Chen Qiang was once the champion of the US Open. After five years, he naturally attracted much attention. However, what people pay more attention to is his identity as a millionaire.

After all, the United States is a capital society. In the entire 20th century, class solidification was not as serious as the future. The "American Dream" is something that often happens around Americans. Americans in this era have an exceptional yearning for "creating wealth", and ordinary Americans are also full of interest in millionaires.

If the United States in later generations were definitely not like this, entertainment is what ordinary people care about. The gossip of celebrities and artists is far more attractive to people's attention than Buffett's investment advice.

More than a dozen reporters surrounded Chen Qiang.

"Mr. Chen, why did you sign up for this US Open competition?"

"Mr. Chen, as a millionaire, are you participating in the US Open for interest or to challenge yourself?"

"Mr. Chen, did you leave any regrets behind when you participated in the US Open last time? I want to make up for it this time?"

Facing the large number of reporters in front of him, Chen Qiang calmly took out his tennis racket.

"Please see, this is why I participated in this US Open!" Chen Qiang said, pointing to the tennis racket in his hand.

“Tennis racket?”

"Mr. Chen, is this tennis racket different?"

"What special meaning does this tennis racket represent?"

The reporters asked again.

"This is a newly developed tennis racket. This tennis racket uses artificial sheep intestine thread to replace natural sheep intestine thread. The artificial sheep intestine thread uses nylon as the main raw material, which has good toughness and is also very wear-resistant..." Chen Qiang began to introduce it endlessly.

At this time, Chen Qiang was like a salesman, selling his tennis racket in front of a group of reporters.

When it comes to selling products, Chen Qiang is very familiar with it. When he was in China, he sold milk powder at the National Games and later sold medicine at the temple fair. Now he is very familiar with it in selling tennis rackets.

After a while, Chen Qiang introduced his tennis racket, but the reporters looked at each other.

Finally, a reporter asked, "Mr. Chen, are you selling this kind of tennis racket?"

"Of course not." Chen Qiang shook his head: "Do you look like I'm selling tennis rackets?"

Although no one of the reporters nodded, their expressions were obviously saying that you are here to sell tennis rackets.

Chen Qiang shook the racket in his hand and continued: "Actually, my real purpose is to promote tennis."

"Promote tennis?" Everyone looked at each other again.

Chen Qiang continued: "As we all know, tennis has always been known as a noble sport, and the cost of engaging in tennis is very high. The most important cost is tennis rackets. The current price of tennis rackets is too expensive. It is probably very difficult for ordinary families to buy tennis rackets. Dear journalists can also calculate how many tennis rackets can you buy for your monthly salary?"

The reporters thought about it carefully and found that what Chen Qiang said was really that way. The price of tennis rackets with natural sheep intestine lines was too expensive. Judging from the salary of these reporters, tennis rackets are indeed a luxury.

Chen Qiang continued: "The new tennis racket in my hand is only one-third of the price of other tennis rackets. Even ordinary blue-collar workers, buying a new tennis racket is not a burden. This means that tennis is no longer an affordable sport for wealthy people. Even if your family is not very wealthy, even if your income is only ordinary working class, you can participate in tennis. Imagine that children in ordinary public schools can play tennis like children in private schools. In a few years, tennis will become a national sport!"

Chen Qiang looked so righteous that he really infected many reporters on the scene. These reporters who came to the US Open interview were professional sports reporters, and many of them were even athletes. They had a congenital obsession with the promotion of sports, so when Chen Qiang mentioned promoting tennis, these reporters also felt excited.

Chen Qiang continued: "Now, people don't know about this new tennis racket, and they are skeptical about the artificial sheep intestine thread used in this tennis racket. They believe that the artificial sheep intestine thread must be less than the natural sheep intestine thread, so they don't trust this new tennis racket. The purpose of my visit to the US Open this time is to prove that this new tennis racket is not worse than the traditional tennis racket. At this US Open competition, I will use this new tennis racket throughout the whole process. I think my results can definitely prove the effect of this new tennis racket!"

