tennis giant

Chapter 170 No regrets
"An Sheng, it depends on your potential."

"If you think that you will be able to reach the top 100 in the world in the future and maintain this level for a relatively long period of time, then I suggest you remain a free agent."

"But if you think that you will not be able to reach such a level in the future, then I still suggest you to think carefully about whether you want to join the system."

"Coach Sun, do you mean that only by reaching the top 100 in the world can I maintain a balance of payments and not lose money?" An Sheng felt that such a requirement seemed a bit too high.

"An Sheng, you told me before that you met Wu Di, right?"

"Yes, I also trained with him for a while."

"Oh, then you should know that his current ATP ranking is around 200?"

"Yes."

"Then do you know that since he flew solo, he has participated in at least a dozen professional tournaments every year, but up to now, he has never won the ATP Challenger Championship?"

"No way? Coach Sun, as I remember, it wasn't reported by the media that Wu Di won many championships every year, didn't he?"

"Hehe, that's just the championship of the ITF Hope Tournament. His purpose is to get more points so as to maintain his current ranking. But even if he wins the Championship of the Hope Tournament, he can't get much money from it at all. !"

"As far as I know, his total prize money will never exceed 100 million yuan in one year, and the expenses he needs to compete all over the world every year may have exceeded this amount."

"Not to mention anything else, as far as the Swedish coach he is hiring now, his annual salary needs to be 50 million."

"If it weren't for the fact that he is a member of the national team and also a member of the Shanghai City team, and he can get a lot of sponsorship fees from these two units each year, I am afraid it would be difficult for him to maintain his status quo."

"Think about it, even a player like him can only maintain the status quo, so what will happen to other tennis players in our country?"

"Of course, I'm referring to male players here. In our country, women's tennis performance is generally better than that of male players. Therefore, they are more popular with sponsors."

"In short, the tennis event is a typical pyramid distribution. Most of the prize money in the tournament is taken away by the top-ranked players. Even if it is just a challenge-level tournament, if you want to win the championship, you must at least have a world championship. The strength of the top 100."

"Also, the top 100 ranking is just a threshold for maintaining your status as a professional tennis player, allowing you to compete for the championship of the Challenger League, and not making you lose money."

"And if you want to gain a foothold on the tour, you must at least have the strength of the top 50 in the world. If you want to win the championship? Then your strength must be able to enter the ATP championship ranking system, that is, the level of the top 30 in the world. "

"As for the Grand Slam tournaments, they are only the top ten stages in the world!"

"So, An Sheng, it's really not that easy to become a professional tennis player. Compared to the overall number of players, there are only a handful of dozens of players who can gain fame and fortune from them. Most of the other players are It was very difficult.”

"Among the majority of the players, the players in our Huaguo system are doing relatively well. After all, they have a huge Huaguo market behind them, and they also have sponsorship within the system."

"Ansheng, think about it for yourself."

"Thank you, Coach Sun, then I'll think about it first, and I'll tell you the answer later."

After hanging up the phone, An Sheng suddenly recalled that when he proposed to coach Sun Binghua to join the provincial team, he raised objections.

In other words, before that, Sun Binghua did not quite agree with him joining the system.

But now, listening to his tone, it seems that he is trying to persuade him to join the Shanghai city team. Could it be that he has changed his mind?

wrong!

In an instant, An Sheng rejected such a judgment.

Coach Sun Binghua definitely does not want him to join the system. After all, he already has the sponsorship of the Guanhao Club, which can save him a large part of the participation fee, and it is enough to support him to reach a higher position.

That being the case, what coach Sun Binghua said was nothing more than reminding him that the career path of tennis is not easy, and warning him that if he doesn't just want to dawdle, then the road he needs to take is not easy. There are very long.

After thinking this through, An Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Obviously, An Sheng attached great importance to coach Sun Binghua's suggestion.

It also proves that An Sheng is actually very nervous now, and still has some hesitation about whether to join the Shanghai City team.

Afterwards, An Sheng communicated with his parents, and there was no suspense that no matter what decision he made, his parents supported him very much, but they themselves did not understand these things, so they could not give him more information. Many suggestions.

After that, An Sheng asked for the opinions of many people, such as Xiong Tengfei, He Yiming, Meng Hong and others, but they failed to give a clear suggestion.

In the final analysis, no matter how An Sheng chooses this matter, there is always a reason, but no one can give a clear answer whether it is right or wrong, and only in the future, when the result comes out, can we really get it. verify.

But in fact, An Sheng already had the answer in his heart, but after all, he is still a 17-year-old young man with insufficient life experience. When encountering major decisions, he always feels uneasy and cannot make a decision all at once.

As for the real answer, needless to say, he must believe in his own potential, or in other words, he believes in the "tennis giant system" in him.

And he also has to believe, because in tennis, everything he has now comes from the system, and if the system disappears one day, he will probably return to the original.

On the second day, An Sheng made up his mind and submitted a resignation report to the team, and got the leader's approval on the same day, agreeing to his resignation, which was quite efficient.

Meng Xiangkang felt very sorry for this.

At the beginning, when he led An Sheng into the Shanghai city team, his idea was just to help his old colleague and make it easy.

And when he discovered An Sheng's potential, he immediately realized that this was a rare opportunity for him to make a contribution, so he desperately wanted An Sheng to join the city team.

In his mind, An Sheng should be very excited and happy to be able to join the city team.

But this matter has been dragged on until now, and finally such a result has been obtained, which is really beyond his expectations.

After completing the resignation procedures, An Sheng immediately left the Shanghai City Team, which was also the team's request.

However, An Sheng did not return to Lucheng immediately. Instead, he embarked on another journey to Jinan to participate in the ITF Youth Tennis Tournament held there.

This time, he must win the championship, just because he doesn't want to leave any regrets before he really enters the professional arena.

As a result, it goes without saying that his strength has risen to another level, and his forehand strength has reached 67 points, and he can already crush most players.

By the way, in this event, An Sheng once again met Franco, the Spanish player who had defeated him, and completed his revenge with a big score.

It is a little regrettable that Korean player Cui Senyong did not come to participate in this event, so he did not give An Sheng a chance to revenge.

But no matter what, after winning the championship, An Sheng can finally return to Lucheng with peace of mind, and wants to start his career path.

(End of this chapter)