tennis giant

Chapter 406 Four consecutive championships!
In three months, An Sheng and Djokovic met in the final for the third time.

Once at the US Open, once at the Shanghai Masters, and this time, at the last stop of the season, the Paris Open, which is part of the ATP1000 World Tour.

It is also the most important and top three ATP events in the past three months.

This shows what?
Three words, "dominance"!
This is just like when Federer and Nadal divided the four Grand Slam tournaments, Anson and Djokovic were dominant in the last three months of this season.

Of course, compared with the former, the "dominance" displayed by the latter is much weaker, and time has yet to be verified.

In addition, in the competition between An Sheng and Djokovic, An Sheng currently has the absolute upper hand. In the previous two finals, he won both games.

And if he can win this final, then, within these three months, he will win the "four consecutive championships"!
This is definitely a record that is enough to shock the world.

Therefore, the final of the Paris Open can be said to have attracted the attention of the whole world, and the attention has never been higher.

By the way, at this time, the organizers of the Paris Open are very satisfied with An Sheng's performance, and the 200 million US dollars they spent before is also worth the money.

"An Sheng, do you have confidence in this final match?"

At the press conference before the game, a reporter asked this stupid question.

"Hehe, I don't know how you became a reporter. As a professional athlete, I am about to stand in the finals. Do you think I have confidence?"

"I might as well tell you that I will definitely win this game!"

At the same time, in another venue, there were reporters immediately, who informed Djokovic of An Sheng's declaration of victory, and looked forward to his counterattack.

In fact, Djokovic did not have that much confidence, but facing the reporters, he naturally would not admit defeat.

"Of course, as An Sheng said, I am a professional tennis player. Standing on the stage of the final, of course I am full of confidence."

"But you have lost to An Sheng twice in a row before, and both were in the finals!" A reporter questioned on the spot, and his tone was extremely rude.

"So what? I will prove my strength in this final!"

Djokovic was a little angry, but his reason defeated his impulse. After coldly throwing away these words, he turned around and left angrily.

To be honest, Djokovic doesn't like Anson.

This is the same as An Sheng doesn't like Zverev at all.

At the beginning, Djokovic regarded An Sheng as an outstanding junior, but later, he regarded An Sheng as an opponent.

But even though he was an opponent, he didn't have a particularly strong hostility towards Ansheng. In fact, even if he lost to Ansheng, he felt it was nothing.

Until recently, his feelings for An Sheng had changed. He felt that An Sheng was too crazy.

In fact, it's not just Djokovic who feels this way about An Sheng, including several other top players, who have a certain degree of resistance to An Sheng.

Doesn't Ansheng know about this?

He actually knew something about it, but he didn't care, because he would use his strength to change their attitude again.

After all, An Sheng now only believes in one thing, that is, on the court, everything is based on strength, and nothing else is important.

This is also a very obvious difference after he returned from injury.

What I have to say is that An Sheng's thoughts are a bit extreme, including his views on businessmen, but I think this is just a stage that he must go through in the process of growing up.

Come to think of it, when he goes through some more things, maybe things will change.

On November 11th, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the Bales Indoor Stadium was full of seats. An Sheng and Djokovic had completed their warm-up, and the game began immediately.

"Oh!"

Djokovic took the lead to serve, and the quality was good, but Anson immediately completed the return, and the quality was even better!
Immediately afterwards, Djokovic forcibly launched a strong attack under quite reluctant circumstances, but then An Sheng completed the counterattack with a backhand blow.

And Djokovic, who was already quite reluctant before, just couldn't catch up again.

"Oh!"

For the next ball, the process and result were similar to the previous one. An Sheng scored another point and was temporarily in the lead.

What must be said is that the confrontation between these two goals is basically the same as their previous situation in the Shanghai Masters. It is nothing more than that Djokovic wanted to seize the offensive opportunity, but was defeated by An Sheng. Overwhelmed by higher quality counterattacks.

In this way, it can be roughly determined that if Djokovic still wants to adopt the same strategy to deal with Ansheng, then he may have made the wrong idea.

But who is Djokovic?After experiencing one failure, how could he have no other preparations?

In fact, the two goals just now were just a test for An Sheng. He wanted to determine whether An Sheng's game state was good or bad.

