Li Cai played in Qiongzhou for a month, roughly played with all he could play, tasted the food he could taste, and then prepared to go to the United Kingdom to start the year-end tennis competition.

The men's singles year-end tennis finals system began in 1970 under the name "Elite Tournament", which was held in a different country at the end of each year, and only the best players in the tournament throughout the year were eligible to participate. After the reorganization in 90, it was changed to the ATP World Championship, and in 02, with the reform of the competition system in the new century, the finals were transformed into the Masters Cup, which is also to expand the tennis market in China and improve the influence of tennis in China. It was not until 09 that the name of the Masters Cup was canceled and the name was changed to the ATP World Tour Finals, and the venue of the competition began to be fixed in London, England.

After the conclusion of the last tennis ATP tour in 11 years, the Paris Masters, the official website of the ATP also announced the last world ranking in 11 years.

After several changes in the year-end tennis tournament, the rules are perfect, and only tennis players who finish in the top eight in an ATP event in a year are eligible.

According to the quota announced on the ATP official website, Li Cai is naturally on the list, Li Cai missed the seven games after the Magic City Masters, and the original world No. 2 ranked third place, and was overtaken by Nadal, but this is also normal, Li Cai and Nadal's points difference is only a few hundred points, Nadal can surpass himself as long as he wins the runner-up in the Paris Masters, not to mention that he has participated in more than one ATP tour match.

After Murray won the championship of the Magic City Masters by Li Cai, he failed to win the singles championship in the ATP matches he participated in next, failed to reach the semifinals in each match, and even was injured in the quarterfinals in the last Paris Masters, so he could only announce his withdrawal and could not participate in the ATP World Tour Finals.

It also gives world No. 9 Fish a chance to come off the bench to reach the ATP World Tour Finals. Of course, Fish was originally ranked eighth in the world, but the appearance of Li Cai squeezed him out of the ranking.

In November in London, England, it was already winter and it was very cold, and the venue for the competition was naturally not a grass court unique to the United Kingdom, but an indoor hard court.

After getting off the plane, Li Cai took his team to London.

Looking at the rainy London, Li Cai was wearing a sweater inside, a thick coat outside, a furry hat on his head, cotton gloves, masks, and earmuffs.

Now Li Cai, wearing a cold-proof suit, even if he doesn't have an invisible ring, others can't recognize him.

On the way out of the airport, Li Cai was trembling, as if he was about to freeze to death.

Looking at Li Cai's appearance, wrapping himself like a zongzi, Li Cai's tennis coach Coach Zhang, holding his forehead with his right hand, sighed, very embarrassed, because compared with the simple warm clothes of the people around him, Li Cai seemed too exaggerated, and the foreigners around him were everywhere, looking at them with a strange gaze, which also made Coach Zhang feel very embarrassed.

So, Coach Zhang opened his mouth to persuade: "Li Cai! This weather is not particularly cold, there is no need to wrap it so tightly, people will be laughed at when they see it." You're a world-renowned star now, so you have to pay attention to your image!"

Li Cai said without replying: "I am wrapped like this, only showing two eyes, how can I recognize that I am Li Cailai." ”

Coach Zhang hurriedly said, "These reporters can recognize the rest of us!"

Li Cai thought about it, waved his hand, and said: "It doesn't matter, just follow their report, and I won't say anything unpleasant, my physique is so afraid of cold, when the time comes, it will affect the game, I still want to win the year-end championship, and wrapped like this, I will definitely not get sick." You know, I'm a star, but I'm a sports star, and athletes need to be warm, not graceful. ”

Seeing Li Cai talking about his body, Coach Zhang naturally had no choice but to let Li Cai go, but he was very worried about Li Cai's game state, he had not played for so long, and he was afraid of the cold, and he would definitely not be able to exert his full strength at that time. However, Coach Zhang is not worried, anyway, the year-end game is a round-robin match, according to the number of rounds won to see the final ranking, it doesn't matter if you lose one or two games, as long as you are in the group stage, enter the top two.

Entering the hotel and coming to the warm room, Li Cai also took off his heavy cold-proof suit and began to relax.

