Chapter 239: Powerful as always!
After Murray, Djokovic and others retired, there was a lack of big-name stars, and only Li Cai was left, and the organizers of the Rolex Masters could only promote this Masters as Li Cai's curtain call in terms of publicity.
It's as if this is the last time Li Cai will participate in a tennis match.
Although Li Cai said that he would retire and not play tennis, he can still make a comeback!
After all, it doesn't matter if you delay for a year or two with Li Cai's age, let alone the existence of a system.
It's just that the organizer can only publicize it like this, otherwise the attendance rate of this year's Rolex Masters Cup may be pitiful, and no one will come to watch the game, and a lot of money will be lost.
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After Li Cai rushed to the magic capital overnight, he learned that he was the only big-name star in this year's Rolex Masters, and Murray, who was still participating, also withdrew.
In the Wancai Hotel, Li Cai asked Coach Zhang comfortably: "Djokovic retired with an injury, Murray actually retired from the game with a cold, this time there will be no great opponents in the Magic Capital Masters, is it that none of the top ten players in the world have come." ”
From Murray, Federer, Djokovic and Nadal after Li Cai, the world's sixth-ranked players have a big gap in points with them, and from the sixth-ranked Tsonga, it is more than 2,000 points less than Nadal, who retired several times in the second half of the year, a Grand Slam points gap.
"Tsonga also participated, becoming the second seed in this Masters, with world No. 7 Ferrer and world No. 8 Berdych also participating, and with you, only four of the world's top 10 players have come. ”
"So many people didn't come, the total prize of three million US dollars, is it too little?" Li Cai said to himself: "These guys, shouldn't they be frightened by my retirement and dare not fight with me, so they will come!"
Because Li Cai is thriving in the tennis world, it is very difficult for many people to win a game from him, and there are very few tie-breaks, so naturally they don't want to be abused by Li Cai and hit their self-confidence, and when they hear that Li Cai plans to retire, many people want to fulfill Li Cai, don't have an accident at that time, causing Li Cai to lose and not retire, then it will be more and more difficult for them to win the Grand Slam.
Naturally, it is Murray who has such an idea, after all, he has not won a Grand Slam so far, and at the London Olympics, the closest Olympic gold medal to the championship has not been won, it can be said that Murray lost the game, failed to win the gold medal, and lost at home, which almost made Murray's self-confidence gone, and he didn't want to play tennis anymore.
So he was the first to be happy about the news that Li Cai was going to retire, and even did not hesitate to find an excuse to retire, just so that no one was Li Cai's opponent in this year's Demon Capital Masters.
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Li Cai's opponent in the first round was Wu Di, a Chinese player who entered the tournament with a wild card.
Because Li Cai participated in the final of the China Open, when he arrived in the magic capital, the second day of the Rolex Masters had already begun, and Li Cai naturally could not participate in the first round.
Originally, when Wu Di knew that Li Cai couldn't come and couldn't participate in the first round of the competition, he was happy, so that he could win the first round and win Li Cai with external hype, so that he could become famous in one fell swoop.
Unexpectedly, after the China Open finals, Li Cai said in an interview with reporters that he would have a curtain call match in the Magic Capital Masters as a retirement match.
At this moment, Wu Di's previous ideas were all in vain, if he didn't withdraw from the tournament and played a little trick, he couldn't let Li Cai enter the second round of the game, not to mention the domestic tennis center, just say that the current organizer, Director Wu would not agree.
After all, the focus of the publicity of this Magic Capital Masters is Li Cai's curtain call.
So Wu Di's idea of becoming famous in one fell swoop has already ended before he takes action.
After Wu Di abstained in the first round, he escorted Li Cai to the second round, and waited for Li Cai to gain time to rest.
Li Cai's opponent in the second round is Croatia's Marin Cilic, a young player who is only 20 years old, for Cilic, it is already a great honor to be able to play against the legendary player Li Cai, who holds the annual Golden Slam, and as for the victory, it is a luxury, it is good to win one round, and the result is naturally Li Cai's easy victory to advance to the third round.
Then Li Cai met Mayer again, and naturally won easily, and met Ferrer in the 1/4 finals in advance.
Ferrer likes to play some tricky balls, but this also makes his consistency not very good, and sometimes he pursues the landing point too much, and there will be more netting and out of bounds.
If the opponent's mobility is not very strong, or the age is too old, Ferrer's style of play will often achieve miraculous results, and many veterans' pace is not able to save some tricky returns, but in the face of Li Cai, who has the strongest serving ability in the world, Ferrer's style of play is naturally understood by Li Cai very thoroughly, and he is restrained alive, but it is Ferrer himself, who has lost points again and again because of service errors.
The technical characteristics of the two also determined the outcome of this match, and Ferrer, who is seventh in the world, can be said to be completely vulnerable in front of Li Cai, and quickly lost the game.
And Li Cai also successfully entered the semifinals, and the opponent in the semifinals was Tsonga, the "tennis Ali".
may have been beaten out of the shadow by Li Cai, and Tsonga did not show the strength of the ranking at all, so he was beaten by Li Cai.
Entering the finals, Li Cai's opponent was neon player Kei Nishikori.
Kei Nishikori entered the final is a big upset, although he just won his second singles championship in the Tokyo Open, and his performance this year is even better, reaching the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam at the Australian Open.
Because Murray retired in the first half of the game, there was only one Berdych left, a top ten player in the world, but Berdych is a "nerve knife", as he called, when he is not convulsive, the state is very unstable, so Berdych was eliminated by Kei Nishikori.
Although Nishikori Kei's ranking is not very high, and he is not as good as Li Cai at all, once it is a competition between China and Japan, it must be loved by domestic audiences.
Naturally, the organizers took this into account and publicized the Sino-Japanese War.
As for Kei Nishikori, he was beaten out of tears by Li Cai in the previous game, which can be described as a shame for him.
For this reason, he entered the professional tennis world in 08 years, and was named "Asia's No. 1 Tennis Genius" by Neon China, but he did not achieve satisfactory results for the Neon Nationals, far inferior to Li Cai, and even now there are only two singles championships, and there is no trophy for a Masters, which makes many people dare not advance him in front of Huaguo.
Even his ex-girlfriend Ai Fukuhara, as early as in his match with Li Cai, Kei Nishikori cried after losing the match, Ai Fukuhara felt ashamed and broke up with him, so Kei Nishikori is now a single dog.
"Li Cai is about to quit tennis, he must have been injured somewhere, and he can't support him to play, and after such a long time, I am not my former self now, I have become stronger, and I will not be shaved by Li Cai, so this time I must beat Li Cai in the final, redeem my previous impression in the country, and become a national hero. ”
Nishikori thought that Li Cai had an injury and would retire, after all, Li Cai had not said the reason for his retirement, plus he had just won a singles championship, and his self-confidence was bursting.
But in the final, Kei Nishikori was once again kept clean by Li Cai, and the three games were 6:0.
This seemed to be a basin of cold water poured down, instantly dousing Nishikori Kei to wake up, he remembered the fear of being dominated by Li Cai in the previous game with Li Cai, thinking that he could catch up with Li Cai, but found that the strength of the two sides was really not at the same level.
In the end, the dark horse Kei Nishikori did not go black to the end, losing to Li Cai in the final, and Li Cai also won the Rolex Masters Cup.