In a bar in a bustling area of ​​New York, several Australian players are gathering together and enjoying a happy time.

Australia in this era is still a remote countryside. For Australian players, coming to New York is like a rural boy entering the city, which is dazzling! The bustling New York is full of fatal attraction for these young people, making them linger. At this time, none of these Australian players want to return home. They all hope to stay in New York for a longer period of time and enjoy life in New York.

The Australian players were already excited, and there was only one person who didn't have crazy fun. He sat quietly in the corner alone, posing a glass of wine in front of him, and smoking with his head down.

This person is Adrian Quest, who won 13 Australian Open championships in his career.

Adrian Quest's father is a cricketer. After retiring, he opened a sporting goods store. Adrian Quest is engaged in tennis and is also influenced by his father.

Adrian Quest in 1938 is already the most famous player in Australia. He won the men's singles championship at the Australian Open in 1936, and won the Australian Open doubles championship for four consecutive years from 1935 to 1938. This time he came to participate in the US Open and signed up for both singles and doubles events.

Adrian Quest's doubles partner is John Bromwich, the "world's No. 1 backhand" that lost to Chen Qiang in the fourth round.

Adrian Quest sat alone in the corner of the bar and waited for a long time. John Bromwich finally finished having fun. He came to Adrian Quest's table with a little drunkenness.

"John, do you think I can defeat that Chinese?" Adrian Quest asked.

"Do you want to hear the truth or the lies?" John Bromwich smiled and continued, "Okay, I won't joke with you anymore. I don't think you can win him! If you can get a set from him, it's already a good result."

"That Chinese is really so strong?" Adrian Quest asked unwillingly.

John Bromwich nodded and continued, "I feel like the tennis he played is not the same sport as the tennis we played. How can I say it is really hard to describe it in words. In short, I will be passive and then lose."

"Is this the same thing in your serve?" Adrian Quest asked again.

"Yes, I think this is exactly the scary thing about the Chinese. Even in my serve, he can get an advantage by receiving serves." John Bromwich said.

"What you said is incredible. If you were not my partner, I would never believe you." Adrian Quest replied.

"In fact, if it weren't for the Chinese 0-3, I wouldn't believe what I said." John Bromwich said.

Adrian Quest sighed: "If I can't defeat that Chinese, I will not be able to reach the finals and I will not be able to seek revenge on Don Boogie."

At the Australian Open in 1938, American player Don Boogie won the championship. Before that, the Australian Open championship was monopolized by local Australian players. Therefore, in this US Open competition, Australian players had two goals. One was to defeat American player Don Boogie and avenge the Australian Open's revenge at the beginning of the year, and the other was to win the US Open championship, which was equivalent to replicating the experience of American athletes winning the championship at the Australian Open.

The American player Don Boogie also entered the semi-finals and was assigned to another group, so he was only able to meet Adrian Quest when he reached the finals.

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On the other hand, Chen Qiang is also preparing for a game with Adrian Quest.

Chen Qiang knew that Adrian Quest was a legendary tennis player and the person who won the most Australian Open championships in history.

With the future development trend of tennis, it is almost impossible to break Adrian Quest's record of 13 Australian Open championships. In the future, singles and doubles have been strictly distinguished. Among the Grand Slam champion players, singles and doubles are incompatible. If you rely solely on singles or doubles, it is impossible for tennis players to win 13 Australian Open championships in their careers. (ps: Nadal has won 12 French Open men's singles championships. If you work hard next year, you may be able to achieve it.)

Chen Qiang also knew that in this era, the Australian Open championship title was relatively low.

The Australian Open will also be the last in the future for the four Grand Slams, but at least it is the four Grand Slam level events, and the prize money is also quite large, so no player will refuse the Australian Open game.

In the 1930s, due to transportation, overall competition environment, game bonuses and the limitations of Australia's geographical location, the Australian Open was almost just an Australian game, and players from other countries rarely participated in the Australian Open. Therefore, the Australian Open champion was at best the Australian local champion.

In the future, bringing Australian players together and then deciding a champion will be much worse than those tennis kings.

Originally, Australia planned to promote the Australian Open into an international event, but it happened to encounter the Great Depression. After the Great Depression, the United States and Germany were the first to come out of the Great Depression. In the Australian Open in the late 1930s, there were players from the United States and Germany participating. By the end of the 1930s, European games were flooded and the Australian Open became the Australian own game. From 1941 to 1945, the Australian Open was suspended for five years due to World War II.

In the 1930s, the US Open could not gather 128 contestants, and in the remote area of ​​Australia, there were so many players. At the Australian Open in 1938, there were only more than 40 men's singles contestants, including American and German players.

There are only more than 40 players in singles, and even fewer people have doubles. For competitions like the Australian Open, basically registering for doubles is the quarterfinals. In this way, Adrian Quest's 10 Australian Open doubles champions are actually not very valuable.

