Gawain listened attentively, with a very professional and engaged expression, as if he was in class.
With Yu Jia's words, he gently nodded his head and waited for the end of the words. He could immediately feel that the eyes of the audience were burning again, looking forward to his answer.
"one two three four……"
Gawain began to count on his hands on the spot. There were four conditions, and all of them were "necessary conditions". There was no room for maneuver. Then he pursed his lips and said lightly.
"Oh, that's good. Not much. There are only four necessary conditions."
"How about this, let's start with the first condition?"
The first condition is...
The reporters reacted immediately, and Gawain also smiled.
"I think there is no need for you to ask me about my feelings and opinions, because winning the championship is the first step in all conditions."
"I should not and do not need to pay attention to the performance of other players, but to focus on myself. I can't just slump my shoulders and passively slow down my work just because my competitors have entered the top 16, right?"
"Paris is Paris, London is London, these are two things. We are in Paris now, and the goal is naturally to win the championship in Paris."
The sharp edge of joking and ridicule was hidden between the lines, and then he avoided the topic and focused on the Paris Masters again.
It has to be said that Gao Wen did show a maturity that belies his age when facing reporters.
But this is not the first time, and reporters have long been accustomed to it.
Immediately, a reporter asked:
"So, what you are saying is that your goal is to win the championship this time in Paris?"
The bomb is coming.
Gawain still showed no signs of panic, and even laughed briskly.
"My goal is to focus on myself, the upcoming game, and the race in Paris. As for London, I will leave it to London for the time being."
"None of us can predict the future. The only thing we can do is seize the moment. I don't want to hold a press conference here tomorrow to be interviewed for losing the first game. Then I think all the questions today are meaningless."
Obviously, in the current competition for the year-end finals, in addition to Murray who took the lead in gaining a foothold with his continuous strong performance, Berdych, Ferrer, Kei Nishikori, Raonic, Dimitrov, Siri
Qi is all in contention and will compete for sixth, seventh and eighth positions.
Among them, Gao Wen's situation is the worst. If any three players perform better than Gao Wen in the end, Gao Wen will be directly eliminated.
The most important thing is that the prerequisite for everything is:
Gawain must win.
Otherwise, even if all other competitors are eliminated in the first round, Gao Wen's points will still not be enough to enter the top eight, and even the runner-up's 600 points will not be enough.
The conditions are more than harsh.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is just a glimmer of hope on a theoretical level.
Therefore, as Gao Wen said, the importance of the Paris Masters is self-evident. Instead of carefully calculating the possibility of qualifying for the year-end finals, it is better to focus on Paris and your own game.
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The first step is that Gawain needs to play his own game well before other possibilities are worth exploring.
The reporters were a little disappointed.
In their view, Gao Wen is only eighteen years old. No matter how mature he is, he is still a child. Just look at tour veterans such as Murray, Berdych, and Ferrer. They will know that there is no chance of facing the year-end finals.
How can a person remain calm, let alone Gao Wen, who is only in his first season of his career?
Considering the possibility of the year-end finals, even if there is only a faint glimmer of hope, it is inevitable that the mentality will fluctuate.
Reporters just hope to seize this slight fluctuation and create a topic.
However, I was disappointed again.
again!
In Gao Wen's pre-match press conference, the reporters gained nothing. Instead, they promoted Gao Wen's endorsement of Evian, which made the reporters feel like they were being used -
Are we just tool people?
As a result, reporters went to other press conferences full of anger and vented their frustration and anger on other players.
Finally, the harvest is full.
This year, Kei Nishikori, Raonic, Dimitrov, Cilic and Gao Wen are all competing for seats in the year-end finals for the first time.
Once successful, this will be their first career breakthrough on the stage of a decisive battle at the top of the Forbidden City. Naturally, no one is willing to miss it.
Among them, Kei Nishikori and Cilic both made breakthroughs many years after turning professional. They can be called their best seasons and look forward to a perfect ending; Raonic, Dimitrov and Gao Wen are freshmen.
The representative of the era officially launched a challenge to the era of the Big Four, and also hoped to go further.
Amid the intense pursuit and interception of reporters, Kei Nishikori and Cilic both showed strong confidence and aimed directly at the Masters championship; Raonic and Dimitrov also showed the vigor of the new generation.
Be prepared to attack with all your might.
The reporters were finally satisfied and called the troops back.
After analyzing each player's path to London from a theoretical level, reporters turned their attention to the draw——
After all, fortune-telling is really a metaphysics.
In the draw for this year's Paris Masters, among the top 20 players in the world, only Nadal and Tsonga, whose season ended early, are absent.
After the Spanish king returned from injury after missing the entire North American season, his performance in the Asian season and the European indoor season failed to meet expectations.
Last week in Basel, they also lost to the quarterfinals. Then, they had very, very bad luck and suffered appendicitis and had to return to Madrid for surgery.
At present, Nadal said that it is temporarily unclear whether he will participate in the year-end finals.
In the end, Gao Wen, ranked 12th in the world, was ranked 11th seed and was placed in the bottom half.
The second half is dominated by second seed Federer. Federer, who reached the top spot in Shanghai and Basel at the end of the match, is obviously in good shape.
As for the contenders for the year-end finals, Wawrinka, Berdych, Raonic, Cilic and Gao Wen are all in the bottom half.
The top half is led by Djokovic, and others include Murray, Ferrer, Kei Nishikori, Dimitrov, etc.
In fact, the main competition in the second half is between Raonic, Cilic and Gao Wen; while the first half is between Ferrer, Kei Nishikori and Dimitrov.
The Paris Masters is the final battle to London. Every player must try his best to strive for better results. Put aside the odds, possibilities, analysis and conditions for the time being. Only when he shows enough competitiveness can he be firmly
Keep the initiative firmly in your hands.
There is no choice and no need for alternatives.
The horn sounds!
Previously, the Magic City Masters had fifty-six draws, and the top eight seeds received a bye in the first round.
This time, the Paris Masters has 48 draws, and the top 16 seeds get a bye in the first round.
Therefore, Gao Wen enjoyed a first-round bye for the first time in his career.
After flying to Paris from Valencia, he was able to get a precious day to rest and adjust, waiting for the end of the first round and waiting for his opponent to appear.