tennis giant

Chapter 181 Important Notes
Occupation means making a living from it, and it is less humane and more utilitarian.

This is especially prominent for professional tennis players. They have devoted a lot of time and investment to this, and they need to earn enough returns in the professional arena.

In this way, their purpose of coming to the competition is very clear, that is to earn bonuses and gain more points so that they can participate in higher-level events and win more bonuses.

Under such circumstances, there is actually very little communication between professional tennis players, and their energy has been completely focused on the game.

And An Sheng, having realized this, is slowly adapting to the rhythm of life as a professional tennis player.

September 9, Teacher's Day.

At two o'clock in the afternoon that day, An Sheng ushered in his first race in Jinling. His opponent was the 19-year-old player from France, Milot.

Milot, with a height of 193 and a weight of 69 kg, is currently ranked 511th in the ATP.

Just looking at the data, his image may not be so clear, but as long as he sees him, it is very obvious that he is very tall and thin.

Obviously, such a thin and tall figure is not the usual figure of tennis players, and it is not very suitable for the sport of tennis.

However, since Milot was able to reach the current ranking, he naturally had his own unique features, and soon, An Sheng realized how powerful he was.

"Oh!"

The game started with Milot serving first.

And An Sheng originally thought that Milot's serve should be relatively weak. Although he has a height advantage, his too thin body will make him lack of strength.

But in fact, Milot's power is not small, at least stronger than An Sheng's.

In this way, with his height bonus, his serve has become his big weapon, and it is also one of the important reasons why he can reach the current ranking.

But that alone was not enough for Milot to form a complete suppression of An Sheng. In other words, the serve only gave him an advantage, but if he wanted to score, he still needed him to complete the final fatal blow.

After all, with An Sheng's current strength, as long as Milot's serve is not particularly tricky, he can still complete the return.

Moreover, Milot's serve actually needs to maintain its balance point. What's more, he is still pursuing a higher ball speed, and occasionally can open the angle. However, in order to ensure the success rate of his serve, he basically chooses to compare A solid line of service.

And Milot's strength, which was once again beyond An Sheng's expectations, was that his running ability was no worse than other players.

Therefore, after gaining the advantage of serving, he can quickly face forward, or directly complete a high-altitude volley in the midfield, or quickly launch a rush attack, and then go online to intercept.

For example, this ball, even though An Sheng completed the receiving and returning before adapting to the strength of the opponent's serve, he only hit a low-quality midfield high ball.

Later, he was surprised to see that Milot, who is 1 meters tall, started quickly, rushed into the court extremely decisively and swiftly, and completed a high-pressure ball while the tennis ball was still flying in the air.

In particular, his height, coupled with the height of his arms and racket, makes the hitting point he chooses far higher than the average player.

This also correspondingly increased the power of his high-pressure ball, so that when he faced this kind of midfield high ball, he didn't need to think about the direction of his hit at all, and he could just complete the smash directly.

Because the parabola of the high-pressure ball bounced off the ground has far exceeded the limit that ordinary players can achieve, and it is almost impossible to have a chance to return the ball.

As a result, with just one serve and a high pressure in the midfield, Milot easily completed the score. At the same time, this basically showed his tactical play.

What I have to say is that his tactics are quite similar to An Sheng's current tactics, both of which are offensive styles of play, but the strengths they rely on are different.

The former relies more on his serve, while the latter relies more on his forehand attack.

After realizing this, An Sheng's expression became a little dignified, because he immediately realized that when both of them insisted on using an offensive style of play, the pace of the game must be quite fast.

In other words, in this game, his mental explosive ability is likely to be unusable.

Fortunately, before the game, An Sheng actually made two-handed preparations. If the opponent's strength is strong, then he will use his mental explosive ability, but if he has the opportunity to win the game without using this ability , he intends to save it for the next game.

Although this is slightly different from his current situation, since there is no prerequisite for using the mental explosive ability now, An Sheng has finally settled down, stopped thinking about other things, and just worked hard .

It must also be said that after getting rid of the mentality of relying on mental explosion to win the game, it is actually more able to make him devote himself to the game and make his attention more concentrated.

But back to the game, there was no suspense. In the first game, Milot easily secured the serve, and then shifted the pressure to An Sheng.

There is no doubt that if An Sheng wants to win this game, then keeping his serve is one thing he must complete.

An Sheng knew this very well, but he didn't think much about it.

"Oh!"

