For Qian Xiaojia, a tennis reporter for CCTV's sports channel, today is not a good day. The US Open, the final Grand Slam of 2017, is still two days away, but for her, her work has already begun.

In this US Open, in addition to Peng Shuai, Zhang Shuai, Wang Chang, Duan Yingying and other golden flowers directly entered the main event, there are as many as five Chinese women to participate in the qualifying round. As a special tennis reporter, Qian Xiaojia naturally pays close attention to the performance of these players. As long as time permits, she will almost always go to the scene to watch the performance of these Chinese female players in person, so as to send back the report from the scene to China as soon as possible.

In the first two rounds of qualifying, the performance of the Chinese players was mixed, with three female players losing one after another and failing to make it to the decisive round. The other two players made it through the thrilling test and kept their hopes of qualifying for the main event.

Qian Xiaojia thought that if these two Chinese players can finally break into the main draw, then with the four players who directly entered the main draw, the first round of this US Open will appear in a total of six Chinese players. Such results can be regarded as a relatively good performance for Chinese tennis in recent years.

However, who knows, in the third round of the qualifying round today, the only two remaining Chinese players lost. One of them was affected by an injury and voluntarily retired before the end of the first set. Others, however, lost by a narrow margin after a three-set battle with qualifying No. 2 seed, a player from Switzerland.

This also means that no Chinese women's player in this year's US Open qualifying tournament has been able to successfully break through, which is not a good start for the upcoming US Open main event.

has experienced the exit of five Chinese players, which makes Qian Xiaojia feel very depressed. I think that when Sister Na and Zheng Jie were there, every Grand Slam was the most exciting festival for tennis reporters like them. During that time, almost every Grand Slam would create a new history of Chinese tennis, and an exciting report was sent back to China in the fastest time, which made Qian Xiaojia feel that the value of her life had been greatly reflected.

However, looking at it now, since Sister Na retired, Chinese players have rarely achieved good results in Grand Slams, and even some players can reach the top 16 as big news. With the overall decline in China's tennis performance, the attention of domestic audiences to tennis is gradually declining, and it is difficult for Qian Xiaojia to write as influential news reports as before.

After the two Chinese women players lost, Qian Xiaojia came to the venue of the former Chinese brother Wu Di and wanted to follow up on Wu Di's game. Relative to women's players, Chinese men's tennis players have little attraction for tennis journalists. After all, they don't even have the chance to appear in a Grand Slam, so they don't have much reporting value.

As the most famous Chinese men's player, Wu Di naturally still has some reporters' attention. Among these reporters is Qian Xiaojia. In the first two rounds of the game, Wu Di was in an unexpectedly good state, swept the opponent 3:0 in two consecutive rows, and successfully entered the decisive round.

This somewhat surprising result aroused Qian Xiaojia's interest. You must know that apart from the Australian Open, no Chinese men's player has been able to appear on the main draw stage of other Grand Slams. Therefore, if Wu Di can win the match today, then he will create a history of Chinese tennis. Judging from this point of view alone, Wu Di's game is still very newsworthy.

However, two hours later, Qian Xiaojia, who was looking forward to it, was disappointed again. Although Wu Di has worked very hard, the difference in strength still caused him to lose 0:3 against the No. 5 seed in the qualifying round, a German player ranked around 120.

This result made Qian Xiaojia very depressed, today she watched three matches of Chinese players in a row, and all of them lost without exception, Qian Xiaojia was about to wonder if she should not continue to watch the game live.

Just as she was walking with her head bored, worrying about how to write today's report, suddenly a lively cheer from the sidelines caught her attention. In addition to the audience's applause, the sound of "come on" in Chinese during the period made Qian Xiaojia feel a little strange.

"Aren't there only three Chinese players competing today, how can there be Chinese cheers? Could it be that the Taiwanese players are competing? Secretly speculating, Qian Xiaojia decided to join in the fun.

Following the cheers, Qian Xiaojia came to the No. 12 venue. At this time, she found that the small No. 12 court was already full of spectators, including many Chinese faces, who were very excited to cheer for the players on the field.

Finally squeezed to the front of the crowd, Qian Xiaojia finally saw the two players who were competing at this time. One of them was tall and looked a little familiar.

"It's actually Serbia's Lajovic, he is the top seed in this qualifying tournament, and his strength is quite strong, I don't know which player is so unlucky to meet him?" After thinking for a while, Qian Xiaojia finally recognized this player.

In fact, Lajovic is not a very well-known player, and his performances on the tour have been mediocre in recent years, and he has not achieved any impressive results. And the reason why Qian Xiaojia can recognize him is because he is a Davis Cup teammate of Serbian king Xiaode. Qian Xiaojia, who is a loyal fan of Xiaode, naturally met Lajovic by the way.

Although Lajovic's strength is average, he is still quite terrifying for qualifiers. You must know that as of the US Open registration time, Lajovic is ranked 108th in the world. Under normal circumstances, this ranking would be enough for him to qualify directly for the main event. Although the top 104 players in the world are directly qualified for the main event, there are always some players who cannot participate in the main event for various reasons every year, so it is still very likely that the 108 players will enter the main event.

Who knows that there are exceptionally few players who have retired this year, except for the two kings of Xiaode and Murray, who retired due to injury, and only one other player is unable to participate. As a result, the final ranking of the main draw came to 107th, and Lajovic was unlucky to become the top seed in the qualifying round.

Although depressed, Lajovic didn't really care. Because of his strength, he can actually rank among the top 80 in the world. It's just that the state has not been good for a while, and the ranking has slipped somewhat. In qualifying, he was confident that there was nothing else that would stop him from making it to the main draw.

Looking at the opponent opposite him, it is obvious that he looks like an East Asian.

"Is it really a Taiwanese player?" Qian Xiaojia felt that she was about to guess correctly.

However, when Qian Xiaojia saw the display screen on the sidelines, she was so shocked that her jaw was about to drop. Because she saw a bright five-star red flag, which was displayed on it very eye-catchingly, and the name followed by the national flag was "pan xiqi".