tennis giant

Chapter 329 Barcelona Open

Thomas, male, 30 years old, used to be a professional tennis player, but due to poor performance, he chose to retire five years ago, and then transformed into a tennis coach.

But in the coaching position, like his career, Thomas has never achieved outstanding results, and even, so far, he has not officially become the head coach of a professional tennis player.

However, in recent years, he has been working hard and his theoretical knowledge is very solid, so he was recruited by IMG to teach some younger young players.

And the reason why he works so hard is self-evident. He wants to improve and earn more, but he has no choice. To be honest, his coaching ability is indeed a bit weak.

Relying on his professional knowledge and experience as a professional tennis player to guide some young players is not bad, but in front of current professional players, no one will think highly of him.

In this way, when Sandy found him and told him that she was looking for an assistant coach for An Sheng, Thomas felt that his chance had come, and followed Sandy without hesitation to meet An Sheng.

In fact, after talking with An Sheng, Thomas was a little disappointed, because he could clearly hear that An Sheng found him not because of his coaching ability.

Of course, being able to become Anson's assistant coach is still a good opportunity for him.

In addition, his ability basically met An Sheng's requirements, so the two parties quickly reached a consensus and signed the contract efficiently.

By the way, in the contract, Anson did not give Thomas any guarantee, that is to say, he can "fire" Thomas at any time without paying a price.

However, this is the normal state of tennis coaches, and it is not that An Sheng is deliberately making things difficult for the opponent. Even Thomas himself has not raised any objections to this point.

And here, it is necessary to explain why An Sheng does not want to find a head coach now.

The most fundamental reason lies in his "tennis giant system". Because of the existence of the system, he is quite different from regular tennis players.

For example, his strength is improved in stages. As long as he breaks through a certain bottleneck, his strength will suddenly grow by leaps and bounds, and he can continue to improve rapidly until he encounters the next stage the bottleneck.

This is why Anson puts his current position, or goal, on the tour.

And with his current strength, if he wants to find a useful head coach, then basically, he must find a big-name coach, just like Rhodes before.

But their goals are very different from An Sheng's current goals, including their coaching philosophy, and it is difficult to reach an agreement with him at present.

Therefore, An Sheng decided not to look for a new coach for the time being, but to wait until he reaches the peak of the 80 stage, or when he has a new understanding and needs a coach to guide him, he will start looking for a new coach. he's the one.

After finalizing this matter, An Sheng should withdraw his attention and devote it to the next event, which is the Barcelona Open.

The Barcelona Open, also known as the ATP Gold Tournament in Barcelona.

This is a very traditional event. Founded in 1953, it is an outdoor clay court event held every year in the Spanish port city of Barcelona.

What is particularly noteworthy is that in this event, in the past 11 years, the local king player Nadal has won the championship trophy nine times.

Moreover, in the two years when he did not win the Barcelona championship, in fact, he was unable to participate because of injuries. Otherwise, he might not have won 9 consecutive championships, but 11 consecutive championships.

This is enough to prove that in this event, Nadal has absolute dominance, as long as he participates, he must win the championship.

By the way, in the two years when Nadal was vacant, Kei Nishikori, a player from Japan, won the second consecutive championship of this event.

At this year's Barcelona Open, the audience was looking forward to the battle between Nadal and Kei Nishikori, and both of them signed up for the competition, but just two days ago, Kei Nishikori announced that because Due to injury, he chose to retire.

Of course, although there is no Kei Nishikori in this Barcelona station, the other contestants are still star-studded and very dazzling.

Among them, the "King of Clay" Nadal needless to say, and besides him, among the top ten top players in the world, there are four more, they are the current world number one Murray, and Keep Lev, Gasquet, Tim.

In addition, several other Spanish clay court masters Busta, Agut, Ramos, as well as the top [-] players in the world, Goffin from Belgium, Korsrebo from Germany, etc., They are all signed up for this year's Barcelona race.

It can be said that half of the world's professional tennis players have come to Barcelona, ​​so that, with An Sheng's current ranking, they have not gotten a seed player and can only compete as ordinary players.

You know, although An Sheng had a truce for a month before, his ranking is still among the top 500 in the world, and the Barcelona Open is only an ATP[-] level event. It stands to reason that he has become a seeded player. Very reasonable, but he really didn't, and he was far worse.

It can be seen that the Barcelona Open is really one of the most popular clay court events in today's tennis world.

In addition, there is another thing that is enough to prove what I just said, that is, due to too many players signing up for the competition, the Barcelona Open is very rare in this level of competition to use 64 main draws .

Of course, the reason why the Barcelona Open is so attractive is also inseparable from its high prize money, with a total prize money of 260 million euros.

Expressed in a more intuitive way, that is, as long as you win the first round of the race, you will be able to win a bonus of nearly [-] euros!
Needless to say, with such a high prize money, as long as players who have the conditions to participate, they will naturally not miss this opportunity easily.

And there is no doubt that even though this Barcelona Open is star-studded, with four or five of the top ten players in the world, An Sheng's goal is still to be the champion.

This is not his wishful thinking, after all, before that, he had defeated Tim, who is No. [-] in the world.

In addition, this competition is also a very severe test for his assistant coach Thomas. His performance is related to whether he can continue to stay in Anson's team, and he must also go all out.

(End of this chapter)