tennis giant

Chapter 115 Finding the Target
In a blink of an eye, the time has come to the beginning of November.

In the past ten days, An Sheng practiced closed training and spent almost all of his time on training, but as time went by, his enthusiasm for training became less and less.

The reason is conceivable, the effect of his training is not very good, and it even makes him unable to feel his own progress.

Originally, according to his plan, he wanted to use half a month to a month to carry out intensive training, so as to fill the "vacancy" in his strength, so that what he had achieved in the previous month Progress can be implemented.

In fact, An Sheng had even fantasized that perhaps it would not take much time for him to reach the upper limit of his current strength, and then he would naturally make a breakthrough and complete the goal he had been thinking about day and night these days ago.

But the result was far from what he expected. Not to mention breaking through the bottleneck, even if he wanted to let his strength truly reach his current upper limit, it was extremely difficult and the speed of improvement was very slow!
Especially compared to his previous improvement speed, now he is like a turtle.

While he was frustrated, he also realized once again that the threshold of 60 is probably really an important watershed in the system's strength grading.

Before 60, it is an amateur player, and after 60, it can be considered as a real professional.

It may be for this reason that this bottleneck is so difficult to overcome. Compared with the bottleneck encountered by An Sheng before, it is very different.

But no matter what, An Sheng has spent several months on this, and the progress is so slow, he is inevitably a little irritable.

After all, he was still too young, a little eager for quick success, and couldn't calm down.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the indoor training hall.

"Brother Luo, let's practice here first."

"What's the matter, An Sheng, are you tired?"

Luo Zhilin felt a little surprised. Although he was panting heavily and was indeed a little tired, at this point in time, it seemed to be a bit early for An Sheng.

It is worth mentioning that in the previous training, An Sheng must thank Luo Zhilin, Chen Haoyu, and Hu Tianbin. They all took the initiative to become his training partner and worked tirelessly from morning till night.

In addition, other team members such as Lai Chaofan will occasionally come over to train with Ansheng. This means that Ansheng does not need to worry about sparring at all, and he can also be exposed to many different styles of play, which is very beneficial.

Regarding Luo Zhilin's question, Ansheng just nodded towards him. He was in a bad mood and didn't want to speak.

That being the case, today's training is over.

But what makes people feel a little strange is that the training is over, but Ansheng did not leave the venue, but stayed alone on the sidelines, seemingly resting, but in fact he was in a daze and blaming himself.

This is not difficult to understand. His rationality is telling him that he must keep on training. Even if the training effect is very weak, he has to continue. Little things add up to transform quantitative changes into qualitative changes. One day, yes able to break through.

But his sensibility made him very lazy, which made him sluggish and lost his previous passion and motivation.

There is no doubt that the rational requirements are correct, but the influence of emotion is very strong, so Ansheng succumbed to emotion and chose to stop training.

He knew it was wrong to do so, so he blamed himself.

"quiet."

After an unknown amount of time, An Sheng suddenly heard someone calling him, and the voice was very familiar, which woke him up. When he looked up, he suddenly stood up.

His movements were very abrupt, showing that he was not at peace just now.

"Sister Tong, why are you here?"

"Hehe, today is the weekend, and there is no class in school, so I'll come and have a look."

"Oh~"

Suddenly, An Sheng sat down a little slumped again, feeling very guilty in his heart. He felt that he was being lazy and was discovered by others.

"An Sheng, what's wrong with you, are you too tired from training?"

An Sheng nodded, but then shook his head again.

"No, Sister Tong, I'm not tired, but I just can't lift my spirits."

Hearing what he said, Xia Yutong was a little puzzled. The An Sheng she knew was always full of drive and was very active in training, but today he seemed so sluggish, without the energy of before.

And after thinking about it for a while, she roughly knew his situation.

"An Sheng, how about playing ball with me for a while?"

Naturally, An Sheng would not refuse her request.

It's just that Xia Yutong didn't intend to play tennis at first, because she didn't wear suitable clothes, but she didn't care much, so she asked someone to borrow a racket, and the "competition" began immediately.

"Oh!"

The voice was very deep, and it was obvious that the strength and rotation were not enough. An Sheng could judge it in an instant.

And this kind of serve, of course, does not pose any threat to him, but this is not a real game, and An Sheng has also thought about it. His return is not for scoring, but for feeding Xia Yutong and letting her hit it. Comfortable and smooth.

