tennis giant

Chapter 210 Bad luck?

The competition in the tennis industry is very fierce, especially as a tennis player. As long as you slack off a little, you will be surpassed by other players, and at the same time, you will also be forgotten.

Especially when you are at the bottom, with many players and many competitions, this is even more prominent.

And An Sheng, who hadn't participated in any professional competitions for more than two months, was almost forgotten by the media at this time, so he didn't see any familiar reporters at the scene.

Including his Weibo, after being popular for a while, it quickly cooled down. Even if he sent a message, almost no netizens left him a message or comment.

This kind of situation, more or less, made An Sheng a little bit disappointed. Turning his head, he was even more eager for this competition.

With An Sheng's current strength, there is no suspense in the qualifiers. Even in the main match, other than the seed players, it is difficult for anyone else to hinder him.

To be more precise, his strength has almost reached the peak of the 60th stage, and his competitive state is very stable. Only those players with comparable physical strength or stronger than him can pose a threat to him .

The player he competed in the first round of the main draw was an unseeded player with slightly weaker strength than him. In this way, An Sheng won quite easily.

Of course, this was completely within An Sheng's expectations, so after winning the first round of the race, he didn't have any emotional fluctuations and seemed very calm.

For him, the game has just begun.

And his second round can be regarded as a test for him.

His opponent is a player from Italy, Cippola. Currently, his ATP ranking is 288th, and he is also the No. 4 seed of this event.

It can be clearly seen that in this Hope Competition, since there is a 25K event in the next week, the players who come to register for the competition will be ranked higher and their strength will of course be stronger.

If it is a regular hope match, such a ranking will definitely allow Cippola to get a higher seed ranking.

"Hey, Ann, I heard Mbah a Moute talk about you. He said that you are very talented and hardworking. I didn't expect that I could actually meet you in this competition, but I'm sorry, this is a competition. So, I can only say that you are out of luck."

Before the game, Cipolla's words surprised An Sheng a little.

Of course, he still remembered the black Italian player, Mbah a Moute, and they were still in contact now, but he didn't think that this Chipola actually knew Mbah a Moute, and had heard of him from him.

And from his words, it can be clearly heard that Chipola is very confident.

However, An Sheng did not respond to this. His goal is to be the champion!Therefore, he must defeat all opponents standing in front of him, no matter who he is!
"Oh!"

Chipola took the lead.

The speed of the ball is very fast, forcing An Sheng to return the serve, and he can't play aggressively. He can only barely return the ball deeper.

Undoubtedly, Cipolla took advantage of the situation to launch a bottom-line attack and hit the ball to An Sheng's backhand, but the game had just begun after all, and his offense was relatively conservative and did not pursue too much angle.

As a result, An Sheng easily caught up and used his very skilled one-handed backhand chipping to complete the return.

The key point is that An Sheng's one-handed backhand cutting technique and his physical fitness are much better than before, and his return of the ball this time can be said to be relatively calm.

Therefore, the quality of his backhand chip this time is very high, not only the line is very low and flat, the landing point is deep, but also the spin is very good.

Chipola obviously didn't judge the spin strength of the ball very well. Although his running ability is quite good, he chose the batting position early, but when he hit the ball, he didn't do it very well. He controlled the ball, made a mistake, and hit the net directly.

But just this shot did not attract Cipolla's attention. Therefore, in the next shot, he almost hit the same line, and An Sheng also used a high-quality backhand slice to deal with it.

Of course, Cipolla noticed this, and was a little surprised by An Sheng's backhand ability.

However, the offensiveness of backhand cutting is not enough after all. Therefore, although this ball limited Chipola's counterattack, there is no big problem in completing the return.

In order to ensure the success rate of returning the ball, Chipola used the backhand topspin technique, and also chose the longest and most secure backhand diagonal.

It must be said that this goal fully demonstrated Chipola's skills and strength.

In the case of being unable to exert force, he used his technique and touch to precisely control the landing point of the ball at the bottom corner, thus posing a certain threat to An Sheng, and to a large extent, restricting An Sheng counterattack.

In Cipolla's view, his high-quality return was enough for him to regain the initiative in the game, but the fact surprised him.

I saw that An Sheng started extremely quickly. After the ball landed and flew out of the sideline, he still chose to turn sideways and hit a powerful counterattack with his forehand.

The reason why he was able to do this was due to his correct position and the fact that his previous high-quality cutting ball limited Chipola's power and made the ball not fast enough.

Of course, An Sheng's hard power is similar to that of Cipolla, so after he chose to sideways, he has no ability to change the line. In that case, the risk of making mistakes is too great.

But even so, in the face of An Sheng's very sudden sideways attack, Chipola still seemed ill-prepared, and he did not have the skills to cut with a single backhand, so he could only use double backhand skills to deal with it, but he was allowed to do it again. There was a return error and the ball went out of bounds.

Losing another point, Cipolla was taken aback for a moment, then glanced at An Sheng.

By this time, he had already discovered that An Sheng's strength was not inferior to him at all. His previous words were obviously a little arrogant.

Facing An Sheng, he simply didn't have the ability to win the game safely!

After having this understanding, Cipolla's attitude towards this game naturally became more serious, but it must be said that the outcome of the game is not something that can be changed by just changing his own attitude. of.

In the next step, although Cipolla got back two points in a row, An Sheng then used his backhand to cut, plus the routine of sideways forehand attack, and scored two consecutive points, thus winning the first game break .

This time, Cipolla's attitude was not only serious, he already had a premonition that this match might be very difficult.

And back to his own serve, An Sheng is even stronger. His serve strength and stability, as well as the success rate of his attack, are all difficult for Cipolla to deal with. Maybe he can hit a few good shots occasionally. But it was unable to pose an effective threat to An Sheng.

This is a microcosm of the game.

In the end, An Sheng won the game relatively easily with a score of 6-2, 6-1.

To be honest, this result is beyond the expectations of many people, including coach Sun Binghua who thinks he knows An Sheng very well.

In his mind, An Sheng's strength was not strong enough to easily defeat Chipola, but judging from the process and results of the game, it all reflected this point.

Perhaps, An Sheng's game state is better, Sun Binghua guessed so.

(End of this chapter)