tennis giant

Chapter 390
As An Sheng said, Mahut is a veteran player. He made his debut in 2000 and has played in professional tennis for 19 seasons!
But as Anson said before, Mahut is just a veteran. In his career of nearly 19 seasons, he has not won a decent championship title.

However, if you are an experienced tennis fan, you will probably remember Mahut, because he has a rather special record in the ATP event, that is, the longest single game in the ATP , which took 11 hours and 5 minutes.

It was at Wimbledon in 2010. Mahut and the American player Isner met in the match, but they didn't expect that their duel would last for three days!

Regardless of Mahut's strength, with this record on his body, there is always a place for him in the professional tennis world, which is unforgettable.

On August 8, An Sheng ushered in his first game after his comeback. His opponent, as I said before, was the French veteran Mahut.

What's special is that perhaps the tournament organizers considered that Ansheng's current attention is very high, so they deliberately arranged this game at the main venue, Arthur Ashe Stadium.

It has to be said that the consideration of the competition party was prescient, because this game attracted more than 20000 spectators, almost filling up the Arthur Ashe Stadium.

The warm-up was over, and in the first game, Mahut took the lead in serving.

"Oh!"

For this ball, Mahut was angry and played hard.

The reason for this is naturally because he saw the media reports before the game, and he also saw An Sheng's evaluation of him.

Although, he also knew that An Sheng's original intention was not to belittle him, but after reading the media reports, he was more or less angry with An Sheng.

As for his serve, the speed of the ball was pretty good. According to the value displayed on the speed plate, it reached 191 kilometers per hour.

Don't think that in professional tennis matches, there will often be a serve speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour. In fact, except for those "cannon-type" players, the service speed of general professional players is about 180 kilometers per hour.

This is true even for Federer and Nadal.

But this kind of ball speed, for An Sheng, can only be said to be average.

What's more, An Sheng has a predictive ability that is different from ordinary people.

However, An Sheng was not in a hurry to attack this time, but took a step back and hit a topspin calmly.

Its ball speed is relatively average, but its landing point is very deep.

But at this time, Mahut thought that his serve was good, so after he served, he rushed into the field immediately, wanting to take this opportunity to launch a fierce attack.

In this way, when he discovered that An Sheng's return ball had landed so deep, he had no choice but to retreat from the inside of the court to the bottom line.

But this process has exhausted his serve advantage.

As a last resort, Mahut picked a high ball, but his touch was pretty good. He hit the ball towards the bottom corner of Ansheng's backhand, and the landing point was relatively deep.

There is no doubt that for An Sheng, this is a good opportunity to counterattack, but he is not in a hurry to attack.

In fact, if he wants to attack, he can already do so when receiving the serve, and the reason why he slows down the pace is that he wants to adapt to the atmosphere of the game.

This is also where An Sheng feels that he has the only shortcoming at present. After all, he has not been on the professional field for almost a year, which will make him somewhat rusty.

Of course, although An Sheng was not in a hurry to attack, he would not give the opponent too good a chance. In addition, it was a backhand position, so An Sheng hit a backhand slice that he was best at.

Standing, turning the waist, leading the racket, swinging the racket, and hitting the ball, these movements are all done in one go, which seems extremely calm.

In the case of An Sheng's full swing, it is obvious that the quality of this chipping ball is quite high, not only the line is low and flat, but also has a strong backspin.

But after the swing was over, An Sheng felt a little regretful, and sure enough, Mahut on the opposite side made a mistake in returning the ball and hit the ball into the net.

Such a result was expected by An Sheng, but it was somewhat contrary to his purpose. If possible, he hoped to get as familiar with the feeling of the game as possible.

As a result, Ansheng further slowed down the pace of the game on the next goal.

But what An Sheng didn't expect, and what was counterproductive, was that he was not in a hurry, but Mahut, who was opposite him, was so anxious that he was sweating!
This actually reflects to some extent that before the game, Mahut still had some contempt for Ansheng. The reason is very clear. He believed that Ansheng had not played for a long time and was seriously injured and even paralyzed for a time. In this way, Even if he can recover, how much strength will he have left?

But I don't want to, An Sheng's current strength is much stronger than him, and the two are not at the same level at all.

Just look at the game and you will know that Mahut has been playing hard, but An Sheng is calm and easy, and can firmly control the situation of the game.

After the first few games, everyone had no doubts about the outcome of this game. An Sheng definitely won.

However, although the suspense of the outcome of the game has been lost, people are still full of interest in this game, or in other words, they are full of interest in An Sheng.

First of all, they really wanted to know how much of An Sheng's strength had recovered?

Secondly, they have actually discovered that An Sheng's playing style seems to have changed after his comeback.

A year ago, Anson's playing style was somewhat similar to Nadal's. He was often aggressive, aggressive and desperate.

But now?

Judging from his performance in the past few rounds, he is somewhat similar to Fred. Whether it is running or hitting, he is very "gentleman" and pleasing to the eye.

What's going on here?

Is Anson really imitating Federer?
In fact, this is of course not that An Sheng is imitating, but because, by now, his strength has completely entered the 90 stage.

In this way, his opponent Mahut really couldn't pose any threat to him.

And more importantly, as mentioned before, Ansheng has an extremely powerful ability to predict.

In this way, An Sheng's strength has an absolute advantage, and he can predict the opponent's next move in advance. As a result, he always has enough reaction time when facing Mahut's shots, allowing him to complete the counterattack without haste. .

This makes An Sheng look so cool and unrestrained.

In the end, in less than an hour and a half, An Sheng easily defeated Mahut with a disparity of 3 to 0, and also won his first victory after his comeback.

(End of this chapter)