Match Point

Latest website: After hanging up the phone, you can see Macdonald's half-smile expression when you turn your head. It seems that he accidentally heard the voice coming from the receiver. Gawain said with a smile.

"Laugh if you want to."

A smile appeared in Macdonald's eyes, but he waved his hands again and again to clarify himself.

"I just think that your family is very lively and very..."

"Lively?"

"Yes, yes, very lively."

"It was because they were so lively that I had the energy to vent at the beginning, and then I started to learn tennis."

Looking at the generous Gao Wen, Macdonald's eyes showed envy.

Gawain bumped MacDonald with his shoulder, "Next time my parents come over, I will introduce you, and I often talk about you when I chat with them. They are very curious, and my mother often says, how is Mike? Do you have a girlfriend?"

Hahaha.

Gawain and MacDonald both laughed happily, and Jiron turned his head to look at the two of them with a smile in his eyes.

Gao Wen and his party officially ended the summer training and embarked on the journey to participate in the challenge, but there was a slight change in the companions—

Unlike them, Thompson went to Europe alone to start his career.

Although summer is the season in North America, this only means that the top events are centered on the US Open and are held in North America, while there are still a large number of professional events going on in other cities around the world, especially the Challenge and Hope matches.

After all, only the top 300 players in the world can participate in Grand Slam events, and professional players ranked below 300 also need to continue to participate.

Some players choose to come to North America to participate in the challenge and hope match, so the ultimate goal is to show their faces in the US Open series. It is precisely because of this that relatively speaking, there are still more masters.

Some players took a longer-term view and improved their ranking step by step. It would be more beneficial to avoid North America in the summer, after all, all the masters gathered in North America.

In addition, some players have realized that it is difficult for them to rank among the top 300 in their careers, so tennis has become a job to make a living, earning bonuses in challenge matches and hope matches all year round, and working from nine to five Race makes no difference. They naturally prefer Europe, where there are not so many masters.

It is precisely because of this consideration that Thompson went to Europe to compete, looking forward to improving his ranking as much as possible before the Asian season and the European indoor season, so as to get more opportunities to participate in the second half of the year.

As for Gao Wen and his party, the direction for the second half of the year has not yet been determined. Staying in North America to compete with top players and feel the atmosphere of the Grand Slam will be conducive to growth.

At this time, three people are flying across the entire North American continent, from Los Angeles on the west coast to New York on the east coast, preparing to participate in the first professional event:

Binghamton Challenge.

Binghamton is an industrial city in New York State, located 240 kilometers northwest of New York, with a large number of processing shoes, clothing, dental equipment, auto parts, electrical, metal products, office equipment, etc. factory, so you can see many immigrants.

In addition, the Binghamton campus of the State University of New York is also located here, and young students have also become an important part of urban residents.

Although Binghamton is a small town with a resident population of only 47,000 and has not undergone drastic changes for many, many years, the Binghamton Challenge has a long history. Since 1994, It has been held for twenty years.

You must know that the competition in professional tennis events is also very fierce. If there is not enough attendance, then there will be no sponsors; continue.

Generally speaking, it is very, very rare for an event to be held for more than ten years; events like the four Grand Slam events that have been held for close to or more than a hundred years are even more precious.

The Binghamton Challenge has been held for 20 years amid fierce competition, which shows the popularity of the event locally.

The level of the challenge is divided into levels according to the ATP certification points and bonuses, starting from the total bonus of 15,000 US dollars to the highest level of 120,000 US dollars, which is divided into seven levels as a whole.

The Binghamton Challenge belongs to the third level, with a total prize money of 50,000 US dollars and 80 championship points.

Don't underestimate such a level of competition. Although it is very different from the Grand Slam, there are quite a few players around the world who want to participate in such a level of competition:

There are 16 draws in the qualifying round, and four players will enter the main match after three rounds of competition; then there are 32 picks in the main match, and the champion will be determined through five rounds of competition.

Points and bonuses are all arranged progressively according to rounds. First of all, if you enter the main match through the qualifying round, you can win three points regardless of the outcome of the first round. However, if you enter the main match directly through rankings or wild cards If you lose in the first round, you will have no points.

Secondly, as long as all players enter the second round, they must have points, and they will gradually increase with the promotion rounds. The second round is seven points, the third round is fifteen points, the semi-finals is twenty-nine points, the runner-up is forty-eight points, Champion eighty points.

All these points can be included in the world ranking, and as long as you have one point, you can have the world ranking.

But the problem is that there are still many players who are mixed in the hopeful game, and may not get a single point. It is not so easy to enter the world ranking itself.

According to the rules~www.wuxiahere.com~ MacDonald can directly qualify for the competition based on his world ranking, after all, he has already won a challenge championship trophy; but there is no way for Gao Wen and Jilong, because neither of them has a world ranking , not even qualifying matches.

Generally speaking, they need to start from the hope match, and only after winning at least one hope match point can they enter the qualifying list of the challenge match.

However, Martin believes that at the current level of Gao Wen and Geelong, there is no challenge in participating in the hope match. Both of them can win easily. A more suitable option for two people.

As a local event, the Binghamton Challenge has a total of three wild cards, and they are also very happy to award them to NCAA players.

Therefore, Tobias helped Gao Wen and Jilong submit the application, successfully got the wild card, skipped the qualifying round, and directly entered the main draw.

When Gao Wen and his party arrived at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Tobias had already arrived ahead of schedule to welcome the arrival of the three rookies in the professional arena.