, and it is still rising. The online rebroadcast of last night's semi-finals also exceeded 10 million."

heh.

There was a gasp in the conference room.

At this very moment, they are discussing the arrangements for the live broadcast of the US Open men's singles finals. Because of Gao Wen's moment of making history, they pay the highest attention. They expected the response to be very enthusiastic, but they were still surprised to hear those numbers. Dislocated—

In 2011, when Li Na reached the top of the French Open, there was no such heat wave.

Of course, there are various reasons. Three years ago, the upsurge in tennis was far less turbulent than it is now; moreover, the breakthrough of women’s tennis is visible to the naked eye, and it gradually rises step by step. In the end, the sublimation from quantitative change to qualitative change is more natural and shocking. The degree is not that exaggerated.

Even so, my heart couldn't help beating wildly after witnessing the waves caused by Gao Wen's promotion to the final.