tennis giant

Chapter 154 Crisis
Up to now in this tournament, An Sheng has been going smoothly. His strength is obviously much higher than that of other opponents. He has not encountered any opponents so far.

In the quarter-finals, Ansheng met Franco from Spain, ranked 87th in the ITF youth rankings and the No. 6 seed in this event.

Needless to say, Franco's strength is definitely good.

On this point, An Sheng had come to a relatively clear judgment in several training sessions with Franco, and he had no doubt that Franco had reservations.

But even so, An Sheng was still very confident.

After all, in his opinion, even if Franco hides his strength, he is unlikely to reach the 60th stage, so he naturally has nothing to worry about.

"Hi, Franco."

"Hi, An Sheng, I know your strength is good, but this is a competition, not an ordinary training, so you have to be careful later."

Unexpectedly, when the two met before the game, it was Franco who gave An Sheng a kind warning, which was what An Sheng wanted to say to him.

The key point is that when Franco said this, his expression was quite relaxed, but he could clearly feel his strong self-confidence.

"Okay, I will."

An Sheng froze for a moment, then followed his words and responded like this, but in his heart, he smiled wryly. Of course, he was not worried about himself, but was afraid that Franco would accept it after the game started. Not realistic.

Of course, this is an official game, and they won't say much at this time.

After half an hour, the warm-up time is over and the game officially begins.

"Oh!"

This was An Sheng's first serve. He didn't keep it, but tried his best.

But it may be because he has not yet entered the game state, so the quality of his serve this time is somewhat low compared to his highest level.

An Sheng himself felt this too. His body was still a little stiff and hadn't warmed up.

However, he can also be sure that the level of this serve can at least reach 60 or more, so he is not very worried.

But the next moment, An Sheng, who was still calm and calm, widened his eyes and saw a scene that made him feel incredible.

Facing his serve, Franco actually launched a strong return attack. With a rebound return, he hit a straight line. The speed of the ball was extremely fast, which also made An Sheng unable to react in time.

Seeing An Sheng's stunned look, Franco smiled at him and shrugged his shoulders, as if telling him, look, I've already told you, be careful, but you But he didn't take it to heart.

An Sheng saw his movements, and then he came back to his senses, and his expression became a little serious.

At this moment, he already knew that he had underestimated Franco before, and that his strength had really reached the 60th stage, at least in terms of return and return attributes, otherwise, facing his serve, Franco is unlikely to have such a good performance.

But I still have to say that at this moment, An Sheng didn't lose confidence, and he wasn't particularly anxious, he just became more serious.

"Oh!"

Serving again, the quality has improved, but of course An Sheng will not neglect any more, his eyes have been staring at the opponent, the pace of his feet has not stopped, he completed the reset in time, and is ready to start at any time.

Sure enough, in front of Franco, his serve was not a fatal threat, and it was difficult to score directly.

But this was already in An Sheng's expectation. He was prepared. After judging the opponent's receiving line, he immediately started running, and then hit a diagonal line.

In this blow, he used the topspin ball, deliberately controlled the landing point, and made it as close as possible to the opponent's backhand corner, the purpose was still to test.

This can roughly explain that An Sheng is indeed not in a hurry now.

But Franco on the opposite side didn't have the slightest intention of probing. Facing the extremely deep hit, and after the rebound on the ground, it was a topspin ball that was obviously accelerated. He still directly chose to counterattack, and he was very strong. Wanting to hit the winning shot, he backhanded with both hands and hit a wide angle.

Crucially, he succeeded.

An Sheng tried his best to catch up, but the angle of the opponent's shot was too tricky and the speed of the ball was too fast, which made him powerless.

"Huh! It seems that I have to get into the state as soon as possible."

An Sheng realized the problem, and after returning to the serving point, he did a few small jumps on the spot, trying to warm up his body and concentrate his mental power.

"Oh!"

This is An Sheng's third serve, but after he finished his serve, he immediately frowned, with a persistent look on his face, because he found that his serve was still somewhat flawed, and he had not reached his highest level. is below his average.

Correspondingly, Franco was very keen, and his judgment was very accurate. Facing this slightly insufficient serve, he was extremely decisive and launched another strong return attack.

Moreover, his return attack, like his previous performance, is very tricky and of high quality.

In this way, even though An Sheng had already made preparations, he still missed a step and was too late to save him.

At the same time, what made An Sheng even more uncomfortable was that, in addition to his serve being out of shape, his pace was also slightly worse than his previous performance.

This gap is actually not too obvious, but when he has problems with his serve and pace at the same time, it is not just a small gap.

In fact, An Sheng's current situation is worse than this, because apart from his serve and pace, his other abilities are also a little bit worse than his previous performance.

Taken together, it also led to a significant decline in his overall strength, or in other words, he was somewhat unable to exert his strength.

But even at this moment, although An Sheng knew that his condition was not good, it still didn't make him lose confidence, and he even felt a little lucky.

In his opinion, it is not terrible to have problems, but he is afraid that he does not know the reason.

But now, he knew very clearly that the reason why he was in such a situation was simply because he hadn't mobilized his game state yet.

Moreover, the game has just started, and there is still a lot of time for him to adjust, so he doesn't need to be too anxious and mess up his sense of proportion.

In addition, he still feels that he should be stronger than Franco in terms of hard power, so as long as he can adjust his state in the future and win the game, it will not be a problem.

It has to be said that in An Sheng's consciousness, he has always looked down upon the ITF youth competitions.

It's also his fault that he won the previous few games too easily, which made him relax his vigilance. Until now, he has not realized his own crisis.

(End of this chapter)