Chapter 210: Tennis Men's Singles Final
For those who don't usually pay much attention to tennis, Lee's victory over Federer is probably just an Olympic semi-final victory, and at least a silver medal is guaranteed, but for tennis fans, Li Cai's victory over Federer to reach the final of Olympic tennis is not as simple as a silver medal, he is only one step away from the Golden Slam of tennis.
The Golden Slam needs to collect the champions of the four Grand Slams of tennis and the tennis champions of the Olympic Games, although the Golden Slam is only one more Olympic champion than the Grand Slam, but the four Grand Slam competitions are held every year, and the Olympic Games are held every four years, and a player's career can participate in three Olympic Games is considered to be too much, so the difficulty of the Golden Slam is much more difficult than the Grand Slam.
Among the current men's singles players, only Andrew Agassi and Nadal have won the Golden Slam, but there are as many as seven people who have won the Grand Slam, if Li Cai can win the Olympic final, he will become the third male athlete in history to win the Golden Slam, and if Li Cai defends his title at this year's US Open, he will be the first male tennis player to win the annual Golden Slam.
During the Olympic Games, people may only be interested in the Olympic gold medal and ignore the Golden Slam, but the tennis center and the International Tennis Federation will not let go of this great opportunity to promote it. The staff in charge of publicity at the tennis center had already written the draft, waiting for Li Cai to win the championship, and after defeating the opponent, he sent it out as soon as possible.
"Li Cai is only one step away from the Golden Slam! There are only two titles left before he says he wants to win the Australian Open. 》
Under the joint publicity of the International Tennis Federation and domestic tennis centers, this article quickly occupied the headlines of the sports section of major media or the Olympic section, and also let people who follow the Olympics know about the tennis golden slam, and many people on the Internet began to discuss this matter.
"I just learned that tennis also has a Golden Slam, and the four Grand Slams plus the Olympic champion sound so lofty!"
"As long as Li Cai can win the Olympic men's singles final, he can win the Golden Slam, and the Golden Slam should be the highest honor in tennis!"
"If it had been two years ago, I wouldn't have thought that a player from my country would have won a Grand Slam! "It's usually tennis fans who say that.
"Li Cai is invincible, Li Cai will win!" Needless to say, he is Li Cai's iron fan at first glance.
Honor can make people feel satisfied, and winning the Olympic Games can bring people a sense of national honor, but the Olympic Games have hundreds of events, and there are hundreds of gold medals, when the gold medals come one after another, although it is very exciting, but it will inevitably make people numb, the first gold medalist may be remembered for the process of winning the championship, the second gold medal may be remembered for the name of the champion, and the third may be remembered for the event of the competition, the fourth, fifth, fifth, and fifth...... Perhaps in the end, all that is remembered by the people is a number, how many gold medals and medals the country has won.
So at this time, you need to add some other ingredients to it, such as how miserable the gold medalist's family is, how much pain the gold medalist has experienced, and so on.
However, these lace news are used as ingredients, which are completely inappropriate for Li Cai, after all, Li Cai is the second generation of wealth, although most people don't know it, but many people understand, so they can only use the topic of Jin Slam to attract the public's attention.
Even if Li Cai still has a tennis final to play, it has also made people's expectations for the Golden Slam have reached their peak, and it has also increased the attention to the tennis men's singles final.
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On the morning of August 5, Li Cai and Sister Na will participate in the tennis mixed doubles semifinals, and the men's singles final will be held in the afternoon.
In the tennis mixed doubles match, Li Cai and Li Na's opponent is Belarus.
This match made many people think that the two Belarusians will win steadily, because the tacit understanding and strength are very strong, and Li Cai still has to prepare for the men's singles final in the afternoon, and may not go all out, so he has to save his energy for the afternoon match.
But I never expected that Li Cai and Li Na actually cooperated very tacitly, no worse than the two Belarusians, and with the difference in personal strength, Li Cai and Li Na easily won the game and entered the mixed doubles final.
Li Cai's opponent in the final was none other than Murray of the host country, and the opponent in the mixed doubles final was also Murray's combination.
Li Cai's record in the face of Murray has always been a complete victory, and Li Cai won Murray in the first Grand Slam competition, which also made many people call Li Cai a "zombie killer" and Murray's nemesis.
Murray, who is 25 years old, has begun to enter his prime, although because of the appearance of Li Cai, he has slipped from the "fourth in ten thousand years" to the fifth, and the Grand Slam competition has stopped in the quarterfinals and failed to enter the semifinals.
But this Olympics was a turning point for Murray, who was able to win the gold medal and win the hard-to-get Olympic gold medal, becoming Britain's first Olympic tennis singles gold medallist in 104 years.
And won the next US Open, won his first Grand Slam, became a Grand Slam player, and became the first British player to win a Grand Slam men's singles title in 76 years since 1936.
Then he got out of control and beat Djokovic 3-0 in the Wimbledon final next year, becoming the first British player to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry won the title in 1936.
Then he defended Wimbledon, won the championship again at the next Rio Olympics in 16 years, defended the championship, and topped the world No. 1 in the same year, and also won the championship of the year-end finals, beating Djokovic, it can be said that the scenery is infinite and has become the No.1 professional tennis player.
When Murray walked into the arena, his heart was shocked by the atmosphere of the scene, the local fans who supported him shouted wildly, the British flag kept waving around, and everyone seemed to be attending a holiday banquet, persistent and joyful, cheering for him.
When Li Cai walked into the center court of Wimbledon, he found that the British, who had always been calm, were very excited, and the atmosphere in the court reached its peak.
"This is Murray's home stadium!" Li Cai looked at Murray who waved on the other side and sighed in his heart.