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Chapter 229 New Coach

"Coach Fortes, hello, I'm An Sheng."

At Shanghai International Airport, An Sheng smiled and walked quickly to a brown-haired foreigner, and he was An Sheng's new coach, Fortes.

Of course, they haven't formally signed the contract yet, but they have exchanged several times through online video, and both parties are generally satisfied with each other's conditions, which led to their meeting this time.

After that, they still need to go through a period of testing before they can formally reach a contract.

Compared with those big-name tennis coaches, Fortes actually does not have such remarkable achievements. Moreover, in the tennis coaching industry, he is still very young, currently only 34 years old.

But his work experience is already not simple.

According to An Sheng's understanding, Fortes has been working as a tennis coach for 9 years and has coached three professional players in total, two of them have been coached for 4 years each, and the remaining one has only been coached for 1 year.

Among them, the player who has only been with him for one year, I won't mention it much. Obviously, their cooperation is not very suitable, so they broke up early.

As for the remaining two, they have cooperated with Fortes for a long time, and they have both started to cooperate since they just entered the professional arena.

The results, although not very outstanding, but also let them rise from nowhere to the top 300 of the ATP, which is not bad.

The key point is that Fortes is a coach who is good at improving technical movements and formulating tactics. It is precisely because of his ability that the two players who are not particularly talented can achieve a relatively good achievement. .

This is also the key factor that made An Sheng decide to choose him.

In addition, there is a very important point, that is, the cost of Fortes is not high, with an annual salary of 60, and does not require any other share.

All in all, Fortes is not yet a big-name coach, his performance is not outstanding enough, and he is relatively young, so he can only report this price.

By the way, An Sheng really wanted to discuss the price with the other party. This is naturally a very common thing in Huaguo, and there is nothing inappropriate.

But after Sandy found out about this, she advised him not to do this, because this offer was Fortes' own offer, and that being the case, this was already his reserve price, without any negotiation room.

Even, if An Sheng spoke, it might make the other party think that this was denying his ability.

This is probably one of the differences between Eastern and Western cultures.

On the other hand, the reason why Fortes chose An Sheng was relatively simple.

This person goes to high places, and water flows to low places. Fortes naturally wants to improve his status. As a tennis coach, the one who can best reflect his value and coaching level is naturally coaching higher-ranked players.

So, when he knew that An Sheng's ATP ranking was already close to 200, he was basically moved.

In addition, he almost only watched a few videos of An Sheng, and immediately made a clear judgment that An Sheng still had a lot of room for improvement.

That is to say, he is very confident that after taking over An Sheng, he will be able to raise his ranking to within 200 or even higher.

In this way, the two sides hit it off, which led to this cooperation.

After returning to Lucheng, Fortes didn't want to stop for a moment, and immediately started the pre-test work, showing high enthusiasm.

It is worth mentioning that in tennis, the relationship between the player and the coach is actually the relationship between the boss and the worker.

Therefore, although on the surface, the status of the two parties is relatively equal, and both parties have the right to choose independently before signing the contract, but once the contract is signed, then, as the boss, the player naturally holds the initiative.

To be more specific, if a player is not satisfied with the coach, he can fire him at any time, and only needs to pay a small amount of compensation.

Only those big-name coaches can get better guarantees, and they can get a share of the bonus, but these top tennis coaches are absolutely very few.

After nearly a week of careful testing, Fortes drew a promising blueprint for Anson, and proposed a set of all-round improvement plans.

Of course, these cannot be empty words, because An Sheng is not a fool, and it is related to his future, which he attaches great importance to.

Therefore, Fortes must come up with very good reasons and successful cases in order to convince An Sheng.

As for the result, An Sheng is generally quite satisfied. Although there are some parts that he does not quite agree with, or have some objections to, but this is a normal phenomenon, seeking common ground while reserving differences. question.

And they still have to discuss more carefully later, so at this time, he doesn't need to be so serious.

As a result, Anson signed an employment contract with Fortes and officially started the partnership.

After that, An Sheng, Fortes, and Feng Enhao spent a lot of time conducting more in-depth testing and research before finally finalizing a comprehensive technical improvement plan.

The first thing he needs to improve is actually his racket.

In fact, the racket that An Sheng is currently using is not suitable for him, and he himself has already experienced this point.

But he didn't dare to change it at will before, because at the beginning, he had changed the racket once, but this had affected his strength to a large extent, and it also cost him a lot of time to be able to recover.

In addition, An Sheng did not dare to change the racket at will without a professional confirming the attributes of the racket.

Of course, now, for the future, to break through bottlenecks, and to improve his strength, An Shengke no longer has so many worries. After deciding on the plan, he immediately changed his racket.

Compared with before, the racket he replaced this time is longer, and the original balance center of gravity has been replaced with "tail weight".

In this way, it is more conducive to exerting his strength, and at the same time can increase his swing speed, thereby improving his hitting success rate.

In terms of technology, An Sheng also needs to make comprehensive improvements, but he can't rush for success. A lot of repeated practice can be effective.

In short, according to An Sheng's thinking, he doesn't need to think about the game at all now, and he should focus entirely on technical improvement. This is the right choice.

But Sandy seemed a little unhappy about this.

(End of this chapter)