From the Americas to Oceania, from Asia to Europe, all major news media went crazy. More than 300 media reported the results of the "Asian Showdown" immediately. The result of Gawain's upset victory over Kei Nishikori even triggered a stir.
Unimaginable enthusiasm, exclamation and praise filled the sight.
Well deserved to be the hottest thing at the end of this summer.
Then, someone made statistics and found that since the season this spring, Gao Wen is continuing a strong momentum of fifty-five consecutive wins.
Objectively speaking, the winning streak of the NCAA regular season, National Championship, and Challenger League has really no reference value for professional players. Players like Isner, Wawrinka, and Kei Nishikori will not be able to play unless they return from injury.
Under special circumstances, there is no need for them to go to those levels of competition to build a winning streak.
Because this is like an adult going to a kindergarten to play a game. If you lose, you will be embarrassed, but if you win, you will lose. Even the ATP official will not count such records.
Moreover, there are more incredible winning streaks in professional tennis, such as Nadal’s 81-game winning streak on clay, Federer’s 65-game winning streak on grass, 56-game winning streak on hard courts, and Djokovic’s 81-game winning streak on clay courts.
Forty-three consecutive wins across venues during the season, these records are worthy of being recorded in history.
But the miraculous thing about Gao Wen is that this young player jumped out of the cracks of the stone like Sun Wukong. After intensive training during last winter break, he grew and transformed all the way, and then started to rise strongly from the NCAA regular season to this day.
Still undefeated.
Fifty-five consecutive wins!
Among them, there is a Pac-12 championship, a national team championship and a singles championship, three challenge championships, and five consecutive Grand Slam wins to reach the semi-finals. This is indeed... It can be called appalling, a series of
Numbers, a series of victories in series evolved into the trajectory of Gawain's birth, displayed in front of the public.
Shocked, coming to my face!
The news was published by a Chinese media, and then became popular all the way to Europe and America. The local media in North America further confirmed after investigation:
This is real!
Looking at the miracle created by Gawain at this moment, things seem to have some reasonable explanations.
Then, the news from the "Los Angeles Times" attracted everyone's attention——
"Is the wild card dream miracle about to happen again?"
What is this talking about?
From three games ago, major news media have been emphasizing that Gao Wen made history step by step in his first Grand Slam event.
The reason why a Grand Slam event is a Grand Slam is because of the different specifications and difficulty of the event. Even geniuses need some time to adapt, so achieving such results in the first competition is indeed worthy of special mention.
For the same reason, the Grand Slam is also an unattainable barrier for qualifying players and wild card players.
As of 2014, no qualifier has won a Grand Slam title, and only a handful have reached the semi-finals - only four players in the Open era, men and women, have been able to do so.
Two persons each.
Likewise, wild-card players have struggled, but at least wild-card players have performed miracles before.
In 2001, Wimbledon, veteran Goran-Ivanisevic, who had returned from injury, received a wild card from the host committee. In that tournament, the then world ranked 121
Ivanisevic served 227 aces and finally won the championship, becoming the first wild card player in history to win a Grand Slam championship.
In 2009, Jim Clijsters, who retired for two years and chose to come back after becoming pregnant and having a baby, applied for a wild card to participate in the US Open because he was not ranked in the world. As a result, Clijsters wrote the Cinderella myth.
She became the second unranked women's singles Grand Slam champion in history.
These are also the only two "wild card Grand Slam champions" so far. It can be seen from here that qualifying players and wild card players still face many difficulties after all. The reason why history is history is because of the difficulties.
,So, now does Gawain have a glimmer of possibility to fight to the end?
First of all, Gauvin became the first player, regardless of gender, to reach the semi-finals in his Grand Slam debut in the Open era.
Secondly, Gao Wen became the lowest ranked male player to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam in the Open era, with 193, breaking the record held by Ivanisevic at Wimbledon in 2001.
Once again, Gauvin became the first wild card male player to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam in the Open era.
There is no need to add any keyword tags. The series of history created by Gao Wen is already amazing. Starting with a wild card that came with the United States Championship, it shocked everyone and the media throughout the North American continent.
The bustling crowd exclaimed——
Although Gao Wen is an international student, it is undeniable that Gao Wen is a player who has come all the way from high school to college and from the NCAA. He has reawakened people's attention to the NCAA. Not only is professional tennis worth looking forward to, college tennis also urgently needs fans.
and the attention of sponsors.
In particular, Gao Wen always wears the uniform of the Bruins to participate in the competition, which is like a beautiful scenery crossing the sky above Flushing.
Naturally, from ESPN to the New York Times, from social networks to top professional media, from TV programs to hot online discussions, all-round discussions surged.
Suddenly, the people of North America seem to have forgotten the "black history" of Gauvin's upset victory over American hope Isner in the first round. They support Gauvin wholeheartedly and look forward to the "UCLA player" being able to compete in this year's tournament.
The US Open continues to achieve great results.
There is no doubt that the North American media is already crazy enough, but the headline of the "Los Angeles Times" goes further and bluntly raises a possibility:
Can Gao Wen replicate the miracles of Ivanisevic and Clijsters?
However, the problem is that when Ivanisevic and Clijsters entered the competition with wild cards, they were already veterans of the professional arena for many years, and Clijsters had already won a US championship.
The top player in the Net Championship, while Gawain is just a newcomer.
Reaching the semi-finals for the first time in a Grand Slam tournament is already incredible history. Do you still have to expect more? The reason why a Grand Slam championship is rare is because the process of winning is difficult, with a two-week schedule and many masters.
The severe test makes the long journey full of challenges. It is really unfriendly to newcomers, wild card and qualifying players.
But the Los Angeles Times boldly raised this possibility:
Now that history has been made, why can't it continue?
At the same time, precisely because we continue to create history, why can’t we believe that miracles will continue?
More importantly, history, records, and miracles exist for belief, breakthrough, and writing, don’t they? Why can’t you believe it?