The U.S. Open began in 1881 and was first held at the Newport Casino Stadium. In 1915, it moved to the West Tennis Club on Forest Hill in New York.

The four major tennis opens in the future are grasslands, French Open is red land, US Open is cement hard land, Australian Open is plastic hard land. But in the 1930s, except for French Open is red land, the other three tennis competitions were grassland competitions.

Ancient tennis originated in France. In the 17th century, tennis was still a French court game. At that time, a golden container was placed next to the court. After each game, the audience put money into the plate as the winner's prize. This method had a good intention at first, but later gradually evolved into a kind of gambling. At the beginning, the number was still small, and over time, the more gamble became bigger and bigger, and some even lost money. So the French king ordered a ban on playing such games again. This was the main reason for the decline of tennis in the early 18th century.

Modern tennis began in Birmingham in 1987 and soon developed in Britain, and then spread to major colonies in the United States and Britain. People quickly fell in love with this kind of sport held on the lawn. After all, in that era, it was much easier to find a lawn than a piece of concrete, so tennis also developed rapidly.

By the 1920s, tennis in the United States had already developed. The National Tennis Association of the United States held many tennis competitions every year. In addition, states in the United States also held tennis competitions, tennis youth competitions and NCAA tennis competitions were also in full swing.

The Tennis Club, the venue of the US Open, spans two blocks, with 12 grass courts and 15 clay courts. The main court has a stand of 14,000 people, which was considered the world's top tennis court at that time. Even in the future, there were not many tennis courts in China that could accommodate 14,000 spectators.

Tennis entered the Open era in 1968, and since then, there were four true Grand Slams. It was also since then that tennis has developed rapidly, and there will be a leap forward almost every decade. Jimmy Connors in the 1970s, John McEnroe in the 1980s, Pete Sampras in the 1990s, and Roger Federer in the 21st century. Every generation of athletes will bring earth-shaking changes to tennis.

Later generations generally believed that tennis before 1968 could only be considered amateur level, and professional tennis competitions only appeared after the opening of the Open in 1968. This also shows from one aspect that tennis level before 1968 was not high.

As time goes by thirty years, tennis in 1938 may only be considered a "tennis enthusiast" level, and it is difficult to play an amateur game.

In the 1930s, the standard for becoming a good tennis player was to have a good sense of online access, understand the skills of online interception, and be able to make successful online interception. In that era, completing an online interception could arouse cheers from the audience. Once the opponent completed the online interception, most players were powerless, that is, they could not receive the opponent's interception!

This must sound incredible to future people. Even if you can intercept the Internet, you can run to play the four major slam level games. If you count it this way, those physical education teachers who teach elementary school students to play tennis during summer vacations will all come back to the tennis champion.

However, this is the reality. In the 1920s and 1930s, the concept of tennis was mainly the bottom line playing style. Players would stand at the bottom line and draw. When no one could use the top spun ball, the sudden interception of the Internet was indeed a good offensive method.

It’s like two soldiers shooting at each other with a rifle between 200 meters. Suddenly someone ran to 50 meters and threw a grenade. Are you surprised? Are you surprised? Are you awesome?

Chen Qiang's current tennis level is almost NTTRP3.5 points, and he can play a relatively high-level top-spin ball, but considering that players of this era like online interception, Chen Qiang still plans to improve his level and at least improve his tennis skills to a 4.0 rating.

In the NTTRP's 4.0 scoring standard, players already have the ability to hit the ball. Although the direction of the backhand counterattack is still lacking in depth, they can already use their forehand to hit the ball in the far and low net. It can be said that players with a 4.0 scoring are already able to deal with interceptions on the Internet. In addition, tennis players with a 4.0 scoring already have the ability to serve ace balls, and the ability to use high balls to hit the balls directly.

Chen Qiang came to the tennis court in the training space, hired a tennis coach, and started systematic and professional tennis training.

Chen Qiang’s ultimate goal is to reach a 4.5 rating, which is the top level in the domestic amateur level in the future. As for whether it can reach a 5.0 rating, it depends on Chen Qiang’s luck and talent.

If you reach a 5.0 rating, China can already be considered a professional tennis player in the future. At least if you enter the provincial team and play professional tennis in China. In any sport, if you want to become a professional athlete, you need talent in addition to training. Chen Qiang does not know whether his talent in tennis can reach the level of a professional athlete, so he is not sure whether he can reach the level of a 5.0 after professional training.

Once you reach 5.0 points, the distance between 5.5 points is very close. 5.0 points and 5.5 points are not very technically different. The main difference is physical fitness and mentality. This is almost the difference between the junior professional level and experienced professional players. At levels above 5.5 points, there are more differences between stability and competition experience, such as 7.0 level players, who are international tennis players. Such athletes do not have the ability to just have skills, and experience in various international competitions is their most valuable asset.

