tennis giant

Chapter 177 Mission Accomplished
"Lopez, American, 19 years old, currently ranked 489th in the ATP world."

"This is the second year since he entered the professional tennis world, but he has already shown a strong upward momentum. In the first half of this year, he broke into the top 8 of multiple ITF Hope Tournaments in a row."

"In the last competition, he even made it to the finals. Although he failed to win the final championship, these results are enough to show his strength."

Speaking of this, coach Sun Binghua stopped and looked at An Sheng. There was a smile on his face, but he was still a little worried inside.

"Ansheng, just like Lopez, struggled for a long time when he first entered professional tennis. Judging from the data, he failed to achieve decent results throughout last year. Until these few days Yue finally got over it."

"It's not just him. Most tennis players will have a period of transition after switching from the youth group to the adult group."

"So, although I know that you really want to win this game and get your first ATP points, you still have to calm down and focus on experience while doing your best."

Hearing this, An Sheng nodded. Of course he knew what Sun Binghua meant, and he also understood that what he said was very reasonable. However, in this game, he was very confident. The key was that he still retained The trick of "spiritual explosion".

And he will not be so ambitious, he is very clear about his goal, so in the next crucial game, he will definitely not hold back anything.

What needs to be explained is that the ITF Hope Tournament is indeed the lowest-level event among adult professional events, but it is still very difficult to win its championship.

This point can be easily felt from the seed players of this Hope Tournament. Their ATP rankings are all between 300 and 500.

As the top seeded Chinese player, Bo Yang, his ATP ranking is as high as 279th.

In other words, if you want to win the ITF Hope Tournament, then you should at least have the strength of the top 300 in the ATP ranking.

This also clearly reflects the pyramid structure in the professional tennis world. Players with ATP rankings other than 300 occupy the majority of the entire tennis world, but it is difficult to win any professional championship.

Of course, for this reason, the ATP points required to reach the top 300 rankings are actually not very many.

Roughly speaking, ranking around 1000 only requires 8 points; Top500 generally requires only 60 points, while Top300 requires around 150 points.

Referring to the lowest level of the 15K Hope Tournament, the points the champion can get is 25 points, which means that as long as you win 6 Hope Tournament Championships, you can raise the ranking of a tennis player to the top 300 .

Therefore, really capable players can improve their ranking very quickly, but it also shows that even in the lowest level ITF Hope Competition, the competition is extremely fierce.

Back to the analysis of this game, after confirming that he will use his mental explosive ability, An Sheng believes that as long as he meets two conditions, winning this game should not be a big deal. The problem.

The first condition, that is, the strength gap between him and Lopez should not be too large.

Therefore, as his mental state continues to rise, he can surpass the opponent in terms of strength, or at least he must be able to confront the opponent head-on, so that in the first two sets, he can get at least one of them. Plate victory.

In this way, by the time of the third set, he would be able to rely on a mental explosion to win it smoothly.

The second condition lies in Lopez's tactics.

It is almost certain that Lopez's hard power is stronger than that of An Sheng.

In this way, if he launched a fierce offensive without hesitating his physical strength, An Sheng might be unable to withstand it, and his defeat would be too fast, making it difficult for him to exert his mental explosive ability.

In addition, it is very important that, for now, An Sheng will not change his bottom-line offensive tactics, even if he encounters various difficulties, he will choose to continue to persist.

He is very determined on this point, at least until it proves that this tactic is not suitable for him, he will not give up easily.

Therefore, once the two sides form a confrontation, the game between them will probably progress faster.

However, whether it is this condition or the second condition, An Sheng is more confident. He doesn't think that Lopez's strength can surpass him by much, let alone that Lopez will choose to attack him.

The fundamental reason is that, except Ansheng himself, no one else knows that he has the ability to explode mentally, let alone the conditions for its use, so naturally it is impossible to be specifically targeted.

At 7 o'clock in the morning on July 23, An Sheng ushered in his first main match at the Anning Hot Spring Peninsula International Tennis Center. This was also his most important match after entering the professional competition.

As soon as the game started, An Sheng's heart was already set.

As he thought before the game, Lopez's overall strength is probably around 67 points. Perhaps as the game progresses, his strength will be improved, but it is impossible to improve too much.

In addition, in the face of Ansheng's aggressive offensive strategy, Lopez did not choose to fight against him, but chose to defend very safely, and when he had the advantage on the field, in the following games, he was Tactics have not changed.

This is also a very normal choice. Since he can win the game only by defending, he naturally does not need to make more changes.

What's more, for Lopez, this is only his first game. He doesn't have to play so fiercely. It is reasonable to keep his state for more important games later.

However, although Lopez has always maintained a certain advantage on the court, the scores between the two sides are quite anxious and are rising alternately.

It wasn't until the 9th game of the first set that Lopez made a sudden effort, caught An Sheng by surprise, and also won a break as he wished, thus giving him a score of 6 to 4 and won the first place. Disc game.

And now that the game has progressed, both Ansheng and Lopez feel that it is natural and smooth.

The former has already found the sense of oppression he wants, and is constantly absorbing energy to improve the accumulation before the explosion. As the accumulation process continues, his strength is slowly improving.

The latter easily won the first set, as if he could easily win with just a little effort, which made him very satisfied.

And the second set seems to be going on according to the situation of the first set, so of course Lopez will not be vigilant.

Until the game came to the 9th inning again, Lopez was thinking of repeating his old tricks and exerting his strength again.

But this time, he failed, because An Sheng had been prepared for a long time, and his current strength was not much different from that of Lopez.

Moreover, after Lopez made the changes, he wanted to readjust, but it took some time. Therefore, in the last two games of the second set, he played a little messy.

An Sheng also seized this opportunity, stepped up his offensive quite decisively, and then successfully won the second set.

At this point in the game, An Sheng was already determined, and the state of the game was getting better and better, and gradually reached the peak.

In the third set, there were no surprises. Ansheng, who was no longer inferior to his opponent in strength and was in even more ferocious form, successfully won the match.

He finally got what he wanted and completed the task of this peaceful trip.

(End of this chapter)