Chen Qiang looked at the matchup, and his opponent in the second round was Frank Parker.

"I seem to have some impression of this name. Among the historical materials about tennis I have read before, this name is on the list of previous US Open champions. He seems to be a legendary tennis player!"

Want to call here, Chen Qiang decided to check the origin of Frank Parker.

If you don’t check it, you will be shocked. This Frank Parker is actually the seventh American seed of this year’s US Open!

In the future, the four Grand Slam competitions will be listed by the world rankings, and when the seeds are grouped, the seeds will be separated, and the seeds will not meet before the top 32 competitions.

For example, the No. 1 seed and No. 2 seed will be divided into the upper and lower half of the zone, which means that the two will meet only in the finals. There was a time when Federer had long been ranked first in the world, while Nadal had long been ranked second in the world. So during that period, almost all tennis matches were played to the finals, which was a contest between Federer and Nadal.

In 1938, the US Open could not even get 128 contestants, so naturally there were no 32 seed players. In this era, the US Open was not an open tournament, but an American Tennis Championship, so the seed players were divided into American seeds and foreign seeds.

All American seed players are Americans, while foreign seed players are outside the United States. There are 8 American seeds and foreign seeds, so there are 16 seed players in total. However, American seeds and foreign seeds are ranked separately, which means that there are No. 1 to No. 8 seeds when selecting numbers in the United States, and there are No. 1 to No. 8 seeds among foreign players.

"Frank Parker is actually the No. 7 seed of American players. Although the seed players of this era are not very valuable, since they can become seed players, their strength should not be underestimated." Chen Qiang said in his heart.

Then Chen Qiang wanted to check whether Frank Parker's first round had begun. If it didn't start, Chen Qiang planned to watch Frank Parker's game and know himself and his enemy.

However, Chen Qiang looked at the matchup again and found that in the first round of the US Open, Frank Parker took a bye.

Since there are less than 128 contestants, there will inevitably be many people in the first round of the competition, so they don’t have to play in the first round, and they will advance to the top 64 directly and start from the second round.

Of course, seed players have to enjoy this kind of direct promotion treatment, not to mention that American seed players will naturally receive special treatment.

From this matchup arrangement, Frank Parker was also treated with special preferential treatment. He was bye in the first round, and the opponents in the second round were Chen Qiang and Lanas, which was like a walk to the third round.

This is Chen Qiang's first time participating in a tennis match. Although his strength is unknown, he has never proved himself in the tennis court. Lanas is a rookie among American players, and he will definitely not be able to beat Frank Parker. So whether it is Chen Qiang or Lanas' promotion, Frank Parker picked up a soft persimmon.

"Frank Parker is waiting for his work, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, I didn't waste my energy in today's game. I just relied on serving and receiving the serve, so I won the game." Chen Qiang decided to go back early to rest, to maintain my energy, and to deal with this American No. 7 seed Frank Parker.

...

Frank Parker is two years younger than Chen Qiang. He grew up in Milwaukee. He was discovered by coaches of a tennis club in Milwaukee at the age of 10 and began to practice tennis. He won the national championship in the U.S. Indoor Championship Junior Group at the age of 12. At the age of 15, he won his first men's singles championship, and at the age of 16, he won the singles championship in the Canadian National Championship. He can be said to be a tennis genius boy in the United States.

However, Frank Parker's golden age began in 1944. At that time, Frank Parker, 28, entered his peak period. In 2018, he won the US Open championship for two consecutive years, and won the French Open championship for two consecutive years, becoming one of the few American players who can win the French Open championship.

At the same time, he also won a US Open doubles championship, two US Open doubles runner-up, one French Open doubles champion and one Wimbledon doubles champion.

Four Grand Slam singles champions and three Grand Slam doubles champions, together, are considered seven Grand Slams. Such results are amazing in professional tennis. It is precisely because Frank Parker's performance is very outstanding that he can be famous in history, and Chen Qiang will also see his name in future records.

