tennis giant

Chapter 262 Veteran Yanke
On August 8, An Sheng took his team to Chengdu to participate in the ATP Challenge held there. The total prize money reached 2K, which is considered to be a relatively high level in the challenge.

As for this expedition, An Sheng did not publicize it, and he did not even announce the news on Weibo, but his itinerary was discovered by the media through signing the form.

It's just that, this Chengdu Challenge has assembled most of the outstanding domestic men's tennis players, and several main members of the national team, such as Zhang Ze and Wu Di, have come to participate.

In addition, An Sheng's enthusiasm has long passed.

Therefore, even though everyone knew that An Sheng was going to participate in the competition, they did not show too much enthusiasm and expectation. In the media reports, he could only be an addition, and he would mention it by the way, but he would not specifically describe it. .

And because he didn't participate in the competition for more than two months, and even for three months, he didn't get many ATP points. This caused Ansheng's ranking to drop below the 200th place again.

Of course, this ranking is actually not low among Huaguo men's professional tennis players, but he couldn't get a wild card, so he could only honestly start from the qualifying rounds.

Regarding this, An Sheng was calm and did not complain. On the contrary, he felt that this would be beneficial to him. After all, he had been away from the arena for a long time, so he could play these two qualifying matches as a warm-up match.

As for the outcome, with his current strength, An Sheng does not believe that there is a player who can beat him in terms of qualifications!
Needless to say, this is the fact. In the next two qualifying matches, although An Sheng's state was relatively average, he still defeated his opponent very easily.

However, An Sheng's performance still failed to attract everyone's attention, because, in this Chengdu competition, other players also performed very well.

For example, Zhang Zhizheng, An Sheng's friend, also started from the qualifying round, and won two games in two games, and easily advanced to the main game.

By the way, after coming to Chengdu, as a good friend, An Sheng had of course communicated with Zhang Zhizheng, and he also played a half-time warm-up match on the court.

The result is meaningless, after all, it is just a warm-up, but from it, An Sheng can clearly see that Zhang Zhizheng has made great progress, and it is estimated that he has already broken into the 70th stage, and his current competitive state should also be Very good.

Therefore, for this event, An Sheng is very optimistic about Zhang Zhizheng, and believes that he can at least break into the top 8. Of course, the premise is that he does not meet those strong players in advance.

In addition, it goes without saying that Zhang Ze has maintained a good state of play this year, and his ATP ranking has risen to more than 160, which is enough for him to directly enter the main match.

As for Wu Di, his condition is still not outstanding, and he can start directly from the main match because of the wild card.

But before the start of the main match, Sandy told An Sheng some unexpected but reasonable news, that is, she is now applying for a place for him to participate in the Huaguo Open.

The reason why she wanted to tell An Sheng the news at this time was because An Sheng's results in this Chengdu Challenge might affect his application for a place in the Huaguo Open.

In short, the better Anson's grades, the more likely he will be successful in his application.

Of course, it's not just this Chengdu Challenge, the results of several events he will participate in after that may affect this matter.

So, if possible, Sandy hopes that Ansheng can achieve better results, preferably in one or two races, to win the championship.

But in fact, she underestimated An Sheng's determination. Even without this matter, An Sheng's goal is to be the champion!He also believes that he is capable of doing it now.

Back to the game, the first opponent An Sheng encountered in the race was a 32-year-old veteran, Jankotip Salević from Serbia.

Its current ATP ranking is No. 151, but if you only judge its strength by his ranking, then you may be very wrong.

Because Janko is not an ordinary tennis player, his past is quite brilliant.

In his teenage years, he has already begun to emerge, once in the youth rankings, occupying the top ten positions in the world.

And after he entered the adult group, although his performance was not as brilliant as he was in his youth, he also achieved good results. Among them, in 2012, he was also the one who broke into the world before ten.

Therefore, Yanke's strength must be there, and the upper limit is very high, but as he gets older, his physical function gradually weakens, and some previous injuries make his current state not so good .

In any case, he is a worthy opponent.

As for this game, An Sheng undoubtedly paid more attention to it, whether it was respect for Yanko or for himself.

Fortunately, An Sheng's mentality is very correct, otherwise, the result of this game is really hard to say.

At the beginning of the game, both Yanke and Ansheng played more conservatively, but Yanko's game experience is obviously better, and his handling of the ball is more reasonable.

In addition, the venue of this Chengdu Challenge is a hard court, which more or less affected An Sheng.

Therefore, on the scene, An Sheng was always relatively passive.

And An Sheng himself is aware of this. While gradually regaining the feeling of the game and increasing the excitement, he is consciously increasing the number of rounds of the game.

To be more specific, An Sheng wanted to physically defeat Yanke.

But obviously this cannot be effective in just one game, so in the first game, Yanko still won the victory.

When the game came to the second set, An Sheng's game state improved, and correspondingly, Yanke, who had the upper hand, gradually declined.

After all, Yanko is 33 years old after all, and his physical condition is not as good as before. During the competition, he also lacked the impact and hard work of young people.

Especially under An Sheng's tenacious defense, Yanke actually played very hard. If possible, he would be more willing to fight against An Sheng.

But this is a competition, not entertainment. After seeing the effect of his strategy, An Sheng will certainly not let it go, but will work harder in this direction.

Therefore, in the second half of the second set, Janko had physical problems. Although he persisted, his unforced errors had obviously increased a lot, which also showed that he was about to hold on. Can't stop.

In this way, Ansheng won the second set relatively smoothly.

As for the third set, there was actually no suspense. An Sheng's strength was further improved, while Janko's physical strength and performance were constantly declining.

One up and one down basically determines the outcome of the game.

In the end, it took a total of two hours and 15 minutes. An Sheng won the game with a total score of 2 to 1, and successfully advanced to the second round of the main match.

(End of this chapter)