tennis giant

Chapter 290 Leave a Hand

On January 1, less than a week after returning to China, An Sheng had to set off again to Melbourne, Australia.

What makes him feel even more helpless is that during the few days when he returned to China, he did not get a good rest, nor did he have a relatively complete training, because his time was already occupied by commercial activities .

There is no doubt that this will affect the state of his game.

An Sheng is also aware of this, but sometimes, he can't completely act according to his wishes.

What's more, the CCTV program this time must be able to enhance his domestic reputation to a certain extent, and it will also be of great help to him, so he has to compromise on it.

The start time of this year's Australian Open is from January 1 to 16.

Therefore, An Sheng was several days ahead of schedule, but this was not his intention, but because the CCTV program was not over yet, and they sent a special shooting team to follow up with An Sheng.

When they arrived in Melbourne, An Sheng also couldn't move freely.

At the request of the shooting team, he first visited several scenic spots in Melbourne, such as their exhibition hall, botanical garden, and Chinatown.

Afterwards, they finally got back to the topic and photographed several main venues of the Australian Open from Anson's perspective, such as the Rod Laver Arena and Hisense Stadium.

Of course, they must have negotiated with the competition party in advance and roughly determined the time, so that they can smoothly shoot.

And when all this is over, time is already very tight, and An Sheng only has one day to make adjustments before the game.

Fortunately, for this Australian Open, An Sheng really didn't have too much hope. Just like what he said, the most important thing is to participate and try his best.

By the way, the two Chinese men's singles players Zhang Ze and Wu Di who participated in the qualifying round were somewhat unexpected.

Zhang Ze, who had been in good form before, was eliminated in the first round of the qualifying round.

On the contrary, Wu Di, who was in poor form before, successfully defeated Australian local player Kelly, Italian Fabiano, and Belgian player Saison, and successfully advanced to the main draw.

In fact, this also roughly explains a problem, that is, as a weak person, the fate is really not in one's own hands, and whether one can advance or not has a lot to do with the lottery.

If you are lucky, you may encounter an opponent who is weak or in poor condition, and then you can advance a few more rounds, but if you are unlucky, you will encounter a strong enemy that you cannot resist as soon as you come up, then you can only Accept the fate of being eliminated.

This is the key reason why An Sheng is not very hopeful about this Australian Open. He believes that his strength is not enough, and once he encounters this situation, he will not escape bad luck.

As for the draw for the main match, it has already ended. An Sheng is divided into the 2/4 zone, which is the upper half of the zone led by No. 2 seed Wawrinka and No. 7 seed Cilic.

This seems to be quite good, because in this area, they are lucky to avoid the No. 9 seed Nadal and No. 17 seed Federer in this tournament.

But in fact, for An Sheng, there is no difference at all.

On January 1, at 16 o'clock in the morning, in Arena No. 8, An Sheng ushered in his first opponent in the Australian Open. He was Serra from Belgium.

What needs to be explained is that the game started so early, and An Sheng and his opponent are not well-known players, so they can only play this game on the remote No. 7 court.

"Oh!"

There was no nonsense, and the scene was quite clean. After a simple warm-up, the game started immediately. An Sheng served first, and the quality of his serve was quite good.

However, this is not much of a threat to Serra, because at only 1 meters tall, he is very flexible and responsive, and his starting speed is obviously much faster than that of such a tall player.

For this, An Sheng was psychologically prepared.

In fact, regarding this situation, it has been mentioned before that those players whose physical condition is not good enough, as long as they can gain a firm foothold in professional tennis, then they must have their strengths.

For example, players with shorter stature, they must have strong physical flexibility, which is their housekeeping ability, otherwise, it will be difficult for them to gain a foothold in professional tennis.

In fact, there are quite a few players of this kind in the tennis world, such as Huaguo Wu Di, and An Sheng's old opponent Lu Yanxun. For example, An Sheng has met this Sierra now.

Therefore, An Sheng was not at all surprised by Serra's excellent performance in receiving and returning, and he didn't even think about relying on serving to defeat the opponent.

