Chen Qiang used to be the champion of the US Open, and when he came to the US Open again after five years, he naturally attracted much attention. However, people are more concerned about his multimillionaire status.

After all, the United States is a capitalist society, and throughout the twentieth century in the United States, class solidification was not as serious as in the future, and the "American dream" is something that often happens around Americans.

If the United States in the future is definitely not like this, entertainment is what ordinary people care about, and the scandals and gossip of those celebrities and artists are far more attractive to people than Buffett's investment advice.

More than a dozen reporters surrounded Chen Qiang.

"Mr. Chen, why did you sign up for this year's US Open?"

"Mr. Chen, as a multi-millionaire, are you participating in the US Open for fun, or to challenge yourself?"

"Mr. Chen, did you have any regrets about the last time you participated in the US Open, and you want to make up for it through this time?"

Facing a large number of reporters in front of him, Chen Qiang calmly took out his tennis racket.

"Look, that's why I'm at this US Open!" Chen Qiang pointed to the tennis racket in his hand and said.

"Tennis rackets?"

"Mr. Chen, is there any difference with this tennis racket?"

"Does this tennis racket have any special significance?"

The reporters asked again.

"This is a newly developed tennis racket, this kind of tennis racket uses artificial sheep intestines, used to replace natural sheep intestines, artificial sheep intestines use nylon as the main raw material, with good toughness, but also very wear-resistant......" Chen Qiang began to gush introduce.

At this time, Chen Qiang was like a salesman, selling his tennis racket in front of a group of reporters.

When it comes to selling goods, Chen Qiang is also very proficient, when he was in China, he sold milk powder at the National Games, and later sold medicine at the temple fair, and now he is also familiar with selling tennis rackets.

After a while, Chen Qiang finished introducing his tennis racket, but the reporters looked at each other.

Finally, a reporter asked, "Mr. Chen, are you selling this kind of tennis racket?" ”

"Of course not." Chen Qiang shook his head: "Do you look like I'm selling tennis rackets?" ”

Although none of the reporters nodded yes, judging from their expressions, it was obvious that they were all saying that you are here to sell tennis rackets.

Chen Qiang shook the racket in his hand, and then said: "Actually, my real purpose is to promote tennis. ”

"Promoting tennis?" Everyone looked at each other again.

Chen Qiang continued: "As we all know, tennis has always been known as an aristocratic sport, and the cost of engaging in tennis is very high, the most important of which is the tennis racket, the current price of tennis rackets is too expensive, the average family wants to buy tennis rackets, I am afraid it is very difficult. Journalists can also calculate, how many tennis rackets can you buy with your monthly salary? ”

The reporters pondered carefully and found that what Chen Qiang said was really like that, the price of the tennis racket with natural sheep intestines is too expensive, and in terms of the salaries of these reporters, the tennis racket is indeed a luxury.

Chen Qiang continued: "The price of this new type of tennis racket in my hand is only one-third of that of other tennis rackets, even if it is an ordinary blue-collar worker, buying a new type of tennis racket is not a burden, which means that tennis is no longer a sport that only rich people can afford, even if your family is not very wealthy, even if your income is only ordinary wage earners, you can participate in tennis." Imagine that children in ordinary public schools can play tennis in the same way as children in private schools, and in a few years, tennis will become a national sport! ”

Chen Qiang looked like a righteous Lingran, and he really infected many reporters at the scene. These reporters who came to the U.S. Open to interview are all professional sports reporters, and even many of them are athletes, and they have a congenital obsession with the promotion of sports, so when Chen Qiang mentioned the promotion of tennis, these reporters also felt enthusiastic.

I only heard Chen Qiang continue: "Nowadays, people don't know about this new type of tennis racket, and they are skeptical about the artificial sheep intestines used in this tennis racket, thinking that the artificial sheep intestines must not be as good as the natural sheep intestines, so they don't trust this new type of tennis racket." The purpose of my visit to the US Open is to prove that this new tennis racket is no worse than the traditional tennis racket. I will use this new tennis racket for the entire time at the US Open, and I think my results will definitely prove how effective this new tennis racket is! ”

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The U.S. Open has not yet begun, and Chen Qiang has taken the lead in promoting a new wave of tennis rackets.

