Chapter 120: US Open Tournament

The U.S. Open in mid-August is also the last Grand Slam-level tournament on the annual tennis ATP tour.

Li Cai took his team to the venue of the US Open, New York.

As the largest city and largest port in the United States, New York is also known as the "city that never sleeps" with its 24-hour subway and non-stop crowds.

It can be said that there is a colorful nightlife that makes people want to linger.

Although he really wanted to see it, thinking about his age, Li Cai still dispelled this idea.

The next day, two days before the start of the competition, Li planned to visit New York, spend some money, and redeem some achievement points so that he could use the Time House before the competition.

Li Cai took his bodyguard and went out to see the attractions, ready to spend money on the loser.

When you come to New York, you naturally have to see the most famous landmark of New York, the Statue of Liberty. Just like when a foreigner comes to Beijing, he must go to see the Great Wall and Tiananmen Square.

After visiting some famous attractions in New York, Li Cai bought some souvenirs, but they only spent tens of thousands, and the exchange points for achievement points were only a few thousand.

There was no way, Li Cai could only go to the diamond district of New York to shop, after all, when he came to New York, he always had to bring some gifts back to Li's father and mother.

And 90% of the diamond trade in the United States is carried out in the diamond district of New York, from luxury stores with marble floors, to small shops with only one counter, to "stalls", jewelry stores of all grades are gathered in this small land.

However, most of the jewelry in this center is first-hand, non-branded, so the price is much cheaper, and you can bargain, but the quality is uneven, and you must understand jewelry to find high-quality and low-cost jewelry.

Li Cai naturally didn't understand this, and he didn't want to look at luck to buy jewelry, because Li Cai himself knew that he was an "African chief" and a person with no luck.

Li Cai went directly to Tiffany & Co. and other brand jewelry stores to buy processed jewelry.

In the past few months of 11 years, Li Cai has earned at least more than 90 million yuan through competition bonuses and endorsements, and he only spent a few million during this period, and there are more than 80 million pocket money left, which is enough for Li Cai to squander it, and it has been converted into more than 8 million achievement points.

Li Cai spent millions at Tiffany's, bought a set of jewelry, and exchanged 530,000 achievement points before returning to the hotel.

And Li Cai's coach, Coach Zhang, also got Li Cai's match group at the US Open.

The U.S. Open is all about seeding based on world rankings.

The top seed is naturally Djokovic, who won the Grand Slam title at Wimbledon and became the world's No. 1 in points.

Djokovic won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in four Grand Slam tennis tournaments this year, and if he wins a Grand Slam title at the US Open, he will become only the sixth player in the Open era to win three Grand Slam titles in the same season.

However, this time Lee intends to take revenge and defeat Djokovic.

After all, Li Cai defeated Nadal, the world No. 1 and known as the "King of Clay", on the clay courts of the French Open.

Although Djokovic has always been good at playing on hard courts, and in tennis ATP events, hard courts occupy the most of them, and there is a saying that those who win hard courts win the world. In Grand Slam matches, the Australian Open and the US Open are both hard courts, accounting for half of them.

In Li Cai's view, Nadal dominates the clay court, Federer dominates the grass court, and Djokovic dominates the hard court.

Li Cai is currently ranked fifth in the world, behind Nadal, Federer, Djokovic and Murray.

Li Cai finished watching the grouping brought by Coach Zhang and saw that he was in the third group, and he was in the same group as Murray.

After Li Cai saw it, he smiled and said to Coach Zhang: "I met Murray again, it seems that I don't have to worry about it before the semifinals." ”

Coach Zhang listened to it and felt very helpless, but Murray is also ranked fourth in the world, one place higher than you.

Coach Zhang was worried that Li Cai would underestimate the enemy, so he hurriedly said to Li Cai: "Murray is an old strong player, and he has always been ranked in the top four or so in the tennis world points. ”

Li Cai listened, waved his hand, and said to Coach Zhang: "Look at the game between me and Murray, which time I lost, I won all of them." ”

In Li Cai's view, Murray has not been able to win a Grand Slam championship now, far worse than Nadal, Federer, and Djokovic, although he is ranked fourth in the world, but every time he enters the semifinals, and then he is defeated by the other three and stops at the semifinals, and when it comes to this year's Grand Slam competition, he can't even enter the semifinals, and he was defeated by Li Cai in the quarterfinals, and he may be overtaken by Li Cai at any time and fall to the fifth place in the world rankings.

Murray's current tennis strength, if he wants to win a Grand Slam title, he will have to wait a few years, until Nadal and several of them have lost their athleticism before they can get it.

Coach Zhang listened to Li Cai's words and thought about it, as if Li Cai really never lost to Murray, only to Federer and Djokovic.

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When the grouping of the US Open was announced, the world of sports also entered the US Open time. Although the influence of the US Open is not as strong as Wimbledon, it is also on par with the French Open. After all, the U.S. Open is held in the United States, the most sporting country in the world, and the U.S. Open has received even more attention than the French Open.

The closer we get to the match, the more talk there is about the US Open.

Especially on the Internet, some tennis forums are full of all kinds of netizen discussions, and everyone is arguing about who can win the US Open, among which Li Cai, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and others are regarded as the favorites to win the championship.

And most of the people who supported Li Cai to win the championship were Asians.

After all, it is inconceivable that Li Cai, as a yellow race, can get the fifth place in the world in tennis, which is popular in Europe and the United States.

And Li Cai and Murray are in a group, so they will naturally be discussed to see who can qualify and enter the semi-finals.

Murray's supporters naturally speak by looking at the world rankings.

And Li Cai's supporters left Murray's supporters speechless with only one sentence.

Murray's supporters: "Murray is fourth in the world, one place higher than Lee's time rankings. ”

Li Cai's supporters: "Li Cai has won a Grand Slam title. ”

Murray's supporters added: "Murray has a lot of technical and game experience, and he has played professional tennis for eight years, so he knows more than Li Cai, a newcomer. ”

Li Cai's supporters said: "Li Cai has won a Grand Slam championship. ”

No matter what Murray's supporters say, Li Cai's supporters only use this sentence to refute it.

After all, even if Murray's tennis skills are great, his game experience is rich, and his world ranking is higher than Li Cai, he can't hide that he didn't win the Grand Slam trophy, and he can't compare to Li Cai in honor.

In any competitive sport, it is based on results and championship honors, not by qualifications and rankings.

Anyway, when Murray's supporters fought a war of words with Li Cai's supporters, they were slapped in the face and completely defeated by Li Cai's supporters, unable to say anything to refute them.

Murray's supporters can only grit their teeth in their hearts, waiting for their idol Murray to defeat Li Cai and severely suppress Li Cai's arrogance.