The newspaper has announced the matchup chart for the fourth round, and Chen Qiang looked at the matchup chart to find his opponent for the next match.

"My next opponent turned out to be John Bromwich!"

Those who are not familiar with the Australian Open may not know John Bromwich Albion, but those who are familiar with the history of the Australian Open will definitely know John Bromwich Albion.

John Bromwich Albion has won two Australian Open singles titles, five Australian Open singles runners-up and one Wimbledon singles runner-up in his career. He was a great singles player in terms of results, but he is remembered for his doubles.

John Bromwich has won a total of eight Australian Open men's doubles titles, one Australian Open mixed doubles title, two Wimbledon men's doubles titles, two Wimbledon mixed doubles titles, three US Open men's doubles titles, and one US Open mixed doubles title.

Combined, John Bromwich Albion has won a total of 17 doubles titles at Grand Slam level!

It is worth mentioning that in the 1939 Davis Cup, John Bromwich led Australia to victory over the mighty United States, when the United States had already taken a 2-0 lead, and John Bromwich won a singles and then a doubles, and finally turned the tide and helped the Australian team overturn the powerful United States.

At the 1938 US Open, John Bromwich Albion was also considered the No. 1 seed for foreign players.

Chen Qiang has only heard of John Bromwich Albion's name and knows that he has more than a dozen Grand Slam doubles titles in his hands, but he doesn't know much about John Bromwich Albion. Fortunately, this kind of famous athlete has a special introduction from the official.

Chen Qiang quickly found the official introduction of John Bromwich Albion, in the official introduction, John Bromwich is not only the No. 1 foreign seed, but also has another title, that is, "the world's No. 1 backhand".

"John Bromwich Albion turned out to be one of the first players in the world to have a two-handed backhand." Chen Qiang couldn't help frowning when he saw this introduction.

In the thirties, the two-handed backhand grip technique was indeed just emerging, and compared with the one-handed backhand, the two-handed backhand grip was accurate, concealed, and powerful. For beginners, due to the lack of arm strength, they often use the two-handed backhand technique when they are new to tennis.

In the future, a large number of top tennis players will use the technique of holding the racket with both hands and backhands. For example, Nadal and Djokovic among the men, and Sharapova and Najie among the women, often use the technique of two-handed backhand.

In the future, the two-handed backhand may not have a great advantage, and Federer's backhand is one-handed, which can also dominate the tennis world. But in the thirties, when tennis technology was not well developed, the advantage of the two-handed backhand was particularly enormous. And because John Bromwich Albion was one of the first players in the world to use a two-handed backhand, and he understands the two-handed backhand better than others, his two-handed backhand is also more difficult to deal with.

This can be seen from his title of "the world's No. 1 backhand".

And John Bromwich Albion is also a left-handed player.

Left-handed players have an innate advantage over right-handed players, not only in tennis, but also in table tennis and badminton, and even in basketball, it is more difficult to defend those who break through with their left hand.

With a left-handed hander and a two-handed backhand, this is simply a perfect right-handed one-handed player.

And Chen Qiang, as a Chinese, is of course accustomed to using his right hand, and in this respect, Chen Qiang is restrained by John Bromwich.

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At the same time that Chen Qiang is studying John Bromwich Albion, John Bromwich is also studying Chen Qiang's style of play.

In the fourth round of the US Open, there are only 16 players left, and at this time, the seeded players will meet, even if they are not seeded players, they can reach the fourth round, and they have the strength of seeded players. No matter how arrogant John Bromwich alba is, he will not underestimate the opponent in the fourth round, even if this opponent is Chen Qiang, who is participating in tennis for the first time, John Bromwich Albion still does not dare to take it lightly.

In terms of qualifications, Chen Qiang can only be regarded as a rookie in the tennis world, and he cannot have a lot of official introductions like famous players, so it has become difficult for John Bromwich Albion to understand Chen Qiang's style of play.

This is like an encyclopedia of Federer, there will be a very detailed introduction in the entry, and if the encyclopedia is Li Ergou, the ghost knows who he is!

John Bromwich Albion has not watched Chen Qiang's match, and it is impossible to find a video of the game in this day and age. Although there were already such film recorders in the thirties, no one wasted expensive film on the first few rounds of the competition, and even if they recorded the competition, they would record the final round.

