Chapter 362: The 100-meter world record is broken
The match was over, and Zhang Huasong had more than ten days of special training before Wimbledon started, and he was well prepared. The first time he participated in the grass court event, he was not even a seeded player, but Zhang Huasong finally defeated the king Federer to win Wimbledon after more than five hours of fierce battle! And our men's players in the United States have not tasted Wimbledon since 1936. Congratulations to Zhang Huasong! - The rice TV commentator said sourly.
"Won, win, win, Zhang Huasong won! Although it was his first time participating in a grass court event, Zhang Huasong had more than ten days of grass court adaptation training before the game, and now it is showing results. After more than five hours of fierce battle, Zhang Huasong defeated the king of heaven Federer and won the Wimbledon tennis championship, which is also his third Grand Slam title! ——Huaguo CCTV commentator.
"Oh my God, it's really frustrating that our Heavenly King Federer has lost. The cow dragged the game into a long set to decide, but in the end it was still defeated by Zhang Huasong, who participated in the grass event for the first time! What can I say? I can only say that Zhang Huasong is really perverted, he must be an alien! —Swiss narrator.
"The 2009 Wimbledon men's singles final finally came to an end, and after more than five hours of fierce battle, Zhang Huasong, the king of China, defeated the Swiss king Federer, who had won five consecutive Wimbledon championships, to win the championship in his first grass-court event, which was very different from the result of stumbling into the final of the Monte Carlo Masters for the first time on clay and eventually losing the final. At the same time, it is also Zhang Huasong's third different Grand Slam title. If Zhang Huasong wins another US Open title, he will be ahead of Nadal and Federer and take the lead in completing the Grand Slam! —Narrator of the Stars and Stripes.
When Wimbledon ended, not only the Stars and Stripes, but also the whole world suddenly realized that Zhang Huasong had already won the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon in the four Grand Slams this year, and was only one US Open away.
If Zhang Huasong wins the US Open again, he will achieve a Grand Slam! Moreover, it is also an annual slam with a very high gold content!
This is something Federer has not done in ten years!
Federer, who has won more than a dozen Grand Slam titles and won the Laureus Male Athlete of the Year award for four consecutive years, is still one French Open away from completing a career Grand Slam, let alone a Grand Slam of the year!
Suddenly, with the aura of Wimbledon champion, the media around the world reported on Zhang Huasong.
With the oldest Wimbledon Grand Slam champion and media coverage, a few days after Wimbledon, Zhang Huasong's popularity on the international star popularity list surpassed the previous international first-line superstar, becoming the first international first-line superstar, and is about to enter the top ten international superstars.
In addition to reporting on Zhang Huasong's Wimbledon championship and Zhang Huasong's ascension to the top of the international first-line superstar, the media of various countries also gave a preview of Zhang Huasong's US Open prospects.
The U.S. Open is a hard court like the Australian Open, and Zhang Huasong won the Australian Open in his first professional tournament when he first entered the tennis world. In the subsequent Indian Wells and Miami hard court masters, Zhang Huasong easily won all 2-0 to win the championship.
From this point of view, the hard ground of the US Open is not a problem for Zhang Huasong at all! On hard courts, Zhang Huasong will be more dominant than French red clay and Wimbledon grass!
Perhaps, Zhang Huasong is really going to complete the annual Grand Slam that no one has been able to accomplish for 21 years since Steffi-Graf in 1988?
In this case, the US Open organizing committee is naturally the happiest!
It's been more than 20 years, and someone is finally going to complete the annual Grand Slam, and at this year's US Open, there is still a great chance!
Then, this year's US Open must receive higher attention than the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon, with more advertising revenue, wider broadcasts, and more viewers.
Naturally, it is a great thing to promote the commercial value of the US Open!
In order to cope with the very possibility of Zhang Huasong winning the US Open and achieving the great cause of the annual Grand Slam, the US Open organizing committee began to reconsider the arrangement of a more grand award ceremony.
It's been 20 years since there was an annual Grand Slam, and I can't pay too much attention to it! And it's also a good time to promote the US Open!
After winning the Wimbledon championship, Zhang Huasong's ATP points also reached 9,960 points, surpassing not only Andy Murray, but also Djokovic, ranking third in the ATP world ranking after Nadal and Federer.
