tennis giant

Chapter 254
"Can the miracle continue?"

After An Sheng passed the first round of the main match relatively easily, a very popular commentary article appeared on the Bolang Sports Tennis Channel.

In this article, the words are quite exaggerated, but it is not a criticism of Ansheng. On the contrary, it praises Ansheng well, and even elevates Ansheng to the No. 1 in men's tennis in China. He believes that Ansheng will definitely be able to break into the top 50 in the world in the future!

But these words are actually all false. They may sound very comfortable and make people feel happy to watch, but they have no substantive content.

In the article, a question was mentioned about this Anning race, which attracted everyone's attention and discussion, that is, whether Ansheng can continue its previous good state, or even let the "miracle" happen again and win the championship. champion.

As for the answer to this question, if you just look at the comments, it is very unexpected. Most people actually think that An Sheng can create another miracle in this competition.

In other words, most of the people in the comments actually felt that Ansheng could win the championship again.

But after thinking about it, I can understand the reason.

First of all, the people who leave messages here should all support Anson themselves, or they are fans of Anson themselves, so they hope that Anson can win the championship again.

Secondly, these messages are probably a part of a joke. They know it's difficult, but it's no big deal to just make a joke.

In short, as long as fans with a little sense should know that it is almost impossible for An Sheng to win the An Ning Challenge, and his strength has not yet reached such a high level.

At this time, Ansheng was not supposed to know this news. With such a tight schedule, how could he have any spare time to learn about this?
But he knew it now, and the person who told him the news was actually his coach Fortes.

Ansheng did not expect that Fortes would pay so much attention to media reports. The last time, the so-called "breaking historical record" news was also told to him by Fortes.

An Sheng doesn't like this very much, but then again, no one is perfect. Who doesn't have some quirks and shortcomings of his own?
Furthermore, even if he knew the news, it would have little impact on him. Therefore, Ansheng just laughed it off and said nothing.

It is worth mentioning that the person who wrote this popular review article this time is actually Cui Yue, but he may be just a fledgling reporter or editor, so he has not attracted everyone's attention.

Looking back, An Sheng's second round of the race was about to begin.

This time, he didn't have such good luck. What he encountered was Boll from the Netherlands. His ATP ranking was as high as 112th, and he was also the eighth seed in this tournament.

There is no suspense. In terms of hard power, An Sheng must be at a disadvantage, and he quickly realized this in the game.

"Oh!"

An Sheng took the lead in serving, and the quality was pretty good. According to the speed card, the speed of this ball had reached 181 kilometers per hour. It could be said that he had reached the upper limit of his serving ability.

But immediately, Ball hit a high-quality return, which directly destroyed the attack An Sheng wanted to launch, so he had to hold back his strength and use a forehand topspin to make the transition.

And the quality of An Sheng's topspin ball is actually good, with strong spin and a relatively deep landing, which also forced Ball to retreat to the bottom line to return the ball.

In this way, logically speaking, Bohr could only take a transitional shot first, and could not launch a counterattack immediately, but the fact is that he used his forehand to hit a powerful straight counterattack.

This was beyond An Sheng's expectations, and Boll's counterattack this time was extremely fast and the angle was still sharp. Even though An Sheng tried his best to catch up, he still failed to save him.

From this, An Sheng can roughly get a few pieces of information. One is that Bohr’s forehand ability is very strong, and the other is that Bohr’s offensive desire/desire is very strong, and he has the ability to make some unreasonable fatal attacks. The other one, of course, is to verify that Boll's overall strength is much stronger than him.

Fortunately, An Sheng's current game experience, especially the experience of defeating the strong with the weak, still has some experience, so it won't make him panic.

What's more, the strength gap between them is not enough to crush him, so An Sheng still has a chance to win.

Of course, after recognizing his current position, Ansheng needs to adjust his mentality. When it is time to give in, he should give in honestly, and when it is time to take action, there should be no hesitation.

"Oh!"

An Sheng's serve is still not bad, and it was a sneak attack from the inside corner. Such a change disrupted the rhythm of Ball's return and reduced the quality of his return.

But seeing that Ball quickly adjusted his position, An Sheng knew that if he chose to attack in the next shot, it might not have a good effect. Therefore, he adjusted his attack method, using topspin, hitting To the opponent's backhand position.

Compared with his forehand, Bol's backhand ability is slightly worse, but he still chose a position outside the baseline to carry out a straight counterattack.

However, its hitting power is always inferior to that of the forehand, making its ball speed slightly slower.

This time was the counterattack opportunity that Ansheng was waiting for. Although it was a bit difficult, Bol's position was obviously flawed.

Without hesitation, An Sheng skillfully used the sliding step, bought himself some time to adjust his hitting action, and then used his forehand to hit a diagonal attack.

Sure enough, when Ansheng's attack hit, Boll could only stand there, because he knew that he would definitely not be able to catch up.

On the next goal, Ansheng was also very patient. When there was no good chance to counterattack and he couldn't see the opponent's flaws, he honestly defended the bottom line.

After that, under his tenacious defense, Ball was the first to make an offensive error and lost points again.

And in the last ball of this round, An Sheng used a very abrupt short ball to reverse the situation on the court, and then used his powerful flat hit to complete the end.

These three ways of scoring, that is, using defense to cause the opponent to make mistakes to score, or looking for the opponent's flaws, using counterattack to complete the winning point, or using his changes to disrupt the opponent's rhythm, and then force the attack to score, also constitutes Yes, in the defensive counterattack tactics currently used by Ansheng, there is a relatively complete scoring system.

It is precisely by relying on this set of established tactics that Ansheng is able to compete with Boll in a passive situation, instead of being unable to resist.

In the end, after three fierce battles, An Sheng won with difficulty and advanced to the quarterfinals.

Moreover, in this duel, Ansheng did not take any chances, and Boll's performance was also very normal. He relied on his own hard work to win the game. It can be said that he won down-to-earth, without any falsehood. .

(End of this chapter)