tennis giant

Chapter 245 Predictions
The qualifying round was over. Although An Sheng had encountered a tough fight, he was finally able to advance. However, among the players from Huaguo, some people had already been eliminated.

Take Zhang Zhizheng for example. His strength is still a level behind. It is difficult to make a breakthrough in the challenge level competition. Although he tried his best, he still failed to defeat his opponent.

Of course, there was also Bo Yang who was eliminated by An Sheng in the first qualifying round.

In this way, only An Sheng, Wu Bingyi, Wu Di, and Zhang Ze are left as singles players in this Qamdo tournament.

Among them, Zhang Ze qualified for the competition by virtue of his own ATP ranking, An Sheng qualified all the way from the qualifying rounds, but Wu Bingyi and Wu Di both had wild cards and could directly participate in the main draw.

From here, it can be generally seen that in their national team, Wu Bingyi and Wu Di should be the two most valued players, and they have received the most resources.

Especially for the young Wu Bingyi, the national team's current support for him is really great, and the wild cards in various competitions are simply too soft to get.

It's a pity that so far, Wu Bingyi has not been able to achieve any results in the adult professional competitions.

However, before the start of the main game, someone made some analysis and predictions on the Chinese Army in this event on the Internet, and quickly attracted a lot of attention. Some media even quoted this article, This has attracted discussions among many fans.

They believe that among the four people including An Sheng, they can be divided into two factions.

One is the "elderly faction" consisting of Wu Di and Zhang Ze, and the other is the "new generation faction" consisting of An Sheng and Wu Bingyi.

The reason for this division is obvious. The former are veteran players who have been famous for a long time and are also the pillars of the current Huaguo men's tennis world, while the latter are rising stars. Among the new generation of players, they are the two most famous.

But whether it is the "old school" or the "new school", there are still differences internally.

Between Wu Di and Zhang Ze, more people believed that Zhang Ze would achieve better results. After all, he has been in a relatively good state recently. As for Wu Di, he has not been very good in the past half a year.

As for An Sheng and Wu Bingyi, everyone is not very optimistic about it, but relatively speaking, more people support Wu Bingyi.

The key is probably that they believe that Wu Bingyi's future potential will be greater, and An Sheng has not performed very well in the challenge competition before, which cannot give people enough confidence.

In addition, for the specific results of the four of them, many netizens also gave estimates. Among them, Wu Bingyi and An Sheng are "round trips", and Wu Di will probably be able to break into the second round.

Zhang Ze is the only one who is expected to enter the top 8 of this competition, or even achieve better results.

However, An Sheng, who was actively adjusting his state and preparing for the game, didn't know about it at all, but even if he knew, he would probably sneer and dismiss it.

And at two o'clock in the afternoon the next day, the first round of the main competition officially started.

An Sheng's opponent is Karlovski from the fighting nation. His current ATP ranking is as high as 159. Although he is not a seed player, his strength should not be underestimated.

It is worth mentioning that Karlov's figure is not as strong as most people imagine, but rather slender.

This is actually very normal, because obviously, not all Russian men have a bear-like body, they also have thin and short men.

However, Karlov's style of play is very much like that of a fighting nation.

According to Anson's understanding before the game, Karlov is a typical offensive player, with a strong ability to serve, and at the same time, the offensive firepower is also very fierce.

But this point was seen by Anson and Coach Fortes as a point that could be exploited.

"Oh!"

Karlov took the lead in serving, and his serving strength was indeed very strong. The advantage of his height made his serving route shorter, and the reaction time left for Ansheng was naturally shorter, and he was very powerful.

Fortunately, with the weakening of the red clay, An Sheng completed the hair extension relatively safely.

Immediately, Karloff attacked Ansheng's backhand as usual. Although he was a little thin and didn't seem to be particularly powerful, in fact, the ball he hit was very offensive and powerful. big.

An Sheng struggled to catch up and was about to lose track of him, but his face didn't show the slightest panic.

At this moment, with a sound of "shua", An Sheng skillfully used his sliding step to make up the distance between him and the ball, and then used his backhand to slice to complete the defense.

What needs to be pointed out in particular is that compared to his backhand counterattack, his backhand cutting is actually stronger, with a high degree of proficiency and a very good feel.

Therefore, the quality of An Sheng's backhand chipping the ball is quite good, the line is very flat, and the landing point is very deep.

But at the next moment, An Sheng showed a helpless smile, because in the face of his high-quality cutting ball, Karlov actually succeeded in hitting a straight line attack.

And with Ansheng's current position, even with the bonus of sliding, it is impossible to catch up.

Of course, An Sheng did not lose confidence because of this, because he knew that this kind of straight-line attack itself was very difficult. Even if Karlov succeeded this time, he might not be able to succeed next time.

The same is true, but slightly different.

For the next shot, the previous process was almost the same, but in the face of An Sheng's high-quality cutting ball, Karlov did not continue to choose to change the line to attack.

It can be guessed that Karlov is also very aware of the risks involved, including the information sent to him by his touch, telling him not to choose to change the line of attack easily, because it is too easy to cause mistakes.

Therefore, Karlov chose a more secure diagonal and used topspin.

At this time, if in the past, An Sheng would have been able to use his SLR expertise to launch a backhand counterattack, but now, he has not done so. Instead, he is extremely patient and continues to use his cutting ball. Safe defense.

Subsequently, the two sides entered a diagonal stalemate.

Sure enough, just two shots later, Karloff lost patience and tried to finish the ball with a straight attack, but he made a mistake and the ball returned out of bounds.

"drink!"

Getting this point, An Sheng was a little excited, clenched his fists, and gave a loud drink.

And the reason for this is actually very simple.

As I said just now, Karlov is a player with a strong offensive nature. From this, we can roughly judge his two characteristics. One is that he has a strong desire to attack and lacks patience, and the other is that he The stalemate ability should be relatively weak.

In this way, as long as An Sheng can enter a stalemate with him, then Karlov will fall into a passive state. If the stalemate continues, his probability of losing points will continue to increase, but if he does not want to continue the stalemate, then, He must take greater risks to take offense.

In short, no matter how Karlov chooses, he is not very easy to deal with.

After grasping Karlov's weakness, An Sheng also grasped the winning point of the game.

Of course, it must be said that Ansheng's advantage in this game is, to a certain extent, due to the characteristics of the clay court.

This is to strengthen his defensive strength, but weakens Karlov's offensive ability, thus narrowing the strength gap between the two sides.

That is to say, when there is not much difference in strength between the two sides, the tactical play of the two sides has become the key to determining the outcome of this game.

In the end, Ansheng won two consecutive sets and won his first victory in the main match.

(End of this chapter)