Moreover, because of Zhang Huasong's unexpected appearance and won three Grand Slams and three Masters championships, the championship points of Nadal, Federer and others, who should have won the championship, have become runners-up or lower points, which is much less.
Therefore, compared with parallel time and space, the points of Nadal and Federer, who are ranked before Zhang Huasong, have dropped a lot in the same period, only more than 10,000 points, and Zhang Huasong is not much away from Federer and Nadal.
Perhaps, when Zhang Huasong wins the US Open, he can not only achieve the great feat of the annual Grand Slam, but also reach the top of the ATP world rankings.
When the time comes, the top ten superstars on the international celebrity popularity list will definitely have a place for him!
The end date of Wimbledon is July 5, and Zhang Huasong has stayed in Europe for more than two months, but for the competition, he has hardly accepted media interviews, has not participated in TV shows, and has accumulated a lot of endorsement signing and commercial performances.
The U.S. Open runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. 13, while the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin runs from Aug. 15 to Aug. 23.
Before the start of the World Championships in Berlin, Zhang Huasong did not play tennis for more than a month. Although there are two Golden Leagues in track and field, Zhang Huasong has not decided to participate for the time being.
Let's deal with the media and business matters first!
In this way, after Wimbledon, Zhang Huasong traveled to the European continent to the United States, France, Germany and other developed European countries, appeared on a lot of popular TV programs, accepted interviews with bad multi-faceted media, signed more than 10 European brand endorsements, and attended more than 10 commercial performances.
Although these activities are not competitions, they also have a role in promoting Zhang Huasong's popularity.
Think about it, when the audience turns on the TV, the Internet, and the newspaper, they can see Zhang Huasong's news and interviews. Looking at entertainment gossip news, you can see the news that Zhang Huasong participated in some commercial performances and sang on stage. When you go out shopping, you may see a huge photo of Zhang Huasong hanging on a certain building. When you go to the supermarket to buy something, you may see Zhang Huasong's avatar printed on the packaging of a certain product.
Therefore, competitive results are essential, but media exposure must also be sufficient, and moderate communication with the media must be carried out, not just boring competitions.
The most extreme example of this is the football superstar David Beckham.
In fact, Beckham's football skills can be called top-level, but definitely not the world's No. 1. But why is he the only footballer to make it to the international superstardom?
It is because of his wife Victoria's tailor-made media image for him that he is the football player with the highest media exposure in the world.
Of course, media exposure must also be matched with competitive results! If the results are really not on the table, they will not be widely recognized around the world!
And Beckham, although he is not the first in football, is definitely not bad! In particular, his free-kick stunt with a full moon scimitar has become his signature.
Although Zhang Huasong will not be as extreme as Beckham, he will not refuse to communicate with the media.
Just when Zhang Huasong was participating in TV programs, media interviews, corporate performances, signing contracts and filming commercials, etc., on July 10, 2009, the IAAF Golden League in Rome, Italy, began.
Having lost the participation of Zhang Huasong, the king of track and field, the attendance rate of several international track and field events in recent years has not been high, and the audience is not very enthusiastic.
However, in the IAAF Golden League, which did not attract everyone's attention before this race, the No. 2 flyer under Zhang Huasong, Jamaican genius Usain Bolt, ran a time of 9.53 seconds in the 100 meters, breaking the world record of 9.54 seconds set by Zhang Huasong at the Peking Olympics.
Overnight, the news that the 100-meter world record of track and field king Zhang Huasong was broken by Usain Bolt spread to the world.
After Zhang Huasong saw the news, he was also a little surprised.
Because on the planet of parallel time and space, Bolt ran a time of 9.58 seconds at the World Championships in Berlin more than a month later.
As a result, now, Usain Bolt on the Blue Star not only ran the 9.60-second mark in Rome ahead of schedule, but also ran a time of 9.53 seconds, and also broke his world record, which surprised Zhang Huasong.
Speaking of which, there is no Zhang Huasong on the earth in parallel time and space, and Bolt is a bit lonely and seeking defeat! So, when he ran 9.60 seconds at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin to reach the world record of 9.58 seconds, he never improved his time!
But both Bolt and his coach have said in private that he has the ability to run the 9.5-second mark.
I don't know if it's true or not, maybe he can run away, maybe he just talks big.
