Edwood Cook was in the round of 32 at the US Open when Chen won the title five years ago, and Elwood Cook has never missed the last five years of the US Open, but his best result was the round of 16 in 1940.

Edwood Cook's peak was probably in 1939, when he finished runner-up in singles and doubles at Wimbledon, and reached the semi-finals of the French Open. Edwood Cook hasn't had a decent result since.

Unable to achieve good results for many years in a row is also a very painful thing for a tennis player, the historical Edwood Cook chose to temporarily give up his tennis career after the end of this US Open, to join the US Navy, but before he could go to war, World War II was over, and then Edwood Cook returned to the tennis court and lasted several years of career.

In other words, the current Edwood Cook is about to end his tennis career to join the army, and Edwood Cook is in a state of confusion at this time, and meeting Chen Qiang makes him unintentional.

Five years ago at the US Open, although Edwood Cook had never played against Chen Qiang, he had seen Chen Qiang beat his opponents one by one.

This psychological shadow was also brought to the game by Edwood Cook, so in the whole game, Edwood Cook only played six or seven percent of his strength, and was naturally beaten by Chen Qiang and lost the game.

Chen Qiang can be said to have made it to the quarterfinals of the US Open without much effort, and his next opponent is named Bill Talbot.

Bill Talbot is a good doubles player, having won nine Grand Slam doubles titles in his history. It is worth mentioning that he switched to type 1 diabetes, and as a person with type 1 diabetes can become a good athlete, Bill Talbot is also quite inspirational.

However, Bill Talbot's singles are not as powerful as his doubles, and in the face of Chen Qiang, Bill Talbot can only swallow the bitter fruit of defeat and then save his energy to play doubles.

So far, Chen Qiangbing has entered the semifinals of the US Open without blood, and he is only two victories away from winning the US Open.

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Beckland Jr. also came to the scene of the US Open.

"How's it going, you're still used to using the racket, right?" Little Beckland asked.

Chen Qiang's tennis racket, although it uses artificial sheep intestines, is actually specially made by Little Beckland's laboratory, after all, no player has different needs for the tension of the racket, so Little Beckland spent a lot of effort to make artificial sheep intestines according to Chen Qiang's habits, so that Chen Qiang can use them more easily as much as possible.

Chen Qiang smiled and nodded: "Actually, I think that the artificial sheep intestines we make now are almost no different from the natural sheep intestines, at least I can't feel the difference when I use them." ”

"Really? That's great! In this way, our artificial sheep intestine can truly replace the natural sheep intestine. Little Bakeland began.

Chen Qiang is not perfunctory little Beckland, for the current Chen Qiang, there is no difference between using an artificial sheep gut racket and using a natural sheep gut racket. This is not because Chen Qiang's strength is already so powerful that he can use the artificial sheep gut racket as a natural sheep gut racket, but Chen Qiang's strength is not enough to distinguish between the artificial sheep gut racket and the natural sheep gut racket, in other words, what kind of racket he uses is the same, the difference will not be too big, and it will not affect his performance.

Artificial sheep intestine and natural sheep intestine are of course different, with the development of science and technology in the future, the material of tennis string has made great progress, there are a variety of new materials, but there are still many top professional tennis players will use natural sheep intestine tennis racket, such as the famous Federer, he used natural sheep intestine.

A tennis player of Federer's level is very sensitive to the perception of tennis strings, and once he gets used to a certain type of tennis string and then asks him to change it, it will be very uncomfortable to use, and it will also affect his performance in the game. That's why Federer has been using the same tennis string for decades.

However, there are only a handful of tennis players who can reach Federer's top strength, and professional tennis players who are less powerful are not so sensitive to the perception of rackets, and their requirements for tennis strings are not as harsh as Federer's. As for those ordinary professional tennis players, the requirements for tennis rackets are even lower, even if in the process of use, they can feel the difference between artificial sheep intestines and natural sheep intestines, but their strength will not become stronger because of the replacement of natural sheep intestines.

For example, table tennis will also have this phenomenon, the more powerful the table tennis player, the stricter the requirements for the racket, those top masters of the national team, the racket used are customized according to the technical characteristics of the individual. On the contrary, the worse the level, the lower the requirements for the racket, such as table tennis beginners in primary and secondary schools, there is no problem for dozens of people to change a racket.

The same is true for those e-sports players, especially those who play shooting games, professional players have to adapt to a new type of mouse for a long time, while ordinary players can play with the mouse of any Internet café.

In this regard, the lower the level of tennis players, the less impact on their strength after changing to new equipment. For a world-class player like Federer, if he changes to a new racket, his strength may drop by two percent, while if an amateur tennis player changes his racket or not, it doesn't matter if he changes his racket with natural sheep intestines, they can't play professionally.

Chen Qiang's current tennis level, not to mention that it is on par with Federer, even compared with ordinary tennis professional players in the future, there is a gap between him, so he has not yet reached the point of being picky about tennis strings.

Chen Qiang's current strength, the use of artificial sheep gut will not affect the play of strength, from the perspective of future generations, the current Chen Qiang is at most a high-level amateur tennis player, with a racket of 500 yuan and a racket of 5,000 yuan, the level of play is about the same.

Just listen to little Beckland continue: "After you played at the US Open, our new tennis racket also attracted a lot of attention. Now there is no one to return the goods, and the merchants who used to return the goods, there are still people who ask for restocking, and the situation is starting to improve. ”

"It looks like I'm going to have to keep up the good work, and when I win the US Open, our new tennis racket will be accepted by the world." Chen Qiang said.

