Section 365 Big Stars
Seattle Century Connect Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium that can host concerts as well as tennis matches.
As the sun rises and the flow of people increases, today is the first professional match for many newcomers to tennis, with a large number of visitors, about 5,000 or more.
Katie, who has been playing for a long time, is also a newcomer, and this was her first official professional tournament, followed by the four major tennis tournaments starting in January.
However, the competition registration fee is not cheap, 20,000 broadswords.
Under the sun, cheers, more than 10,000 eyes watching, in front of a large number of cameras, Katie's first round begins, she has two opponents today, the first place is a newcomer.
Accumulated steadily, Katie beat the opponent throughout the whole process, best-of-three sets, six games per set.
The first four points in each game wins, if the score in the game is very dead, such as 3:3; It takes one side to lead by two points in a row to win, such as 5:3.
The winner of all four sets ends the set early.
However, the calculation method of the national dragon and foreign games is different, the first point is 15, the second point is 20, the third point is 40, and the fourth point wins, and the two sides repeatedly compete for the three numbers 15, 20, and 40.
At the beginning of the match, Katie continued her high-pressure style of play, letting her opponent run around the whole time, 4:0 in every game, and winning 16:0 in one set.
The clean score drew screams and boils from the audience.
At the end of the first set, the rest is 2 minutes, and then the second set is played, like copying and pasting, continuous crushing, and the opponent drops the racket directly in the middle of the game, and leaves the court angrily.
Katie received a tsunami of cheers and celebrations.
Zhang Jing couldn't help but applaud, it was too bullish, hearty, pleasing to the eye, and very ornamental.
The next match was two hours later, when Zhang Jing met Katie backstage.
Like a child coming home with a good report card, Katie proudly asked, "OSS, how did I play?"
"It's great," Zhang Jing praised sincerely, "Keep working hard and kill all the players until they don't have a piece of armor!"
At this time, Coach Swiatek, who was in his forties, walked in from outside, looked at Zhang Jing and Katie and said, "The club is willing to increase the purchase price to 6 million meters, and only buy 20% of the brokerage contract."
"No," Zhang Jing is very poor now, but no matter how poor he is, he can't do stupid things, let alone 6 million meters, even if he adds an extra zero, he will directly refuse, interrupting Swiatek and thinking: "The matter of buying a share of the brokerage contract is not negotiable;
From now until next September, without any commercial endorsements, Katie will be a great tennis player, and making money is only a secondary goal, and the order cannot be reversed."
"Her next match is against a former Australian Open runner-up," Swiatek warned, "and if she loses, she could drop the price."
"If you lose, Katie's value will drop," Zhang Jingtan said, "It really doesn't matter, I'm willing to support her for the rest of my life."
Swiatek was speechless, and Katie was moved.
Ding Jiaqi sighed to herself in her heart, in terms of sensationalism, Zhang Jing claimed to be second, and no one dared to call it first.
At 10:30 a.m., Katie's second game began.
The opponent is a veteran, inspired by Zhang Jing, Katie is very confident, and the result is also very good, what about the veteran, the result is the same hanging.
In the first set, he directly pressed his opponent to the ground and hammered, however, just ten seconds before the end of the first set, his opponent accidentally swung and slapped the tendon in his foot, resulting in injury.
The game was suspended, and the doctor stepped forward to treat him.
The referee asked if the injured person could continue the game, and the opponent insisted on carrying the game to the end, but needed to be rescued.
This wait is ten minutes, Katie wandered around the arena and waited, seeing that the other party was still not coming for a while, she walked to the chair next to the arena and sat down.
Another ten minutes passed, and the other party finally came late.
The suspended game continued, with the last ten seconds of the first inning.
The opponent serves, between points, after picking up the ball until it is sent, with a maximum interval of 25 seconds, the opponent holds the ball and deliberately drags the time to the end.
Katie won the first game, followed by a two-minute break
Time.
At this time, coach Swiatek saw something and asked Katie, who was about to rest, "The opponent is deliberately injured and trying to disrupt your offensive rhythm, warm up immediately, and can't rest!"
The old horse had seen a lot, and after only two minutes, Katie immediately warmed up, doing push-ups and frog jumps on the spot.
Two minutes went in the blink of an eye, because the break was too long, Katie's offensive momentum did weaken a lot, and she lost to the opponent in the second game.
Luckily, in the third game, Katie found her groove and rubbed her opponent on the ground again, eventually winning two of her first professional bout with a score of 4-2.
Zhang Jing stood up and applauded Katie, and Ding Jiaqi was also happy for Katie.
Swiatek excitedly rushed to the arena and hugged his disciples.
didn't forget Zhang Jing, and after an excited hug with the coach, Katie trotted to Zhang Jing and hugged affectionately, "Thank you OSS, thank you for sponsoring me, thank you and Miss Ding for coming to play with me."
"I'm so proud of you," Zhang Jing cheered Katie into the screams of the audience, "I know you will be the champion, and the future will be unparalleled tennis queen!"
Ding Jiaqi encouraged the blue-eyed girl and said, "Your future will get better and better."
At this moment, a young boy of seven or eight years old came to the side, looked up at Katie and asked, "Can I marry you?"
Katie stroked the boy's head, "Are you rich?"
"Yes," replied the little boy earnestly, "I have ten dollars."
Katie smiled, "Then you have to come on, honeymoon is not cheap."
Zhang Jing was speechless, Ding Jiaqi was speechless.
Seeing that more people were coming, Coach Swiatek led Katie off the field through the players' tunnel.
Because she was preparing for the Australian Open in January and Katie had to train in the afternoon, Zhang Jing took Ding Jiaqi out of Seattle and returned to California.
The plane landed at 8 o'clock in the evening, and Zhang Jing received a call from Coach Swiatek again, and the sports brand Rui Moubu was willing to spend 5 million meters to ask Katie to endorse for three years.
I want to pick up the leak, I don't want to think about it, Zhang Jing directly pressed the phone, where is this going, when Katie finishes playing the four major open tournaments next year, her value will definitely rise, and it is possible to have more than 100 million yuan.
Hanging up the phone, Zhang Jing and Ding Jiaqi saw Qu Xiaoqing waiting at the exit, only to see that the corners of her mouth were injured, her forehead was bruised, and she was obviously beaten.
"Xiaoqing, how did you get the wound on your face?" Ding Jiaqi asked tentatively.
"It's okay," Qu Xiaoqing's eyes dodged, "I accidentally hit the wall."
"Who hit it?" Ding Jiaqi's tone was already a little cold.
"It's really fine," Qu Xiaoqing wanted to get by, "Don't worry, don't think about it."
"Is it your new boyfriend, Larry Titus?" Ding Jiaqi asked rhetorically.
Qu Xiaoqing bowed her head weakly.
snatched the car keys from Qu Xiaoqing's hand, Ding Jiaqi ran straight to the parking lot, and Zhang Jing hurriedly followed.
Ding Jiaqi drove out of the airport and headed about 30 kilometers southeast to a house near Long Beach.