tennis giant

Chapter 148
On New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, Ansheng stayed at home for two days and then returned to Shanghai.

But even though he only rested for two days, compared to the other players of their Shanghai Tennis Team, he is actually considered "lazy", because many players did not choose to go home, or , After New Year's Eve, immediately return to the team.

For example, Zhang Zhizheng, even though he is a native of Shanghai, but he just went home to have a reunion dinner, and returned to the city team early the next morning.

Athletes eat young food, and every day's time is very precious, and they don't want to waste it.

In the next few days, while An Sheng was actively training, he was also anxiously waiting for news from the team, because he had already submitted his application for the competition before he went home for the New Year.

As for the companion he chose, there was no suspense, it was Zhang Zhizheng.

By the way, Zhang Zhizheng is not yet 16 years old, that is to say, he is eligible to participate in the U16 youth competition, but this will not affect his registration for the U18 competition.

Moreover, in the ITF youth competitions, relatively speaking, the only events that are relatively meaningful and slightly influential are U18-level events.

Competitions in other age groups, such as U16 and U14, feel that the age of the players is too young, which is too different from adult competitions, and there is really no reference value.

Therefore, since he wants to participate in youth competitions, Zhang Zhizheng will not have other choices, but will only choose to participate in U18-level competitions.

Of course, the reason why Zhang Zhizheng agreed to An Sheng to go to the competition with him was not for others, but for himself.

At his age, and his physical development is obviously earlier than the average person, and he is highly valued by the team. According to the plan made by the team, he should have reached the stage where he can go out to compete.

In this way, the two hit it off, decided on this matter, and successfully obtained the team's consent.

And they were not surprised, it was relatively easy to get the quota for the Wancheng station of the ITF International Youth Tournament held on February 2.

The reason why it is said that there are no accidents is because, at present, in the whole of Huaguo, the ITF Youth Tournament held every year is basically a fixed 16-station event.

And at the end of each year, or at the beginning of the year, the Huaguo Tennis Association will announce the next year's schedule in advance, including the time and location of each event.

Therefore, An Sheng actually already knew that at this point in time, the only event they could sign up for was the ITF Wancheng event.

When it comes to ITF international youth competitions, some related content needs to be explained a little bit.

First of all, generally speaking, ITF youth competitions do not set up prize money, but its competition system and regulations are basically the same as those of adult competitions.

It can be seen from this that the purpose of holding such events is to provide the majority of young tennis players with opportunities to participate in regular competitions, allowing them to accumulate competition experience and prepare for entering the professional tennis world.

In addition, when you see the word "international", you can also understand that the ITF youth competition is an open competition, allowing all qualified young players from all over the world to sign up.

In other words, during the competition, contestants can get in touch with many players from different countries, which allows them to feel the atmosphere of international competitions in advance before participating in adult competitions.

This step is actually very important, especially for Huaguo players. They are in a relatively backward situation, so they need to have more exchanges with players from other developed tennis countries to learn from each other. Their experience, technology, to improve their own level.

In addition, ITF youth competitions are also divided into levels, and players who participate in different levels of competitions can obtain corresponding points to obtain the ranking of young players.

But it must be said that the actual relationship between youth events and adult events is actually not that great.

Many tennis players who have achieved very good results in youth competitions and are also ranked quite high in youth competitions cannot play at all after entering adult competitions.

On the contrary, there are many players who have not participated in youth competitions, but they have achieved good results after directly entering the adult competition.

All in all, the ITF youth competition is indeed a very good way for young tennis players to exercise, but it is not necessary to pay so much attention to the results obtained.

Two days earlier, on February 2, An Sheng, Zhang Zhizheng, and the coach Wang Zhensheng who accompanied the team set off for Wancheng in Guangdong Province.

It is worth mentioning that coach Wang Zhensheng's attitude towards An Sheng is still not very friendly, but at least there is no bad word at each other. Basically, the two sides are in a state of ignoring each other.

And An Sheng knew that he had no experience in going out to compete this time, so he definitely needed some guidance from Wang Zhensheng, or obeyed his arrangements.

In addition, there was not much conflict between him and Wang Zhensheng, and the unhappiness that happened at the beginning was still caused by him.

Therefore, An Sheng planned that as long as Wang Zhensheng did not deliberately target him, then he would be honest and completely obey his arrangements.

In fact, An Sheng's idea was correct. Compared with the amateur competitions he participated in before, there were indeed many differences between regular competitions.

For example, the most common accommodation problem in amateur events needs to be solved by the players themselves. However, in this ITF Wancheng Battle event, the event organizer has already arranged hotels for the players and their coaches, and the players only need to Complete the registration at the hotel and check in with your bags.

Moreover, the accommodation fee and meal fee are not randomly set by the competition party, but have corresponding standards. The accommodation fee is about 400 yuan/double room, and the meal fee standard is about 120 yuan/person/day.

This point, in fact, is already basically the same as adult professional competitions, there is no difference.

In addition, there is another very big difference, that is, the tournament party will announce the lottery for this event in advance. Of course, this lottery refers to the lottery for the qualifiers.

As for the draw for the main match, half of them, the seed players, will be announced first, and after the qualifiers are over and all the places for the main match are determined, they will also be announced in advance.

That is to say, before the start of the game, the player can know his opponent in advance, and then he can know the opponent in advance and make targeted preparations.

There is no doubt that this is important, and may even directly affect the outcome of the game.

It's a pity that for An Sheng, this is useless, because as a novice, he doesn't know other players at all, and even if he wants to know each other, he has no way to start.

As for coach Wang Zhensheng, it is obviously impossible to complete this job for him. With Zhang Zhizheng's help, he can benefit from it.

However, An Sheng didn't pay too much attention to this, firstly because he had great confidence in himself, and secondly, because he knew very well that the purpose of this competition was not for results or points, he was just for Gain experience participating in regular competitions.

As a result, he paid more attention to the entire process of the event and all the links in the competition, so much so that he asked a lot of event staff and took notes on it.

Thinking about it, when he competes next time, he probably won't need to ask others for help.

(End of this chapter)