The fourth round of matchup has been released in the newspaper. Chen Qiang looked at the matchup and found his opponent in the next game.

"My next opponent is John Bromwich!"

Those who are not familiar with the Australian Open may not know John Bromwich, but for those who are familiar with the history of the Australian Open, they will definitely know John Bromwich.

John Bromwich has won two singles championships at the Australian Open, five singles runner-ups at the Australian Open and one singles runner-up at the Wimbledon. Judging from his results, he is a very outstanding singles player, but what people remember is his doubles.

In history, John Bromwich has won eight Australian Open men's doubles championships, one Australian Open mixed doubles championship, two Wimbledon men's doubles championships, two Wimbledon mixed doubles championships, three US Open men's doubles championships, and one US Open mixed doubles championship.

To sum up, John Bromwich won a total of 17 doubles championships in Grand Slam level events!

It is worth mentioning that in the 1939 Davis Cup, John Bromwich led the Australian team to defeat the powerful United States. At that time, the United States had already gained a 2-0 lead. John Bromwich first won a single game and then a double game, which eventually turned the tide and helped the Australian team overturn the powerful United States team.

In the US Open in 1938, John Bromwich was also considered the No. 1 seed of foreign players.

Chen Qiang only heard of John Bromwich's name and knew that he had more than a dozen Grand Slam doubles champions, but he didn't know about John Bromwich. Fortunately, the official introduction of such famous athletes has been given special introductions.

Chen Qiang quickly found an official introduction about John Bromwich. In the official introduction, in addition to being the No. 1 foreign seed, John Bromwich also has another title, which is "the world's No. 1 backhand".

"John Bromwich is actually one of the first players in the world who have two hands and backhanded." Chen Qiang couldn't help but frown when he saw this introduction.

In the 1930s, the technique of backhand gripping with two hands was indeed just emerging. Compared with one-hand backhand, backhand gripping with two hands has the characteristics of accurate, concealed, and powerful. For beginners, due to insufficient arm strength, they often use the technique of backhand when they first come into contact with tennis.

In the future, a large number of top outstanding tennis players will use the technique of holding backhands with both hands. For example, Nadal, Djokovic, among the male players, Sharapova, and Sister Na often use the technique of backhands with both hands.

The backhand of both hands may not have great advantages in the future. Federer's backhand is one-handed, and he can still dominate the tennis world. However, in the 1930s, tennis skills were not developed, and the advantages brought by backhanded by backhanded were particularly huge. Since John Bromwich was the first player in the world to use backhanded, his understanding of backhanded by backhanded was better than others, so his backhanded was even more difficult to deal with.

This can be seen from his name "the world's number one backhand".

And John Bromwich is also a left-handed player.

Left-handed players are born with advantages against right-handed players. Not only tennis, but also table tennis and badminton. Even in basketball, players who have left-handed dribbling are more difficult to defend.

Left-handed and backhanded, this is a perfect right-handed one-handed player.

As a Chinese, Chen Qiang is of course used to using his right hand. In this regard, Chen Qiang was restrained by John Bromwich.

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While Chen Qiang is studying John Bromwich, John Bromwich is also studying Chen Qiang's playing style.

In the fourth round of the US Open, there are only sixteen contestants left. At this time, the seed players will meet. Even if they are not seed players, those who can reach the fourth round still have the strength of the seed players. No matter how arrogant John Bromwich is, he will not underestimate the opponent in the fourth round. Even if this opponent is Chen Qiang, who is participating in a tennis game for the first time, John Bromwich still dare not take it lightly.

In terms of qualifications, Chen Qiang can only be regarded as a rookie in the tennis world, and he cannot have a lot of official introductions like a famous player. Therefore, for John Bromwich, understanding Chen Qiang's playing style has become a difficult task.

This is like encyclopedia Federer, the entry will introduce it in detail, and if Li Ergou is encyclopedia, he would know who he is!

John Bromwich had never watched Chen Qiang's game, and it was impossible to find videos of the game in this era. Although there were already film video recorders in the 1930s, no one would waste expensive films in the first few rounds of the game. Even if the game was recorded, the finals would be recorded.

So John Bromwich could only find Chen Qiang's previous opponent to understand the situation.

