tennis giant

Chapter 176

Before the start of the game, coach Sun Binghua was very worried. He was afraid that An Sheng would not be able to bear the pressure, which would cause him to perform abnormally again. He was even more worried that if the game failed again, it would severely damage An Sheng's self-confidence.

But now, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief, because An Sheng has won this game, and won quite easily.

But in fact, this is just An Sheng's ability to perform normally. What really surprises people should be his ability to adapt to the game.

And soon, An Sheng ushered in his second opponent in the qualifying round, a young player from Jinwei City Team, Liang Zhiyi.

His age has just turned 18, and his current achievements mainly come from ITF youth competitions and some youth sports games held in China, but in professional competitions, like An Sheng, he has not yet achieved anything.

But don't underestimate your opponent just because he is young.

In fact, in recent years, with the vigorous development of tennis projects in China, many capable young players have emerged. Their physical conditions, growth environment, advanced training, and conditions for competition, It's all much better than before.

In fact, many people have gone abroad for training and study since childhood.

Therefore, their professionalism is more obvious than that of the older generation of players.

In other words, the purpose of these young players coming to the game is for their own future, and there are no other factors.

So since it's for themselves, how could they not fight tooth and nail?
And at two o'clock in the afternoon that day, the match between the two teenagers officially started.

There is no doubt that after winning yesterday's game, An Sheng already has a certain degree of confidence, and the game state is getting better and better.

And he also continued yesterday's tactical arrangement. When he came up, he took the lead and played very aggressively.

On the contrary, it was Liang Zhiyi, who was probably affected by his lack of experience in the game, and he was a little slow to enter the game.

This allowed An Sheng to seize the opportunity and complete a game break at the beginning.

This undoubtedly gave Ansheng a shot in the arm, making him even more excited to play.

But as the game progressed, Liang Zhiyi also gradually entered the game state, and the strength he showed was no worse than An Sheng's. Except for the forehand, he was no weaker than the disadvantage in other aspects.

The key point is that his belief in winning is very strong, and his style of play is extremely tenacious. He will never give up until the last moment.

This caused An Sheng a lot of trouble, causing him to make some mistakes and making the game more difficult.

Fortunately, he was the first to complete the break at the beginning of the game, and kept this advantage until the end, thus winning the first set.

But when the game came to the second set, the situation became unfavorable for An Sheng. He felt that his offense was becoming more and more difficult, and it became difficult to score.

Under such circumstances, Ansheng's first reaction was to strengthen his offensive intensity and improve his offensive quality, thereby suppressing the opponent.

He thought so and did so, but the result was not as expected.

After he strengthened his offensive, it did increase the difficulty of Liang Zhiyi's defense, and because of this, he got some winning points.

But correspondingly, his mistakes continued to increase.

And after keeping it for a while, he realized with a rather ugly face that his mistakes were more than his winning points.

This also proves that continuing to strengthen the offense is not his solution to the problem.

As a result, An Sheng changed his strategy again. Since it is not enough to strengthen the offense, it is better to slow down some of the offense to improve his batting success rate.

After all, so far, Liang Zhiyi has not shown his offensive ability. Perhaps, his offensive ability is not strong to begin with.

If this is the case, then An Sheng naturally doesn't need to be so anxious. He can slowly find more suitable offensive opportunities with a higher success rate through steady multi-shots, and then launch an offensive.

But facts soon proved that his change was wrong, because Liang Zhiyi was not without offensive ability at all. Not only did he have it, but he was not weak, and he had already held in his breath for a long time.

So, just after An Sheng slowed down the pace of the game, Liang Zhiyi burst out like a torrent of bad breath he had pent up for a long time, and in turn launched a fierce offensive against An Sheng.

For a moment, An Sheng was suppressed by Liang Zhiyi, which also ruined his tactics.

More importantly, it is not so easy for An Sheng to regain the situation. After all, in this game, he failed to control the situation, and it will take some time to make adjustments again.

When An Sheng slowly adjusted back to his tactics, the second set had reached the end, and he was lagging behind in terms of score.

As a result, there was no miracle. An Sheng lost the second set, which brought the score of the two sides to 1-1 and returned to the same starting line again.

And at this time, Liang Zhiyi may still have the upper hand in terms of momentum. If An Sheng still can't find a solution in the third set, then he probably can only stop here.

Fortunately, An Sheng is still relatively calm now, and his mind is very clear. Therefore, he is relatively clear about the problems he encountered.

The key is that he needs to find a suitable "degree".

Now that the game has progressed, An Sheng can clearly feel that in terms of strength, he still has a slight advantage, and the reason why he failed to win the second set was that he was in trouble. The problem lies in his tactical execution.

He failed to find a good balance between "attack" and "mistakes", or he put too much emphasis on offense, resulting in too many mistakes, or he was too particular about safety, resulting in a lack of offensiveness and being affected by the opponent. suppress.

It was also obvious that the root cause of this problem was that Ansheng did not have enough experience in executing this new tactic, and this was not something he could make up for in a short period of time.

But is he going to give up the game because of this?
This was of course impossible, and he had an idea and thought of a method that might be useful.

In short, he just wants to use the "backhand slice" as an adjuster of his tactical strength. If the offensive intensity is too strong, then add a backhand slice. If the strength is not enough, then reduce the use of backhand slice.

I have to say that this is very rough, but under the current circumstances, it is the better way he can find.

As for the result, he was pleasantly surprised, because it was really useful, especially when Liang Zhiyi had discovered the difference between his forehand and backhand and continuously targeted his backhand, his method was very effective.

Therefore, An Sheng quickly found a more suitable "speed" so that he could maintain a favorable balance between offense and mistakes.

That is to say, relying on his change of hand, An Sheng successfully defeated his opponent and broke into the main match of the ITF Hope Match for the first time.

But this is still a very crucial step away from his goal. He must beat his opponent in the first round of the main match to get his first ATP point.

In this regard, An Sheng is very confident, because he still has a trump card.

(End of this chapter)