Due to the lack of big-name athletes at the US Open during World War II, Chen Qiang became a hot topic in the eyes of the media. Whether it is a former US Open champion or a multi-millionaire status, it is quite topical, and for ordinary people, why Chen Qiang came to participate in the US Open is indeed a very puzzling question.

For the sake of fame, Chen Qiang has already won the US Open a few years ago, and for the sake of profit, Chen Qiang, a multimillionaire, will not care about the bonus of the US Open champion, people really can't understand why Chen Qiang appeared in the US Open.

Now it is reported in the news media that Chen Qiang came to participate in this US Open tournament in order to promote tennis, which immediately answered the doubts in people's hearts, and at the same time, the new tennis racket mentioned by Chen Qiang has also attracted the attention of many people.

Luxury goods have always been something that ordinary people yearn for, luxury cars, famous watches, and high-end bags are not only popular with the rich, but also liked by ordinary people, but ordinary people can't afford those expensive luxury goods, so they can only sigh. But if ordinary people become wealthy, they will not be satisfied with the simple life they used to have, and luxury cars and watches must all be matched.

The same is true for sports, such as golf, which is very expensive to play and ordinary people can't afford to play, but it doesn't mean that ordinary people don't want to play a few strokes; Motorsports is really burning money, and generally rich people may not be able to afford to play racing, but there are many people who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a small steel cannon and then modify it to drag racing.

Although the aristocratic movement is admired by ordinary people, it is also yearned for by ordinary people, and even many ordinary people are proud to participate in the aristocratic movement, and feel that it is a very face-saving thing to participate in the aristocratic movement.

In this era, tennis is an aristocratic sport that ordinary people can't afford to play, and now Chen Qiang declares that he wants ordinary people to be able to afford tennis, which will certainly attract the attention of the general public. This is like a BMW announcing a three-fold sale of the whole series one day, 100,000 landing a three-series, within 200,000 you can buy a five-series, more than 300,000 can buy a seven-series, if this is the case, whether you buy it or not, you must pay attention to a wave first.

With this wave of public attention, Chen Qiang instantly became the focus of the court and off the court, and even many people who usually don't pay attention to tennis at all also paid attention to Chen Qiang's news.

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As the organizer of the U.S. Open, the U.S. Tennis Association also learned for the first time that Chen Qiang was going to vigorously promote tennis.

There are a lot of well-informed people in the United States Tennis Association, and they know that Chen Qiang has created a new type of tennis racket, so the so-called promotion of tennis is actually aimed at selling a new type of racket. But even if Chen Qiang is well known, the United States Tennis Association still shows strong support for Chen Qiang.

For the promotion of tennis, the United States Tennis Association is more urgent than Chen Qiang, or the United States Tennis Association hopes that tennis can become a popular sport.

In order to be able to sell tennis rackets, Chen Qiang has to promote tennis, even if he fails, at most he will lose a sum of money, and it will not even hurt his muscles and bones. However, for the United States Tennis Association, whether it can successfully promote tennis is related to the survival of the United States Tennis Association, if tennis becomes more and more niche, and there are fewer and fewer people engaged in tennis, the United States Tennis Association will become weaker and weaker, and even eventually gradually die. So the United States Tennis Association is happy to see people promoting tennis, and hopes that more and more people will participate in tennis.

The senior management of the United States Tennis Association also knows that the reason why tennis cannot be popularized is because the cost of manufacturing tennis rackets is too high, and the expensive natural sheep intestine is not something that ordinary people can consume, and they also hope that there can be a cheap alternative to the natural sheep intestine.

In the future, organizations such as the Tennis Association will continue to encourage the development of new tennis strings in order to reduce the production cost of tennis rackets and increase the fun of tennis. Historically, artificial sheep gut was first used with the support of major tennis organizations, and while the nylon process continued to improve, tennis strings such as kvera strings and polyester strings were invented, and even some players mixed different tennis strings together, for which the International Tennis Association has always been a green light.

