Chapter 1003 Worthy of Attention

Huh!

All the reporters in the audience took a deep breath. Gao Wen was really outspoken. He even made a joke about gambling in such a light way.

Didn't you see the ATP officials' faces turn pale? The air conditioner was already set to 18 degrees, but they were still sweating profusely.

But I have to admit that the effect is very good.

Just look at Morgan's livid face, he was stunned and almost had a cardiac arrest -

Betting on soccer 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 an individual sport. If professional players participate in gambling, the operation is very simple and not easy to detect. Therefore, ATP, WTA and ITF have been using the most severe means to deter players and ensure that they do not take risks for the sake of small profits.

Gawain, on the other hand, always had a faint smile on his face, and a mischievous gleam in his eyes, like a demon playing with a cat and a mouse.

Then Gawain raised his head and gave Morgan a warm and friendly smile.

"What if I answer yes?"

Victory is to prove something, so what?

"Excuse me, does this reporter have a burning sensation in his stomach because of my victory?"

You are the one who is provoking me! Morgan looked at Gawain's pupils, which suddenly shrank, but he couldn't say anything.

Competitive sports are like this, victory is indisputable, there is nothing that cannot be solved by one victory, and if it is not enough, then two will do.

Morgan's stomach was burning, but he could only grit his teeth and said, "I hope you can still smile in the next game."

This is not just a casual remark. The third round was indeed a very interesting match, and even received special treatment on the headlines of the ATP official homepage:

Youth storm!

Gao Wen vs Borna Coric.

Born in 1996, Coric is even one year younger than Gao Wen. After becoming the world's No. 1 junior in 2013, Coric officially turned to the professional arena and achieved a series of impressive results in 2014.

At the end of the year, at the Basel Indoor Hard Court Tournament, Coric had his masterpiece, defeating Nadal, who was suffering from appendicitis at the time, in straight sets.

He became famous in one battle! Later, Coric also became the youngest player to enter the top 100 in the world rankings since Nadal in 2003.

Looking back at the whole year, the 18-year-old Coric's performance was indeed remarkable, and he was even considered a strong contender for the Rookie of the Year award.

Then, Gawain appeared.

As mentioned before, players born after 1990 such as Raonic and Dimitrov all made breakthroughs last year, and then Gao Wen broke the shackles further, which also made the youth storm's attention further focus on players born after 1995.

Including but not limited to Zverev, Kyrgios, Kojic, Coric and so on.

For now, Kyrgios is the most talented, while Cilic is the most consistent.

This year in Dubai, Coric participated in the qualifying round, but lost in the second round, but entered the draw as a lucky loser.

The so-called lucky loser is equivalent to a substitute in the competition.

As we all know, after the tournament draw is released and before the tournament officially starts, various accidents may occur, resulting in the absence of players on the draw.

In addition to the obvious injuries, accidents, etc., there is another very common situation, that is, the overlap of schedules.

To give a simple example, a player signs up for two consecutive weeks, the first week in Delray Beach and the second week in Dubai.

According to normal expectations, the player might be eliminated in the quarterfinals, and then immediately pack his luggage and fly from the United States to the UAE, leaving him with plenty of time to participate in the competition.

But the actual situation was unexpected. The player made it to the final in one go, which meant that Sunday was the final at Delray Beach and he had to go to Dubai on Monday to participate in the first round of the game. Due to the schedule conflict, he might not be able to make it. Therefore, it is often a common choice for players to give up the next event for the final.

Similar situations are not uncommon.

It is for this reason that when arranging the schedule, the tournament either looks at the follow-up schedule of the previous week's tournament, or arranges the schedule of the players with the highest world rankings a little later, and tries to postpone it to Tuesday, which will make things much simpler.

However, sometimes, it 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 are vacancies in the draw. So, what should we do at this time? Lucky losers are born in this way, and the players who lost in the last round of qualifying will come on as substitutes.

ATP and WTA have no official hard and fast rules for lucky losers. It is up to the tournament to decide. In order to avoid trouble, most tournaments adopt the same plan, that is, the highest-ranked player among the losers in the qualifying round will be a substitute.

For the sake of fairness, a small number of tournaments rank players based on the win-loss ratio in the last round, meaning that the loser with the best performance in the qualifying round of the tournament will be ranked as a substitute.

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Occasionally, special circumstances may occur where there may be more than one vacant spot in an event draw, or even five, six or even more, and then the lucky losers will line up to enter.

In addition, there is another prerequisite, that is, the lucky loser must be present -

Sometimes, when all the qualifying rounds are over, the losers will leave the city and go to the next stop to continue participating in the qualifying rounds. As a result, when it is their turn to qualify as the lucky losers, they are not present, so this qualification will be postponed.

Therefore, after the qualifying round, whether to continue to stay in this city and wait is also a difficult choice.

One of the charms of tennis is the lucky losers.

Normally, lucky losers are players who lost in the qualifying rounds. Even if they make it to the main draw, they should not be very competitive and may be eliminated quickly.

This is also the case in most cases, but there are also a few cases where the lucky losers perform well, win all the way, and even make it to the semi-finals or finals.

This also directly proves that tennis is a sport that is constantly changing and adjusting. The performance of the same player against different opponents, the performance of the same group of opponents in different games, and even the performance of two identical opponents in two games the day before and the day after may all be different.

Cilic was the lucky loser in Dubai this year, but unexpectedly, after entering the main competition as a substitute, he performed well and won two games in a row to advance into the quarterfinals.

Thus, the matchup of "Curić VS Gawain" was formed.

Objectively speaking, Gao Wen 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 quickly, people still remember:

At the end of last year, Coric and Gawain competed for the Rookie of the Year award, and Gawain won both the Rookie of the Year and Most Improved Player awards.

Therefore, the two players have already had a "confrontation" at different levels.

(End of this chapter)