tennis giant

Chapter 173 Cold

Saturday, September 2014, 7.

With everyone's blessings, An Sheng, together with coach Sun Binghua, set off one day in advance to Anning City, Yunnan Province.

The reason why they have to advance one day is not only because they are actually participating in professional competitions for the first time, but more importantly, it is to allow An Sheng to adapt to the plateau environment in advance and prevent physical discomfort during the competition.

In fact, An Sheng wasn't the only one who did this. Many other contestants also chose to come to An Ning one day earlier, or even several days earlier.

The ITF Hope Tournament in Anning this time will be held for three consecutive weeks, with a total of 32 seats for the main race, of which 24 seats are directly selected through the ATP rankings of the registered players, and the remaining 8 seats are To compete through qualifying rounds.

Similarly, there are 32 seats in the qualifiers, which means that players who participate in the qualifiers need to win two rounds of the qualifiers before they can qualify for the main match.

And An Sheng's goal in this competition is to enter the main match, and at least win the next game in the main match, so as to obtain his first ATP ranking points.

This point is still very important to him now, because it is directly related to whether he can successfully sign up for more professional competitions in the future.

It is also obvious that his luck cannot always be so good, and he can be continuously selected by the competition.

What's more, after he withdraws from the ITF youth competition, his youth ranking will definitely drop, and after a while, he may lose this bonus factor.

What I have to say is that An Sheng, who is participating in a professional competition for the first time, is still very nervous and cautious. Except for arranging an adaptive training every afternoon and evening, he spends almost all other time waiting. In the hotel.

Coach Sun Binghua is a little better, but he spends most of his time in the hotel, so he is also quite nervous.

But no matter what they do, time is moving forward minute by minute according to its rhythm.

In a blink of an eye, the time came to 7 pm on July 7, which was the start time of Ansheng's first professional competition.

Before the game officially started, An Sheng had already made a big joke, because he had never warmed up with his opponent in the previous games.

This is of course very common in amateur competitions, but in youth competitions, no one will say anything, but this is an adult professional competition, you must show the demeanor of an adult.

But An Sheng didn't know this. As soon as he came up, he was practicing his serve alone with a "bang bang bang", but his opponent had already signaled him several times in a row, but he didn't react.

It wasn't until he heard the roar of the audience that he realized what was going on.

Fortunately, his opponent is also a native of Hua, and he saw that An Sheng was obviously a novice, so not only did he not mind, but he thought it was funny, and then he communicated with An Sheng in good faith, and introduced the common warm-up method told him.

In fact, in official professional competitions, there are indeed certain rules for warming up. The content and sequence are probably the forehand and backhand shots from the bottom line first, then the volleys in the middle and front courts, and finally the serve and catch. hair practice.

Of course, during the warm-up process, the two sides need to switch identities alternately. When the opponent is practicing, you need to feed him the ball, and vice versa.

But even though An Sheng understood the general rules of warming up, it was his first time doing it after all. When warming up with the opponent, his cooperation was quite poor, and the audience on the sidelines burst into laughter several times.

This made An Sheng quite ashamed and annoyed. He swore that after the game was over, he must understand the warm-up, so as not to be laughed at again.

Speaking of his opponent, An Sheng already knew it a long time ago. He is Sun Lei from the Shandong Province Tennis Team. He is 22 years old and currently has an ATP ranking of 1500+.

Regarding Sun Lei, coach Sun Binghua tried to collect his relevant information, but he did not get much useful information. After all, the other party is not well-known and rarely receives the attention of others.

However, it was precisely because of this that it gave An Sheng some confidence.

He thinks that Sun Lei's strength should be worse than Xiong Tengfei's, at most it's half a catty, so he still has a good chance to win this game.

But he has forgotten that the reason why he was able to play on par with Xiong Tengfei at the beginning was because they were only playing a training match. Although Xiong Tengfei later became serious, compared to his professional performance The state on the field is still very different.

In addition, An Sheng had activated his mental explosion state at that time, and his strength had been greatly improved, so he was able to resist Xiong Tengfei.

And when the game officially started, there was no need for Sun Lei to do anything. An Sheng himself panicked first, and he didn't even know what was going on. He was relatively calm at first, but now he felt his hands and feet were cold and extremely nervous. .

"calm down!"

An Sheng's mind was still clear, and he immediately noticed his problem, and then quickly reminded himself, trying to recover himself.

"Oh!"

But time waits for no one, and before An Sheng can adjust, Sun Lei has already sent his first ball.

Hearing the voice, An Sheng's heart skipped a beat, and he was inexplicably startled. He had experienced this scene many times, but it was at this moment that he was startled.

Seeing that the opponent's serve was about to hit the ground, An Sheng's brain gave the command to start, but his body didn't move, and froze in place.

"I'm still too nervous! I can't go on like this!"

Thinking of this, An Sheng didn't care about other people's eyes, jumped on the spot a few times, and ran to the receiving position of his backhand area, trying to warm up his body again.

But for the next ball, he still failed to complete the return, and the movements of his hands and feet were obviously deformed. He seemed to have completely forgotten the movements that were extremely proficient in the past.

Time passed by, but An Sheng's condition still didn't improve. He was very anxious. Others might not be able to see it, but he knew very well that he was covered in cold sweat.

And he didn't understand that before his body was warmed up, his cold sweat was undoubtedly worsening the situation, making his body functions even more tightly locked, unable to release normal energy.

The breeze blew, and even made him shiver uncontrollably.

You know, this is July, even though this is Yunnan province and a plateau, the temperature is above 7 degrees, but he feels cold!

And when the game was halfway through, that is, when he lost the first set by a big score and fell behind by a big score in the second set, An Sheng knew that he was doomed to lose this game.

However, after he let go of his psychological burden, his state finally improved a bit. With his forehand, he hit a few beautiful winning shots.

But this sporadic score is obviously not enough to turn defeat into victory for him.

Therefore, in less than an hour, An Sheng lost the whole game by a big score, paying the price for his youth.

Of course, who hasn't come from a young age?If he loses a few more games, he will naturally mature.

(End of this chapter)