Sock, the 2011 US Open mixed doubles champion and the 2014 Wimbledon men's doubles champion.
Compared with his singles results, Sock has achieved a series of outstanding results in doubles so far, and this is not all.
In 2016, he won the mixed doubles gold medal at the Rio Olympics; in 2018, when Bob Bryan was absent for more than a year and a half due to injury, Mike Bryan partnered with Sock.
As a result, Sock performed poorly in the singles that year, with one win and four losses in the four Grand Slams. He only won one victory at the US Open and was eliminated in the first round of the other three Grand Slams. However, he partnered with Mike in the doubles.
He has won three consecutive championships at Wimbledon, the US Open and the year-end finals.
Needless to say, it can be seen intuitively from here that Sock is indeed very suitable for doubles.
Look back to the present moment.
From last year to this year, Sock's singles have made steady progress, and in last week's clay court event in Houston, he won the singles championship trophy for the first time in his career, and broke into the top 50 in the real-time world rankings for the first time, showing a gratifying upward trend; and this
Everything benefits from the training of doubles.
Last year at Wimbledon, Sock partnered with Pospisil and defeated the Bryan brothers in the final to win the championship. Entering the new season, their partnership is still performing strongly. Although they did not participate in the Australian Open doubles competition, they won the North American Sunshine Double Championship.
Here, they won one championship and one runner-up.
Thanks to this, Sock's doubles world ranking reached a new high, reaching third; at the same time, Pospisil's doubles world ranking also reached fifth.
This time in the Monte Carlo Masters, the partnership of Sock and Pospisil was ranked second seed, and they made great progress and reached the finals. This also means that from last month to this month, three consecutive Masters
In the competition, they both entered the finals and are undoubtedly the strongest doubles players in recent times.
Outside the game, Sock was nicknamed "Sweetheart" by his colleagues——
It doesn’t mean that he is effeminate, but that he is very naughty and very kind. He is very friendly and can be friends with anyone. He often makes jokes and always wears a bright and cheerful smile. He is like a sweetheart that no one can refuse.
He is an average person and is definitely the king of connections.
Dimitrov, Raonic, etc., who are of similar age, are all friends of Sock; the slightly older Federer, Murray and others are all close to Sock personally; even Gawain and others
Having just entered the tour at a young age, Sock could easily name them.
There is reasonable reason to suspect that there is no player in the ATP that Sock does not know.
Therefore, when he saw Dimitrov and Gawain from a distance, Sok took the lead to greet them.
After hugging Dimitrov, Sok gave Gawain a warm hug and joked.
"Be happy, be happy."
It's like Gawain is some kind of Quanfu doll.
Gawain also didn't expect that Suoke would show off as soon as they met. He also patted Suoke on the back and muttered something in Chinese, mixed with a few strange words in English.
Suoke was immediately stunned. After letting go of his embrace, he looked Gawain up and down, tilting his head, full of question marks.
Gawain did not explain, but looked at Suoke mysteriously, with a meaningful expression on his face, "Are you sure it's happiness?"
Chinese, to this group of foreigners, is always full of mystery.
Sock immediately bared his teeth and made a face, and his vivid expression made Dimitrov clapped his hands and laughed.
At this time, Pospisil had also followed, and he came over from the right side of Sok and joked with a playful smile.
"Wait a minute, wasn't that a curse just now?"
Words are not the point. Anyway, they can't understand the Chinese, Latin or Arabic, they are all the same; the point is that they can faintly detect Pospisil's provocation, and they rush towards Gawain without hesitation, even if they use
Even if you hide it with a smile, you can still taste it.
Sock glanced at Pospisil, his smile was slightly stiff, and he hinted wildly with his eyes.
But Pospisil apparently didn’t notice——
Or maybe, you noticed it but didn't care.
"Originally, those jabbering words sound like random spells, don't they?"
Pospisil smiled broadly and seemed very satisfied with his "joke". His eyes moved back and forth between Sock and Dimitrov, seeking their response.
But Dimitrov was obviously not satisfied with the joke, "Vasek, you can't speak, you can choose not to speak."
Pospisil curled his lips and opened his mouth to refute Dimitrov, but unexpectedly, Gawain took the lead and interrupted Pospisil's words, but he did not look at Pospisil.
He turned to look at Dimitrov and said seriously.
"Gregor, we can't be so rude. If others want to spray shit all over their mouths, we don't have to stop them. Why should we get covered in shit ourselves?"
"We are all civilized people. Even if we don't like it, we should respect others' freedom to spray feces."
"The correct approach should be for us to distance ourselves slightly, give each other some space, and let the other party spray feces to their heart's content. As for whether we will choke to death on our own saliva, that is another story."
He was serious and his face was serious.
Such funny and hilarious words were narrated by Gao Wen in a straight-forward tone of academic research, and the contrasting sense of joy burst out in an instant.
Dimitrov:…
Sock:......
Pospisil:…
The world suddenly became quiet, and all the noise disappeared.
The skin on Pospisil's cheeks is extremely thin. If he exercises a little or is emotionally turbulent, his cheeks will easily become flushed. This is just a physiological phenomenon, but at this time, the bloodshot cheeks look like they might explode at any time.
, revealing his inner frustration and anger.
Poof.
Some people couldn't hold it back and laughed out loud after all——
Socks classmate.
Sok just closed his mouth and tried very hard, but he still couldn't control himself.
Pospisil was very annoyed and glared at Sok fiercely.
Suoke quickly waved his hand, indicating that he would control it and suppressed his laughter, but within two seconds, his cheeks quickly swelled like a dolphin fish. It was very funny. There was obviously no laughter at all, but there was all the laughter in his eyes, between his eyebrows, and on the corners of his mouth.
It's all smiles.
This scene made Dimitrov laugh a little.
But Dimitrov was still very dissatisfied with Pospisil's attitude and gave him a hard look.
In the end, Gawain was the calmest and calmest. After a few polite exchanges, he turned around and left with Dimitrov. He didn't even look at Pospisil from the beginning to the end, as if the 193cm big man didn't exist at all.
generally.
Pospisil looked at Gawain's back, took a deep breath, and took a deep breath again, but he still couldn't control the surging emotions in his chest, which was about to explode.
Suok lowered his head and couldn't see clearly what his expression was, but he still couldn't hold it back after all, and his shoulders shrugged slightly——
People who didn't know better thought he was crying silently, but the quietly raised corners of his mouth betrayed the truth.