tennis giant

Chapter 191 Difficult Victory

"Haha, An Sheng, you really didn't lie to me. You played really well in this match!" Xiong Tengfei exclaimed excitedly.

Although he had played against An Sheng in the qualifying round before, in that match, he was in Mount Lu and could not see his true face.

But this time, he was in the stands and watched the whole match between An Sheng and Netov, from which he really saw An Sheng's great progress.

Even though he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked. He really didn't expect that An Sheng's progress would be so fast!
An Sheng responded with a smile, but didn't say anything.

Turning his head around, An Sheng immediately started preparing for his next match.

Through the draw, An Sheng already knew his opponent in the next round. There was no suspense. In the second round, the opponent must be a seeded player.

He is Toshiyuki Takagi from Japan. He is 21 years old. He is currently ranked 391st in the ATP rankings and is also the No. 8 seed in this event.

Thanks to the fact that Toshiyuki Takagi often came to China to participate in competitions, coach Sun Binghua found a lot of information about him, including some of his game videos.

From this, An Sheng can roughly determine that Takagi Toshiyuki should be a typical Asian tennis player.

His physical fitness is not very good. In terms of strength, he is slightly lacking, but his running ability is quite good, and his style of play is very tenacious, and he is also good at hitting the bottom line and taking more shots.

In addition, in terms of tennis skills, relatively speaking, he is also a bit rough, especially in the midfield and in front of the net. He is obviously not very good at it and rarely uses it in games.

"An Sheng, have you figured out who his template is?" After watching the video, coach Sun Binghua asked a little abruptly.

But about this, An Sheng really couldn't figure it out, and it was also because he didn't know enough about those top tennis players now, so naturally he couldn't guess.

"Hehe, An Sheng, if I'm not mistaken, this Takagi Toshiyuki should be imitating Nadal."

"Nadal?"

An Sheng froze for a moment, then shook his head with a disdainful face, not paying much attention.

As one of the best tennis players in the world, Nadal has some basic understanding of his style of play even though An Sheng didn't pay special attention to it.

In his opinion, perhaps Toshiyuki Takagi was indeed imitating Nadal's bottom-line defensive style of play, but the difference in strength between them was too great to be comparable at all.

Of course, apart from this point, An Sheng still attaches great importance to Takagi Toshiyuki and the match between them, and has no intention of belittling the other party.

At 1 pm on January 8th, the match between Ansheng and Takagi Toshiyuki officially started.

But at the beginning of the game, An Sheng encountered some troubles immediately and felt the difficulty of his opponent.

"Oh!"

Still, An Sheng served first, and the quality was quite good.

But I don't know whether Takagi Toshiyuki already knew him well, or because he originally played like this, and his receiving position was very late.

Because of this, he gained more reaction time, and then completed the receiving and receiving more calmly.

Of course, there are pros and cons to everything. After he chose a relatively late receiving position, the quality of his receiving will definitely be affected.

In addition, Takagi Toshiyuki's strength is not high, which makes his hair extensions non-aggressive.

Seeing this, An Sheng certainly didn't hesitate, and immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue the attack, hitting a powerful forehand flat attack, and directly attacking the opponent's backhand bottom line.

But Takagi Toshiyuki still relied on his very back position and his ability to run fast to defuse Ansheng's attack and made a counterattack.

It's just that, it's still an old problem, the position is too far back, making his counterattack look very weak.

After realizing that his attack was not enough to directly defeat the opponent, An Sheng was a little anxious. In the next shot, he strengthened the quality of the attack and directly aimed at the opponent's backhand sideline.

It was a little unexpected, but within reason, he, who pursued the angle too much, made an unforced error and hit the ball out of bounds.

At this time, An Sheng actually didn't care too much. After all, this was only the first goal. He believed that he would soon be able to find a suitable balance between the quality of offense and mistakes.

And Ansheng did this. While strengthening his offense, he controlled his error rate within an acceptable range, and he thus completed the first game's guaranteed serve.

However, the process is much more difficult than he imagined.

To be more precise, An Sheng still underestimated Takagi Toshiyuki's strength and tenacity. Facing his attack, the opponent played very patiently and had the strength to contend with him.

It is conceivable that if An Sheng does not make changes, the game will definitely become more difficult after Takagi Toshiyuki fully adapts to his style of play.

What's more, as an active offensive player, once the attack is blocked, there will be a chain reaction, and the mistakes will definitely increase.

In this way, whether he can keep his serve becomes a problem.

But when the game came to the opponent's serve, the situation turned out to be much better than Ansheng thought.

To put it simply, Takagi Toshiyuki, who is lacking in physical strength and explosive power, has not made great achievements in serving.

In addition, An Sheng's return ability is already as high as 68 points, and the clay court weakens the speed of the ball.

Therefore, in the face of Takagi Toshiyuki's serve, An Sheng could even launch a strong attack directly.

But the problem still exists. Even if Ansheng successfully completed the return attack and gained the initiative on the court, it was still very difficult for him to score in the face of Takagi Toshiyuki's tenacious baseline defense.

In fact, this question, which is the key to determining the outcome of this game, depends on whether Ansheng can break Takagi Toshiyuki's defense.

As the game progressed, An Sheng made many attempts, but he still couldn't find a better solution, as if no matter how he played, it made him feel very difficult.

In the end, Ansheng had to slow down his offensive to reduce his mistakes, and at the same time, he was more patient in taking multiple shots with the opponent. Only when a better offensive opportunity appeared, he would launch a more aggressive attack. .

In addition, in order to ensure that his offensive methods are not seen by the opponent, An Sheng has increased the diversity of his play styles, and from time to time he will adopt some uncommon styles of play, such as putting small balls, or volleying on the net.

But even so, An Sheng still couldn't take advantage of it, and the game was extremely anxious.

Fortunately, An Sheng's game state has always been maintained well, with steady progress, and his mood is also very stable.

In this way, until the end of the third set, An Sheng was able to take a slight advantage, and thus got a crucial break, and won the final victory of the game very hard.

(End of this chapter)