tennis giant

Chapter 240
When Ansheng entered the second round of the main competition, no one could point fingers at him at this time, because this was enough to show his due strength.

Of course, if they still insisted on criticizing him, they would be able to find a reason, but at least the reason should not be aimed at this tournament.

In fact, it is true that no media has any doubts about An Sheng's performance anymore. However, the key reason why they changed the topic is not this point, but because, in the next round of competition, An Sheng Will encounter a member of the Huaguo national team, he is Zhang Ze.

Speaking of which, in the past few years, Zhang Ze's life in the national team has not been satisfactory, because he is always the number two male, and there is always someone over his head.

Although he is friendly on the surface, and he knows that it is because he is not up to date, but in his heart, he must still be more or less unhappy.

However, in the past six months, the situation has undergone some changes.

Since Wu Di was injured, his condition has not been very good, and his injury does not seem to be serious, but for some reason, it has been repeated repeatedly, which has seriously affected his performance. As for, his ranking dropped to outside the 250th place.

In this way, Zhang Ze became the first brother of the national team.

And this time An Sheng will meet with him in the second round of the main match, which has attracted the attention of many people. They seem to want to see whether the "wild" An Sheng is better or the "domestic" Zhang Ze is better. .

In fact, this is unfair to An Sheng. After all, Zhang Ze has been a veteran in professional tennis for many years, but he can still be regarded as a newcomer, and he has just started to try to enter the challenge level. .

But for the audience, of course they don't care about it.

In addition, there is no suspense that the absolute majority of people choose to support Zhang Ze in predicting the outcome of this game because of his fame and because he is a member of the national team.

As for the result of this game, their wish was fulfilled, but, as far as the process of the game was concerned, they were also in a cold sweat.

At the beginning of the first set, An Sheng quickly discovered that Zhang Ze's hard power was stronger than him, and more importantly, Zhang Ze's game state was very hot.

That being the case, An Sheng had only two choices.

One is to stabilize the mentality, hand over the initiative to the opponent, and hope that the opponent's state will fluctuate, thereby reversing the situation.

The other is to change its game strategy and use a more adventurous style of play in exchange for the initiative in the game.

These two methods, or strategies, have advantages and disadvantages, but on the whole, they are all reducing the probability of Ansheng winning the game.

At first, An Sheng chose the former, which is not wrong, after all, this method is more secure.

But when An Sheng discovered that the game was more and more in favor of Zhang Ze, and Zhang Ze's state was getting smoother and smoother, he knew that this safe way could only be to wait for death.

Therefore, Anson decisively changed his approach and chose the second strategy.

The method is also very simple and clear. On the premise of maintaining its defensive tactics, it uses more of its backhand specialty, so as to play a more threatening counterattack.

Don't blame An Sheng's current methods for being so single, there is no way to do it, because he is currently a weak person, and he has relatively few weapons in his hands, so of course there are very few choices.

And the effect is still very good. At one time, An Sheng regained a lot of momentum, and also dragged the first set into the final tie-break.

But at this critical moment, Zhang Ze ushered in an explosion again. He is also worthy of being a veteran. At this time, he was not soft at all, and he made a move when it was time to make a move, thus winning the first set.

And when the game came to the second set, An Sheng's backhand still gave Zhang Ze a lot of trouble, and it was the same as Adams and Hollander that An Sheng had encountered before. Great solution.

Therefore, Zhang Ze's performance was restrained by Ansheng to a certain extent.

At this time, Zhang Ze fell into a misunderstanding. He began to attack An Sheng's forehand frequently to avoid his backhand counterattack.

But in fact, even if An Sheng is now using a one-handed backhand technique, it is definitely not as good as the forehand in terms of defensive range and ability.

There is no need to doubt this point, just like your arms cannot twist your thighs, your backhand is always inferior to the forehand.

But sometimes, people always fall into a blind spot. The truth is obviously very simple, but it is obscured by the affairs in front of them.

In addition, Zhang Ze himself also has the weakness of insufficient strength, which leads to his offense not being threatening enough. On the contrary, he frequently makes unforced errors under An Sheng's tenacious defense.

In this way, An Sheng won the second set and evened the score.

When the game came to the third set, Zhang Ze probably got a reminder from his coaching team and finally got rid of the previous misunderstanding and no longer specialized in Ansheng's forehand area.

What's even smarter is that Zhang Ze didn't choose to focus on An Sheng's backhand, but moved left and right according to the actual situation.

As for An Sheng's backhand counterattack, Zhang Ze also played more patiently, because he had discovered his weakness.

After all, An Sheng's backhand counterattack was actually only one shot!
To put it another way, as long as it can beat An Sheng's counterattack, then An Sheng's counterattack can be resolved, and then the initiative in the game can be regained.

Furthermore, although An Sheng's backhand counterattack is very sharp, his error rate is not low.

In this way, An Sheng quickly fell into a passive position, and he quickly discovered Zhang Ze's strategy. It is a pity that the weapons in his hand are really too few. There is no other effective strategy.

In the end, although An Sheng was still very tenacious withstood many break points, he would lose if he defended for a long time. When his counterattack failed to be effective, Zhang Ze seized the opportunity and completed a round of break points, thus winning. In the third set, he also won the entire game.

In the face of this failure, An Sheng was very calm, because he had basically achieved his goal, and this was a tennis match, unlike some other sports, where he had to win the championship to win.

Here, being able to get a certain ranking can also be regarded as a kind of victory, even for Federer and Nadal, it is impossible to win the championship every time they compete.

It is worth mentioning that after the game, Zhang Ze took the initiative to ask for An Sheng's contact number and invited him to have a meal together after the game was over. This is also a kind of recognition for An Sheng.

And An Sheng also agreed, he doesn't need to return to Lucheng for the time being, because just ten days later, he will participate in the Qujing challenge.

For this, I have to thank Sandy. If it weren't for her, An Sheng might not have gotten a place for the competition so easily.

(End of this chapter)