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Chapter 430 Indian Wells Masters

On March 3, Anson ended his vacation in Dubai and led the team to California, the United States, to participate in the Indian Wells Masters to be held there.

Sandy, on the other hand, needs to return to China, firstly to have a job, and secondly, to buy a house.

Before, An Sheng and Sandy had already discussed and planned to buy a villa in Lucheng as their new home.

This is not a trivial matter. Although An Sheng doesn't like extravagance, as his own home, he is very concerned about it and wants to arrange it better.

It's just that, recently, his schedule is a little nervous, so let Sandy take a look at it for the time being, and when the time comes, after he finishes his work for a while, we can choose together.

In addition, An Sheng also entrusted this matter to his brother-in-law Chen Feiyang, and asked him to help. With him as a "local snake", it would not be difficult to deal with it.

Speaking of competitions, Anson still attaches great importance to this Indian Wells Masters.

One reason is that the influence of this event is not small, and it is a major event second only to the Grand Slam.

The Indian Wells Masters, also known as the "BNP Paribas Masters" because of its sponsors, has a total prize money of nearly [-] million US dollars.

Secondly, it is because this event has attracted many top players to participate.

In addition to Nadal, almost all of the top ten players in the world such as Federer, Del Potro, Thiem, Cilic, and Anderson, as well as top players of the younger generation such as Zverev and Dimitrov came.

In this way, it will not be so easy for An Sheng to win the Indian Wells Masters this time. Even, perhaps his first defeat after his comeback will appear here.

Although An Sheng doesn't really care about his winning streak, if it can continue, he is naturally willing to continue to increase his winning streak.

All in all, An Sheng still has to do his best and not slack off.

As the current No. 1 player in the ATP world, An Sheng is of course also the number one seed in this Indian Wells Masters, and is divided into the 4/[-] zone.

Another top player in the same area is Tim, who is currently ranked 6th in the world and is also the 5th seed in this tournament.

What I have to say is that as the No. 1 seed in the tournament, his draw is really the best. If nothing unexpected happens, Ansheng will not encounter too strong opponents before entering the top 8.

In addition, there is a special feature of the Indian Wells Masters that is worth mentioning, and that is the number of draws.

Generally speaking, the lottery in the event is an even multiple of 32, such as 64 and 128. However, in the Indian Wells Masters, they used an odd multiple. In the men's singles, they only provided 96. lottery.

This seems a bit strange, because if calculated according to the normal way, in the last two rounds, there will be three players left.

But in fact, this problem is very easy to solve.

Well, there are 32 seed seats in this tournament, so we only need to allow these seed players to have a bye in the first round, then the problem of the number of tickets will be eliminated.

Therefore, it was not until March 3, the second round of the Indian Wells Masters, that Anson faced his first opponent.

He is a post-90s player from Argentina, Delbones, who is 1 meters tall, weighs 90 kg, and has a strong build.

Its huge hitting power and violent serve are the characteristics of its style of play.

In his career, the most glorious moment, or the most eye-catching event, was probably at the Hamburg Open in Germany in 13. He was very surprising and defeated the then tournament 1 No. [-] seed and Federer at his peak.

But having said that, it is already 2019, and the hero doesn't mention his bravery back then, and he doesn't know if Delponez still has the vigor that defeated Federer seven years ago.

In fact, during the fight against Delpones, Anson discovered the reason why he was able to beat Federer in the first place.

To put it simply, Delpones is a violent and heavy-handed player. His serve and hitting are very powerful.

However, he has an obvious weakness, that is, the turnover rate is too high and his technique is too unstable.

Think about it, if in a certain game, his hand feeling is particularly good, and then his batting success rate is improved, then, under such circumstances, he definitely has the strength of a top player.

Come to think of it, in that match seven years ago, Delbones was able to defeat Federer, who was in full swing at the time, precisely because of his excellent condition and luck.

But in this game, An Sheng only took one hour and 10 minutes to sweep him out very easily without any suspense.

Not to mention that he is not in good form, even if he is in good form, he can't beat An Sheng, because An Sheng is now more stable than Federer in terms of performance stability.

Two days later, on March 3, An Sheng ushered in his second opponent.

This is another young player born in the 90s. He is Djokovic's hometown, Krajinovic from Serbia. His current ATP ranking is 31st and he is also the 25th seed in this tournament.

Originally, Krajinovic should be a seed player in this tournament because he has good abilities.

But after Ansheng learned about his information, he believed that Krajinovic was worthy of his reputation and that he might not achieve any good results in his career.

The key is that Anson found that Krajinovic's performance was too unstable, even worse than that of Delbones before. Perhaps in the last game, he played very well. But in the next game, he didn't know what happened, and he collapsed directly.

Thinking about it again, the reason is that the foundation is not solid, or the character is flawed.

No matter what, facing such an opponent, An Sheng has no pressure, and he only used three or four games to completely defeat his will to win.

Even if Krajinovic might have played well in this game, but facing An Sheng who crushed him strongly, he might not be able to play anything.

In this way, there was no suspense, An Sheng easily defeated his opponent and advanced to the next round.

In the fourth round, An Sheng met a veteran, he is Chardy from France.

His current ATP world ranking is No. 47, and he is not the seed player of this tournament, but before that, he defeated the No. 20 seed Manarino and the No. 16 seed player in a row. No. [-] seed Fognini.

It can be seen from this that Chardy's performance in the Masters of this station is still very good, and his competitive state is very good, which can be regarded as a dark horse.

But after fighting against him, An Sheng discovered that Chadi's hard power was still a bit weaker after all, and he still adopted a soft baseline style of play.

As a result, no matter how good Chadi's condition is, when he meets An Sheng, he is powerless to resist.

In the end, Ansheng successfully swept them out with a score of 2-0.

In this way, he won three of three games, plus a bye, and easily broke into the quarterfinals of this Indian Wells Masters.

(End of this chapter)