But even so, An Sheng dealt with it quite easily and casually. Even if the ball went out of bounds, as long as the angle was not too outrageous, he could save it, and he precisely controlled the landing point near the center line.

In this way, Xia Yutong naturally played very comfortably. He almost didn't need to move violently, he could easily complete the shot, and he could also launch an attack, move left and right, and let An Sheng run.

What's important is that Xia Yutong seems to be playing very seriously. Her offense, without any moisture, really wants to score.

As a result, she got what she wanted, but it was too obvious that An Sheng let her go, otherwise, given the strength gap between them, An Sheng could win the game in minutes.

"Yes!"

After playing for only an hour, the game ended and Xia Yutong, who won the victory, was very happy and smiled brightly.

Seeing her like this, An Sheng also laughed. His mood was much better than before.

"Anson, how do you feel?"

"Ok?"

An Sheng was a little confused about Xia Yutong's question.

"An Sheng, I still remember that when I played with you for the first time, I also won against you, and it was easy to win, but now, I win, but you seem to be the one who is very easy, Right?"

An Sheng scratched his head, a little embarrassed.

Of course, Xia Yutong had already discovered that An Sheng was deliberately letting her go, but An Sheng seemed to have just realized it, but this was not the point.

"An Sheng, it is obvious that you have improved a lot. From when you were not my opponent to now, you have become the 9th player in the CTA ranking!"

"The key point is that you only spent four months in this process."

"Perhaps because of this, it makes you think that playing tennis is an easy and simple thing. But the truth is that it only proves that you have a certain talent, but you still want to reach a higher level. It takes a lot of effort.”

"What's more, you have only achieved a little bit of results now, not even the lowest professional player. Don't you feel good about yourself because of this?"

Speaking of this, Xia Yutong's expression became very serious.

After hearing these words, An Sheng shook his head and smiled wryly.

"Sister Tong, do you think I am such a person?"

"Whoo~"

Pausing, An Sheng let out a long breath, and then confided his heart.

"Sister Tong, you know, my goal is to become a professional player, and a top professional player in the world. But the recent training has made me feel that there is still a gap between me and this goal. There's a lot of distance."

"This makes me, how should I put it, just feel powerless. I want to continue training hard, but I can't find the motivation. The goal is too far away from me."

Xia Yutong understood what he meant, her expression eased, and she immediately made her suggestion.

"An Sheng, since you think this goal is too far away, why did you find a closer one?"

"According to your current strength, set a goal for yourself at this stage, and wait until you complete this goal before setting another goal."

"In this way, you can take one step at a time and slowly move towards your ultimate goal."

"By the way, didn't you just win two runner-ups in the CTA Open? Don't you want to win the championship? I think this is a good short-term goal."

"champion?"

An Sheng was taken aback for a moment. Before that, he really hadn't thought about this question.

In fact, previously, in his mind, the championship of this amateur competition was of little importance, but now it seemed that it was a good short-term goal.

Immediately, An Sheng thought of Ye Shuhao. The defeat he had fought against him last time was still vivid in his memory. Defeating him was obviously a good goal.

It also includes He Yiming. Although An Sheng won the match last time, he cannot guarantee that he will win the next match.

In addition, there is also the ranking of CTA amateur players. He has been promoted to No. 9 now. Can he go one step further and compete for the No. [-] throne?
Thinking about it this way, An Sheng suddenly felt that he still had a lot of goals to accomplish, and these goals were not too far away from him. He might be able to reach them by stretching out his hands and stepping on his toes.

The key point is that these goals do not conflict with his ultimate goal of becoming a professional player, and they are on a straight line, but there are several steps in the middle, which require him to go up step by step climb.

Perhaps, the breakthrough he wants to pursue is above these few steps, and it is also possible that he will be able to complete it when he climbs up.

"Sister Tong, thank you, I know what to do now!"

When he came back to his senses, An Sheng's state of mind became much calmer. He thanked Xia Yutong with a smile, and then teased her even more.

"By the way, Sister Tong, I feel that you have been lacking in exercise recently, and your golf skills have declined~"

"Ah."

Speaking of this, Xia Yutong was also suddenly a little shy. Recently, she hadn't practiced well, but she didn't expect him to see it.

As for what she's been up to lately?
In fact, it was mentioned before that she and Chen Feiyang had already reached a cooperation agreement and took action together to acquire the outflowing shares of the club.

This matter is easy to say, but not easy to do, so it took her a lot of energy and time, and, in the next period of time, she will probably be busy with it.

(End of this chapter)