In a bar in the heart of New York, a couple of Australian players are gathering for a good time.

Australia in this era is still a poor country, and for Australian players, coming to New York is like a country boy entering the city, it is a dazzling! Bustling New York is a fatal attraction for these young people, making them want to linger. At this time, none of these Australian players want to return to China, and they all hope to stay in New York for a while and enjoy their life in New York.

The Australian players were already in high spirits, but there was only one man who didn't have a crazy game, sitting alone in the corner with a glass of wine in front of him and smoking with his head down.

That man is Adrian Quest, who won 13 Australian Open titles in his career.

Adrian Quest's father was a cricketer who opened a sporting goods store after retiring from the sport, and Adrian Quest's tennis career was also influenced by his father.

Adrian Quest in 1938 was already Australia's most famous player, he won the men's singles championship of the Australian Open in 1936, and won the Australian Open doubles championship for four consecutive years from 1935 to 1938.

And Adrian Quest's doubles partner is John Bromwich, the "world's No. 1 backhand" who lost to Chen Qiang in the fourth round.

Adrian Quest sat alone in the corner of the bar and waited for a long time, and John Bromwich finally finished his high, and he came to Adrian Quest's table with a bit of drunkenness.

"John, do you think I can defeat that Chinese?" Adrian Quest asked.

"Do you want to hear the truth or do you want to hear the lie?" John Bromwich smiled and continued: "Well, no kidding you, I don't think you can win him!" If you can take a set from him, it's already a good result. ”

"Is that Chinese really strong to this extent?" Adrian Quest asked a little unwillingly.

John Bromwich nodded, then continued: "Playing against him, I have a feeling that the tennis he plays is not the same sport as the tennis we play. How to say it, it's really hard to describe in words, in short, you play and you are passive, and then you lose. ”

"Is that the same with your serve?" Adrian Quest asked again.

"Yes, I think that's what makes the Chinese terrible, even on my serve, he can gain an advantage by returning the serve." John Bromwich said.

"What you're talking about is a bit incredible. If you weren't my partner, I wouldn't have taken your word for it. Adrian Quest replied.

"In fact, if it wasn't for being taken away 0-3 by that Chinese, I wouldn't believe what I said." John Bromwich said.

Adrian Quest sighed: "If I can't defeat that Chinese, I won't be able to enter the final, and I won't be able to go to Don Boogie for revenge." ”

In the 1938 Australian Open, the American player Don Boogie won the championship, and before that, the Australian Open championship was monopolized by Australian local players, so in this US Open competition, Australian players have two goals, one is to defeat the American player Don Boogie, revenge for the Australian Open at the beginning of the year, and the other is to win the US Open, which is equivalent to replicating the experience of American athletes winning the championship in the Australian Open.

The American Don Boogie also made it to the semi-finals, and he was placed in the other group, so he could only meet Adrian Quest in the final.

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On the other side, Chen Qiang is also preparing for a match against Adrian Quest.

Chen Qiang knows that Adrian Quest is a legendary tennis player and the person who has won the most Australian Open titles in history.

With the future of tennis, it is almost impossible to break Adrian Quest's record of 13 Australian Open titles. In the future, tennis singles and doubles have been strictly separated, and among Grand Slam champions, singles and doubles are incompatible, and it is impossible for a tennis player to win 13 Australian Open titles in his career if he only relies on singles or doubles. (PS: Nadal has already won 12 French Open men's singles titles, and he may be able to achieve it if he works hard next year.) ）

Chen Qiang also knows that in this era, the title of the Australian Open is relatively watery.

In the future, the Australian Open will also be ranked last, but it is a four-slam level event, and there is a lot of prize money, so no player will refuse to play at the Australian Open.

In the thirties, due to the transportation, the overall playing environment, the prize money and the limitations of Australia's geographical location, the Australian Open was almost exclusively a match for Australians, with players from other countries rarely participating in the Australian Open. So the champion of the Australian Open is, at best, the champion of Australia.

In the future, bringing Australian players together and then deciding a champion is much worse than those tennis kings.

Australia originally intended to promote the Australian Open as an international tournament, but it happened to be in the midst of the Great Depression. After the Great Depression, the United States and Germany were the first to emerge from the Great Depression, with American and German players competing in the Australian Open in the late thirties, and by the end of the thirties, the Australian Open became Australia's own tournament, and from 1941 to 1945, the Australian Open was suspended for five years because of World War II.

In the thirties, there were no 128 players at the US Open, and even more so in the backwoods of Australia, where there were just over 40 men's singles players at the 1938 Australian Open, including the United States and Germany.

There are only more than 40 players in singles, and even fewer in doubles. If you calculate it this way, Adrian Quest's 10 Australian Open doubles titles are actually not high.