The first person John Bromwich found was Chen Qiang's opponent in the second round, Frank Parker, the seventh seed of Americans. He hopes to learn from Frank Parker's technical characteristics and playing style.

However, John Bromwich did not get the answer he wanted.

"That was the most frustrating game I've ever played in my life. I had a very difficult time scoring the whole game." Frank Parker said.

"Then how did you lose? Can you tell me more in detail?" John Bromwich asked.

"To be honest, I don't know how I lost yet." Frank Parker shook his head helplessly, and then continued: "I can't catch his serve in his serve, so I can't break the serve; and in my serve, he can catch my serve, but I can't catch him when he hits back, so I can't keep my serve, and I end up losing."

"What's the answer!" John Bromwich couldn't help but complain in his heart. He even felt that Frank Parker was deliberately perfunctory.

Then John Bromwich found Joseph Hunter again, who was Chen Qiang's third round opponent.

"I don't know what's going on, but his ball is weird and difficult to catch." Joseph Hunter said.

"Is it fast? Or is it very powerful? Or is it very tricky to land?" John Bromwich asked.

"Sometimes it's a bit tricky, but I think it's more appropriate to describe it as 'precision'. As for speed and strength, it's really hard to describe it in words. I think you can experience what I'm talking about by comparing him in person." Joseph Hunter answered.

Before leaving, Joseph Hunter added: "By the way, I'll remind you that the interception on the Internet may not work for Chen Qiang, and he caught my interception."

"What? He can catch the interception!" John Bromwich was shocked. For him, this information may be his biggest gain today.

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The fourth round of the US Open.

The first game was Chen Qiang's serve, and John Bromwich finally realized what Frank Parker called "weird". Faced with Chen Qiang's serve, John Bromwich was very uncomfortable. Even if he had the world's number one backhand, it was still difficult to make a quality serve. So Chen Qiang won the first game without any suspense.

The next second game was John Bromwich's serve, which made Chen Qiang lose points continuously when he unexpectedly, but John Bromwich saved the serve.

Although John Bromwich is left-handed, he serves with his right hand, which Chen Qiang did not expect before the game.

Under normal circumstances, left-handed players will definitely serve with their left hand, so that the quality of the ball will be high. However, John Bromwich did the opposite. He specially practiced serving with his right hand. In this way, he was the same as a normal right-hand player when serving. However, after serving, he used his good left hand to put pressure on his opponent, which could just cause the suppression of the strong against the weak.

Chen Qiang was not used to this style of play. Not only Chen Qiang, but other players who played against John Bromwich for the first time were not used to it.

Chen Qiang finally lost his first game in the US Open, and the first set between the two sides was tied 1-1.

In Chen Qiang's serve, John Bromwich still found a way to deal with the top spun. Chen Qiang scored another point and the score became 2-1.

After that, John Bromwich's serve, Chen Qiang failed to break the serve, allowing John Bromwich to keep the serve, and the score in the first four games was 2-2.

In the fifth game, Chen Qiang was very lucky and sent two ace balls, directly extinguishing John Bromwich's hope of breaking the service. The score came 3-2, and then John Bromwich's serve.

According to the previous trend, this game should be John Bromwich successfully retained his serve and the score was tied again.

However, Chen Qiang changed his strategy. He chose a more radical style of playing, used frequent online interception to grab the initiative, and then used a top-spin ball to break the deadlock.

Chen Qiang successfully broke the serve, and the score in the first set became 4-2, and then Chen Qiang saved his serve, making the score 5-2.

John Bromwich, who was behind three games, seemed a little anxious. If he wanted to drag the game into the long set, he had to win three games in a row.

John Bromwich, who was anxious to eat hot tofu, made two mistakes, and Chen Qiang also seized these two mistakes and successfully won the game.

The score of the first set of both sides was frozen at 6 to 2.

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The game entered a short break, and Chen Qiang calmed down and began to think about countermeasures.

Left-handed players, right-handed serves, and backhanded with both hands is indeed quite difficult for players of this era. Ordinary players may not be able to find a solution for several days or nights.

But Chen Qiang has decades of leading sports knowledge and experience. After all, he filtered it in his mind and found a way to deal with John Bromwich.

