Chapter 1211 Addition, Subtraction

, Multiplication and Division The sun was shining brightly, and I was sweating profusely. It didn't take long for the jersey I had just changed to become soaked again, as if I had just taken it out of the water.

An hour of basic training passed in a flash. It seemed like we had just stepped onto the court to start training, and sixty minutes disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Next, it’s time for the training match.

Thiem will go to the next court to meet up with his training partner Auger-Aliassime for a two-hour training match; Dimitrov will stay here and wait for Monfils to have their own training match.

As for Gawain, he will also go to another training ground nearby to join Wawrinka. Two hours of high-intensity training match awaits them.

All of these were booked and arranged in advance, from the venue to the time to the partners, everything was discussed and arranged in advance, and everything went according to plan.

"call."

Dimitrov drank the entire bottle of mineral water in one breath, exhaled a long breath, wiped the sweat off his face, and turned to look at Gawain.

"How is it, how do you feel? Can you handle the media?"

Hearing this, Tim also turned his head, with a hint of concern in his eyes——

The pre-match press conference was scheduled after the training match, but now, reporters could no longer contain their excitement and appeared on the training ground one after another.

The media surrounded them in three layers, without asking any questions, just taking pictures, but their burning gazes almost ignited the air.

There is no need to wait for the press conference. One can imagine with one's knees that these reporters must be so excited about the "battle for the second place in the world" that they can't sleep. Everyone is looking forward to the reunion between Gawain and Federer, which may very well become a confrontation that subverts an era.

Previously, during the “Sunshine Double”, reporters did not believe that Kovan could win consecutive titles in Indian Wells and Miami, so the focus was always on “Kovan vs. Djokovic”, and they were eagerly looking forward to the rematch of the Australian Open final to inject a shot in the arm for the tennis market.

Now, "Gao Wen defeated Djokovic three times" has become a thing of the past. After the draw was announced, no reporter lamented that Gao Wen and Djokovic were in different zones. On the contrary, everyone was excited about the semi-final meeting between Gao Wen and Federer. This historic meeting is likely to go down in history.

The reason is very simple: in the era of the Big Four that dominated tennis, everything originated from Federer. Although Djokovic is now the world's number one, Federer's symbolic significance is still irreplaceable.

If Gawain can really overturn the situation in which the top two positions in the world rankings have been firmly held by the Big Four for the past decade by defeating Federer, then it can indeed be considered a change of era.

Of course, this does not mean the end of the era of the Big Four, but after Djokovic and Murray, the "Big Four era" has become more complicated.

Maybe, Gawain can become a new giant like Djokovic and Murray and create an era, maybe not.

Maybe, Federer and Nadal will sink from here, and the "era of giants" will be completely changed, or maybe not.

Maybe, Gawain will rise to fame briefly and then disappear in the blink of an eye, just like Kolya, Janowicz, Gaudio and others, or maybe not.

Journalists, do you care?

Of course not.

That is the distant future. Journalists do not need to think too far ahead. They just need to grasp the present, seize the hot spots, and create one explosive point after another. That is enough.

Therefore, the reporters will not let Gao Wen off easily, there is absolutely no possibility.

Gao Wen shrugged lightly, his face full of relief, "They have the freedom to ask questions, and I have the freedom to refuse to answer."

Tim said seriously, "Is this still possible?"

You can tell at first glance that he is a model child who always answers every question. Maybe the reporters don’t like such a model child, but they obviously won’t make things difficult for him.

Dimitrov chuckled. "Of course you can. You can just tell them that I refuse to answer this question. Reporters can't grab your neck and force you to answer. But there are skills to refusing. Gawain is Gawain. We good kids shouldn't learn from him so easily."

Gawain looked at Dimitrov and smiled widely, "Yeah, yeah, Mr. No Comment is right, everything you said is correct."

Dimitrov: I am so confused.

Previously, when Dimitrov and Sharapova's relationship was first exposed, reporters were omnipresent and gossiped about the relationship between the two all the time.

Dimitrov was really helpless, and later "No comment" became his catchphrase, and he would occasionally answer some game questions in this way.

Hence, Gao Wen's ridicule just now.

Dimitrov couldn't help himself, and the corners of his mouth rose. "But you can't just give them nothing, right? They won't give up."

Gao Wen understood this clearly, "But the key is, if I give them an answer, will they give up?"

Dimitrov: "Uh..."

Gao Wen had a smile in his eyes. "No matter what the answer is, they will not be satisfied, even if I lose the first game. Until I meet Roger, any response will become soil for them to continue to fan the flames and add fuel to the fire. This is just the beginning."

As a "former" reporter, Gao Wen saw this clearly.

In fact, this is not a logic problem, but a math problem.

Let's make an assumption that Gawain and Federer do meet in the semi-finals as everyone expects, and then Federer wins and wins the championship in the final.

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So, how will the ranking points change? Federer, who finished one level higher than last year's runner-up, will receive 1,000 points as this year's champion instead of 600 points as last year's runner-up, an increase of 400 points.

Gao Wen did not participate in the competition last year, but made it to the semi-finals this year, so his points increased by 360 points.

This also means that the points difference between Federer and Gawain has widened from 215 points to 255 points.

The competition continues, from Madrid to Rome to Paris...

Therefore, Monte Carlo is just the beginning. The same topic and the same competition will continue in a cycle.

As Gao Wen said, this is a math problem, and any ordinary person with basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills can calculate such a situation.

Didn't the reporters see that? No, they did.

But, they don't care.

The topic will be hyped again and again, endlessly.

This also means that

Whether Gawain responds or not, the matter will not be affected by his will.

So why couldn't Gawain stick to himself?

"No, strictly speaking, not only in Monte Carlo, but throughout the clay court season, they will tirelessly rehash the same old stuff over and over again."

"If I win and become world No. 2, then I will have to face the counterattacks of Roger and Rafa, and continue to attack Novak; if I lose, unless I fall out of the top 10 in the world, they will definitely keep asking me if I am completely crushed by the pressure."

"In short, as long as they want, such topics can be updated week after week, day after day, with every round of wins and losses, endlessly and endlessly."

"Grigor, they won't be satisfied, don't you understand?"

(End of this chapter)