But now, he has got the answer, An Sheng's current competitive state is still very hot.

Even so, Djokovic no longer hides and begins to use new tactics.

"Oh!"

For the next ball, in the serve-receive process, Ansheng was still at a disadvantage even if he was passively receiving the serve.

But on the next shot, Djokovic changed his previous tough posture and used his backhand to send a backhand topspin.

The speed of the ball is not fast, but it precisely controls the landing point.

And An Sheng didn't have time to think about it, he quickly caught up and hit a backhand kick forcibly.

Afterwards, Djokovic continued to use backhand topspin, mobilizing Ansheng without haste.

An Sheng couldn't help it. He had just completed his reset and had to rush to the backhand sideline again, barely saving the ball.

But then, Djokovic suddenly accelerated, and after turning sideways, he used a straight forehand to finish the ball.

"Oh! You can't fight hard, so you want to use your best rhythm control to deal with me?" An Sheng didn't care.

On the contrary, Djokovic, who has already regained one point, is quite excited!

"Oh!"

Another ball, after completing the return, An Sheng's expression was extremely focused, and he was ready, and he was going to forcefully complete the counterattack on the next shot. Even if he couldn't complete the offensive and defensive situation on the field, he would Destroy Djokovic's offensive rhythm.

But again unexpectedly, this time, Djokovic chose to attack!
And An Sheng was obviously caught off guard, and it was too late to stop, so he bit the bullet and chose to attack. As a result, he made a mistake and lost another point.

At this time, An Sheng finally understood Djokovic's plan.

In fact, he didn't really change his "head-to-head" tactical thinking, but he added a little change in the tough confrontation, which is the rhythm control he is best at.

But does it really work?Anson didn't know, and Djokovic wasn't sure either.

It wasn't until the first set was tied 6-6 that Anson had to admit that Djokovic's change was indeed very effective.

In particular, during the game, Djokovic is still constantly improving the details of his tactics, making it more suitable for dealing with Anson's toughness.

"How should I respond?"

An Sheng frowned and hesitated a bit, but soon, he strengthened his belief, and then chose to continue to implement the current tactics.

To put it simply, it is to respond to all changes with the same.

Because the game experience told him that when he didn't know how to deal with it clearly, sticking to the existing mature tactics was the best way to deal with it.

What's more, based on his strength, he is not at a disadvantage now. In fact, he is still at an advantage.

It's just that, after using the new tactics, Djokovic does have the ability to compete with him, and the outcome of the game has become very suspenseful.

It must also be said that this was the first time An Sheng felt seriously threatened since he entered the 90s.

In the crucial tie-break, An Sheng's serve still had the advantage.

In addition, he can quickly strengthen his inner beliefs and implement his tough style of play all the time, which is also the key to his victory.

But when the game came to the second set, the situation became quite complicated.

In the first half of the time, An Sheng and Djokovic were basically evenly matched, and each kept their serve, but in the second half, the situation experienced great twists and turns.

The key is that Djokovic is a little "panicked", or in other words, he wants more than just a tie with Ansheng, and finally relies on a tie-break to decide the winner.

Of course, this was also because he felt that in the crucial tie-break, he could not defeat An Sheng, who had an absolute serving advantage.

Therefore, in the second half of the second set, Djokovic made another tactical adjustment, relying more and more on his advantage in rhythm control.

But his change was beyond the "degree".

It's too much to go too far, his tactics were already very appropriate, but he changed them, but there were a lot of problems, which led to a significant increase in his own mistakes.

And seeing such an opportunity, how could An Sheng let it go?
Soon, An Sheng completed a break in the sixth game. Although Djokovic also realized the problem and quickly adjusted back, it was too late.

In the end, An Sheng won the second set with a score of 6 to 4, thus defeating Djokovic again with a total score of 2 to 0, and won the championship of this Paris Open!

In the contest with Djokovic, all three games have been won!

Within three months, complete four consecutive championships!
At this moment, no one dared to question Anson's goal of being "No. [-] in the world".

Even, many people have stopped discussing whether Ansheng can reach the number one in the world, but are wondering whether Ansheng can really replace Federer and become the new overlord?

Is the new generation of "king" in professional tennis finally coming?

(End of this chapter)