Chapter 849: Chance and Coincidence
No one could have predicted that the drama of "Gawain vs. Australia" would unexpectedly grab the headlines and become one of the biggest highlights of the 2015 Australian Open.
Absolutely real, totally emergent, and live.
Wonderful! Delicious! Highly anticipated!
Before the start of the third round, the discussion on the "Gawain VS Tomic" match was rising at a visible speed on social networks.
Even professional sports journalists from different media outlets, in addition to writing articles, have also posted related discussions on their own social networking platforms.
Sight, fully focused.
This is definitely an unexpected topic! But why?
Could it be that the personal grudges between Gawain and Kyrgios, Kojicnakis and others have been exposed?
Obviously not.
In fact, everything is a coincidence. Before the match between Gawain and Tomic landed at the Hisense Arena, two things happened at the Australian Open on the fifth match day:
One.
Australian players suffered consecutive heavy losses, with Stosur losing to American player Coco-Vandeweghe and being eliminated in the second round. This also means that there are no local players in the women's singles draw, and the whole team was wiped out.
At the same time, the men's singles arena also suffered a devastating blow. Of the ten players who had entered the main draw so far, only the last two, Kyrgios and Tomic, remained after the fourth day of competition. All the other players were defeated and eliminated.
Just two days ago, the Chinese media were still lamenting that the overall performance of singles this year was disappointing, while Australian fans were cheering; but they did not expect that things would change, and before the noise of the party had time to completely subside, Australia also faced a crisis of being on the verge of annihilation.
Second.
On the fifth day of the competition, the Australian Open had its biggest upset since its opening: in the third match of the day at Rod Laver Arena, Federer faced Seppi.
Yes! It’s the Seppi in the “Seppi Law” that only works against Federer.
As of this year's Melbourne Park, Federer has maintained an impressive record of ten wins against Seppi, and even only lost one set, with an overall very strong performance; however, in these ten events, after Federer defeated Seppi, he failed to win the championship, which is a big wonder in tennis.
This is not a good thing for Federer fans, because even if Federer defeats Seppi, I am afraid that the championship of this year's Australian Open will be in suspense.
But at least one thing is certain, if Federer wants to continue his hopes of winning the championship, he must defeat Seppi.
From all aspects, there was no possibility for Federer to lose.
However, “3:1”.
The winner was Seppi, who not only ended his ten-game losing streak against Federer, but also created the biggest upset since the start of this year's Australian Open.
This loss ended Federer's record of reaching the semi-finals at Melbourne Park for eleven consecutive years, and also created Federer's worst record at the Australian Open in fourteen years.
Before the Australian Open, Federer had just won the Brisbane Championship and won the 1,000th victory in his career. He was considered the favorite to win the championship. The 4/4 zone quarterfinal matchup of "Federer VS Murray" was also the most anticipated duel after the draw was released, but unexpectedly it ended in the third round.
When fans were expecting Federer to break the "Sepi Law", they did not expect that this time Federer simply lost to Seppi.
So far, Federer has still not been able to break the two-year Grand Slam championship drought; and what is more frightening is that the impact of age and injuries is becoming increasingly apparent:
Last year at the US Open, Federer lost to Cilic, against whom he had won all five matches; this year at the Australian Open, Federer lost to Seppi, against whom he had been undefeated in ten matches.
The 33-year-old Federer will inevitably face more challenges in his future career.
For Federer, it was a "bad day", and for Federer's fans, it was one of many, many, many "bad days".
"Who would have thought that Federer would be one of those who failed in the first week of a Grand Slam?"
"Federer was annoyed by Seppi's Law, so he just lost to Seppi this time."
"My Australian Open ends here."
"Heartbroken. Federer is eliminated in the first week of a Grand Slam. Can anyone tell me this is not true?"
"When was the last time Federer was eliminated in the first week of a Grand Slam? Last century."
There is no doubt that Federer is still the most popular player in Melbourne. The vast number of fans are expecting the Swiss king to achieve more success, but they did not expect that he would suddenly encounter a wake-up call, so that the fans and spectators were a little dizzy and the whole world started spinning.
Sad, sighing, lost, confused, and dull.
The low pressure in Melbourne Park dragged the ankles of Federer's fans down slowly, which more or less resonated with Australian fans and Chinese fans.
No matter what, fans of Federer are from all over the world. Putting aside other competitions, at this moment, they are all wanderers in the world.
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It was against this backdrop that the match between Gawain and Tomic came into play.
Chinese fans are eager for a victory to awaken their passion, while Australian fans are more eager than ever for a victory to brighten their day.
After all, now that the men's and women's singles draws are all added up, Australia is down to its last two promising seeds, and they are more eager than ever.
The right time, the right place, and the right people.
Although it is not appropriate to use it here, it is precisely because things collided and overlapped one after another that all attention was focused on "a match that should not have attracted too much attention. It was just an ordinary third round match with no gimmicks, no topics, and no grudges."
Can you imagine? In fact, this was the first confrontation between Gawain and Tomic.
Even the Australian Open organizing committee itself did not anticipate such a situation when it was making arrangements for the next day halfway through the fourth day of competition.
In the case of two local players competing, one is Kyrgios against Serbian player Viktor Troicki, both of whom are unseeded players, and the other is Galen against Tomic. Not only is Galen the eighth seed, but Tomic is also a rising star who has become famous earlier.
As a result, Kyrgios once again entered the night session at the Margaret Court Arena, and even Murray was squeezed into the Hisense Arena; then the match between Gawain and Tomic was also scheduled at the Hisense Arena.
From this, we can see that the organizing committee never dreamed that the focus of attention would be so overwhelming and surge towards Gawain and Tomic.
Strictly speaking, the series "Gawain vs. Australia" has actually had two episodes. The match against Tomic should be the third episode in the series. The first two episodes only caused some discussion in a small circle, but the third episode landed at Hisense Arena just fifteen minutes after Seppi defeated Federer in an upset.
Then--
It exploded.
The ratings just exploded.
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