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The US Open competition has not yet begun, and Chen Qiang took the lead in promoting a new wave of tennis rackets.

Due to the lack of big-name athletes in the US Open competition during World War II, Chen Qiang has become a hot topic in the eyes of the media. Whether it is the former US Open champion or the identity of a millionaire, it is quite topical. For ordinary people, why Chen Qiang came to participate in the US Open is indeed a very puzzling question.

For the sake of fame, Chen Qiang had won the US Open championship a few years ago. For the sake of profit, Chen Qiang, a millionaire, would not care about the bonus of the US Open championship. People really can't understand why Chen Qiang appeared on the US Open field.

Now the news media reported that Chen Qiang came to participate in this US Open competition in order to promote tennis, which immediately answered people's doubts. At the same time, the new tennis racket mentioned by Chen Qiang also attracted the attention of many people.

Luxury goods have always been something that ordinary people yearn for. Luxury cars, watches, and high-end bags are not only popular with rich people, but also like them. However, ordinary people cannot afford those expensive luxury goods, so they can only sigh. But if ordinary people become rich, they will not be satisfied with the simple life they used to be. Luxury cars and watches must be matched with them.

The same is true for sports. For example, golf is expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it, but it does not mean that ordinary people don’t want to play a few poles; racing is really expensive, and ordinary people may not be able to afford racing. However, there are many people who spend more than 100,000 yuan to buy a small steel cannon and then modify it to race.

Although the aristocratic movement is admired by ordinary people, it is also yearn for ordinary people. Many ordinary people even take pride in participating in the aristocratic movement and think it is very respectful to participate in the aristocratic movement.

In this era, tennis is a noble sport that ordinary people cannot afford. Now Chen Qiang claims that it is necessary to make ordinary people afford tennis, which will certainly attract the attention of the general public. This is like one day BMW announced that the entire series will be sold at a 30% discount, one third-series landed on 100,000 yuan, one fifth-series can be bought within 200,000 yuan, and one seven-series can be bought for more than 300,000 yuan. If this is true, no matter whether you buy it or not, you will definitely pay attention to it first.

With this wave of public attention, Chen Qiang instantly became the focus of both inside and outside the court. Even many people who don’t usually pay attention to tennis have paid attention to Chen Qiang’s news.

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As the organizer of the US Open, the American Tennis Association also learned at the first time that Chen Qiang wanted to vigorously promote tennis.

There are many well-informed people in the American Tennis Association. They know that Chen Qiang has created a new type of tennis racket, so the so-called promotion of tennis is actually to sell new type of rackets. But even if he knows Chen Qiang well, the American Tennis Association still shows strong support for Chen Qiang.

The American Tennis Association is more urgent than Chen Qiang for the promotion of tennis, or the American Tennis Association hopes that tennis can become a sport for the general public.

In order to sell tennis rackets, Chen Qiang had to promote tennis. Even if he failed, he would lose a lot of money at most, and would not even hurt his bones. However, for the American Tennis Association, whether it can promote tennis smoothly is related to the survival of the American Tennis Association. If tennis becomes more and more niche and fewer people engage in tennis, the American Tennis Association will become weaker and weaker, and will eventually gradually fade. Therefore, the American Tennis Association is very happy to see someone promoting tennis, and hope that more and more people will participate in tennis.

Senior executives of the American Tennis Association also know that the reason why tennis cannot be popularized is because the cost of making tennis rackets is too high. The expensive natural sheep intestine thread is not affordable for ordinary people. They also hope to have a cheap alternative to natural sheep intestine thread.

In the future, organizations such as the Tennis Association are constantly encouraging the development of new tennis lines to reduce the cost of making tennis rackets and increase the fun of tennis sports. In history, artificial goat intestine lines were supported by major tennis organizations when they were first used. While the nylon process was constantly improving, they also invented tennis lines such as Kevilla strings and polyester strings. Some players even mixed different tennis lines together, and the International Tennis Association has always given the green light.

