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Chapter 431 Looking for Excitement!

There is an interesting thing that was popular on the Internet for a while.

A Korean netizen posted on Facebook.

There is a photo attached to it, and there are two people on the photo, one is this netizen himself, and the other is you, An Sheng who just won the Australian Open championship and was promoted to the world's number one.

However, in this photo, it is this netizen who is holding the championship trophy, while Ansheng can only stand beside him as a foil.

There is also a text attached below it.

"Seven years ago, I defeated An Sheng, and now, he has won three Grand Slam championships and is the number one in the world. I don't know what happened to me during these seven years. What?"

And this netizen is the Korean player Cui Senyong who defeated Ansheng in the Youth Hope Competition.

In seven years, Cui Senyong has already retired, but An Sheng, who was once defeated by him, has now become the new number one in the world!

This kind of drama made many netizens find it very interesting, and at the same time, it also inspired their memories of their past, lamenting that time is a ruthless butcher's knife.

For a while, similar jokes became popular on the Internet, and they can be seen everywhere on Facebook and Weibo.

Speaking of this matter, it was not for anything else, but to draw out An Sheng's opponent in the quarter-finals.

This player is also from South Korea, but his experience is somewhat similar to An Sheng's. He is Zheng Xuan, and some people translate it as Zhong Xuan, nicknamed "Glass Man".

In the past, Zheng Xuan also lost to many opponents in many youth competitions, but now, in Asia, there are very few people who can beat him. Even in the international tennis world, he can be regarded as the number one characters.

Among the Asian men's players, apart from An Sheng and Japanese player Kei Nishikori, the next thing people can think of is Zheng Xuan.

Of course, I don't say this to praise Zheng Xuan, because An Sheng actually doesn't like him, and even hates him, just like he doesn't like Kei Nishikori.

It's just that, when he found out that he could be in the quarter-finals of the Masters, he met Zheng Xuan, which reminded An Sheng of a lot of past events, and he was a little emotional.

As for the match between them, there is actually no suspense about the result. Even a year ago, when An Sheng had not yet reached the 90th stage, he was able to sweep it away.

But now, of course, An Sheng can still do it, and it is more relaxed.

In fact, in this game, An Sheng took only one hour, two and 10 minutes to easily win it with a score of 2 to 0, and then advanced to the semi-finals of this Indian Wells Masters.

The other three players who advanced to the semi-finals are Federer, Coric, and Anson's former "mortal enemy", Zverev.

What can be seen is that this time, the four players who advanced to the semi-finals of the Indian Wells Masters are a mix of old and new players.

Moreover, according to the grouping, the two semi-finals are the contest between Anson and Coric, and Federer and Zverev. It happens to be two new generation players against two representatives of the old generation.

The collision of the two "powers" is extremely obvious.

And this kind of situation, I think, as time goes by, the number of occurrences will only increase. In the end, the new generation represented by An Sheng will replace the old generation of players and become the new generation leader in professional tennis. By.

On March 3, at 18:45 pm, nearly 1 spectators came to Court No. 5 of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

Then, accompanied by the cheers of the audience, An Sheng and Coric stepped into the field from the specially prepared player channel respectively.

Fifteen minutes later, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the semi-finals of the 15 Indian Wells Masters, the contest between Anson and Coric officially began.

"Oh!"

In the first game, Coric served first.

Ansheng has played against Coric many times before, so he is quite familiar with him and has a good understanding of his serving ability.

It can be said with certainty that Coric is one of the players with the strongest serving strength in today's tennis world. In addition to stability, he can even be comparable to An Sheng.

As expected, the speed of Coric's first serve easily exceeded 200 kilometers per hour, and its route and landing point were not bad at all.

In the face of such a high-quality serve, even if An Sheng has a super predictive ability and psychological accuracy, it is still difficult to play a sufficiently offensive return. He can only control the angle as much as possible to destroy Coric One shot attack.

Subsequently, Coric did not accidentally get started, and hit a very strong forehand diagonal attack.

And An Sheng, who had lost his chance, could only barely complete the return.

But in the next shot, Coric took advantage of the victory and pursued, directly attacking An Sheng's backhand, and then successfully scored the point.

In the next game, Coric's serve was unexpectedly stable, the speed of the ball was controlled at around 200 kilometers per hour, and it was guaranteed to have a sufficient angle.

An Sheng could imagine that Coric had obviously trained specifically to target him, and compared to Dimitrov before, his performance was obviously much better.

And with Church playing extremely stable, An Sheng couldn't easily crack it.

Soon, Coric successfully secured serve in the first game.

And when the game came to An Sheng's serve, the situation was very similar to before. Perhaps it was even more difficult for Coric. After all, his return ability was still worse than that of An Sheng.

In this way, there were not too many twists and turns, and An Sheng successfully completed the guarantee of this round.

After that, the two sides kept their serve until it was 6-6, and then entered the crucial tie-break game to decide the outcome.

What must be said is that, so far in the game, it is basically certain that Coric's play strategy is successful, at least he has won the chance for himself to win.

But after that, the situation on the field changed a lot.

The source of its change is naturally from Ansheng.

After entering the tiebreaker, An Sheng's style of play suddenly became more violent, with a hint of fighting intent.

This is really rare. Ever since An Sheng came back, he has never been seen. Someone can "force" him to this point, not even the shocking battle between him and Federer.

But in fact, An Sheng was not forced, but he made such a choice on his own initiative.

The reason, in fact, there is really no special reason. If he had to say a reason, An Sheng just suddenly felt that his previous style of play was a bit too prudent, and he wanted to find some excitement.

As for the result, An Sheng was very happy, because after he started "fighting", he played very well.

In the tie-break of the first set, at the beginning, An Sheng lost two points in a row because he was too aggressive, and one of them was broken. Returned two points, and continued to expand the score by taking advantage of the victory.

Although he still made two mistakes later because his playing style was too fierce, but more importantly, he scored extremely beautiful winning points.

As a result, An Sheng was very "adventurous" and won the first game.

And when the game entered the second set, An Sheng's aggressive style of play brought him benefits, allowing him to pose a huge threat to Coric's serve.

In the 4th and 8th innings, he broke serve twice. Although he also lost a serve, he finally won the second set with a score of 6-4.

In this way, An Sheng defeated Coric 2-0 and advanced to the final.

It's just that, when An Sheng looks back at this game, he may feel a little lucky, because his performance in this game has fluctuated too much, and it is quite a fluke to win.

(End of this chapter)