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There are 128 places to participate in the four Grand Slams in later generations, and it is very difficult to participate in the four Grand Slams. In the Grand Slam competition, 104 places are directly participating. These 104 places belong to the top 104 people in the world. If someone gives up his qualification or withdraws from the competition due to injury, it will be postponed according to the world ranking. Basically, those who can reach this direct quota are all the top 110 players in the world.

In addition, there are 16 places in the qualifying competition, and 128 people participated in the qualifying competition. Including some withdrawals, basically, the world rankings will participate in the qualifying competition to win these 16 places.

There are also 8 wild card players quotas, some given to host players, some given to sponsor players, some given to well-known players who fell out of the top 104 due to injuries, and some as promotional places for wild card games.

In the 1930s, it was much easier to participate in the US Open, and you could basically sign up to participate. Even so, less than 128 contestants were collected.

The athletes at that time were still very self-aware. They knew that they were not of good enough and participating in such high-level competitions was also a shame, so those players who knew they would definitely go to the first round of the game would not come to participate in the competition.

If it were placed in later generations, every place in the Four Grand Slams would be defeated by players. Even if it was just a round of games, as long as you could show off your appearance in the Four Grand Slams, advertising sponsorship contracts would definitely be indispensable.

Chen Qiang had a leave of absence from the embassy and took a train to New York. He came to the Western Tennis Club, the venue of the US Open, to register.

The staff in charge of the registration obviously did not recognize Chen Qiang, and the staff were also surprised that a Chinese person came to register for the US Open competition.

"Are you Japanese?" asked the working person.

"No, I'm Chinese!" Chen Qiang replied.

"I thought you were Japanese. Three Japanese had signed up for this National Tennis Championships before." The staff in charge of the registration spoke.

Chen Qiang was surprised: "There were three Japanese athletes participating in the competition!"

"Yes, maybe you know each other. Let me see, one of them is Nakano, the other is Kurazo, and the other is Abe." The other party answered.

Chen Qiang nodded slightly. He didn't expect that Japan's tennis would win so well that three players could participate in the US Open.

In later generations, a series of Grand Slam winners such as Li Na, Zheng Jie, and Peng Shuai emerged. When Japanese players Kei Nishikori and Naomi Osaka rose, many Chinese people exclaimed that Japanese tennis has surpassed China!

However, in fact, Japanese tennis has always been more popular than China. Japanese tennis started much earlier than China. Before World War II, Japanese tennis players began to compete in four major tennis events. The Japanese team also participated in the Davis Cup very early, and Japan has a rich reserve of tennis talents. Chinese tennis has only entered the 21st century and has entered the real professionalization, and the reserve strength is even more worrying.

Back to the point, the staff member in charge of the registration was very talkative, or he was very interested in foreign athletes, and talked endlessly with Chen Qiang for a long time.

Finally, the staff member took out the registration form and asked Chen Qiang to fill in it. Chen Qiang quickly filled out the registration form and handed it over to the staff member.

"Chen Qiang? I seem to have heard of this name somewhere. By the way, the Chinese athlete who performed very well in the Olympics before was called Chen Qiang! Are there many of you Chinese who call this name?" the staff said.

Perhaps this staff member regarded Chen Qiang's name as "John", "Jack", "Old Wang next door", etc. Many Americans call this name.

Chen Qiang smiled and shook his head, and he said, "I think the Chen Qiang you mentioned is me."

"What!" The staff member was shocked. He realized now that the Chinese who had been chatting with him for a long time turned out to be the "world's number one athlete".

"Oh my god, you are that Chen Qiang!" After being shocked, the staff immediately called Chen Qiang to sit down and poured Chen Qiang a cup of coffee in person.

Not long after, the director of the Western Tennis Club also came over, and Chen Qiang enjoyed the treatment of VIP here again.

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The organizer of the US Open is the National Tennis Association, a non-profit tennis organization. The original National Tennis Championship was only allowed to participate in the National Tennis Association. At that time, if you want to join the American Tennis Association to become a member, you had to pay some membership fees every year before you were eligible to participate in the competition hosted by the American Tennis Association. This is a bit like in the future online games, where members will form a gang, and members will pay weekly assistance fees and fight gangs.

Nowadays, the National Tennis Association obviously does not have to rely on that little membership dues to survive. With the development of tennis, the ticket income obtained by holding a large tennis game is much higher than that of collecting membership fees. Therefore, the National Tennis Association at this time was very keen on holding large-scale tennis games.

The National Tennis Championships in the United States are the largest tennis event in the United States, so the Tennis Association naturally attaches great importance to it.

At this time, the news that Chen Qiang had signed up for the US Open competition had reached the ears of senior executives of the American Tennis Association.

The senior executives of the American Tennis Association were naturally extremely happy. As the organizers, they certainly hope to attract more big-name athletes to participate in the competition, so that more tickets can be sold.

In the conference room, senior executives of the American Tennis Association were discussing Chen Qiang's participation in the competition.

"That Chinese is the 'world's number one athlete'. With him participating in our competition, he will definitely sell a lot of more tickets."