So John Bromwich Albion could only find Chen Qiang's previous opponent to understand the situation.

John Bromwich Albion was the first to find Chen's opponent in the second round, American seventh-seeded Frank Parker, who wanted to learn about Chen's technical characteristics and style of play from Frank Parker.

However, John Bromwich didn't get the answer he wanted.

"It was the most humiliating game I've ever played, and it was very difficult for me to score the whole game." Frank Parker spoke.

"And how did you lose? Can you elaborate on that? John Bromwich asked.

"To be honest, I still don't know how I lost." Frank Parker shook his head helplessly, then continued: "In his service game, I can't catch his serve, so I can't break it; And in my serve, he could catch my serve, but he hit back and I couldn't, so I couldn't keep my serve and I lost. ”

"What an answer is this!" John Bromwich couldn't help but complain in his heart, and he even felt that Frank Parker was deliberately perfunctory.

Then John Bromwich found Joseph Hunter, who was Chen's opponent in the third round.

"I don't know what's going on, but he's got a weird ball and it's hard to catch." Joseph Hunt spoke.

"Is it fast? Or is it powerful? Or is it tricky? John Bromwich asked.

"Sometimes it's a bit tricky, but I think it's more appropriate to use the word 'precise'. As for speed and power, it's really hard to describe in words, and I think if you go up and compete with him in person, you can appreciate what I mean by 'weird'. Joseph Hunt replied.

Before leaving, Joseph Hunter also added: "By the way, remind you that the online volley may not have had an effect on Chen Qiang, and my volleys were caught by him." ”

"What? He can catch the volley! John Bromwich Albion was shocked, and for him, this information was perhaps his biggest gain of the day.

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The fourth round of the US Open.

The first game was Chen Qiang's serve, and John Bromwich finally got a taste of what Frank Parker called "weirdness". In the face of Chen Qiang's serve, John Bromwich Albion is also very uncomfortable, even if he has the world's No. 1 backhand, it is still difficult to make a quality return. So Chen Qiang won the first game without any suspense.

Then in the second game, it was John Bromwich's serve, so that Chen Qiang did not expect it, he lost points in a row, but John Bromwich kept his serve.

Although John Bromwich Albion is left-handed, he serves with his right hand, which Chen Qiang did not expect before the match.

Under normal circumstances, a left-handed player will definitely serve with his left hand, so that the quality of the ball will be high, but John Bromwich Albion does the opposite, he specializes in the right hand serve, so that when serving, it is the same as a normal right-handed player, but after serving, he uses his good left hand to put pressure on the opponent, which can just cause strong to weak suppression.

This style of play, Chen Qiang is very uncomfortable. Not only Chen Qiang, but other players who play against John Bromwich Albion for the first time will be very uncomfortable.

Chen Qiang finally lost the first game of his US Open match, and the first set between the two sides was tied 1-1.

In the next game of Chen Qiang's serve, John Bromwich still did not find a way to deal with the topspin, and Chen Qiang scored another point, and the score became 2-1.

After John Bromwich's serve, Chen Qiang was also unable to complete the break, allowing John Bromwich to keep his serve, and the score was 2-2 in the first four games.

In the fifth game, Chen Qiang was very lucky, sending out two aces, which directly extinguished John Bromwich's hope of breaking. The score came to 3-2, and then it was John Bromwich Albion's serve.

According to the past trend, this game should have been John Bromwich Albion successfully held serve and the score was equalized again.

However, Chen Qiang changed his strategy, opting for a more aggressive style of play, using frequent netting volleys to seize the initiative and then breaking the deadlock with topspin.

Chen Qiang successfully broke serve and the score became 4-2 in the first set, and then Chen Qiang held his serve to make the score 5-2.

John Bromwich Albion, who was three games behind, looked anxious and would have to win three games in a row if he wanted to take the game into the long set.

John Bromwich, who was anxious to eat hot tofu and was eager to win, made two mistakes, and Chen Qiang also seized these two mistakes and successfully won the game.

The score of the first set was 6-2.

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The game entered a short break, and Chen Qiang also calmed down and began to think about countermeasures.

Left-handed players, right-handed serves, plus two-handed backhands, are indeed quite difficult to deal with for players in this era, and ordinary players are afraid that they will not be able to find a countermeasure for a few days and nights.