It is worth mentioning that after tennis entered the Open era in 1968, Frank Parker also participated in the US Open. He was 52 years old at the time and was the oldest player in history to participate in the US Open Open. At the same time, he was also the longest player in the history of Grand Slam singles. It took him 36 years from Frank Parker's first participation in the US Open in 1932 to his last participation in the US Open in 1968.

It can be said that Frank Parker can be regarded as a legendary player in tennis. In the future, he was successfully inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and also entered the American Sports Hall of Fame.

However, in 1938, Frank Parker did not have such dominance. The reason why he was able to be qualified as an American seed player was because he represented the American team in the Davis Cup in 1937 and won a victory in the game, so he was qualified as a US Open. Moreover, from the position of the No. 7 seed, there are many American players who are better than Frank Parker.

...

Frank Parker did not go to watch the first round of the game. For this 22-year-old, the bustling New York City is fatal. His hometown Milwaukee is an agricultural city, and New York is the most prosperous place in the world, with too much entertainment here. Frank Parker would rather go to the sensation and sex than waste his time watching the game. As the seventh seed of the US Open, going to the bar can indeed attract many young and beautiful girls.

What's more, Frank Parker feels that as the seventh American seed, he needs to at least reach the fourth round before he can meet other seed players. It's still the second round now, and his opponent must be a weak man. He won't be able to win the game, so he doesn't need to pay special attention at all.

In the morning, Frank Parker woke up from a hangover and looked at the wall clock. It was already past ten o'clock.

After washing up, Frank Parker changed his clothes and came to the hotel restaurant. Since it was not yet time to eat, Frank Parker just asked for a cup of coffee, then picked up a "US Open Daily" and read it carefully.

In the future, the real-time match status and related news of the four Grand Slams can be found through the homepage of their websites, such as major sports portals, and there will be related reports and comments from professionals. However, in the 1930s, there was no Internet or TV news, so the organizers of the US Open would specially print a newspaper to print the day's match status, tomorrow's match, and some other news on it as a channel for publishing information.

This is also equivalent to a newspaper on the US Open. Athletes and audiences can use this newspaper to understand the latest situation on the US Open. Of course, since this newspaper was printed after the competition that day, many people can only see this newspaper the next day. The "latest situation" they know is actually the information from yesterday.

"The second round of the game will start today. My game should be tomorrow, and see who the next opponent is." Frank Parker glanced at the second round of the game.

"Chen Qiang? Chinese? I remembered that the newspaper said that he was the world's number one athlete! It is said that he has maintained several world records in track and field athletes, such as the fastest running in the world, the highest jumper in the world, and the farthest jumper in the world... The organizers of the US Open seemed to be hyping him up for the competition. I didn't expect that a track and field athlete could enter the second round of the US Open. With his outstanding physical fitness and proficiency in multiple sports, maybe he has some strength in tennis!"

Frank Parker was still calm and he found Chen Qiang's first round opponent.

"Chen Qiang defeated Lanas and advanced to the second round. Who is Lanas? He is still an American player, but I have never heard of this name! Is he a newcomer?" Frank Parker said to himself.

I have to say that Lanas is really a very skilled player. As a professional American player, Frank Parker has never heard of his name. Obviously, Lanas has never achieved decent results and has never participated in high-level events.

Then Frank Parker looked at the score again, and he wanted to judge Chen Qiang's strength through the score.

"Lanas abstained before the first set was finished? What's the situation? Even if he is not as skilled as a human, he has to finish the first game! Did he retreat from the injury in the middle?"

"The above did not say that Lanas was injured. Could it be that he was taking the initiative to abstain? The score in the first set was 4-0, which was a four-game losing streak, which means that he was broken in two consecutive serves. It was probably because his mentality was unbalanced, so he took the initiative to abstain!"

"I can't stand it if I'm broken two serving games. Such psychological qualities are really not suitable for playing in the National Tennis Championships. Having said that, I was beaten 4-0 at the beginning of the game. This Lanas is really weak!"

Frank Parker, like everyone else, thought that the reason why Lanas lost to Chen Qiang was not because Chen Qiang was too powerful, but because Lanas was too weak!

...

The next day, the showdown between Chen Qiang and Frank Parker officially began.