But on the Blue Star, with Zhang Huasong's goal to catch up, Bolt has the goal of catching up, not only running into the 9.60-second mark ahead of schedule, but also surpassing Zhang Huasong's world record of 9.54 seconds at the Peking Olympics.
Originally, Zhang Huasong was not ready to participate in the Golden League before the World Championships in Berlin, but now Bolt has broken his world record, and the world is causing a sensation and the news is hot.
After discussing with his team, Zhang Huasong decided to strike while the iron was hot, catch the heat, and accept the invitation of the IAAF to participate in the Golden League before the World Championships in Berlin.
It would be better to break Usain Bolt's record to warm up and raise awareness for the World Championships in Berlin.
On July 16, after more than ten days of wandering around the European continent, Zhang Huasong came to Paris, France.
Then, the news that Zhang Huasong was about to participate in the IAAF Golden League in Paris, France on July 17 spread all over the world.
"The king of track and field, Zhang Huasong, has finally returned to the track and field arena and is about to participate in the IAAF Golden League in Paris, France! 》
"After winning three tennis Grand Slams and three Masters championships, Zhang Huasong, the king of track and field, finally remembered that he started with track and field! 》
"The King of Athletics Returns to Athletics, and Tickets for the Golden League Paris Station Are Hard to Find!" 》
"Usain Bolt broke Zhang Huasong's world record in Rome, Zhang Huasong immediately participated in the next stop of the Golden League, it seems that Zhang Huasong cares about his world record very much! 》
"Through the phenomenon of Bolt breaking the record and Zhang Huasong's participation in the Paris Golden League, it can be concluded that as long as Zhang Huasong breaks the world record, he can return to the track and field field!" 》
Ideas are beautiful, but it's hard for anyone to do it.
Of the 10 world records set by Zhang Huasong at the Olympics, only 100 meters have been broken by Usain Bolt so far, and it has only improved by 0.01 seconds, which is not easy.
In other sports, it is almost impossible for these athletes to break Zhang Huasong's world record!
For example, in the javelin, other active athletes are even sad to pass the 90-meter mark, let alone break Zhang Huasong's world record of 105.13 meters.
That's why Usain Bolt's results are so sensational.
Zhang Huasong was originally expected to participate in the track and field competition at the Berlin World Championships, and it can be regarded as Bolt's ability to force Zhang Huasong out to participate in the track and field competition in advance.
In Paris, France, Zhang Huasong just won a French Open Grand Slam championship not long ago, and his popularity is quite high.
This return to the track and field arena not only has track and field fans who have been looking forward to it for a long time, but even those tennis fans are rushing to buy tickets to enter, wanting to see the heroic appearance of the king of track and field on the track and field field, resulting in a rare and hard-to-find ticket in the track and field competition.
At 22 o'clock in the evening of July 17, the finale of the 2009 IAAF Golden League Paris Station was finally about to begin.
Spectators, reporters, IAAF officials, and countless people inside and outside the stadium set their eyes on the 100-meter track, and the scale of live broadcasts in more than 100 countries around the world also set the highest broadcast record in the IAAF Golden League.
This is the benefit that Zhang Huasong's current popularity brings to the organizing committee of the Paris station.
Of course, in order to let Zhang Huasong, the first international first-line superstar, go out of the mountain to participate in the Paris competition in advance, the Paris Organizing Committee also paid a high price for appearance.
And if it weren't for Bolt's record-breaking move, they wouldn't have been able to hire Zhang Huasong no matter how much money they paid.
On today's field, Zhang Huasong's opponent is Usain Bolt!
The other Guy and Powell have both fallen behind, and the recent games have been dangling around 9.8 seconds, and they can't catch up with Zhang Huasong and Bolt!
Bolt was indeed very excited for a few days after breaking Zhang Huasong's world record.
However, when he heard that Zhang Huasong was going to participate in the Paris competition, he stopped his excitement and began to train seriously to prepare for the Paris competition!
He wants to beat Zhang Huasong face-to-face in the official competition, instead of breaking Zhang Huasong's record in the air when Zhang Huasong did not participate!
This time in Paris, it is a good opportunity! He wants to prove that it is not a fluke that he broke Zhang Huasong's world record, but that he has that strength!
Although he can't be as versatile as Zhang Huasong in other events, in the 100-meter trapeze battle, he wants to defeat the king of track and field and create his own trapeze era!