"You've made it to the semi-finals, which is a very good result. But the next game will be a little more difficult for you, and I heard that your next opponent is Jack Krama, who is a tough guy to deal with. Little Bakeland spoke.

Chen Qiang nodded: "I have heard of him, he is the second seed of this US Open, I have read his information, his first time he participated in the US Open seems to be in 1939, just staggered with my US Open championship in 1938." ”

Jack Crama is a legendary tennis player whose name many people may not have heard of, and his career results are a notch off those of the biggest players. Jack Kramar didn't win his first Grand Slam singles title until 1946, and he only won three Grand Slam singles titles in his career, but he won six Grand Slam titles in doubles.

Although Jack Kramar did not win many championships, but he has made great contributions to tennis, since the fifties, Jack Kramar began to advocate the establishment of the tennis open system, as early as 1960, he proposed to the International Tennis Federation to introduce the open tournament system, but in the vote with a difference of 5 votes did not reach, but the proposal was finally passed in 1968, and tennis has since entered the era of the open tournament. In other words, without Jack Crama's unremitting efforts for more than ten years, there would be no open era of tennis players, and tennis would not have ushered in great development.

In 1970, Jack Kramar created the men's Grand Prix points system, which has been used to this day, and now to check the points ranking of the Professional Tennis Federation (ATP), what data such as Nadal is ranked No. 1 in the world, Djokovic is ranked No. 2 in the world, and Federer is ranked No. 3 in the world. The Professional Tennis League (ATP) was founded in 1972, and Jack Crama was one of the founders.

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Jack Kramar has been competing at the US Open since 1939, when he was beaten in the second round by the tournament's No. 11 seed. He rose to fame in 1940 by beating the tournament's fourth seed in the quarterfinals, but lost to the tournament's second seed in the semifinals; In 1941, he reached the quarterfinals as the No. 11 seed, losing to the tournament's No. 3 seed; The 1942 race Jack Kramar did not participate. However, at the 1943 US Open, Jack Kramar still showed good form and reached the semi-finals.

In 1940 and 1941, Jack Kramar and his partner Ted Schroeder won two US Open doubles titles, so he is also considered a well-known figure in the US Open. But Jack Crama peaked in singles in 1946, when he won the US Open, and the following year he won both Wimbledon and US Open.

Jack Kramar has a Coast Guard job in addition to tennis, so he's just an amateur tennis player as well. So in terms of strength, Jack Krama is definitely not Chen Qiang's opponent.

However, what Chen Qiang didn't expect was that Jack Krama was very interested in a new type of tennis racket, and he even proposed to borrow a new type of tennis racket from Chen Qiang to play.

Changing to a new racket on the spot is a taboo in the game, and this Jack Krama is even more exaggerated, and he actually borrowed a racket from his opponent on the spot!

Chen Qiang came to play the game and also brought several rackets, so he simply gave one of the rackets to Jack Krama.

"Do you want to give it to me? Thank you so much! Jack Crama showed an ecstatic expression, and Chen Qiang could feel that Jack Crama was not pretending.

"This is a new tennis racket, it feels no different from a traditional racket, is it really only a third of the original price?" Jack Crama said lovingly as he played with his new racket.

Chen Qiang replied: "As far as the current production process is concerned, the new tennis racket will be reduced to one-third of the original level, and if the process level can be improved, it may be cheaper!" ”

"That's great! If this new racket is really not much different from the traditional racket, I will use this new racket in the future. Jack Crama paused, then said, "I'm the son of a railroad worker, so my family isn't wealthy, and although I did it at the junior tennis tournament as a child, my family wasn't big enough to support me to play tennis. Luckily, I was lucky enough to get a sponsorship from the Southern California Tennis Association, and they saw my potential and allowed me to train there. I remember when I was a kid, I had to walk several hours a day to train in Montebello......"

After Jack Crama introduced himself, Chen Qiang understood that Jack Crama is not the kind of rich kid, he is a "civilian" who plays tennis. At that time, tennis was an aristocratic sport, and there were really only a handful of civilian players like Jack Crama. It is also for this reason that Jack Kramar is particularly interested in the new tennis racket, which he hopes can bring a revolution to tennis and allow more children from ordinary families to integrate into tennis.

Jack Kramar is a true tennis enthusiast, and historically he advocated the establishment of an open tournament system, the creation of a tennis point system, and the establishment of a professional tennis federation (ATP), which can be seen as a genuine desire for tennis to develop.

At this time, Chen Qiang suddenly felt that it might be a good thing to let Jack Crama promote a new type of tennis racket. After all, Jack Crama is a true lover of tennis, and he has dedicated his life to promoting the sport, so it was a fitting fit for him to be in charge of the promotion of the new tennis racket.

So Chen Qiang opened his mouth and asked, "Jack, what else do you do now besides playing tennis?" ”

"I have a job in the Coast Guard, and I occasionally go on missions abroad." Jack Kramar replied.

The United States has a long coastline, so the United States Coast Guard is a very large armed force, under the United States Department of Homeland Security, is one of the five major armed forces of the United States. Now that it is a time of war, Japanese submarines are likely to appear on the west coast of the United States, and German submarines are also likely to appear on the east coast of the United States, so the strength of the U.S. Coast Guard in this era is unprecedentedly strong, and it is the last line of defense in the territorial waters of the United States.

So Chen Qiang asked again, "Jack, are you interested in coming to work with me?" Let's promote this new tennis racket together? ”

"Huh?" Jack Krama looked a little surprised, he didn't expect that before the game, Chen Qiang, who was his opponent, actually sent him a job offer.

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