After serving and receiving, An Sheng immediately launched a tentative attack, and sure enough, he soon discovered that Serra's running ability was really extraordinary and very powerful.

An Sheng continued to move left and right, but none of them achieved good results.

In addition, An Sheng also discovered a characteristic of Sierra, that is, his strength is no worse than other European and American players.

In other words, his physical condition, in addition to maintaining a very high degree of flexibility, unexpectedly also possesses a powerful strength that is not weaker than other players.

This point is probably an important basis for Sierra to reach the current ranking.

In the first ball of the game, although An Sheng relied on the slight advantage brought by the serve to launch a continuous attack, in the end, Serra seized the opportunity and made an extremely extreme counterattack. , thus scoring this point.

At this time, An Sheng adjusted his tactics very decisively.

"Oh!"

On the next ball, An Sheng didn't change on the serve, but after serving and receiving, he was a little abrupt. He suddenly exerted force and used his forehand to hit a strong attack.

Compared with before, the attack of this shot is more powerful.

Still, Sela's concentration blocked the beat.

After seeing that the attack failed, An Sheng suddenly hit a diagonal topspin to slow down the rhythm.

The reason for this is because he knows that facing a player like Serra, it is difficult to achieve results using conventional offensive methods, and it is thankless.

There are probably two best ways to deal with it.

One is to increase the quality and suddenness of the attack, catching the opponent off guard so that he cannot react and score directly.

Another way is to change the rhythm, use the diversity of speed, length, and length to make it difficult for the opponent to guess your ball path, which will cause the opponent to make mistakes in returning the ball, and to a large extent, increase the difficulty of the opponent's counterattack .

Sure enough, after An Sheng suddenly slowed down the offensive, Serra had a more obvious pause process, resulting in his return of the ball this time, not so smooth, and the quality was relatively average.

Immediately afterwards, An Sheng took advantage of this opportunity to speed up again and hit a strong attack.

And this quick and slow change made Sierra a little uncomfortable.

He, who was originally tense, was suddenly led by An Sheng, who eased the rhythm, but just when he thought that An Sheng would continue to slow down the offensive, An Sheng suddenly accelerated again.

More importantly, when he turned from fast to slow, the problem was not too big, but after he slowed down and relaxed his mind, it was not so easy to suddenly improve it.

As a result, when he faced An Sheng's strong attack this time, he was obviously a bit slower in reacting, which made him fail to catch up, thus losing the point.

In the next few balls, An Sheng used this combination of fast and slow rhythmic play, and achieved very good results, and successfully completed the guarantee.

And when the game came to Serra's serve, the situation was slightly different.

First of all, in the serving and receiving link, An Sheng, as the receiving and receiving, has some advantages. In other words, Serra, who has the right to serve, failed to obtain the advantage he should have in serving.

This point is actually a common problem of short players. Because of their height, it is difficult for them to serve well. Even for short players like Serra who are not weak in strength, the situation is basically the same.

However, Sierra himself is obviously aware of this problem, so his serving, he pays more attention to, in fact, power.

In this way, although the angle of his serve is not very good, it has sufficient strength, which can make up for his shortcomings in serving to a large extent.

At least, facing his serve, it is difficult for An Sheng to launch a direct attack. Of course, correspondingly, his return is relatively safe.

Under such circumstances, the key to the competition between Serra and An Sheng lies in the stalemate after sending and receiving.

It's a pity that although An Sheng used the rhythm change to achieve good results before, such a style of play requires a prerequisite, that is, having the initiative.

But in Serra's serve, the initiative is roughly six to four points, and An Sheng is not dominant, so it is difficult to make continuous changes, which leads to a greatly reduced effect of his style of play.

In addition, as the game progressed, Sierra also gradually adapted to Anson's style of play, which weakened Anson's advantage to a certain extent.

Therefore, in the first game, apart from the suspense in the first few rounds, the subsequent games seemed to be a bit uneventful. Both sides kept their serve without any accidents.

But is the situation of the game really like this?

In fact, it is not the case, because An Sheng actually did not give full play to it, but kept a hand, and it was very purposeful, waiting for the right time, and then exerting his strength.

(End of this chapter)