tennis giant

Chapter 267 Trust
The 2016 "Mai Orange Cup" Huaguo International Tennis Challenge, the Quancheng event, was held on August 8, and shooting started on time.

Its total prize money has reached 150K, which is already the highest level of ATP Challenge, and therefore, this event has attracted many players to participate.

Among them, Lu Yanxun, who had participated in the Chengdu Open before, still appeared at Quancheng Station and became the top seed.

In addition, among the top 100 players in the world, there are Aijieni from the fighting nation, and Lee Deok-hee from South Korea. They are also ranked No. 2 and No. 3 seeds.

Similar to the previous Chengdu station, this Spring City Challenge also gathered the best players in China, Wu Di, Zhang Ze, Zhang Zhizheng, An Sheng, all of them were there, and Wu Bingyi was also added. .

There is no doubt that the audience in Huaguo has expectations for their performance. After all, they performed very well in the previous Chengdu station. Of course, the fans naturally hope that they will continue to work hard and create greater glories.

But soon, they will be disappointed.

The first is Zhang Zhizheng. His status in the national team is still slightly inferior at present, and he cannot get a wild card for the main game. Therefore, he can only start from the qualifying round.

As a result, his strength is still not enough, and his own game state is not as good as before, so he was eliminated.

After the first round of the main match, Wu Di, who was in poor condition, made another round trip.

There is also Wu Bingyi, his progress is actually very great, and his current strength may have surpassed Zhang Zhizheng, but it is a pity that he met the third seed Li Dexi in this tournament, but he still failed to create a miracle. Also eliminated.

And by the end of the second round of the main competition, An Sheng was the only one of all Huaguo contestants left.

Zhang Ze also failed to continue his previous good form and performed poorly. He was defeated by Mario from Spain and was eliminated early.

Such a result, if viewed from the ranking of the players, is considered normal, but for those fans who have high expectations for this event, it is somewhat unacceptable.

As for the only remaining An Sheng, I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because he is not a member of the national team, or maybe he is too young. In short, most fans don’t trust them very much and hold a pessimistic attitude.

But in fact, from the qualifying round all the way, An Sheng won very easily, including in the second round of the main match, he easily defeated the No. 5 seed player of this event, Bereng from Lithuania.

This can roughly prove that An Sheng's competitive state is maintained very well, and he now has the peak strength of the 70th stage.

It is certain that Ansheng has the competitiveness to win the championship.

Fortunately, compared to before, An Sheng is really much more mature now, and no matter what others think of him or say about him, he maintains a good attitude and will not be influenced by them.

In the third round that followed, Anson met Lee Dexi from South Korea.

His ranking has reached the top 100. There is no doubt that Li Dexi is capable, but there are some abnormalities in his state today and he did not perform well.

At the beginning of the game, An Sheng played more cautiously because he valued his opponent. Therefore, he gave up the initiative of the game to Li Dexi.

And Li Dexi also wanted to control the game, so he played fiercely when he came up, but facing An Sheng's tenacious defense, he himself made mistakes again and again.

Soon, An Sheng won the first set with a big score of 6 to 1.

But when the game came to the second set, the situation changed, probably because he realized that he was not in a good state, and Li Dexi began to change his tactics.

He slowed down his offensive, and what's more, he wanted to have a bottom-line stalemate with An Sheng.

In other words, after Li Dexi discovered that his offense could no longer break through An Sheng's defense, he wanted to use his patience to consume An Sheng and reverse the situation.

But in fact, in terms of bottom-line skills, An Sheng is no worse than Li Dexi.

Of course, after the stalemate gradually increased, Li Dexi's active mistakes did decrease, but, correspondingly, An Sheng's counterattack scores continued to increase.

So, on the whole, An Sheng still controls the rhythm of the game.

In the end, An Sheng defeated Li Dexi, the third seed player, with another big score of 6 to 2, thus advancing to the semi-finals of this tournament.

And An Sheng's strong promotion has allowed him to gain the trust of some fans, but there are still more fans, but they are still waiting and watching. They seem to be a little scared, and they are no longer willing to get involved so easily.

Including most of the media, they are relatively conservative when reporting the game and predicting how far An Sheng can go.

In particular, An Sheng's opponent in the next round is Lu Yanxun, the number one seed in this tournament.

Although An Sheng had defeated the opponent before in Chengdu, he was still not favored by others.

The process of this game between them was basically similar to the last time they fought, and the result was the same. An Sheng still won.

Of course, there is still a slight change in the whole process, that is, An Sheng is now more adapted to Lu Yanxun's style of play.

To be more specific, in An Sheng's serve, he won more securely, and in Lu Yanxun's serve, An Sheng could occasionally pose a threat to Lu Yanxun.

Compared with before, An Sheng has made obvious progress.

As soon as this result came out, it finally ignited the enthusiasm of the fans, and, perhaps it was suppressed for too long before, once released, it will come even more violently.

This can be seen from the performance of the audience.

When it came to the finals, it was a rare scene that the center court was full, and even one ticket was uncomfortable.

From this, we can roughly know that it is not that tennis is not popular in China, nor that they are unwilling to buy tickets to watch the game, but because they lack players who can support them.

In the final, An Sheng did not let them down. Facing Aijieni from Russia, his performance was very good.

In the first set, An Sheng relied on his tenacious defense to drag the game into a tie-break, and successfully won the crucial tie-break.

In the second set after that, An Sheng was even stronger. He was already in full shape, and he frequently used counterattacks to score, completely crushing Aijieni, and thus won the set by a big score.

In the end, Ansheng won the final with a score of 2-0, and also won the Quancheng Challenge Championship!

At this time, perhaps An Sheng himself has not realized that winning the championship this time is extremely important to him.

In addition to the points and bonuses he gained, the more important thing is that through this competition, he really won the trust of the fans, which allowed him to have the first batch of real fans.

(End of this chapter)