In addition to the United States Tennis Association, those tennis promoters, as well as tennis coaches in schools, have also become interested in the new tennis racket, a cheaper tennis racket, which can allow more ordinary people to participate in tennis, and the degree of mass participation in tennis is precisely related to the jobs of tennis promoters and grassroots tennis coaches.

There are many people who are interested in the new tennis racket, but most people are still skeptical, and people will instinctively resist and distrust new things. For example, when mobile payment first appeared, almost everyone would question the security of mobile payment, and they were worried that their money would disappear, and now even begging people have to hang a QR code to collect money.

The same is true of the new tennis racket, although Chen Qiang is trying his best to praise the new tennis racket, but it still can't dispel people's doubts, but with more and more people paying attention, there are more and more doubts.

Faced with this situation, the only thing Chen Qiang can do is to prove with the results of the game that the new tennis racket is no worse than the traditional tennis racket.

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It's finally time for the official competition.

Chen Qiang's first opponent was named Everett, a tennis player that Chen Qiang had never heard of.

In fact, in addition to Chen Qiang, there are 31 players, Chen Qiang only knows two people, one is Frank Parker, five years ago in the US Open, Frank Parker was Chen Qiang's opponent in the second round, and the other is called Edwood Cook, he also participated in the US Open five years ago and reached the round of 32, but he did not play against Chen Qiang at that time.

As for the other contestants, even if they are more well-known, Chen Qiang has only heard of their names, and has not had a substantial intersection with them.

Chen Qiang's opponents when he participated in the US Open five years ago, retired from the military, and joined the army, the masters of the year did not appear in the US Open in 1943. For example, the legendary tennis player Don Boogie, whom Chen Qiang met in the final, joined the U.S. Air Force in 1942 and tore a muscle in his shoulder during a training session, which caused his form to decline greatly, and he has never won a Grand Slam singles title since.

Although Chen Qiang didn't know this opponent called "Everett", but this Everett knew Chen Qiang, and before the game started, Everett came to Chen Qiang to get close, and also came to Chen Qiang with a tennis ball to sign his autograph.

For these new generation of tennis players, Chen Qiang, the former US Open champion, is definitely the object of worship in their hearts.

In the pre-match predictions, almost all professionals believed that even if Chen Qiang only had six or seven percent of his strength left, he could easily defeat Everett.

In fact, everyone understands that the level of tennis players now is far worse than the US Open five years ago, and the overall level of the US Open has also dropped significantly compared with five years ago. Five years ago, the US Open had the world's top players such as Don Boogie and John Bromwich Albion, who wanted to be successful and famous, but in the end, these masters became the stepping stones on Chen Qiang's road to winning the championship. There are no top players like Don Boogie or John Bromwich Albion in today's tennis world, and even if Chen Qiang's strength declines, he will still be the big devil of this year's US Open.

In the end, Chen Qiang easily defeated Everett with two 6-0 and advanced to the round of 16.

This result is not surprising, after all, Chen Qiang is a former US Open champion, and he is also a US Open champion with high gold content. He came to a relatively low-level US Open tournament and could not stop in the first round.

Chen Qiang has also made full preparations for this US Open, he has not used the training space for a long time, and he has started training again for this US Open.

Today's Chen Qiang has lived a leisurely life for several years, and his physical fitness is not as good as five years ago, coupled with his age, his tennis strength has deteriorated a lot compared to five years ago.

Fortunately, the opponents of this US Open are much weaker than five years ago, the so-called top 32 players are not as powerful as the top 64 players that year, plus Chen Qiang's tennis skills beyond this era, it is still very easy to win.

This unknown opponent in the first round is not even an appetizer for Chen Qiang, and he can't test Chen Qiang's real strength, and in the next sixteen-in-eight competition, Chen Qiang can be regarded as encountering an opponent with some strength, and this person is also one of the two players that Chen Qiang knows.

He's Elwood Cook.

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