"The End of the Big Four Era" is a topic that is no stranger to tennis enthusiasts. It has entered the public eye since the beginning of this year's season. The starting point is undoubtedly Wawrinka's victory at the age of 28.
The first Grand Slam champion, he defeated the two giants Djokovic and Nadal with a convincing performance on the way to the promotion, and then won the first Masters championship, firmly ranking first in the championship standings.
The ATP ranking actually has two lists, one is the world ranking and the other is the championship standings.
The former is to calculate the points for a full fifty-two weeks. For example, it is the first week of September, then the calculation is from the first week of September last year to the last week of August this year, and the rankings are listed, and comprehensively look at the twelve-month period.
The best performing player.
The latter calculates the points in the natural year, that is, the points starting from January 1st of this year. This point can identify the best performing players in the natural year, and then determine the finalists for the year-end finals based on this list.
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Generally speaking, when a natural year ends, the points of the two lists will be unified and the rankings will remain consistent; then the championship standings will be cleared, waiting for the arrival of a new natural year.
The strength of the "Big Four" is reflected in the stability of the world ranking list. Even if occasionally the championship standings can see that some players performed particularly well at the beginning of the season, as time goes by, the Big Four can always slowly catch up.
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In the first half of this year, Wawrinka's dominant performance was truly amazing, occupying the top spot in the championship standings, which naturally focused people's attention on the Big Four.
Murray has not won a championship for more than a year due to injuries and seems to have fallen behind early. Federer's age and Nadal's injuries have become clichés. Even Djokovic's attention has been distracted by his family. Then the dominance of the Big Four has
There is obvious looseness.
At Wimbledon, Raonic and Dimitrov both reached the semi-finals; at the US Open, Gawain and Cilic went one step further, both reaching the finals.
The most incredible thing is that not long ago, people were still discussing when the "post-90s generation" would take over, but Gao Wen, who was born in 1995, has already made history and advanced to the Grand Slam final.
If Gawain upset Djokovic, the topic was already hot enough, then Cilic eliminated Federer in straight sets, which directly ignited the powder bank.
For Cilic and Gao Wen, it is actually a benefit for both parties, because the opponents they face in the decisive battle are newcomers with no experience in Grand Slam finals. The gap in strength and experience between the two is not that big - Cilic has a slight advantage but
It is also very limited. Whoever can have stronger ability to withstand pressure at Arthur Ashe Stadium and show his best level at critical moments will have a chance to reach the top:
Then this will also be the third non-Big Four member besides Del Potro and Wawrinka to win a Grand Slam championship in ten years.
History is being written!
Then, the news wave exploded directly.
Here, the North American continent and the European continent are already stunned and dumbfounded——
They were looking forward to "Djokovic VS Federer", but they ended up with "Gavin VS Cilic". Such a shocking upset was so impactful that even if they saw the words in black and white, they still doubted their own eyes.
Swearing, complaining, wailing, complaining, speechlessness and other emotions are flying all over the sky. They are not directed at Gao Wen or Cilic, but are just the conditioned reflexes of competitive sports fans, "Who wants to watch the dark horse showdown! I want to watch the peak showdown!" "These two!
Guy, who is it?" "The quality of the final must be terrible."
Bustlingly, the hashtag "The Big Four's record of thirty-eight consecutive Grand Slam finals was broken" was on the global hot search list.
Obviously, fans are paying attention to the Big Four, not the two dark horses.
But hidden among them, the hashtag "American champion holds a wild card and writes a Hollywood fairy tale" actually also entered the hot search list.
Obviously, Gawain still has a certain appeal.
Whether he is an NCAA national champion and holds a wild card issued by the United States Tennis Association, or Gao Wen wears a UCLA uniform to participate in the competition, this is very cordial and very popular for fans and audiences; not to mention, from the first
From the "self-introduction" in each game to the "talk show" in the semi-finals, Gao Wen's personal charm also won applause from the fans.
"I think Gao Wen is good. I watched the first round match between him and John and they played very well."
"Am I the only one who likes heights?"
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I hate that Cilic eliminated my Roger, so I support Gao."
"You should watch Gao Wen's semi-finals. It's a good time to watch him play. I think it's good for him to enter the final."
"Although we can't see the Big Four, we finally have some fresh faces. What's wrong?"
"Thirty-eight times in a row? God, now I finally understand why those faces look so familiar to me."
"I support the new faces in the final, and Gawain is good."
Many voices of support can still be seen on social networks, especially Tobias who just added fuel to the flames and re-posted the video of Gawain comforting the young fans after the second round, which attracted the attention of the majority of viewers.
They saw the big boy side of Gawain in private, which created another wave of topics.
If you have to choose between the two players in the final, I'm afraid the New York audience already has the answer.
On that side, the Chinese mainland finally ushered in a period of war and chaos after dawn.
"Exploded, exploded..."
A burst of bluffing sounds exploded in the corridor outside the fifth CCTV conference room. Through the glass wall, you can see the bustling figures outside completely crowded together. The heat wave rushing towards your face is surging like lava.
As for the ongoing meetings in the conference room, they were interrupted.
Zhang Heng couldn't hold back, stood up suddenly, pushed away the chair, turned around and pushed open the conference room door, and roared.
"What exploded? The pipe burst or the toilet burst!"
"Director Zhang... the hot search exploded, Gawain's hot search."
"what's the situation?"
"The top three in the hot search list are all high-profile articles. The number of views has exceeded 500 million, and it is still rising. The online replay count of last night's semi-finals also exceeded 10 million."
He.
There was a gasp in the conference room.
At this moment, they were in a meeting to discuss arrangements for the live broadcast of the US Open men's singles final. They paid the highest attention to Gawain because of the moment when he created history. They expected that the response would be very enthusiastic, but when they actually heard those numbers, they were still so surprised that their jaws dropped.
Dislocated——
In 2011, when Li Na reached the French Open, there was no such heat wave.
Of course, there are various reasons. Three years ago, the craze for tennis was far less turbulent than it is now; moreover, the breakthrough in women's tennis is visible to the naked eye. It slowly rises step by step. In the end, the sublimation of quantitative change to qualitative change is more natural and shocking.
The extent is not that exaggerated.
Even so, to put it bluntly, witnessing the waves caused by Gao Wen's advancement to the finals, my heart still couldn't help but beat wildly.