Generally. Although Adrian Quest holds 13 Australian Open titles, it sounds quite bluffing, but considering that the level of the Australian Open in that era was not very good, the gold content of his 13 championships may not be as good as the gold content of the future ATP 250 level competitions, after all, there are many world-class athletes participating in ATP 250 level competitions, and the Australian Open in the thirties is basically Australians playing their own games.

With Australia's population, you really can't play any tricks by yourself.

In the future, Australians will be very good at basketball, relying on a large number of players who play in the NBA, if only those players in Australia's local league, the Australian team will not reach the second-rate level in Europe.

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The U.S. Open, which has been in the quarterfinals since the quarterfinals, has been on the main venue and can accommodate more than 14,000 spectators, making it a top-scale arena even in the future. The main tennis venue of the future Olympic Games can accommodate about 10,000 people, and many of them are not as good as this main venue.

The annual U.S. Tennis Championships drew the attention of all New Yorkers to the West Side Tennis Club on Forest Hill, and the stands were packed.

After all, there were not so many entertainment programs in those days, so sports competitions became an important entertainment activity for the people of New York. At that time, there were also many professional teams in New York, such as the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, New York Yankees, New York Rangers, Long Island Blackbirds basketball team, and so on.

This match is Chen Qiang vs. Adrian Quest, and although neither is an American player, the crowd doesn't care about that, they just want to see a good game.

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The position of the athletes' tunnel, where American Don Boogie is standing, watching the match.

In the last semi-final, Don Boogie defeated his compatriot and entered the final first, so the winner between Chen Qiang and Adrian Quest will be Don Boogie's opponent in the final. So of course Don Boogie wants to watch this match and get a feel for the strength of his opponent.

Don Boogie still knows a thing or two about Adrian Quest's strength, and the two played each other at the Australian Open at the beginning of the year. However, for Chen Qiang, Tang Buji is very unfamiliar. Therefore, the main object of Don Buji's observation of the battle is also Chen Qiang.

"How can the gap be so big!" Don Boogie's expression showed a hint of concern.

"Adrian Quest is going to lose, and it's going to be a game without a fight. Such a huge gap should not have been in the semifinals of the US Open. ”

Don Boogie took a deep breath, although he also swept his opponent 3-0 in the semi-finals, but the process was still very dangerous, and he played a full 20 games in one set before Don Boogie finally won 11-9.

And Chen Qiang played Adrian Quest, no set will exceed 10 games, the scores of the three sets are 6-3, 6-2 and 6-1, Adrian Quest still had a slight chance to fight back in the first set, but in the third set, there is almost no way to fight back.

"I fought with Adrian Quest, he shouldn't be so weak, how can he face this Chinese and be completely beaten?" Don Boogie looked at the arena, he watched for a long time and didn't understand why the score gap was so big.

Although Don Boogie was the best tennis player of that era, the limitations of the times made him unable to understand Chen Qiang's technique and playing style.

In fact, the best players of that era can only be regarded as amateurs in later generations, and if an ordinary amateur player is allowed to watch professional players play, it is estimated that he can only look at the surface, and he can't understand all the core things.

By the way, future matches will only use the long-set tiebreaker system, that is, the final tiebreaker, after the score reaches 6-6, whoever leads two games first will win. If it's not the final tiebreaker, you'll only need to play seven games.

And at the US Open in the thirties, whether it was a tiebreaker or not, a long set was played, so there would be big scores in the first four sets.

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Chen Qiang made it to the final of the US Open, where he will face American Don Boogie.

The name Don Boogie is easy to remember, and Chen Qiang is familiar with it, because Don Boogie is the first Grand Slam winner in history and the only Grand Slam winner before the Open.

An athlete who has won all four Grand Slams in his career – Wimbledon, US Open, French Open and Australian Open – is considered a Grand Slam. A total of eight men and six women have won Grand Slams, including Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Serena Williams, Sharapova and others.

Don Boogie was the first man in history to win a Grand Slam, winning the French Open in 1938.

What's more, Don Boogie is also a Grand Slam winner of the year.

The so-called annual Grand Slam is when an athlete wins the four Grand Slam titles of Wimbledon, US Open, French Open and Australian Open in one year. It's a lot more difficult than winning a Grand Slam in your career. Only two male players have ever achieved this feat, Don Boogie in the Open era and Rod Laver in the Open era. Even Fei Tianwang did not achieve this year's Grand Slam.

In the future, many people think that the greatest athlete in the Open era should be Rod Laver, not Federer, because Rod Laver's achievements in the annual Grand Slam are too golden. Of course, Rod Laver is also really good, he has dominated the number one position in tennis for seven years, and when the Open era comes, Rod Laver is past the peak of his career, otherwise he would definitely have won more titles.

Before the Open era, the greatest tennis player in the world, undisputed, was Don Boogie!

Historically, Don Boogie won the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in 1938 to achieve the Grand Slam of the year.

