Chapter 741

David Goffin, a Belgian, stayed out of the game because of a left wrist injury, and his world ranking dropped to 110th.

Since his comeback in July, he has achieved an astonishing record of 44 wins and 4 losses, including five challenge championships. He has also participated in Grand Slam and Masters competitions, and has performed well.

In the end, the year-end world ranking came to 22nd, setting a new career high.

The Comeback of the Year Award is well deserved.

As for Gao Wen, in fact... there are more or less controversies, not because people don't want to vote for him, but because everyone wants to vote for him, so that there is some confusion about the scope of nominations for the awards.

The Best Improvement Award of the Year is designed to reward the player who has been nominated for the fastest improvement in the past year and has dedicated incredible performance to create the highest ranking player in his career.

The Rookie of the Year Award is designed to reward the next generation of young players, that is, players who broke into the top 100 in the world for the first time in a season and are younger than 21 years old.

Generally speaking, the former should be nominated for players who have been in the tour for many years and finally ushered in a breakthrough; the latter should be nominated for "tomorrow stars" young players who have just entered the tour One-year-old is used as the cut-off point to distinguish the two nomination ranges.

Of course, this is not an official detailed rule, but a concept established by convention to ensure that the two awards reward two different groups of players.

However, this year is really special, my wife is special, to be precise, it should be said that Gao Wen is too special.

By convention, Gawain should have won the Rookie of the Year award, and the Most Improved Player of the Year award should have been awarded to another player, but the reality was—

All the votes swarmed towards Gao Wen.

After the award was announced, although there was no controversy at all, including fans and reporters, they all accepted this historic result as a matter of course.

However, considering that this is the second time in history that this has happened since the establishment of two awards in 1975, the ATP official website has published an exclusive interview.

In 1978, John McEnroe was born. He won the Most Improved Award of the Year and the Best Rookie of the Year Award in one fell swoop, thus starting his brilliant career.

However, since then, no player has been able to win these two awards in the same year, and a full thirty-six years have passed.

History is being written again.

Therefore, the ATP official website interviewed a series of professional players and asked them their views on these two awards and Gao Wen.

Dimitrov said it directly in an interview with the ATP official website.

"There is no doubt that Gao Wen is the fastest-improving and best-performing player this year, bar none."

"He's won a Grand Slam and a Masters, he's been in the top 10 without a world ranking, do we need to talk? That says it all."

Obviously, the news media have also noticed the friendship between this group of players born after 1990, so they conducted further in-depth interviews.

On the phone, even if you can't see the expression, you can still feel the smile on the corner of Dimitrov's mouth.

"Of course, I'm looking forward to going head-to-head with Gawain on the court, but I've played a few practice games with Gawain, and believe me, it's not a wonderful experience."

"I think the most outstanding characteristic of Gao Wen this season is his ability to interpret the game, as if he can see through your tactical intentions."

"We all know that tennis is a rapidly changing sport. We need to make countless choices in a millisecond. Sometimes we are not even sure what choices we should make. We just follow our own instincts. This is also experience and That's why talent is so important, but if someone can see through your choices, it makes us very passive."

"I mean, very, very passive."

Dimitrov made his point over and over again.

"So, I think he's reached a whole new level now, and the world ranking and championship speak for themselves."

In this regard, Wawrinka agreed. The fourth player in the world lost to Gawain in the quarterfinals of the US Open.

"He makes you feel like there's nowhere to go. I mean, you're always going to be able to see through your plays, and he's always one step ahead of you."

"Everyone is talking about Gawain's offense, Gawain's defense, Gawain's backhand and Gawain's movement, but in my opinion, Gawain's ability to grasp the game is a unique talent. Players have played against each other and Gawain has shown he can take his place among the top players."

And Wawrinka's idea has a broad market.

"I don't like him, strictly speaking, I hate him."

Murray, one of the "Big Four", made a joke during an interview.

"Honestly, I kind of regret voting for him, but I guess it's because he's so 'obnoxious' because I hate smart people the most. Haha."

Murray, among the top players, is actually the one who likes to joke the most. British humor always carries his own special taste.

"I would say that the Tour is good enough to have one smart guy, and now I'm a little bit bummed to have another one."

After the joke, Murray gave a serious evaluation. Even if Murray had the last laugh in the Valencia duel, it would not affect his positive evaluation of Gao Wen.

"During the game, Gao Wen's interpretation of the whole game is very unique and very accurate, I mean the whole game content, many times it is hard to believe that he is only eighteen years old, oh, nineteen years old, he is already nineteen He's nineteen, isn't he? God, is he nineteen?"

"Sorry, I just wanted to say that when Gawain is standing across the net, you need to keep your spirits up and pay attention all the time."

The exclamation from Murray was also conveyed to Federer by some reporters.

"No~lightnovelpub.net~ No, no, no, I don't want to know, I'm not interested for now."

Federer also made a joke, and laughed happily himself.

"I'm on vacation, can't you let me be quiet for a while? I want to escape these problems for a while."

So far, Gawain and the other Big Three have faced each other, but Federer is the only exception, and the two have not met until now.

It is precisely because of this that everyone from the fans to the reporters is looking forward to a match between the two people to see what it feels like, and maybe they can collide with different sparks.

Hence Federer's joke, deliberately expressing his refusal to fight Gawain and refusing to directly answer any questions about Gawain.

Having said that, Federer responded.

"But one thing, I can confirm that Gao Wen is indeed the most improved player this year and also the best rookie. There is no doubt about it. We don't need to deny this because of a little difference in selection. We should We welcome the emergence of more outstanding players with open arms."

"For that, we should applaud, we should cheer."

(end of this chapter)