But after all, Chen Qiang has decades of sports knowledge and experience ahead of him, and after straining through his mind, he found a way to deal with John Bromwich Albion.

After the start of the second set, John Bromwich suddenly found that his serve seemed to be less threatening, or that the quality of Chen Qiang's return had improved a lot.

In this set, John Bromwich won only one game, and the score was finally fixed at 6-1.

In the third set, Chen Qiang scored five points in a row, giving John Bromwich a 5-0 start.

By this time, John Bromwich had already realized that the tide was turning!

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U.S. Tennis Championships: Foreign No. 1 Seed Eliminated! 》

Such a headline appeared on the sports board of major newspapers the next day.

John Bromwich Albion, the foreign No. 1 seed, was eliminated in the fourth round, much to the surprise of many. Although in the U.S. Open, foreign players are not as strong as American players, but as the No. 1 foreign seed, how can they enter the quarterfinals.

There are also many Americans who are happy to see this title, and they feel that the foreign No. 1 seed has been eliminated, so who else can stop the American from winning the championship!

At the same time, the organizers of the US Open also announced the list of the top eight, including six Americans, one Australian, and one is Chen Qiang.

Chen Qiang is participating in the US Open for the first time, and being able to enter the quarterfinals is really surprising to everyone.

Especially the organizer of the United States Tennis Association, they let Chen Qiang participate in the competition, originally to use Chen Qiang's fame to attract some attention, but they didn't expect to find a real thigh.

And after the grouping of the top eight was announced, people found that Chen Qiang had a great chance of advancing to the top four!

Among the players who advanced to the quarterfinals, only two players did not advance as seeded players, one was Chen Qiang, and the other happened to be Chen Qiang's opponent in the quarterfinals, his name is Konstantin Marco.

In other words, Chen Qiang will face an unseeded player in the quarterfinals, and the strength of the unseeded player will definitely be weaker, so the probability of Chen Qiang advancing to the semifinals has also greatly increased.

Although he was an American, he was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his father was an artist, and after the end of World War I, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, Konstantin Marko's father left Hungary with the whole family, first to Italy, then to Argentina, and finally to the United States, settling in Los Angeles. Konstantin Marco also received American citizenship as a result.

Konstantin Marco won doubles at the 1936 US Open and Wimbledon in 1937 and 1938, and he has represented the United States in four Davis Cups, but all in doubles. In 1938, Konstantin Marco was ranked 10th in the United States in singles, and since there were only eight American seeds, Konstantin Marco was not seeded.

Konstantin Marko, in addition to being a tennis player, is also a wrestler, and he has the qualifications of an international wrestling referee. He was also a basketball player, and in 1939 he was banned by the US Tennis Association for illegally accepting a £200 bonus, so he went to professional basketball. It was not until during World War II that Konstantin Marco joined the U.S. Navy and continued to play tennis.

Konstantin Marco is also a well-known artist, having acted in musicals, films, broadcasters, and even a gallery in Los Angeles.

As an athlete, as an artist, and as a soldier in the army, Konstantin Marco is simply a good young man with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor!

Among the tennis players in the United States, there are also many people like Konstantin Marco who have a wide range of hobbies, are proficient in many sports, or have extraordinary achievements in other fields. But people's energy is limited, and playing tennis, wrestling, basketball, painting, and acting is doomed to Konstantin Marco to be proficient in everything, or wrestling, basketball, painting and acting, which diverted Konstantin Marko's energy in tennis, which also led to his failure to make a breakthrough in the singles event of tennis.

In the face of such a half-hearted player, Chen Qiang won easily. The seventh seed of the US Open, Frank Parker, is powerless in front of Chen Qiang, not to mention Konstantin Marco, the tenth in the United States!

After his victory over Konstantin Marko, Chen advanced to the semifinals of the US Open.

Chen's next opponent is Australian Adrian Quest, who is also a legendary tennis player.

The player who has won the most men's singles titles in the history of the Australian Open is the familiar Djokovic, who has won seven Australian Open men's singles titles, followed by Federer's six.

And the person who has won the most Australian Open championships is this Adrian Quest, who has won a total of 13 Australian Open championships (3 singles, 10 doubles) in his career, which can be described as a well-deserved hegemon of the Australian Open!

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