All the reporters in the audience took a deep breath. This Gao Wen was so arrogant. He even joked about gambling in such an understatement.
Didn’t you see that the faces of the ATP officials on site turned pale? Even though the air conditioner had been turned up to 18 degrees, cold sweat was still falling down in big drops.
But I have to admit, the effect is very good.
Just look at Morgan's livid face. He was stunned and almost going into cardiac arrest——
Gambling is a taboo topic in the entire professional tennis world. Once discovered, it will be severely punished without mercy.
The main reason is that tennis is a single-player sport. If professional players participate in gambling, the operation is very simple and difficult to detect. Therefore, the ATP, WTA, and ITF have been using the most severe measures to deter players to ensure that they do not
Taking risks because of the small profit at hand.
On the contrary, it was Gawain who always had a slight smile on his lips and a mischievous light in his eyes, just like a cat playing with a mouse.
Immediately afterwards, Gawain raised his head and showed a friendly smile to Morgan.
"What if my answer is yes?"
Victory is to prove something, so what?
"Excuse me, does this reporter have a burning stomach because of my victory?"
The provocative one is you!
Morgan looked at Gawain's pupils and shrank suddenly, but unfortunately, no words came out——
This is what competitive sports are like. Victory is indisputable. There is nothing that cannot be solved by one victory. If it is not enough, then two.
Morgan, it was true that his stomach was burning and the fever was severe, but in the end he could only grit his teeth and said, "I hope you can still laugh in the next game."
This sentence is not just said casually. The third round match was indeed a very, very interesting duel, and even received special treatment as the headline on the official ATP homepage——
Youth storm!
Gao Wen VS Borna Coric.
Coric, who was born in 1996, is even one year younger than Gao Wen. After reaching the top of the junior world in 2013, Coric officially entered the professional arena and ushered in a series of impressive results in 2014.
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At the end of the year, at the Basel Indoor Hard Court Tournament, Coric ushered in his famous achievement, defeating Nadal, who was suffering from appendicitis at the time, in straight sets.
Become famous in one battle!
Subsequently, Coric also became the youngest player to rank among the top 100 in the world since Nadal in 2003.
Throughout the year, the 18-year-old Coric's performance was indeed remarkable, and he was even considered a strong candidate for Rookie of the Year.
Then Gawain appeared.
As mentioned before, players born after 1990 such as Raonic and Dimitrov all experienced breakthroughs last year. Then Gao Wen further broke the shackles, which also made the Youth Storm's sight further move towards
Gathering for players born after 1995.
Including but not limited to Zverev Jr., Kyrgios, Kogkinakis, Coric, etc.
For now, Kyrgios is the most talented, and Coric is the most stable.
This year in Dubai, Coric participated in the qualifying round and lost in the second round, but entered the lottery as a lucky loser.
The so-called lucky loser is equivalent to the substitute in the competition.
As we all know, after the draw is released and before the game officially starts, various accidents may occur, resulting in the absence of players shortlisted for the draw.
In addition to the obvious injuries, accidents, etc., there is another situation that is very common, and that is the overlap of schedules.
For a simple example, a player registers for two consecutive weeks, the first week in Delray Beach and the second week in Dubai.
According to normal expectations, this player may stop in the quarterfinals, and then immediately pack his bags and fly from the United States to the United Arab Emirates, giving him plenty of time to compete.
But the actual situation was unexpected. This player reached the final in one go. This meant that Sunday was the final at Delray Beach, and he had to go to Dubai for the first round on Monday. The schedule conflict meant that he might not be able to make it. So
, it is often a routine choice for players to give up the next tournament for the finals.
Similar situations occur frequently.
It is precisely because of this that when arranging the schedule of a tournament, one must either look at the follow-up schedule of the previous week's event, or arrange the schedule of the top players in the world slightly later, as far as possible to Tuesday, and things will be much simpler.
However, sometimes, too late is too late. Between the "finals" and the "first round", the choice is always the former.
For various reasons, the draw has been released, but the game has not yet started, and there is a vacancy in the draw. So, what should you do at this time?
The lucky loser is born in this way, with the player who lost in the last round of qualifying coming on as a substitute.
The ATP and WTA have no official hard-and-fast rules for lucky losers. They decide according to the event. In order to avoid trouble, most events adopt the same plan, which is that the player with the highest ranking in the world among the losers of the qualifying round is shortlisted as a substitute.
For the sake of fairness, a small number of tournaments are ranked based on the win-loss ratio in the final round. That is, the loser with the best performance in the qualifying round of this tournament will be shortlisted as a substitute.
Occasionally, there will be special circumstances. There may be more than one vacated spot in a tournament draw, or even five, six or even more, and then the lucky losers will line up to enter.
In addition, there is another premise, that is, the lucky loser must be present——
Sometimes, when all the qualifying rounds are over, the losers leave the city and go to the next station to continue participating in the qualifying rounds. As a result, when it is their turn to qualify for the lucky losers, they are not present, so this qualification
It will be postponed to this day.
Therefore, after the qualifying round, whether to stay in this city and wait is also a difficult choice.
One of the charms of the sport of tennis is the lucky losers.
According to common sense, the lucky loser is the player who lost in the qualifying round. Even if he enters the main draw, he should not be very competitive and may be eliminated soon.
This is also the case in most cases, but there are also a small number of cases where the lucky losers perform well and win all the way, even reaching the semi-finals and even the finals.
This also directly proves that tennis is a sport that is changing and adjusting at any time. The performance of the same player facing different opponents, the performance of the same group of opponents in different games, and even the performance of two identical opponents the day before and the day after.
The performance of two games in one day may be different.
Coric was the lucky loser in Dubai this year, but he did not expect that after entering the main match as a substitute, he performed well and won two games in a row to reach the quarterfinals.
Thus, the confrontation of "Coric VS Gawain" was formed.
Objectively speaking, Gauvin is now a two-time Grand Slam champion and ranked third in the world. He is no longer in the same league as the new generation of players; but because everything happened so fast, people still will not forget:
At the end of last year, Coric and Gao Wen competed for the Rookie of the Year Award. As a result, Gao Wen won the Rookie of the Year and Most Improved Awards.
Therefore, the two players are at different levels and different levels, but they have already had "confrontations".