"...How does it feel to reach the Masters final for the first time in your career?"
"If you include the challenge match, this is your sixth final this season. You have only lost one so far. So what are your expectations for tomorrow's final?"
"The winning rate in the finals this season is 80%, ranking first among all ATP players. Do you have any special secrets?"
"Do you feel regretful that you advanced to the finals in Paris, but unfortunately missed the ticket to London?"
"Do you think the final in New York feels different from the final in Paris? If so, what is the specific difference?"
"...Valencia and Paris reached back-to-back finals, showing good competitive form. Based on points calculation, if you also participated in Valencia's game the week before and won the championship, then you can now enter the year-end finals.
Do you regret your decision to rest and adjust for a week?"
One or two...ten or twenty...
Questions came one after another without stopping. At the post-match press conference, as the winner, Gawain undoubtedly became the center of attention again:
All kinds of tidbits on and off the field have created countless possibilities due to the melee situation throughout the 2014 season. Just asking a question can detonate the attention.
As mentioned before, one victory can change the entire situation; and when this victory comes from Gawain, there are even more topics.
Then, the most amazing scene appeared:
After answering a series of questions, Gawain was thirsty and opened the mineral water and took a sip. As a result, all the reporters in the room stared at Gawain eagerly.
The burning gaze was like a parent watching a one-year-old baby drink from a bottle, with eyes full of concern and worry.
puff.
Gawain almost spit out a mouthful of water.
"Although I know that I have a mission, you don't need to be so cooperative."
As he spoke, Gawain raised the mineral water bottle in his hand and deliberately revealed the trademark, inadvertently advertising the mineral water again——
The financial backer of Evian Mineral Water saw this scene and smiled with satisfaction again.
Reporters at the scene couldn't help but burst into laughter. Some expressed helplessness, some chuckled, and some exchanged glances with colleagues around them and sighed.
Then, Gawain added another sentence.
"While I'm drinking water, you can continue to ask questions. Drinking water will not affect my hearing. It's like if you speak French, if I don't understand something, I just don't understand it."
The joke did not receive a response from the reporters, because as soon as Gawain finished speaking, there was a roar, and the arms raised high in the audience were like a birch forest.
"Can you tell us in detail the reasons behind choosing to rest and adjust for a week? Even though you know that you are still qualified to compete for the year-end finals, why do you still make such adjustments?"
"After returning from rest and adjustment, what goals did you set for the Valencia and Paris games? Did you expect that you could enter the finals two weeks in a row?"
"Did you make any special adjustments against your good friends in this game?"
"In the game, you should celebrate the scores that should be roared, but you still insist on yourself and don't seem to worry about Milos. Aren't you worried about affecting the friendship between the two parties?"
"Now, players born after 1990 are taking full advantage. Do you think the era of class grabbing has really arrived?"
The focus was one after another, and there were many questions that Gao Wen had not expected at all. Some people even asked Gao Wen how he viewed the overall chaos in the tennis world this year——
Not only the ATP, but also the WTA has also entered a stage of comprehensive melee. The dominance of Serena Williams and Sharapova has loosened, and the opportunities of other players have significantly increased.
So, does this mean that the wave of dynasty change has arrived?
In this regard, Gawain said in a dumbfounded voice:
Are you sure you are asking the right person? I am just a young man who has just entered professional tennis for less than six months. Are you sure this is appropriate?
Seeing Gao Wen's "baby doesn't understand anything" expression, the reporters' intention to use Gao Wen to provoke conflicts between the two generations of players failed to work.
But this still did not affect the enthusiasm of the reporters, and questions continued to pour out, so much so that Gao Wen was worried about whether Raonic's post-match press conference would be empty.
"You are friends off the court and opponents on the court. Will the relationship between victory and defeat affect your friendship?"
"What are your expectations for the next game?"
"Djokovic or Kei Nishikori, if you could choose, which opponent would you rather face?"
"Excuse me, what is the difference between the situation in Paris and New York? What special preparations will you make for the next game?"
"Later, will you watch the second semi-final?"
"Yesterday, you and Milos watched the match between Novak and Andy. Are you scouting potential opponents for the final?"
"Which player do you think you have a better chance of winning against in the final?"
"If you can win the championship in Paris, will you feel the regret and loss of missing London more and more?"
The next one, the next one, and the next one...it's endless, and there seems to be no end in sight to the problem.
Buzz buzz.
The entire press conference room seemed to be filled with hundreds of thousands of bees, and every bee was working hard and not lazy. The continuous sound just continued to roll over the eardrums. Over time, tinnitus followed him like a shadow, and the whole world
Everything is spinning.
Even though Gawain has seen many big scenes so far this year, he was still shocked by the raging craze in Paris.
The entire press conference room was packed to the rafters? This is not unusual, it’s just a basic operation.
What’s really amazing is that the question-and-answer session lasted for nearly thirty-five minutes, but it still didn’t end.
Normally, a twenty-minute press conference can be described as "long."
A typical post-game press conference lasts about ten minutes, occasionally lasting up to fifteen minutes. After all, the questions that can arise in a game are very limited, and in an event, there are games updated every day, and questions are asked after each game.
Where does time come from so much focus?
However, the "right time" was the chaos and turmoil throughout 2014; the "right location" was that Paris was the last race before heading to London; and "humanity" was the sudden emergence of Gawain.
All factors collided to achieve such a grand event——
For tennis reporters, the Paris Masters is basically equivalent to celebrating the New Year in advance.
Although London in two weeks will be the final event of the year, in terms of focus, topics, gimmicks, etc., it is difficult for London to compare with Paris. The only focus should be the world No. 1 match between Djokovic and Federer.
A fight for one.
It is precisely because of this that reporters in Paris showed unimaginable enthusiasm, and the frenzy of the post-match press conference was almost unstoppable.
"The sound of firecrackers bid farewell to the old year, and the guests and friends are all smiling."
This expression may sound a bit absurd at first glance, but when you think about it carefully, it fits perfectly.