This is an outside corner serve, its quality is An Sheng's normal level, the ball is fast, but the placement is not as tricky as before.

And Milot's reaction was very quick, and judging from his movements, it was even more ferocious, because he actually chose to receive the strong attack directly.

Seeing this, An Sheng was really taken aback, but fortunately, Milot's return ability has not yet reached such a high level. It can be clearly seen that his return attack is very reluctant, which is why he appeared Made a mistake.

This made An Sheng understand that the tactical play of this Milot player is very similar to his. In the opponent's serve, they are all adopting more aggressive styles of play.

This approach may increase the probability of mistakes, but once luck comes and you hit a few good shots in a row, or your opponent makes a mistake, then you have a better chance to get the key. break.

In other words, Milot is now like a cheetah waiting for an opportunity, lurking around An Sheng, and may come up to bite him at any time.

This requires that An Sheng must maintain sufficient concentration in his serve, and his state should not fluctuate too much, because if he is a little careless, his opponent may seize the opportunity.

Undoubtedly, the pressure on An Sheng has increased a lot accordingly, making him, who was already very focused on the game, dare not lose his mind in the slightest.

Of course, correspondingly, An Sheng will also launch an impact on Milott's serve, and, from a technical and tactical point of view, the conditions he needs to achieve to break the opponent's serve are probably simpler.

As long as he can complete the return better, improve the quality of his return, and then drag the game into a stalemate, then he has a higher probability of winning.

It's just that, as far as the current situation is concerned, An Sheng's overall strength is still slightly inferior to that of Milot, so relatively speaking, his threat to Milot is much smaller.

And in such a situation, the progress of the game is developing very fast.

In less than half an hour, the first set between the two sides was tied 6-6, and then entered the final tie-break.

And it's a pity that in the tie-break, An Sheng failed to defend, allowing Milot to complete a break, thus winning the first set.

And this, in fact, is the true portrayal of the first set. Although An Sheng completed all six sets of serve, the process was much more thrilling than that of Milot.

Therefore, it was reasonable for him to lose the first set.

But when the game came to the second set, the situation changed suddenly.

In the first game, Milot performed exceptionally well, and played several powerful returns and attacks in a row. Although An Sheng saved a few game points very tenaciously, he was still seized by him. Completed the break.

But this is really not to blame An Sheng, because his performance has always been maintained at the level he should be, and even because of his focus on the game, his performance has improved.

And at the beginning of the second set, he suffered such a heavy blow, which obviously dealt a big blow to An Sheng.

However, he is not that fragile. Perhaps this has indeed caused some changes in his psychology, but his concentration on the game is still very high.

His idea is very simple, even if he wants to lose, he must lose to be worthwhile, at least he needs to get more exercise in the game.

But An Sheng didn't expect it at all. In the next second game, which was Milot's first serve in the second set, he also broke serve, making the score 1-1. .

"Why is that?"

An Sheng was very pleasantly surprised, but at this moment, he was also very puzzled and a little confused.

In fact, the answer is very simple. The reason why Milot performed supernormally in the first game is because his state has improved. Similarly, in the second game, he lost his serve Innings, it is because his state has declined.

Generally speaking, there are some problems with Milot's concentration on the game, which makes his game state fluctuate.

But this is actually relatively normal, because it is impossible for a normal person to maintain long-term and high-intensity concentration on something.

This point, even the top professional tennis players, is impossible to do. They will also experience fluctuations in their status during the game.

More importantly, since it is a fluctuation, there will naturally be peaks and troughs, but it is not easy to stay on the peaks, and once you fall into a trough, it is not easy to climb up .

In short, fluctuations in status during a game are not a good thing for a tennis player.

Just like the current Milot, he adjusted well at the beginning of the second set, but after the break, his mental state relaxed a little, but it immediately made him fall into a slump. And if he wants to get out of it, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time.

Correspondingly, An Sheng's state is much more stable, and it is steadily rising, the more he fights, the better.

In this way, An Sheng won the second set relatively easily.

By the time of the third set, Milot's state had been readjusted, but at this time, he was a little shocked to find that the situation of the game seemed to be out of his control.

This was indeed the case. In comparison, An Sheng won the third set with ease, thereby winning the entire match and advancing to the second round of the main match.

This is something that even An Sheng himself was puzzled by. It wasn't until he carefully recalled the whole game that he roughly found the reason for it, and got a very important hint to him from it.

(End of this chapter)