tennis giant

Chapter 242
Originally, in Zhuhai, Shencheng, and Qujing, An Sheng thought that he could get a place in one of the competitions, but he underestimated Sandy's ability.

Thanks to her help, An Sheng was able to qualify for the Zhuhai and Qujing Challenges.

The competition scale and prize level of this Qujing Station Challenge are exactly the same as those of the Zhuhai Station. However, due to its relatively remote geographical location, the contestants are relatively weaker.

Of course, to be able to reach such a level of professional competition, there are still a few high-ranked players who will come to compete for points and bonuses.

For example, the Tunisian player, Ghazni, whose ATP points are as high as 116, and Kafcic, whose ATP ranking is not low, is currently ranked 119th.

However, Ansheng doesn't need to worry about them now. For him, the most important thing is to pass the qualifying rounds and advance to the main competition.

After a few days of recuperation, An Sheng ushered in his opponent in the first round of qualifying. He was Vatudin from the fighting nation.

This is a typical offensive player with aggressive style of play and strong offense.

At the beginning of the game, Vatudin launched a fierce offensive against An Sheng without even a little temptation.

It has to be said that An Sheng was caught off guard, and he was broken by Vatudin when his hand was not warmed up.

However, even if he was completely broken by the opponent, An Sheng's mentality was relatively stable, and he did not panic.

The key is that An Sheng judged from it that Vatudin's hard power is actually slightly inferior to him. The reason why he played so strongly in the first two rounds was only because he was fighting. .

In other words, when the game situation stabilizes, and as long as An Sheng can display his due strength, then the balance of victory will be tilted in his favor.

Of course, the premise is that he can't let Vatudin play so smoothly all the time. If his state explodes, it will be difficult to handle.

Fortunately, his stable mentality allowed An Sheng to maintain his composure, and he quickly found the feeling of the game, playing better and better.

As a result, Vatudin's offensive was blocked, and his active mistakes became more and more. In this way, as a last resort, he gave up the fighting-style offensive strategy and turned to a normal match.

Under such circumstances, An Sheng gradually took control of the game, and in the 7th game of the first set, he completed a breakback to tie the game.

This time, it seemed that Vatudin was a little stimulated, and his style of play became fierce again.

But at this time, how could An Sheng let him succeed in another sneak attack?

In fact, Vatutin not only failed to pose a threat to Ansheng, but because he played too fiercely and made frequent unforced errors, he once again allowed Ansheng to break serve, and thus won the first set. victory.

In the second set, Vatudin did not come up with a better solution.

This point is actually one of the advantages of defensive tactics. Once they gain an advantage and have a slight upper hand in overall strength, then it will be difficult for them to be overturned by their opponents.

After all, their style of play emphasizes stability, and their own error rate is very low. If their opponents cannot come up with powerful methods, they will not be able to break their balance.

In the end, An Sheng won the second set relatively easily and successfully advanced to the second round of the qualifying round.

His opponent in the second qualifying round was Caruso from Italy.

Its characteristics mainly have two points. The first point is that he has the physical fitness common to European and American players and is very strong. The second point is that he is left-handed.

As I said before, players with left-handed rackets have some differences in their shots from those with right-handed rackets.

More importantly, in the current professional tennis world, most players are right-handed.

That is to say, whether it is left-handed or right-handed players, they will basically meet right-handed players in the competition.

In this way, players with left-handed rackets naturally have a slight advantage in this regard.

After all, they are more adaptable to right-handed players, but conversely, right-handed players cannot often encounter left-handed players, so their adaptability is naturally worse.

Of course, this point cannot be the key to determining the outcome of the game. No matter what the game is, what can most affect the result of the game is the strength comparison between the two sides.

As far as this game is concerned, the hard power of the two sides is evenly matched, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

In terms of physical fitness, Caruso is clearly superior. According to An Sheng's estimation, his strength has reached at least 75 points, but on the technical level, An Sheng has the upper hand.

To be more specific, Caruso is a player with strong physical fitness but relatively rough skills.

But what I have to say is that when the overall strength of the two sides is similar, the side with strong physical fitness actually has some advantages, because he is more direct, simple and effective.

But in this game, An Sheng still won.

It is precisely because Caruso's skills are relatively rough that his shots basically have only one threat point, that is, the ball is fast and powerful.

Correspondingly, its attack angle and attack strategy are not very clever.

The key is that although An Sheng's strength attribute is a little worse than the opponent's, it will not make him suffer too much.

In other words, it is basically impossible to kill An Sheng just by relying on "heavy artillery".

But other than that, Caruso couldn't come up with a better "weapon".

In this way, throughout the game, An Sheng completely disintegrated Caruso's offense by virtue of his fast running ability and tenacious defense.

Of course, just disintegrating the opponent's offensive is not the direct winning point, and there are actually two aspects that really allowed An Sheng to win the game.

One was Caruso's mistake, and the other was Anson's counterattack.

In the case of unfavorable offense, Caruso naturally wanted to play a more threatening offense, but his skills could not support him to do so. As a result, he made a lot of unnecessary mistakes.

However, An Sheng's counterattack, especially his backhand counterattack, poses a great threat to Caruso. As long as he does not make mistakes, the scoring rate of his counterattack can even reach more than 7%.

In this way, there was no suspense about the result of the match. An Sheng defeated his opponent relatively easily, and then qualified for the main match.

Unfortunately, in the first round of the race, An Sheng met the number one seed in this tournament, that is, Ghazni from Tunisia.

There was an obvious gap in strength between the two. Although Ansheng adopted fighting tactics very decisively and tried to fight the opponent for his life, the effect was very average.

In the end, he had no choice but to accept the result of failure, and ended the competition in Qujing.

By the way, as a 75K level challenge, its qualifying round also has ATP points, but its point value is very low.

Because of this, Ansheng's current ATP ranking has declined instead of rising.

This point has caused some people to attack without thinking, but in fact, this is a very normal thing for professional tennis players.

This is especially true for players who have just upgraded to a competitive level.

(End of this chapter)