At this time and space of Chen Qiang's arrival, the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon have all ended, Don Boogie has won all three Grand Slam titles, and the US Open is Don Boogie's final match, once he wins the US Open, he can complete the amazing achievement of winning four Grand Slams in a year!

For the sake of this unprecedented annual Grand Slam achievement, Don Boogie must not lose.

In fact, last year's Wimbledon champion and US Open champion were also Don Boogie, which means that from Wimbledon in July last year, to the US Open in September last year, and then to the Australian Open in January this year, the French Open in May, and Wimbledon in July, Don Boogie has won all Grand Slam tournaments. Now Don Boogie is definitely at the peak of his career. So in this edition of the US Open, Don Boogie is also the No. 1 seed in the United States.

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Of course, Chen Qiang knows that he is facing a Don Boogie at the peak of his career, and in the next US Open final, Chen Qiang is going to prevent Don Boogie from completing the great achievement of the annual Grand Slam.

Chen Qiang couldn't help but think of Federer in 2005 and 2006, when Federer won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open, but the French Open title was taken away by Nadal, if it weren't for Nadal, Federer would have won the annual Grand Slam.

"Maybe people in the future will say the same thing when they talk about Don Boogie, if it weren't for Chen Qiang, Don Boogie would have won the annual slam in 1938! Sounds like I'm such a villain! ”

Thinking of this, Chen Qiang laughed self-deprecatingly.

At this moment, the phone in the room rang, Chen Qiang picked up the phone, and the voice of the front desk came from the receiver.

"Mr. Chen, there is a Mr. House from the publishing house who wants to see you, and he said that he has already made an appointment with you."

"Yes, I did have an appointment with Mr. House. Please take him to the café, and I'll go down at once. ”

After Chen Qiang finished speaking, he hung up the phone, then tidied up his clothes, went downstairs to the hotel café, and met Mr. House of the publishing house.

After the two exchanged a few words, Chen Qiang said, "Mr. House, I plan to publish a book. ”

"Oh? That's great! You're the No. 1 athlete in the world and you've recently made a big splash at the US Open, and I think a lot of people will be interested in your experience. House spoke.

"Mr. House, what I want to publish is not an autobiography, but a diary." Chen Qiang said.

"Diary? That's fine, too. As long as it's your experience, autobiography or diary, it's no problem, our publisher is happy to help! House continued.

"Mr. House, you have misunderstood, that what I am about to publish is not my diary, but a diary written by my friend. He was a German named Johann Rabe. Chen Qiang said.

House thought for a moment and said, "I'm very sorry, I haven't heard this name, what field is he an athlete?" ”

"He's not an athlete. And he really doesn't have much fame, even in Germany, not many people know about him. Chen Qiang replied.

"Oh......" House's expression suddenly became indifferent, and he said: "Mr. Chen, I respect your friendship with this Mr. Rabe, but please forgive me, this kind of ordinary person's diary, our publishing house will not publish it, because this kind of thing can't be sold at all, and we will lose money when we publish." ”

"So I want to know how much it would cost if I paid for it out of my own pocket." Chen Qiang said.

"Does Mr. Chen want to publish a book at his own expense?" Houston looked surprised.

Chen Qiang nodded: "I have now entered the final of the US Open, even if I win the runner-up, I will get a large amount of prize money, which should be enough to publish a book at my own expense, right?" ”

"Enough, of course enough, if you're willing to pay for it, you can print as much as you want! We can help you sell your books to bookstores all over the United States! House replied immediately.

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After all, the United States is a capitalist society, and as long as you have money, you can do anything. As long as Chen Qiangis willing to pay, let alone publish an ordinary person's diary, even if it is to publish "Postpartum Care Methods for Sows", there is no problem.

When Chen Qiang left China, he copied Rabe's diary written in Nanjing, and Chen Qiang had long wanted to make the contents of this diary public, so that the world would know about the atrocities committed by the Japanese in Nanjing.

Chen Qiang can give a speech, he can go to the media interview, and then tell the world about Nanjing, but the effect is definitely not the best.

In the thirties, there were no microblogs or small videos, so the best way to do this was to publish the diary. After all, in those days, books were the best way to disseminate information and knowledge.

But publishing a book requires money, and Chen Qiang came to the United States alone, even if he was not penniless, he did not have much wealth on hand.

Now that Chen Qiang has reached the final of the US Open, he will receive a large amount of prize money, and Chen Qiang finally plans to start implementing his plan when he has money.

For Chen Qiang, although he is in the United States and cannot go on the battlefield of resistance against Japan to face the invaders, he will still use his own way to contribute to the country and the nation.

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Ask for a guaranteed monthly pass! In addition, the character Don Boogie appeared earlier, but the name Don Bucky was used at the time. Because of the U.S. Open information in the thirties, the customs clearance was poor on the English website, so it was translated into Don Butch according to the transliteration at that time, and later I checked that the official translation should be Don Boogie, and I will still use Don Boogie in the future.