Chapter 64: Blood boiling
"...Dear viewers, dear viewers, welcome back to the live broadcast."
"We are currently broadcasting a peak matchup of the 2013-2014 spring regular season tennis season, between the second-ranked UCLA Bruins and the seventh-ranked Oklahoma Sooners. It is also a contest between two teams that remain undefeated this season."
"There is no doubt that both teams are favorites to win the championship, and it is expected that this game will be tense and close."
"The game is now at a 3:3 tie, and the final singles match will decide the outcome."
The broadcasting rights for NCAA games, especially the strong competition among the first-level leagues, have all been purchased by TV stations, and the ratings have performed very well.
For example, the ratings of NCAA football games can easily beat the NBA playoffs.
The ratings for tennis matches are relatively low, mainly because the schedule is too long and there are too many matches. Three doubles matches and six singles matches are comparable to a marathon. But despite this, there are still a large number of loyal viewers. The broadcasting rights for each year have been bought early on, and the competition is very fierce.
The ESPN Tennis Channel is responsible for broadcasting this match live, which means you will need to pay separately to watch the match.
For die-hard fans, no one wants to miss such a matchup.
David-Sofaer is responsible for the stand-up live broadcast of this all-day competition. It is really hard, but it is also really exciting. After a long day, the ups and downs and twists and turns of the competition are finally about to usher in the final battle. The winner or loser, the winner and the loser, will soon be revealed.
"To some extent, the final singles match decided the outcome, which was the result we expected. The strength of the two teams was indeed very close, and a great match needed a great ending."
“However, the ultimate matchup we expect should be a strong matchup between the two top singles players, Klay Thompson and Gilmore Alcorta, who are also currently ranked first and second in the United States.”
"No one expected that Thompson would unexpectedly sweep Alcorta, allowing Alcorta to only hold one serve game throughout the match and win easily; no one expected that the ultimate showdown to decide which team would continue to remain undefeated after this match would be between the two No. 6 singles players."
"Strictly speaking, Sooners head coach Cowell should be the only candidate that came to mind, because he planned all of this personally. Their No. 3 singles player Andrew Harris was arranged to be the sixth pick and will face the 18-year-old freshman Gao Wen of the Bruins."
"Obviously, Harris is the more favored side in this game."
"However, the Bruins' No. 6 singles player should not be underestimated, as he remains undefeated so far this season."
In the TV studio above the stadium, Sofar was already dry-mouthed, but he was still passionately and spitting as he introduced the final match of the game. He never tired of emphasizing the importance of the final match, hoping that the audience in front of the TV could still maintain a positive and excited attitude after the torture of a long day of competition.
In fact, if Sofar doesn't do this, the audience will not buy it -
From any perspective, it is no surprise that Harris defeated Gowen. Not to mention that Gowen is relatively unknown and has not yet been ranked in the United States; just talking about absolute strength, the No. 3 singles player facing the No. 6 singles player is naturally an all-round advantage.
Everyone was praising Cowell's exquisite deployment of troops. In the close combat, this little advantage was enough to change the overall situation. It seemed that they had completely forgotten that when the matchup list came out this morning, many people were complaining and mocking Cowell for shooting himself in the foot.
Objectively speaking, although the audience's thoughts are bound by superficial phenomena, they may not be wrong.
Andrew Harris, according to historical trajectory, will usher in a period of sustained growth next year, ranking in the top eight in the United States; and after graduating from college, he switched to become a professional player, with a career-high ranking of 157, and has been mainly involved in challenge tournaments all year round.
Although Harris is not a well-known top player as a professional player, even if he is just "hanging around in challenge tournaments" or "ranked 157th at best", he is still among the top 200 professional players in the world, and his talent and strength are far superior to ordinary people.
For Gawain, that was an unimaginable and insurmountable peak.
However, Gawain may not be without a chance.
After all, Harris has not yet fully grown and transformed. He, like Gawain and McDonald, is a young player who is still growing. Even if he has talent, his talent conversion rate is currently limited and he needs more training. Whether he is a mule or a horse, he still needs to come out for a walk to see.
call……
call……
Take a deep breath and exhale slowly.
Take another deep breath and exhale.
Gawain jumped lightly on the spot, moving his hands and feet, slowly adjusting the rhythm of his heartbeat with long breaths, clearing his mind of all distracting thoughts and concentrating on the game in front of him.
It would be a lie to say that he was not worried. In his previous life, he injured his knee on this very field, and his career went to another extreme.
It would be a lie to say that I'm not nervous. Although I have played in many games this season, the pressure of facing different situations in different games is completely different.
In this game, the victory or defeat of the entire team rests on the shoulders of one person. After a whole day of hard work and struggle, it all depends on this one game. The pressure cannot be described even one thousandth of it in words, but for Gao Wen, this is only the third complete game of the season.
Plop.
Boom! His heart pounded against his chest violently, but Gawain not only did not hate it, but he liked and enjoyed this feeling a little bit, a little worried and a little nervous, as if he could touch the pulse of life, and feel the vitality flowing in his blood vessels and boiling in his chest as never before.
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Life is no longer a monotonous repetition of self, nor is it a gray numbness; at this moment, everything in sight is vivid, colorful, and agile, and the wildly beating heart is reminding myself:
Hey, this is your moment.
To start over again, this is the moment he has been waiting for, searching for and chasing after. Bathed in the lights, feeling the cheers and shouts, his skin becomes slightly hot, and then all the mixed emotions turn into motivation. He straightens his back, opens his chest, and lets this storm come even harder.
“Boomer! Sooner!”
This is the motto of the University of Oklahoma, which means "more vigorous and faster". At the same time, "Sooners" has become the unified name of all NCAA sports teams of the University of Oklahoma, which is translated as "Sooners", but the original meaning comes from the school motto, which means "lighter and faster, with down-to-earth tenacity".
At this time, all the home team fans were shouting in unison.
"More explosive! More powerful!"
"More explosive! More powerful!"
The whole place roared with overwhelming sound.
Today, I accidentally learned that the book "The Rest Is Noise" recommended my book "Match Point". I was touched and thanked it sincerely! It reminded me of the recommendation of Zombie Dance when I was in "King of the Bay Area". It just came into everyone's sight and all kinds of thoughts came to my mind. Here, I would like to thank Silent Love for the recommendation again. Thank you!
By the way, I'd like to ask for recommendation votes here. The beginning of tennis is indeed as difficult as rugby. I need a little support from book friends. Recommendation votes would be great. Thank you very much!
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