tennis giant

Chapter 271
A group photo became the headlines of the major sports media, and even this photo appeared in CCTV's five sports news.

In addition to looking forward to the upcoming Huaguo Open, many tennis fans are also surprised that An Sheng is so close to the national team.

Because of this, many people speculate whether An Sheng has already joined the national team?
An Sheng really thought about this, but unfortunately, so far, he has not received any relevant signals.

And now, of course, he doesn't have the heart to think about this issue. All his energy is focused on the upcoming game.

On September 9th, the Huaguo Open, men's singles, the first qualifying round officially started.

Perhaps because An Sheng is a player from Huaguo, the tournament party focused on arranging his first qualifying round at Brad Stadium.

Of course, because it was just a qualifying match, there were not many spectators at the scene, but Zhang Ze, Wu Bingyi, and Zheng Saisai took time to watch the match.

As for Zhang Zhizheng, he will also participate in the first qualifying round later, so naturally he has no time to come.

"An Sheng's opponent is Japan's Daniel Taro, who is currently ranked 65th in the ATP and is very strong. In this match, An Sheng may not be very easy to fight."

For Asian players, Zhang Ze is more concerned, so although he has not played against Daniel Taro, he knows him well.

But after hearing what Zhang Ze said, the others did not respond. They are also professional tennis players, and of course they know what it means to be ranked 65th.

But there is no way, this is the intensity of the ATP500 level tour, and none of the opponents you meet is easy to deal with.

If it comes to the main match, it will be even more difficult, because your opponents are all top players who stand at the top of the world tennis pyramid and rank in the top 50.

By the way, the name of this Daniel Taro is a bit strange, the first half is like a Westerner, and the second half has Japanese characteristics.

The reason for this is probably the issue of "internationalization".

To put it simply, in this world, there are always some strange things. I don’t know why, but I like to worship Westerners, thinking that they are the center of the world, so even the name should be close to them.

It's not just this Daniel. Some time ago, there was another news that a certain female tennis player in Taiwan publicly announced that she would completely abandon her Chinese name and change it to English.

It is really incomprehensible to call it "internationalization" as if to show off.

Back to the game, An Sheng was confused as soon as the two sides met.

"Oh!"

An Sheng took the lead to serve, and his current state is still very good. This ball basically hit the upper limit of his strength.

But even so, his serve did not cause pressure on Daniel at all, and his return seemed quite relaxed.

And An Sheng didn't have time to think about it, and then he slapped his forehand routinely to attack. Although he didn't fully exert his strength for the sake of safety, he basically showed his due strength.

However, for Daniel, this seemed to be just playing tricks, and there was no threat to him, and then he caught up very easily, and hit back with a diagonal forehand.

From the looks of it, Daniel didn't make much effort, he should still be testing.

However, his tentative attack this time has already put a lot of pressure on An Sheng, and it also caused him to make a mistake in returning the ball.

"impossible!"

Feeling the heavy feeling brought to him by hitting the ball this time, An Sheng was a little unbelievable, because his current strength had already reached the peak of the 70th stage, but Daniel's casual blow could actually cause him serious damage. So much pressure.

This can only show that the strength of this Daniel Taro has reached the 80th stage.

This time, An Sheng was a little confused.

"There is a staged gap in strength, how can we fight this?"

In An Sheng's mind, such questions kept popping up, and he couldn't control them at all. This was already a very serious blow to his self-confidence.

In his understanding, once there is a staged gap in strength, then he will be unable to resist at all.

In other words, when the game had just begun, Ansheng already thought that he was destined to lose.

What is not suspenseful is that when An Sheng was flustered and unsteady, the game completely showed a one-sided situation.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the score of the first set was already 4-0.

Seeing such a scene, Zhang Ze, Wu Bingyi, Zhang Saisai and others even couldn't bear to watch it again. If they didn't feel that it would be too rash to leave the scene directly, it would also be disrespectful to An Sheng. Couldn't bear to leave.

But in fact, at the beginning, An Sheng was really panicked, but as the game continued, he gradually accepted this reality, and found that facing Daniel, he didn't seem to have no chance of resisting at all.