Although the cold-proof suit was very warm, so that Li Cai didn't feel cold at all, it was too bulky and inconvenient to move, and when he arrived at the heated hotel, he felt very stuffy.

But in front of the public, Li Cai didn't want to take it off, because he also felt embarrassed by this look, so he had to wait until he got to the room to take off the heavy cold-proof suit.

When he got to the room, Li Cai had nothing to do, so he had to turn on his computer and look for the ATP Finals news to see who these reports supported to win the championship.

However, Lee discovered that the media was one-sided in favor of defending champion Federer.

In the eyes of the media, although Federer has declined in age, his physical strength is not as good as that of the young Djokovic, Nadal, Li Cai and others, but he is experienced and is the last champion, and even after winning this ATP year-end finals, Federer was able to surpass Sampras and Lendl and occupy the first place in history alone, and the competitive Nadal, Li Cai, and Djokovic were all injured and in poor condition.

Federer has been recuperating for a while, and when he was in the Paris Masters, he even won the singles championship of the Paris Masters for the first time.

In this regard, Li Cai also agreed that Nadal and Djokovic were both injured to varying degrees due to the intensive schedule of the Davis Cup, and their condition was naturally not as good as Federer's, and although he was in a state without injuries, after the Magic Masters, Li Cai announced that he would not participate in the rest of the ATP Tour events due to injuries. So the media is collectively optimistic that Federer will defend his title.

However, Li Cai also has supporters, but most of them are said by the media in Asia, because Li Cai is the only yellow person among the eight contestants, so he can only support Li Cai.

Li Cai felt bored, so he had to look at the lace news, what interesting content was there.

As a result, Li discovered that the British media were complaining about the ATP year-end finals they were hosting, saying that they were comprehensively exploiting eight players.

For the tax in the UK, Li Cai, a rich man, naturally doesn't care too much, he doesn't pay so much attention to the amount of bonuses, and the main thing to participate in the competition is to get achievement points, get more achievements in tennis, so as to open the next ability.

In this report, the British media said that the eight players in the 2011 ATP Finals had to pay a total of 7 million pounds in taxes for the tournament, while the total prize money for the year-end finals at that time was only 5.07 million pounds, and they could earn about 2 million pounds.

The UK's taxes are the worst in the world, and the most hateful thing about them is not that the tournament prize money tax is higher than the global average, but that it will "fully exploit" the players. According to the British tax regulations, all athletes in individual events, no matter which country they come from, as long as they participate in the UK, the appearance fee, match bonus, sponsorship, advertising and other income during the competition must be taxed at a rate of 50%, except for the tax during the competition, tennis players may not be able to escape the "clutches" of the British tax authorities for a year. In the United Kingdom, if a tennis player plays 20 tournaments a year and two of them are held in the UK, 5% of the player's annual commercial sponsorship income must be paid to the UK Treasury, and if he or she plays three tournaments in the UK, the amount will be increased to 7.5%. If you want to be chased by the UK to collect money, you have to meet a certain standard, only Federer, Nadal and other high-income players will be required to pay so much tax, even if Li Cai, who has participated in fewer competitions, has participated in two tournaments in the UK, one is Wimbledon, and the other is the year-end finals, it can be said that no matter what, Li Cai will be exploited by the British tax authorities.

In addition to tennis, individual sports such as golf and athletics are also subject to high taxes, as long as football is a group sport that enjoys a special tax policy in the UK. For example, Messi, Ronaldo and others do not need to pay a penny tax when they go to the United Kingdom to participate in the Champions League, so this makes athletes in other sports quite dissatisfied.

This also made Li understand the reason why many players do not come to the UK to compete.

However, Li Cai, as a native of China, according to the relevant regulations of China, after paying taxes locally for the prize money, he only needs to provide the corresponding tax payment certificate, and he does not need to pay taxes in China. This is also much better than athletes from other countries, and athletes from many other countries, after paying taxes in the place where the competition is held, have to be "slaughtered again" before returning home, which also makes many athletes choose to settle in Morocco to avoid taxes.

Li Cai thinks that such a comparison is better for me to be in Dahuaguo.

After reading these news, Li Cai also plans to show these European and American media who look down on him, the champion of the year-end finals will not be Federer, but me Li Cai.