"I think so too, but I don't know how good the tennis level of that Chinese man is and whether he can reach the level of an average contestant?"

"Since he dares to sign up, I think tennis should be a good one."

"But he is a track and field athlete, not a tennis player after all."

"There are many track and field athletes who are proficient in tennis. We have many excellent tennis players and are also athletes on the track and field."

"The key is that the Chinese have great physical fitness, such as sprinting, high jumping, long jumping, hurdling, and discus. He can break the world record with such physical fitness. With such physical fitness, he should be able to compete in any sports."

"Yes, having a good body can indeed make up for technical shortcomings."

"But after all, we don't know what the Chinese tennis level is. He is the world's number one athlete at least. If he loses the first game, it's ugly, which is not good news for our game. So I suggest that in the first round, let's arrange a slightly weaker opponent for him!"

"I agree that the Chinese man is a bit famous after all. We need the Chinese man to hype our game and let more people pay attention to our game, so he's better not to fall in the first round."

The few people discussed and decided to arrange a weaker opponent for Chen Qiang in the first round of the game and lead Chen Qiang to advance.

In fact, this is also a very normal thing. After all, it is a commercial competition. The American Netcom Association also hopes to sell more tickets and make more money.

For example, one day, LeBron James will participate in a tennis match, and the organizer will definitely not want James to lose his first game. James will stay for one more day and the popularity of the game will be higher. If James can reach the final, it will probably attract tens of millions of James fans to watch the tennis final.

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The match schedule of the National Tennis Championships was set on September 8, but the weather was not good. As September came, New York was rainy and rainy, and it was definitely impossible to hold tennis matches when it rained, so the game was delayed until September 24.

In the pre-match publicity, the organizer was also focusing on promoting the news of Chen Qiang's participation.

The Los Angeles Olympics six years ago made many Americans know Chen Qiang’s name. The Berlin Olympics two years ago happened to the US election. In order to attack Roosevelt, the Republican Party kept advocating Chen Qiang to defeat the US team alone, which made Chen Qiang’s name become louder in the United States again.

So the Americans still buy the name Chen Qiang very much. At least Chen Qiang's ticket sales for the first round of the game are very good.

As for whether Chen Qiang can play tennis, there are not many people questioning it. In that era, it was normal for an athlete to be proficient in multiple events, especially in the United States. Many sports athletes can practice all kinds of sports, and it is common for a person to be the main force of the school team of multiple events. So if a track and field athlete plays well in tennis, no one will be surprised.

Chen Qiang's opponent in the first round, Lanas, is an American player, but Chen Qiang has never heard of his name and doesn't think he is a well-known player.

This Lanas is indeed the weakest among all contestants. In the records of the US Open in 1938, Lanas left only one name, and in the first round, he lost to another player who also had only recorded names.

However, Chen Qiang didn't know about this. This was his first tennis game, so he attached great importance to it.

Chen Qiang originally planned to come to the US Open to abuse food, but he didn't expect that his first opponent was real food!

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Standing on the grass of the US Open, Chen Qiang looked at Lanas opposite.

"I don't know how strong the opponent is. Maybe he is a master. I can't take it lightly. Please be steady and send a top-spin first!"

Thinking of this, Chen Qiang directly sent a top-spin ball.

Chen Qiang deliberately sought stability in this ball, so he did not deliberately pursue the ace ball, but chose a relatively conservative landing point.

With a "wa" sound, the ball fell to the ground and then bounced up quickly.

Lanas had already rushed over and then swung his racquet to catch the ball.

However, the ball cut was not received!

When Lanas was swinging the racquet, the tennis ball had already flew past Lanas, and Lanas waved the racquet to the air.

"I didn't actually receive it, what's going on?" Lanas was shocked, then turned around and looked at the tennis ball that had already flown to the sidelines with a confused look on his face.

As a tennis player, it is normal for him to touch the net when returning the ball or hit the ball out of bounds. Or the opponent's ball speed is too fast and the landing point is too tricky, so he can't run to the receiving position at all. This is also a common thing.

But in this way, Lanas ran to the receiving position and swung his slap in the air, which was almost impossible. This situation where he could not receive the ball when he was in the position would only occur for beginners.

However, today, this situation has occurred on the US Open!

The audience was stunned for a few seconds, and then a noisy sound rang out from the stands around. No one could imagine that in a competition of the US Open, the player ran to the receiving position, but swung the air to the air! This situation may not happen in the youth group game.

Chen Qiang, opposite, smiled slightly, and he knew why this happened.

The reflection angle of the top-spin ball after it lands is small, and the forward rushing force is relatively large, so offensive players prefer to pull the top-spin ball.

In the future, receiving top-spin balls is considered a basic skill for professional players. In this era, tennis players have never seen top-spin balls. They catch top-spin balls at normal receiving height and speed. Only when they can catch the ball will there be a ghost!
Chapter completed!