Now that the game has progressed, he can roughly confirm that this Daniel is indeed a player whose strength has reached the 80th stage.

This point has been basically proved from the beginning of the game.

But the key is that Daniel's strength is a bit unstable. There are some parts of his batting that have clearly exceeded the peak level of 70, but most of them are still in the 70 stage.

As for the reason, Ansheng still doesn't know, but his discovery, or this feeling, has allowed him to regain some self-confidence.

In particular, after several attempts, he found that even if Daniel showed the strength of the 80th stage in a certain shot, as long as he was prepared and exerted enough force, he would not be unable to resist. .

This also shows that as long as he can maintain his current strength, he can still fight Daniel, at least he can resist.

And many times, this is actually the case. They are not as scary as you think. As long as you can face them wholeheartedly, it is not impossible to solve them.

In fact, An Sheng was just scared. His own strength is actually enough to compete with Daniel, but, relatively speaking, his winning rate is lower.

"Oh!"

In the fifth game, An Sheng's serve.

There is no doubt that An Sheng was still very nervous at this time, so he was a little out of order in serving.

However, Daniel's style of play is actually relatively conservative, that is, the baseline defensive style of play commonly used by Asian players.

Therefore, facing An Sheng's soft serve, Daniel did not choose to attack hard, but just made a normal return.

Of course, in his view, it was routine, but to An Sheng, it was already a big threat.

Fortunately, An Sheng was still able to catch up in time, and then hit a forehand topspin, the line was diagonal, and the landing point was deep.

He did this with an obvious purpose, which was to weaken Daniel's offensive intensity in the next shot.

And Anson's goal was also achieved. With his return of the ball so deep, Daniel was not so easy to attack. Instead, he used the topspin ball as a transition.

For the same reason, An Sheng didn't have a good opportunity to attack. More importantly, he didn't even think about attacking now. All his responses were to resist the opponent.

Therefore, Ansheng did not hesitate, used topspin again, and once again chose the safest diagonal.

And this back and forth, the two sides formed a forehand diagonal stalemate.

It is certain that at this time, An Sheng will never attack first. Therefore, the first attack is of course Daniel.

He made a sudden effort first, and hit a powerful flat blow on the diagonal forehand, but due to the long distance, this did not allow him to directly crush Ansheng to death.

Immediately afterwards, Daniel took advantage of the previous beat and chose a straight-line attack.

This is also a relatively conventional offensive routine, but for An Sheng, the threat is already not small.

However, his concentration at this time is really very concentrated. All his feelings, whether it is vision, hearing, or touch. Anyway, all his spiritual senses that can perceive the outside world are focused on the game, and An observation about Daniel.

And it is in a very sensitive period, as long as the other party makes a slight move, he can make a prediction in advance.

Just like Daniel's attack, Ansheng had roughly sensed his intention as early as when he laid the groundwork for the previous row.

Then when he actually made this shot to change the line, An Sheng was actually mentally prepared, and he was already ready to deal with it.

Almost at the moment when Daniel just made a shot, An Sheng started extremely quickly and reached the hitting position in a very timely manner.

Of course, An Sheng was still focused on defending, and didn't think about how to attack at all. Therefore, in this shot, he used a backhand slice, and because he had more than enough time to swing the racket, his slice Ball, pretty good quality.

As for Daniel, when he launched the first attack, he had already planned his next move, including the straight line attack just now, and the backhand change line in the next shot.

But it has to be said that compared to the change of line in the previous shot, the difficulty of his line change attack in this shot has increased a lot, except that he needs to move, which reduces the preparation for hitting the ball. In addition to the time, An Sheng's high-quality chip also increased the difficulty of his shots.

As a result, Daniel really made a mistake in hitting the ball and directly hit the ball out of bounds.

But I still have to say that even if he succeeds in this attack, he may not be able to score as he wished, because An Sheng has already judged his intention and is ready to deal with it.

"Nice!"

After winning the ball, An Sheng clenched his fists, stared at the opponent fiercely, and let out a loud drink.

(End of this chapter)