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Chapter 180 Strong
According to the original plan, An Sheng was going to participate in the Yinchuan competition in August, but in order to cooperate with Bo Yang's training, he voluntarily gave up this opportunity.

But in fact, during his training with Bo Yang, he didn't get a good workout. On the contrary, after returning to Lucheng, after coach Sun Binghua's training, he improved a lot.

When the time came to September 9, An Sheng set off again to Jinling to start his second trip to the ITF Hope Tournament.

This Jinling race is still the lowest level of 15K, and it is also held for three consecutive weeks, but An Sheng's goal for this competition has been slightly changed.

Before, his goal was to get his first ATP points, which required him to reach the second round of the main draw, which is the top 16.

But now, An Sheng feels that he is capable of striving for a higher ranking, such as the top 8, so as to obtain higher points and quickly improve his ranking.

Maybe when he signs up for the competition next time, he won't need to play in the qualifying rounds again, that's also a possibility.

On the second day after he arrived in Jinling, he didn't have much time to adjust. At [-] o'clock in the afternoon, his first qualifying match officially started.

His opponent is a young player from Jinling, Guo Zuli who has just turned 18 years old. He also relied on his status as a local player to get a wild card from the tournament to be able to participate in this tournament.

From this point, it can be roughly guessed that Guo Zuli's strength is relatively average, and it is still a grade worse than the main players of the general provincial team.

Facing such an opponent, there was no suspense, let alone mercy. An Sheng took the opponent lightly with a score of 6 to 1, and a score of 6 to 0.

And his opponent in the second qualifying round has some strength and some origins. He is also from Lucheng and is currently the main member of the Zhejiang Provincial Team Liu Hewei.

For coach Sun Binghua, his status is very beneficial to his pre-match investigation. Therefore, it is the first time for An Sheng to have a clearer understanding of the opponent's strength and characteristics before the game.

To put it simply, Liu Hewei's strength is roughly at the same level as Xiong Tengfei's. Judging from his achievements, he may be slightly weaker than Xiong Tengfei.

His technical characteristics are relatively mediocre. If he had to name one characteristic, it would probably be that he has certain net skills, because like many other Chinese men's tennis players, he has concurrent doubles.

In addition, he is quite interesting.

Liu Hewei obviously knew that An Sheng was his fellow countryman, so he came up to chat with him during the warm-up before the game.

This is actually nothing, the key point is that he was too big, and without knowing An Sheng's strength, he regarded himself as the big brother, and let An Sheng hang out with him.

An Sheng was a little dumbfounded by this, but he also knew that Liu Hewei probably meant well. His character might be like this, so he didn't think too much about it.

Of course, he didn't let anything go during the game, and when it was time to strike, he would never be lenient.

In the first game, An Sheng took the lead in serving.

Standing at the serving position, An Sheng glanced at Liu Hewei calmly. Seeing that he was ready, he threw the ball up in his hand, and then his body suddenly exploded.

His legs, waist, and arms moved at the same time, and finally transferred the strength of his whole body to the racket, and completed the swing in one fell swoop.

"Snapped!"

With a crisp sound, the tennis ball flew towards the opponent's half court.

His serving action seems to be the same as before, and the quality of the serve can't be seen with the naked eye, but in fact, An Sheng has changed compared to before.

To put it simply, his movements are faster and more violent, but the price is reduced stability.

Of course, there needs to be a balance.

According to Ansheng's requirements, the success rate of the first shot must be at least 8%.

That is to say, he is willing to give up 1% of his serve success rate as a price to improve his serve power, and then increase his serve scoring rate.

But in fact, it is also obvious that after only a few months of training, An Sheng has not been able to grasp this speed well, so that his current serve is a bit unstable.

But he believes that since he has already decided to do this, then, in the game, he must naturally stick to it.

But this time, he had a good grasp of the serve, and he played the power of the serve he wanted, making the speed of the serve faster than his previous ones. At the same time, he also controlled the line and landing point very well.

Therefore, according to his current serve attribute of 65 points, the power of his serve this time can roughly reach about 68 points.

It is also obvious that Liu Hewei does not have such a high ability to receive and receive. In addition, he instinctively underestimated An Sheng, and his body was too relaxed, which caused his physical reaction to be slower than usual.

In this way, facing An Sheng's high-quality serve, Liu Hewei was taken aback. After reacting, although he tried his best to catch up, he still failed to hit it, and An Sheng got the first serve of the game. ACE!

Of course, as I said just now, An Sheng hit the upper limit of his ability this time, which is why he has such a strong power, and his current serve stability is worse than before.

But it must be said that even so, An Sheng's serving success rate is still much higher than that of ordinary players. Therefore, in general, his serving ability has improved.

But with his current serving ability, coupled with his offensive style of play, and overall strength advantage, facing An Sheng, Liu Hewei may be a bit difficult to deal with.

Among other things, in An Sheng's serve game, Liu Hewei had no chance to break serve at all, which made An Sheng invincible first.

But in contrast, in Liu Hewei's serve game, An Sheng didn't have so many scruples. As long as he had the opportunity, he would definitely attack and play extremely decisively.

This point is also one of coach Sun Binghua's new tactics for Ansheng.

In this game, this tactic achieved very good results. In the first set, An Sheng broke Liu Hewei's two serve games in a row, thus easily winning the game with a score of 6-1.

In the following games, Liu Hewei was powerless.

In fact, he was a little stunned by An Sheng. Whether it was facing An Sheng's serve or a strong forehand attack, he couldn't deal with it much, and his performance was getting worse and worse.

In this way, there was no suspense. In the second set, An Sheng gave the opponent a zero egg, and successfully won the whole game.

After sweeping the opponents in the two qualifying rounds, An Sheng advanced quite strongly to the main match.

(End of this chapter)