Frank Parker looks very casual, and he obviously doesn't take Chen Qiang seriously. As the No. 7 seed of the United States, Frank Parker has the capital to be arrogant. After all, there are only sixteen seed players in total. Those who can rank in the top 16 can be said to be the top 16.

In fact, Frank Parker's ranking should be higher, because at the US Open at that time, the strength of American seed players was better than that of foreign seed players.

The US Open is far away from Europe. In that era of underdeveloped transportation, many first-class European players would not come to the United States to participate in the US Open. Not to mention the time spent on one go, the prize money for the game may not be enough to travel. The first-class American players will not miss the US local games. It is precisely for this reason that in the US Open games, foreign players were generally weak, while American players were all strong. As one went up and down, American players should be even more powerful in the US Open games.

Therefore, Frank Parker's No. 7 American seed should be able to rank in the top ten among the 16 race players, so of course he can underestimate Chen Qiang.

Unlike Frank Parker, Chen Qiang has a solemn expression on his face.

Although Chen Qiang can't remember the US Open champion in which year Frank Parker was, since the opponent will become a legendary athlete in the future, Chen Qiang dared not take it lightly. Who hasn't won several Grand Slams if he can become a legendary tennis player?

So at the beginning of the game, Chen Qiang decided to do his best.

...

The first game ended, and Frank Parker's expression was a little embarrassed. This was his serve, but Chen Qiang successfully broke the serve.

In Frank Parker's career, it is also common for him to be broken by his opponent, but he was broken in the first game, which made Frank Parker feel very embarrassed.

More importantly, Frank Parker could feel that he was completely passive in this game.

It is said that this is Frank Parker's serve, and he should have a better advantage, but the result is just the opposite. Chen Qiang can always use the serve reception to passively as active, while Frank Parker, the serve, is always in a passive situation of being beaten.

Moreover, Frank Parker could clearly feel that his serve did not pose any threat to Chen Qiang.

"My serve shouldn't be so bad, why did Chen Qiang catch it so easily? And his serve is so strange. The impact of the ball is very strong and the bounce height is very low. It's so difficult to catch this kind of ball!"

Frank Parker's strength is indeed much higher than Lanas. Facing Chen Qiang's top-spin ball, Lanas couldn't catch it directly, but Frank Parker could catch the top-spin ball and hit the ball back to Chen Qiang's half.

But Frank Parker could not control the ball's landing point, which means that although he could complete the catch, the ball's landing point was completely resigned to fate, and this kind of return was completely without quality.

In tennis, a return without quality is similar to a score. So every return of Frank Parker is more like giving Chen Qiang points. In the first game between the two sides, Frank Parker also failed to score a point and was shaved to a bald head by Chen Qiang.

...

The second game was Chen Qiang's serve, and he used the top-spin serve.

Although Frank Parker's strength is much higher than Lanas, he still cannot adapt to this top-spin. After a few rounds, either Frank Parker could not receive Chen Qiang's serve; or although he received the serve, the quality of receiving the serve was very bad, so Chen Qiang did not score easily.

In Chen Qiang's serve, Frank Parker failed to score another point.

For Frank Parker, the game seemed to be in a dead cycle. In the serve, Frank Parker's serve was not threatening, but when he needed to catch the ball, he could not play a quality reception.

...

"30 to 15!" the referee said.

Frank Parker breathed a sigh of relief, and he had the urge to cry.

The game reached the fourth inning and Frank Parker finally scored for the first time!

However, this time the score was not due to Frank Parker himself, but because Chen Qiang wanted to serve the ace too much, and he made a double-shot mistake!

This time the score was given by Chen Qiang for free, so Frank Parker was not happy after the score. Not only did he not have a smile on his face, he wanted to cry.

The score depends entirely on the opponent's sending, how can I play this ball?

At this moment, Frank Parker had the urge to abstain.

Suddenly, Frank Parker thought of the Lanas who had abstained after four games, and the game was now in the fourth game.

Frank Parker finally understood why Lanas took the initiative to abstain from the fourth game. Such a game is really a painful torture!
Chapter completed!