Chapter 216: After Reaching the Top

With the end of the U.S. Championship, another season has come to an end.

In the 2013-2014 season, six championships found their respective owners, and both the men's team championship and the women's team championship went to UCLA.

The men's singles championship and runner-up were also won by the University of California, Los Angeles, and the men's doubles championship was won by the University of Tennessee; the women's singles championship went to the University of Virginia, and the women's doubles championship was taken home by the University of Alabama.

It is worth mentioning that the women's singles champion Danielle-Collins later turned to the professional arena and also achieved many good results. She reached the quarterfinals of the 2019 Australian Open and the semi-finals of the 2020 French Open, with a career-high ranking of 23rd.

Obviously, this is also a representative who has achieved remarkable results in transitioning from the NCAA to the professional arena.

Obviously, the Bruins, who won three championship trophies, became the biggest winners of this season. When the men's and women's teams returned to Los Angeles together, they were treated to a grand championship parade on the Westwood campus. A bustling crowd came to celebrate the team's history-making.

Carnival! Party! Make noise! ​​Dance! Bloom!

Sing as loud as you can!

The entire campus has transformed into a carnival stage, where wantonness and flamboyance bloom without reservation in the sunshine of youth!

That afternoon and evening, Thompson was frantic.

As a senior, Thompson has decided to officially turn professional after the season ends, but no matter what, his college life is about to come to an end. Being able to end it with a championship trophy makes Thompson happy and sad, and the beer goes down his throat like drinking water.

It's not the wine that makes people drunk, it's people who make themselves drunk.

Jilong then officially told his teammates that after the season ends, he has decided to enter the professional tour. As for whether he will return to campus in September, we still have to wait and see the results in the next three months, but what is certain now is that he is ready to enter the professional arena.

This also means that there is a possibility that Giron may not return to the Bruins.

Saier burst into tears with a "wow", which made Jilong's eyes red.

In fact, tennis is an individual sport, and team spirit is relatively weak. But university is different after all. Teammates who fought side by side are about to go their separate ways, and the sighs and loss of parting flood into my heart all at once.

Then Thompson hugged Jilong and started to force him to drink, celebrating winning the championship and wishing him a bright future. Bremer and Searle also followed suit silently, drinking one glass after another, seizing the tail of their youth and indulging themselves.

Because they all know that once they become professional players, they may not be able to indulge themselves like this.

As the hero who won the championship, Gao Wen was naturally not left behind and undoubtedly became the target of siege.

But before Gawain had a chance to fully display his abilities, his teammates fell one by one. Being able to get himself drunk was also a kind of ability, so Gawain could not go all out and began to clean up the mess in a depressed mood.

Here Thompson was hugging the toilet and vomiting non-stop, there Jilong was climbing up the bar like a fool and singing and dancing, then McDonald accidentally hugged the pillar and poured out his heart, and Gawain was spinning like a top. How could they have time to drink?

These guys!

It seems like things shouldn't be like this, right?

After the celebration, McDonald was in a trance for nearly a day before he came to his senses; Thompson was full of energy and not affected at all, but he couldn't remember anything; and Giron also said that he had no memory, but it was unknown whether he really didn't remember or had selective amnesia.

The joy and happiness of being the American champion lasted for less than forty-eight hours because...final exam week arrived.

Only then did they remember that their first identity was students. In addition to tennis, they also had professional studies to complete. Then they all started to get busy. Life didn't seem to have changed much, and in the blink of an eye, it returned to calm.

After nearly three weeks of busy work, Gao Wen finally finished all his final exams and was able to take a breath.

After having some free time, Gao Wen began to plan for his summer challenge of the professional tour, which is undoubtedly a very important thing.

Every year, the ATP and WTA schedules are regular. January to March is the Australian season, which revolves around the Australian Open.

April to June is the European season, with the clay court season centered around the French Open and the grass court season centered around Wimbledon.

June to August is the North American season, centered around the hard court season at the U.S. Open.

September and October are the Asian season, with all the major competitions taking place in Asia.

Finally, November is the European Indoor Season, which ends with the year-end finals, concluding the entire year's schedule.

It can be seen from this that the entire summer ahead will belong to North America.

In 2004, the United States Tennis Association began to design a series of warm-up matches around the ultimate Grand Slam event of the North American season, known as the "U.S. Open Series", to help players gradually adapt to the North American climate, adjust their status, and eventually make their way to the stage of the U.S. Open.

The entire "US Open Series" includes six men's ATP events and five women's WTA events. The ATP events enter the series one week earlier than the WTA events.

Take this year as an example. The Atlanta Tennis Championships will start on July 14, and then the US Open will kick off on August 25. The levels of the six seasons are also different, and professional players often have the freedom to choose their participating combinations.

Currently, ATP professional tournaments are divided into five levels.

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The first level, Grand Slam, the champion points are 2,000 points, and there are four Grand Slams in total throughout the year.

The second level is the Masters, where the champion scores one thousand points and there are ten tournaments in total throughout the year.

The third level, the Gold Tournament, has a champion score of 500 points, so it is also called the "Five Hundred Tournament".

The fourth level, the tour, has a champion score of 250 points, so it is also called the "250 Tournament".

Among them, the Gold Tournament and the Tournament will be divided into some level types according to the prize money of the event, but overall, the points level remains the same.

The fifth level is the challenge competition, and there is also the hope competition.

Strictly speaking, the Challenge Tournament is the lowest level ATP event. There is another level classification system based on championship points and tournament prize money. The best level Challenge Tournament has championship points of 125 points.

The Hope Tournament is not an ATP event, but an ITF event.

Simply put, the ITF is responsible for organizing national competitions as well as youth competitions, so the main participants in the Hopes Tournament are also teenagers.

The Hope Tournament is divided into levels according to the prize money. The champion of the highest level Hope Tournament can also get ATP points, but only 35 points.

In the "US Open Series", the first and second weeks are tour tournaments, also known as the "250 tournaments"; the third week is the gold tournament, also known as the "500 tournament".

The fourth and fifth weeks are the Masters, which are also important competitions where top players gather; the sixth week is the tour again, and finally the Grand Slam in the seventh week.

Naturally, how to reasonably participate in the US Open series is also a question that every player needs to consider.

Third update.

(End of this chapter)