In addition to the American Tennis Association, those tennis promoters and school tennis coaches have also become interested in new tennis rackets. A cheaper tennis racket can allow more ordinary people to participate in tennis. The level of mass participation in tennis is precisely related to the jobs of tennis promoters and grassroots tennis coaches.

There are many people who are interested in new tennis rackets, but most people are still skeptical. People instinctively resist and distrust new things. For example, when mobile payment first appeared, almost everyone would question the security of mobile payment, and they were worried that their money would disappear. Now even beggars would have to hang a QR code to collect money.

The same is true for new tennis rackets. Although Chen Qiang is vigorously praising the new tennis rackets, it still cannot dispel people's doubts. Instead, as more and more people pay attention, more and more doubts are also increasing.

Faced with this situation, the only thing Chen Qiang can do is to use the game results to prove that the new type of tennis rackets is not worse than traditional tennis rackets.

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It's finally time for the official competition.

Chen Qiang's first opponent is Everett, a tennis player that Chen Qiang had never heard of.

In fact, Chen Qiang only knows two of the 31 contestants besides Chen Qiang, one is Frank Parker. In the US Open match five years ago, Frank Parker was once the opponent Chen Qiang met in the second round, and the other was Edwood Cook. He also participated in the US Open five years ago and reached the top 32, but he did not fight with Chen Qiang at that time.

As for the other contestants, even those who are more famous, Chen Qiang has only heard of their names and has not had any substantial intersections with them.

Five years ago, Chen Qiang's opponents when he participated in the US Open, retired, and joined the army. The masters of that year did not appear in the US Open in 1943. For example, the legendary tennis player Tang Boogie, who Chen Qiang met in the final, participated in the US Air Force in 1942, and tore his shoulder muscles in a training session, causing his condition to decline greatly. He has never won a Grand Slam singles championship since then.

Although Chen Qiang did not know this opponent named "Everett", Everett knew Chen Qiang. Before the game started, Everett came to find Chen Qiang to get close to him and even came to Chen Qiang with a tennis ball to sign.

For these new generation of tennis players, Chen Qiang, the former US Open champion, is definitely the object of worship in their hearts.

In the pre-match prediction, almost all professionals believed that even if Chen Qiang had only 60% or 70% of his strength, he could easily defeat Everett.

In fact, everyone understands that the level of tennis players is far worse than that of the US Open five years ago, and the overall level of the US Open has also dropped significantly compared to that of five years ago. Five years ago, there were world-class experts like Don Boogie and John Bromwich. They must have grades and fame. However, in the end, these experts have become stepping stones on Chen Qiang's road to winning the championship. There are no top experts like Don Boogie or John Bromwich in the tennis world today. Even if Chen Qiang's strength has declined, he will be like a devil in this year's US Open.

In the end, Chen Qiang easily defeated Everett with two 6-0 and advanced to the semi-finals.

This result was not surprising to people. After all, Chen Qiang was once the US Open champion, and he was also a US Open champion with a high value. He came to a relatively low-level US Open competition and could not stop in the first round.

Chen Qiang has made sufficient preparations for this US Open competition. He has not used training space for a long time. He has started training again for this US Open.

Chen Qiang has lived a leisurely life for several years and his physical fitness is much worse than five years ago. Due to his age, his tennis strength has deteriorated a lot compared to five years ago. If he was allowed to play the US Open five years ago, his road to winning the championship would probably not be so smooth.

Fortunately, the opponents of this US Open are much weaker than those five years ago. The so-called top 32 players are not as good as those of the top 64 players back then. In addition, Chen Qiang's tennis skills beyond this era, it is still easy to win.

This unknown opponent in the first round was not even an appetizer for Chen Qiang, and it was impossible to test Chen Qiang's true strength. In the next sixteen to eight games, Chen Qiang met an opponent with some strength, and this person was one of the two players Chen Qiang knew.

He is Elwood Cook.

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Chapter completed!