tennis giant

Chapter 239 The Victory of Perseverance

An Sheng successfully broke into the main match of the Zhuhai Station Challenge, which allowed Sandy to take advantage of the situation and fight a wave of counterattacks, which made his supporters slightly regain the situation.

But with such a small achievement, it is obvious that those media who criticize Ansheng cannot shut up.

And the reasons they gave are reasonable, because according to An Sheng's current ATP ranking, entering the main match can only be regarded as his normal performance, which is not worthy of praise.

Regarding this, An Sheng really ignored it this time. He has already handed over all these matters to Sandy, and he only needs to concentrate on playing the game.

Before the game, An Sheng already knew his opponent.

His luck was not very good, because as soon as he came up, he met the seed player, that is Adams from the Czech Republic. His current ATP ranking is as high as 179.

This point put a lot of pressure on An Sheng, and also made him ready for a tough fight before the game.

As for his style of play, according to Fortes' analysis of him, it is a more conventional bottom-line all-around style of play, so Anson has no way to target him tactically.

On March 3, at 7:[-] pm, the first round of the competition officially began.

"Oh!"

An Sheng was the first to serve, but his first serve was a direct error.

But this is not because of his nervousness, or any other reason, but a normal phenomenon, because his current first-shot success rate is roughly only 6 to 7%.

To put it another way, under the current success rate, if An Sheng hits three serves, there will be one mistake.

And An Sheng's second serve has already been modified. It is no longer the way of violent serve without any scruples. Instead, it uses the side-swing serve commonly used by ordinary players to ensure the success of its serve to the greatest extent. Rate.

In this way, the success rate of An Sheng's second shot is indeed very high, reaching more than 9%, but its threat has also dropped a lot accordingly.

Of course, generally speaking, even if it's just a second serve, as the serving party, it still has some advantage. After all, it holds the initiative, unless the opponent adopts a risky return and attack.

And the game has just started, Adams naturally doesn't need to play so fiercely, but without too much pressure, he also played a high-quality return.

An Sheng then used his forehand to hit the opponent's backhand, which was a half defense and half attack.

After that, the two sides entered into a multi-shot stalemate with a bottom line.

This is actually a disadvantage of An Sheng's current style of play. His batting success rate has become higher, but when he has an advantage, it is not so easy to score, but it is easy to be equalized by the opponent.

During the stalemate, An Sheng was at a slight disadvantage, almost being suppressed by the opponent with every shot, thus gradually losing control of the game.

Fortunately, his backhand still has an advantage, which to a large extent helped him stabilize the situation.

In the end, An Sheng scored the winning point with a backhand.

But having said that, tennis is a sport that requires very comprehensive skills. It only has a certain advantage in the backhand, and when the advantage is not particularly large, Ansheng is still at an overall disadvantage.

In addition, it is very important that Adams' abilities are very comprehensive, and there are no particularly obvious loopholes.

In this way, An Sheng has no good way to target the other party.

In other words, the key point that determines the outcome of the game is already in the hands of Adams. If he can play well, then there is not much suspense in winning the game.

An Sheng felt a little helpless about this. His current overall strength is still relatively weak at the level of the Challenger League, and he still has a more serious problem, that is, his mental attributes have not kept up. Footsteps of other properties.

In addition, with the overall improvement of his attributes, his "spiritual explosion" has become less and less effective in helping him.

As a result, even if he is in a relatively excited state in the game and has a lot of fighting spirit, the improvement of his strength is very limited, and he cannot even decide the outcome of the game like before.

Therefore, at this point in the game, An Sheng can only stick to his heart, not be affected by other factors, and give full play to his due strength, which is considered a success.

An Sheng has indeed achieved this. When the score is behind and the situation is unfavorable, his game state has improved steadily. Although the improvement is very limited, his performance is still better than before.

On the other hand, Adams, for him, the situation is more optimistic, and as long as it can play smoothly, the victory is already in his hands.

Surprisingly, as the game progressed, Adams' performance became worse and worse.

Actually, there are two reasons for this.

The first reason lies in Adams himself. He is not in a very good state now, and he has played very mediocre in many previous events.

It should also be pointed out that when a player's strength is getting higher and higher and reaches a certain level, his own state fluctuations will become more and more obvious.

In a certain period of time, his strength may be very good, but after a period of time, he may experience a serious decline, and he is at a trough throughout the period.

This is a very important problem that high-level tennis players have to face.

Even for a professional tennis player, whether his level is high or low depends to a large extent on his ability to adjust his state.

Because this is really important. For example, you know that a certain event will be held at a certain time. At this time, you need to slowly start to adjust your state. If you adjust well, then you are here If you don't get the results in an important event, you will be much better, otherwise, you may lose in a mess.

The gap is really too big.

But An Sheng has not yet realized this point. After all, the time he has entered this level is too short, and he has never experienced a competition at all. In terms of experience, he is naturally very lacking.

But in fact, Anson is now in a very good state, while Adams is at a trough and cannot exert his full strength.

Another reason why Adams failed to show more strength in the game is Anson's persistence.

In fact, as players, they all like to play with the wind.

That is to say, even if Adams' current state is at a low point, if he plays smoothly from the beginning, it is likely to stimulate his state.

This kind of situation is quite common in competitions. Some players didn't play very well at first, but suddenly, he won several goals in a row, and then became very fierce.

And this point, in fact, is also related to the fluctuation of the player's state. Specifically, even if a player is in his own low point, if the conditions are right, such as being stimulated by some kind of stimulus, he may Temporarily raise its status.

But when An Sheng insisted on his own style of play and maintained his level, Adams did not play smoothly. On the contrary, as the game continued, he felt more and more difficult to score.

In this way, Adams' performance will decline again.

By the time of the second set, he had already lost his advantage on the scene, and even, except for occasionally making a few wonderful saves, at other times, he seemed very dim, as if his whole body, It has an aura of negative energy.

Because of this, An Sheng was able to persevere to the end despite losing a set first, and turned the tables into victory, successfully advancing to the second round of the main match.

(End of this chapter)