After a Top Idol Switched to Tennis

In his previous life, at just seventeen, Dou Shiyan won Asia's first men's singles Grand Slam title.

By twenty-five, Dou Shiyan had won double-digit Grand Slam titles and was just one step away from completing the Double Career Grand Slam.

He should have had a brilliant future ahead of him, but a failed brain surgery left him paralyzed. He was forced to give up the court and died in despair.

One day, Dou Shiyan woke up to find he had transmigrated into a novel about the entertainment industry, as a cannon-fodder character who shared his name.

The character was a top-tier idol, blessed with both a handsome face and a great physique, and standing an impressive 190 centimeters tall.

Unfortunately, he was an empty-headed pretty boy with no talent. Jealous of the protagonist's love interest, he constantly caused trouble and eventually met a gruesome end beneath the wheels of the protagonist's love interest's car.

When Dou Shiyan arrived, a management contract was lying in front of him.

The company said that if he signed, they could groom him into a top-tier idol.

Dou Shiyan didn't even glance at it. He turned them down immediately.

When the company asked why, he smiled faintly and said, "I want to play tennis."

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Before idol Dou Shiyan even debuted, a dance practice video made him an overnight sensation across the internet.

His dancing was truly awful. Fortunately, his face was breathtakingly handsome and his physique was exceptionally striking.

He was supposed to debut as the group's visual, but the night before the debut, he suddenly announced that he was leaving the boy band.

The whole internet erupted in criticism.

After Dou Shiyan left, the boy band made its debut, and its debut single set sales records on the wave of all that attention.

Everyone mocked Dou Shiyan, calling him a talentless, ambitionless pretty boy with no chance of ever making it big.

Until one day.

While watching the Wimbledon broadcast, they spotted the young man at the All England Club.

Dressed all in white, racket in his right hand, the young man made it through qualifying without dropping a set and entered the main draw on a wild card.

Ranked 300th in the world, he toppled the sixth seed in the first round, causing the biggest upset in Wimbledon history.

That day, he made the sports headlines around the world, and his Instagram following jumped by 800,000 overnight.

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After transmigrating into the book, Dou Shiyan recreated the legend of his previous life, winning Wimbledon at the age of seventeen.

He was even a month younger than he had been in his previous life.

As Dou Shiyan accepted a check for three million pounds before members of the British royal family and other prominent figures, a reporter asked him a question:

"Mr. Dou, people say you nearly debuted as a boy-band idol. What made you decide to switch careers and play tennis?"

Holding the Challenge Cup engraved with his name, Dou Shiyan glanced at the reporter's microphone and flashed a radiant smile at the camera.

"I couldn't be the ace in a boy band, so I came to the court to serve aces instead."

The crowd burst into thunderous applause.

The broadcast helpfully put up the men's tennis ace leaderboard.

Dou Shiyan topped it with an average of thirty aces per match and 210 aces in a single Wimbledon tournament.

That night, the hashtags #DouShiyanWimbledonChampion and #IHadToComeToTheCourtToServeAces both shot to the top of the trending topics.

The idol once mocked as a talentless pretty boy never appeared on a music show again.

He only appeared on the evening news.

Description dated 2026/1/28. Plagiarism will be pursued.

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