In general, although Adrian Quest held 13 Australian Open championships, it sounded quite intimidating, but considering that the Australian Open level in that era was not very good, the value of his 13 championships may not be as valuable as the value of the future Atp250 level competition. After all, there are many first-class international athletes participating in the Atp250 level competition, and the Australian Open in the 1930s basically played by Australians.

With the small population of Australia, I really can't play any tricks when I play my own.

In the future, Australians' basketball will be very good, and they will rely on a large number of players who play in the NBA. If it is just players in the Australian local league, the Australian team will not reach the second-rate level in Europe.

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The US Open competition has been at the main venue since the quarterfinals, which can accommodate more than 14,000 spectators. Even if it is placed in the future, it is a top-level venue. The main tennis court of the Olympics in the future can accommodate about 10,000 people, and many of them are not as good as this main venue.

The annual US Tennis Championship has attracted the attention of all New Yorkers to the West Tennis Club on Forest Mountain, with the stands full.

After all, there were not so many entertainment projects in that era, so sports competitions became an important entertainment activity for the people of New York. At that time, many professional teams also appeared in New York, such as the Brooklyn Dodgers, the New York Giants, the New York Yankees, the New York Rangers, the Long Island Blackbirds Basketball Team, etc.

This game is Chen Qiang against Adrian Quest. Although neither of them are American players, the audience does not care about these things. They just want to see a wonderful game.

(20,000 words are omitted in the competition process...)

At the athlete's passage, American player Don Boogie is standing there to watch the game.

In the semi-finals of the last game, Don Boogie defeated his compatriots and entered the finals first. Therefore, the winner between Chen Qiang and Adrian Quest will be Don Boogie's opponent in the finals. Therefore, of course Don Boogie has to watch this game and learn about the opponent's strength.

Tang Buji still has some understanding of Adrian Quest's strength. At the Australian Open at the beginning of the year, the two had a fight. However, Tang Buji was very unfamiliar with Chen Qiang. Therefore, the main target of Tang Buji's viewing game was also Chen Qiang.

"How could the gap be so big!" Tang Booji showed a hint of worry on his expression.

"Adrian Quest is going to lose, and he loses the game without any fighting back. Such a huge gap should not appear in the semi-finals of the US Open."

Tang Buji took a deep breath. Although his semi-final swept the opponent 3-0, the process was still very dangerous. One set was played for a full 20 games, and in the end, Tang Buji defeated his opponent 11-9.

Chen Qiang beat Adrian Quest, and no set would exceed 10 games. The scores in the three sets were 6-3, 6-2 and 6-1 respectively. Adrian Quest had a little chance of fighting back in the first set, but in the third set, he had almost no power to fight back.

"I have fought with Adrian Quest, he shouldn't be so weak. How could he be completely beaten when facing this Chinese?" Tang Boogie looked at the field. He looked at the field for a long time but couldn't understand why the score gap was so big.

Although Tang Buji was the best tennis player of that era, the limitations of the times made him unable to understand Chen Qiang's skills and playing style.

In fact, the best players of that era can only be considered an amateur player in later generations. If an ordinary amateur player was asked to watch professional players play, he would probably only be able to see the basics, and he would not understand the core things.

By the way, in the future, the long-distance decisive system will be adopted only in the decisive set, that is, the final decisive set. After the score reaches 6-6, whoever leads two games will win. If it is not the final decisive set, you only need to play a tiebreaker.

In the 1930s, the US Open had to play a long-distance win in both the decisive sets, so big scores would also appear in the first four sets.

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Chen Qiang successfully advanced to the finals of the US Open and will face American player Don Boogie.

The name Tang Buji is easy to remember, and Chen Qiang is also familiar with this name, because Tang Buji is the first Grand Slam winner in history and the only Grand Slam winner before the Open.

If an athlete can win the four major slams of Wimbledon, US Open, French Open and Australian Open in his career, he will be called a Grand Slam. Currently, there are eight male players and six female players who have won Grand Slams, including the familiar Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Serena Williams, Sharapova, etc.

Don Boogie is the first person in history to win a Grand Slam. When he won the French Open championship in 1938, he achieved the Grand Slam achievement.

More importantly, Don Boogie is also a winner of the annual Grand Slam.

The so-called annual Grand Slam is an athlete who won the four Grand Slam titles of Wimbledon, US Open, French Open and Australian Open within one year. This difficulty is much more difficult than the career of a Grand Slam. Among the male players, only two have achieved this achievement, one is Don Boogie in the non-open era, and the other is Rod Laver in the Open era. Even King Fei has not achieved the annual Grand Slam achievement.

In the future, many people believe that the greatest athlete in the Open era should be Rhode Laver, not Federer, because Rhode Laver's achievements in that year's Grand Slam were really valuable. Of course, Rhode Laver is really amazing. He dominated the first place in the tennis world for seven years, and when the Open era came, Rhode Laver had already passed the peak of his career, otherwise he would definitely win more championships.