After the second set began, John Bromwich suddenly realized that his serve seemed to be no threat, or Chen Qiang's quality of receiving serves improved a lot.

In this set, John Bromwich only won one game, and the score was finally frozen at 6-1.

In the third set, Chen Qiang directly scored five points in a row and gave John Bromwich a 5-0 start.

At this time, John Bromwich realized that the situation was hopeless!

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"US Tennis Championship: Foreign No. 1 seed was eliminated!"

Such titles appeared on the sports boards of major newspapers the next day.

As the No. 1 foreign seed, John Bromwich was eliminated in the fourth round, which surprised many people. Although the strength of foreign players is not as good as that of American players in the US Open, how can he be as the No. 1 foreign seed, he must enter the quarterfinals?

Many Americans are also very happy to see this title. They feel that the foreign No. 1 seeds have been eliminated, so who can stop the Americans from winning the championship!

At the same time, the organizers of the US Open also announced the list of the quarterfinals, including six Americans, one Australian, and one Chen Qiang.

This is Chen Qiang's first time participating in a US Open competition. He was able to enter the quarterfinals, which really surprised everyone.

Especially the organizer of the American Tennis Association, they asked Chen Qiang to participate in the competition, originally to use Chen Qiang's fame to attract some attention, but they did not expect to find a real thigh.

Moreover, after the grouping of the quarterfinals was announced, people suddenly discovered that Chen Qiang had a great chance to advance to the quarterfinals!

Among the players who advanced to the quarterfinals, only two people did not advance as seeds. One was Chen Qiang, and the other happened to be Chen Qiang's opponent in the quarterfinals. His name is Constantine Marco.

In other words, Chen Qiang will face a non-seed player in the quarterfinals, and the strength of the non-seed player is definitely weaker, so the probability of Chen Qiang advancing to the semi-finals has also increased significantly.

Although Constantine Marco was an American, he was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father was an artist. After the end of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated. Constantine Marco's father took his whole family to leave Hungary, first to Italy, then to Argentina, and finally to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. Constantine Marco also obtained American nationality.

Constantine Marco once won the doubles championship at the US Open in 1936, the doubles championship at the Wimbledon in 1937 and 1938. He also represented the US team in the Davis Cup four times, but they played doubles. In 1938, Constantine Marco ranked tenth in the United States in singles. Since there were only eight American seeds, Constantine Marco was not a seed player.

In addition to being a tennis player, Constantine Marco is also a wrestler and is qualified as an international wrestling referee. He is also a basketball player. In 1939, he was suspended from the US Tennis Association for accepting a £200 prize in violation of regulations, so he went to play professional basketball. It was not until World War II that Constantine Marco joined the US Navy to continue playing tennis.

In addition, Constantine Marco is also a well-known artist. He has performed in musicals, films, broadcasters, and even has a gallery in Los Angeles.

As an athlete, an artist, and a military service obligation to be fulfilled by the army, Constantine Marco is simply a good young man with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor!

Among the American tennis players, there are many people who have a wide range of hobbies, proficient in multiple sports, or have extraordinary achievements in other fields. However, people's energy is limited, they play tennis, wrestling, basketball, painting, and performance. This is destined that Constantine Marco cannot be proficient in everything, or wrestling, basketball, painting and performance. Constantine Marco's energy in tennis has been separated, which has also led to him being unable to make breakthroughs in tennis singles.

Facing such a half-hearted player, Chen Qiang won easily. Frank Parker, the seventh seed of the US Open, had no power to fight back in front of Chen Qiang, not to mention Constantine Marco, the tenth in the United States!

After defeating Constantine Marco, Chen Qiang advanced to the semi-finals of the US Open.

Chen Qiang's next opponent is Australian Adrian Quest, who is also a legendary tennis player.

In the history of the Australian Open, the player who won the most men's singles championships is Djokovic, who is familiar with him. He has won 7 Australian Open men's singles championships, followed by Federer's 6 championships.

The person who won the most Australian Open championships is Adrian Quest. In his career, he has won a total of 13 Australian Open championships (3 singles and ten doubles), and he is the well-deserved overlord of the Australian Open!
Chapter completed!