Chapter 1258 Undercurrents

Sock, 2011 US Open mixed doubles champion, 2014 Wimbledon men's doubles champion.

Compared with his singles results, Sock has achieved a series of outstanding results in doubles so far, and that's not all.

In 2016, the mixed doubles gold medal at the Rio Olympics; in 2018, when Bob Bryan was absent for more than a year and a half due to injury, Mike Bryan partnered with Sock to compete.

As a result, that year, Sock performed poorly in singles, with one win and four losses in the four Grand Slams, only winning once at the US Open, and being eliminated in the first round of the other three Grand Slams. However, he was invincible in doubles with his partner Mike, winning three championships in a row: Wimbledon, the US Open and the year-end finals.

Needless to say, it can be seen intuitively from here that Sock is indeed very suitable for doubles.

Look back to the present moment.

From last year to this year, Sock's singles has made steady progress, and in last week's Houston clay court tournament, he won the singles championship trophy for the first time in his career, and his immediate world ranking broke into the top 50 for the first time, showing a gratifying upward momentum; and all of this is due to the training of doubles.

At last year's Wimbledon, Sock and his partner Pospisil defeated the Bryan brothers in the final to win the championship; entering the new season, their partnership is still strong. Although they did not participate in the doubles competition at the Australian Open, they won one championship and one runner-up in the North American Sunshine Double.

Thanks to this, Sock's doubles world ranking reached a new high, reaching third; at the same time, Pospisil's doubles world ranking also reached fifth.

In this Monte Carlo Masters, the partnership of Sock and Pospisil was seeded second and made it to the final with great momentum. This also means that from last month to this month, they have reached the finals in three consecutive Masters tournaments. They are undoubtedly the strongest doubles players in recent times.

Outside the arena, Sock was nicknamed "Sweetheart" by his colleagues.

It's not that he's feminine, but that he's very naughty but also very friendly, with perfect affinity. He can be friends with anyone and often jokes around. He always has a bright, cheerful smile on his face, like a sweetheart pie that no one can refuse. He's definitely the king of connections.

Dimitrov, Raonic and others who are of similar age are all Sock's friends; Federer, Murray and others who are slightly older also all have close personal relationships with Sock; even players like Gao Wen who have just entered the tour at a young age, Sock can easily name them.

There is reasonable reason to suspect that there is no player in the ATP that Sock doesn't know.

So, when he saw Dimitrov and Gawain from afar, Sok was the first to step forward and greet them.

After hugging Dimitrov, Sok gave Gawain another enthusiastic hug, chattering and joking.

"Let's get some good luck, let's get some good luck."

It's like Gawain is some kind of all-blessed doll.

Gao Wen did not expect that Soke would act funny as soon as they met. He patted Soke on the back and muttered something in Chinese mixed with a few English sentences with a strange accent.

Soke was stunned. After loosening his arms, he looked Gao Wen up and down, tilting his head with question marks all over his face.

Gao Wen did not explain, but looked at Sok mysteriously, his face full of meaning, "Are you sure it's a happy occasion?"

To these foreigners, Chinese is always full of mystery.

Sok immediately made a face with his teeth bared, and the vivid expression made Dimitrov next to him clap and laugh.

At this time, Pospisil had also caught up, leaned over from Sok's right side, and made a joke with a grin.

"Wait, wasn't that a curse?"

The words were not the point, as they could not understand the Chinese anyway, and Latin and Arabic were all the same; the point was that one could faintly sense a hint of provocation from Perspisil, as he rushed towards Gawain with a hidden agenda, and even if he tried to cover it up with a smile, one could still sense it.

Sok glanced at Pospisil, his smile a little stiff, and his eyes hinted wildly.

But Pospisil apparently didn't notice -

Or maybe, you noticed it but didn't care.

"Originally, those gibberish words sound like a mess of spells, don't they?"

Pospisil smiled widely, seemingly very pleased with his "joke", his eyes moving back and forth between Sok and Dimitrov, seeking their responses.

But Dimitrov was obviously not satisfied with the joke, "Vasek, you can choose not to speak."

Pospisil curled his lips and opened his mouth to refute Dimitrov, but he didn't expect that Gawain took the lead and interrupted Pospisil's words, but he didn't look at Pospisil, but turned to look at Dimitrov and said seriously.

"Grigor, we can't be so rude. If someone wants to spit shit all over their mouth, there's no need to stop them. Why should we get covered in shit ourselves?"

"We are all civilized people. Even if we don't like it, we should respect others' freedom to spit shit."

"The correct approach should be to keep a little distance and give the opponent some space to spray as much feces as possible. As for whether he will choke to death on his own saliva, that is another story."

Serious and solemn.

Such funny and hilarious words were stated by Gao Wen in the tone of academic research, and the contrast of humor burst out instantly.

Dimitrov: ...

Sok: ...

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Pospisil: ...

The world suddenly became quiet, and all the noise disappeared.

The skin on Pospisil's cheeks is particularly thin, and his cheeks would easily turn red after a little exercise or when he was emotional. This was just a physiological phenomenon, but at this moment, the flushed cheeks looked as if they could explode at any time, revealing his inner frustration and anger.

Phew.

Some people couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Socks classmate.

Soke simply closed his mouth and tried very, very hard, but still couldn't control himself.

Pospisil was very annoyed and glared at Sok fiercely.

Soke quickly waved his hands to indicate that he would control himself and hold back his laughter, but within two seconds, his cheeks swelled up quickly like a porpoise, which was very funny. Although there was no laughter at all, his eyes, eyebrows and mouth corners were all full of smiles.

This scene made Dimitrov couldn't help laughing.

But Dimitrov was still very dissatisfied with Pospisil's attitude and glared at him fiercely.

In the end, Gawain was the most calm and composed. He exchanged a few polite words, then turned around and left with Dimitrov. He never even looked at Pospisil from beginning to end, as if the 193-centimeter tall man did not exist at all.

Pospisil looked at Gawain's back, took a deep breath, and took another deep breath, but he still couldn't control the surging emotions in his chest, which were about to explode.

Soke lowered his head, and it was unclear what his expression was, but he couldn't help it after all, and his shoulders shrugged slightly.

People who didn’t know might think he was crying silently, but the corners of his mouth that were slightly raised betrayed the truth.

(End of this chapter)