Before the Open era, the world's greatest tennis player, undisputedly, was Don Boogie!

In history, Don Boogie won consecutive championships in the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in 1938, achieving the annual Grand Slam.

In this time and space where Chen Qiang arrived, the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon have all ended. Don Boogie has won the championships of these three Grand Slams, while the US Open is the final battle of Don Boogie. Once he wins the US Open, he can complete the amazing achievements of winning four Grand Slams in a row within a year!

For this unprecedented annual Grand Slam achievement, Tang Buji must not lose.

In fact, last year's Wimbledon champion and US Open champion were also Don Boogie, which means that from Wimbledon last July, to the US Open last September, to the Australian Open in January this year, the French Open in May, and at Wimbledon in July, Don Boogie won all Grand Slam events. Now Don Boogie is definitely at the peak of her career. So in this US Open competition, Don Boogie is also the No. 1 seed of the US Open.

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Of course, Chen Qiang knew that he was facing Tang Buji, who was at the peak of his career. In the next US Open final, Chen Qiang wanted to prevent Tang Buji from completing the great achievements of the annual Grand Slam.

Chen Qiang couldn't help but think of Federer in 2005 and 2006. In those two years, Federer won the championships of the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open, but the French Open championship was won by Nadal. If it weren't for Nadal, Federer would have won the annual Grand Slam long ago.

"Maybe people in the future will say this when talking about Tang Buji. If it weren't for Chen Qiang, Tang Buji won the annual Grand Slam in 1938! It sounds like, why am I so much like a villain!"

Thinking of this, Chen Qiang laughed at himself.

At this moment, the phone ringing in the room rang. Chen Qiang answered the phone and the front desk sound came from the receiver.

"Mr. Chen, there is a publishing house Mr. House who wants to see you, and he said he has made an appointment with you."

"Yes, I did make an appointment with Mr. House. Please take him to the cafe, I'll go down right away."

After Chen Qiang finished speaking, he hung up the phone, tidied up his clothes, went downstairs to the hotel cafe, and met Mr. House of the publishing house.

After the two exchanged greetings, Chen Qiang said, "Mr. House, I plan to publish a book."

"Oh? That's great! You are the world's number one athlete and have been shining in the US Open recently. I think many people will be interested in your experience." House said.

"Mr. House, what I want to publish is not an autobiography, but a diary." Chen Qiang said.

"Diary? That's fine. As long as it's your experience, autobiography or diary, there is no problem. Our publishing house is happy to serve!" House continued.

"Mr. House, you misunderstood. What I want to publish is not my diary, but my friend's diary. He is a German named John Rabe." Chen Qiang said.

House thought for a while and said, "I'm very sorry, I haven't heard of this name. What field is he in? "

"He is not an athlete. And he is indeed not famous. Even in Germany, there are not many people who know him." Chen Qiang replied.

"Oh..." House's expression suddenly became cold and he said, "Mr. Chen, I respect your friendship with this Mr. Rabe, but please be honest, our publishing house will not publish such diaries of ordinary people, because this kind of thing cannot be sold at all, and we will lose money when publishing it."

"So I want to know how much it will cost if I pay for it at my own expense." Chen Qiang said.

"Does Mr. Chen want to publish books at his own expense?" House was immediately surprised.

Chen Qiang nodded: "I have entered the finals of the US Open now. Even if I win the runner-up, I will get a large bonus. This should be enough to publish a book at your own expense, right?"

"Enough, of course enough. If you are willing to pay, you can print as much as you want! We can help you sell books to bookstores across the United States!" House replied immediately.

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After all, the United States is a capital society, and as long as you have money, everything can be done. As long as Chen Qiang is willing to pay, not to mention publishing a diary of an ordinary person, even if it is published, "The Postpartum Care Methods of Sows", there is no problem.

When Chen Qiang left China, he copied the diary written by Rabe when he was in Nanjing. Chen Qiang had long wanted to make the content of this diary public so that the whole world would know the Japanese atrocities in Nanjing.

Chen Qiang lets Ran go to a speech, accept media interviews, and then tell the world about Nanjing, but that effect is definitely not the best. How many people can Chen Qiang speak to alone?

In the 1930s, there were no Weibo or short videos, so the best way was of course to publish diaries. After all, in that era, books were the best way to spread information and knowledge.

But publishing a book requires money. Chen Qiang came to the United States alone. Even if he was not penniless, he didn't have much wealth.

Now that Chen Qiang has entered the finals of the US Open, he will receive a large amount of bonuses. After he has money, Chen Qiang finally plans to start implementing his plan.

For Chen Qiang, although he was in the United States and could not go to the battlefield of anti-Japanese war to fight the invaders head-on, he would still contribute to the country and nation in his own way.

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Chapter completed!