This is the end of the 2014 season.
A wild and chaotic season, a tumultuous and wild season, a magical and weird season, and it ended in a crazy and chaotic way.
From a certain point of view, this can be regarded as consistent from beginning to end.
While the year-end finals were in progress, emotions such as amazement, complaints, complaints, astonishment, anger, ridicule, disgust, and contempt filled the chest.
It's annoying, but it hates that iron can't make steel.
But when the lights of the O2 Stadium were turned off and the music was over and the music returned to calm, looking at the dome that was slowly dimming in the night, the mood of reluctance quietly grew again.
Looking back suddenly, I became a witness of history without knowing it.
Looking back on the entire incredible season, the corners of his mouth could not help but raise a faint smile, with mixed flavors, this is destined to be a special season.
So far, following the WTA, all ATP events in 2014 have come to an end. Only the Davis Cup final held by the ITF will be staged two weeks later. After a month, all the hustle and bustle fell silent.
At the same time, the world ranking list and the championship standings are also officially merged into one, and the year-end world rankings are hotly released.
Talking about surprises, there are actually no surprises; saying there are no surprises, but there are many surprises.
First, Djokovic.
Second, Federer.
Third, Nadal.
Fourth, Wawrinka.
Fifth, Murray.
Top five, is this a standard ending?
After a whole season of struggle and repetition, Murray finally returned to the top five in the year-end world rankings, second only to Wawrinka.
Everyone is discussing that the "Big Four era" has completely disintegrated, but the year-end world rankings have proved that the most stable, outstanding and strongest overall performance is still "those four old guys" plus a "turned out but Not young old faces", the turmoil and chaos were like a dream.
If you don't look at the list of Grand Slam and Masters champions, but only look at the world rankings, 2014 does not seem to be particularly different from previous years.
This is no surprise.
Sixth place, Berdych.
Seventh place, Kei Nishikori.
Eighth place, Raonic.
Ninth place, Gao Wen.
Tenth place, Ferrer.
In the second half of the world's top ten, a surprise appeared, and it was a huge surprise—
Kei Nishikori, Gawain, Raonic.
The three players, all of whom entered the top ten of the year-end world rankings for the first time in their careers, respectively replaced Del Potro, Tsonga and Richard-Gasquet in last year's year-end rankings. All three players are due to injuries, and their time on the court this season is very limited.
Among them, Kei Nishikori and Gao Wen are representatives of Asia. For the first time in history, Asian male players rank among the top ten at the end of the year, let alone two.
The most incredible thing, of course, is Gao Wen who has created countless miracles and written countless histories.
Before the year-end finals, the world ranking was temporarily ranked tenth, but with the last victory in the group stage, he directly earned 200 points, which also allowed Gao Wen to overtake Ferrer successfully.
It is worth mentioning that Raonic's final score is 4220, and Gao Wen's final score is 4210, the difference is only a slight ten.
A little bit, just a little bit, Gao Wen was able to finish a season with the top eight in the world, but... there is no need to expect so much, because "ranking ninth in the world" is enough to shock the world, and the year-end world ranking list comes out , causing an uproar.
The championship proves that the performance of an event is outstanding, such as Tsonga, who won the Miami Masters this year, which is also a breakthrough in his career.
The year-end world rankings prove the stability and excellence of many events—in short, relying solely on the performance of dark horses is far from enough.
From New York to Paris to London, and finally to the world rankings, Gao Wen was undoubtedly the hottest newcomer in 2014—
At this time, looking back at this year full of variables, if we must say the biggest winner, I am afraid it is...Nike.
At the beginning, Nike beat Adidas to sign Gao Wen vigorously. Although the terms of the contract have not been disclosed, people in the industry have already smelled many clues, and there are endless voices questioning whether Nike is too hasty or overzealous.
After less than three months, all voices of doubt shut up and were replaced by voices of praise and exclamation, saying that this was the wisest and most far-sighted decision made by Nike throughout the year, and Adidas made another decision after Bouchard. Missed the opportunity to catch up with Nike.
Nike, look at the situation with a smile.
However, this is still not all.
Every year, ATP conducts a series of official award selections to reward players for their outstanding performance throughout the year. The award selection methods are also very professional. Different awards are selected in different ways to ensure that the awards reflect the original intention of the setting as much as possible.
Player/Team of the Year.
This award will not be judged, but will be awarded directly to the world number one at the end of the year, because the world ranking at the end of the year is the best summary of the whole year.
Djokovic and the Bryan brothers received the award respectively.
The Best Progress Award of the Year, the Best Comeback Award of the Year, and the Best Newcomer Award of the Year.
Three awards, all voted by ATP registered professional players~www.mtlnovel.com~ Voting will go through two rounds of screening, the first round will select the nominees; then the second round will be conducted to determine the final winner .
The voting was done entirely by the professional players themselves, without any public relations or canvassing. The players were not even sure whether they would be nominated. They relied entirely on the impressions of the whole year's participation journey. Whether it was nomination or winning, it all came from The players' own views and perceptions.
It is precisely because of this that the weight and significance of these three awards are even more important, because they represent the views of colleagues, they fight side by side, they advance and retreat together, they are both opponents on the field and companions in the same industry , and their views are even more valuable.
Best Progress Award of the Year, Gao Wen.
Comeback of the Year Award, David Goffin.
Best Newcomer of the Year Award, Gao Wen.
There is not much suspense in the three awards as a whole. The number of votes won by the final winners is the best, forming a direct gap with the second place.
Needless to say, it's what everyone expects.
But what is really worth mentioning is a screenshot that has been widely circulated on social networks:
At the beginning of August, the front page of the ATP official homepage reported the feat of two players who created history in both Europe and North America to achieve 15 consecutive victories in the Challenger League and climb to the top of the Triple Crown.
These two players are Goffin and Gao Wen who performed the best in the second half of the year.
And now, the two players have both become important members of the ATP year-end awards ceremony. It has to be said that the ATP seems to have seen the signs early.
It's just... What's even more curious is, which **** left the official ATP screenshot so boringly, was it expected at that time?
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