tennis giant

Chapter 149
"An Sheng, your game is tomorrow morning, calm down and rest early."

This was a sentence Wang Zhensheng said to An Sheng at 8 o'clock that night, intended to remind him.

But An Sheng actually noticed that Wang Zhensheng didn't come to remind him on purpose, but just casually reminded him after seeing him inadvertently.

"it is good."

An Sheng agreed casually, with a calm face, but he obviously didn't care, or he felt that Wang Zhensheng didn't need to remind him.

It is worth mentioning that An Sheng originally planned to ask for another room, but under Wang Zhensheng's arrangement, he, Zhang Zhizheng, and Wang Zhensheng himself lived in a double room together.

This can save some costs, but the problem is that there are only two single beds in the room.

The only way, perhaps, is to push the two beds together and squeeze each other, so that they can barely sleep.

An Sheng was somewhat dissatisfied with this at first. Normally, this would not matter, but now that they are here to compete, if it affects their rest, and then affects their game state, then the loss outweighs the gain.

But in fact, An Sheng was thinking too much, because Wang Zhensheng didn't want to squeeze in with them at all, but was going to make a bed on the floor.

And after that, An Sheng also discovered many details about Wang Zhensheng.

For example, even if it was on the floor, Wang Zhensheng chose the most remote corner of the room, away from their beds, and kept as quiet as possible.

For another example, in the middle of the night, Wang Zhensheng got up at least three or four times in order to observe their sleeping conditions and help them adjust the temperature of the air conditioner.

Even, like a parent, he covered them with kicked-off quilts.

And early in the morning, he was the first to get up again, cleaned the room lightly, and then went out to bring back a hot breakfast for them, and carefully packed it in an insulated box to prevent it from getting cold .

It has to be said that Wang Zhensheng has maintained the tradition of coaches in Huaguo very well. The care for athletes is absolutely meticulous. Basically, except for the games, everything else is arranged by them.

However, there are pros and cons to doing so.

The advantage is that athletes can devote themselves to the competition without worrying about anything else. To a large extent, it can indeed help them improve their performance.

However, correspondingly, because they only focus on the competition and results, they don't know much about other things outside the competition. In addition, they are basically closed during training and have little contact with external affairs.

This will lead to a serious loss of their abilities in other aspects besides training and competition, and may even cause psychological problems due to this.

And this point, for tennis players, will have a greater impact, because after they reach the professional tennis world and become professional players, they will also become "bosses", coaches, physical trainers, agents, etc. It's their private employees.

In other words, the player himself is the one who needs to make the decisions.

But if he has insufficient knowledge of external affairs, or even no social experience, then it is obviously impossible for him to have this ability.

Therefore, apart from admiring Wang Zhensheng's approach, An Sheng also had reservations.

At 8:[-] the next morning, thanks to the homework he did yesterday, An Sheng arrived at the designated arena without anyone else accompanying him, and completed the relevant procedures.

This gave him a sense of accomplishment.

At the same time, An Sheng is still very excited and confident in the face of the upcoming, the first official event in his life organized by the ITF.

His opponent was a 16-year-old player from the EZ Provincial Sports School, Wang Sitao, but other than that, An Sheng knew nothing about him.

Of course, it was the first time for An Sheng to participate in such an event, and it was impossible for the opponent to know anything about him. Therefore, this match should be fair, depending on the strength of both parties and their ability to cope on the court.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the game officially started, with Wang Sitao taking the lead in serving.

"Oh!"

The movement is standard, the force is sufficient, and the landing point is well controlled, but the speed of the ball is average. In an instant, An Sheng had a rough judgment.

Originally, with his current return ability, facing this level of service, he could choose to receive and attack. However, the game has just begun after all, and he is not in a hurry to score, so he still has to focus on probing.

As a result, An Sheng was relatively conservative and hit a diagonal line.

But even so, An Sheng's hair extension still posed some threats to Wang Sitao.

In particular, from his facial expression, it can be roughly judged that he is a little nervous, which makes his reaction a bit slower than usual.

Fortunately, Wang Sitao's pace was good. Although he was in a hurry, he finally arrived at the hitting point in time and returned the ball.

But it was also obvious that when he was not fully prepared, the quality of his shots was relatively average, so that, for An Sheng, this was a chance to win with one hit.

But An Sheng was still conservative. In other words, he still wanted to use the ball to test the opponent's ability. Therefore, instead of taking a strong attack, he weakened his offensive and hit the ball to the opponent's backhand position. , the angle is not large.

Under An Sheng's deliberate control, the two sides fought for more than ten rounds.

From this, An Sheng can basically judge that Wang Sitao's strength should be in the middle of the 50th stage, roughly the same as Zhang Zhizheng.

And apart from his good running ability, other aspects are relatively ordinary, or relatively standard, and there is nothing special about him.

There is no doubt that such a level is unlikely to pose any threat to An Sheng, and the gap in strength is too large to be affected by other factors.

That being the case, An Sheng didn't dawdle anymore, and in just 10 minutes, he easily won his first victory in an ITF event with a set score of 6-1 and 6-0.

After finishing this game, An Sheng has no other games today.

This point actually made him a little uncomfortable. Compared with the amateur events he participated in before, it was too easy.

He even felt that he had just completed his warm-up, and his physical state and emotions had just been mobilized by him, but this day's game was over, leaving him with nowhere to vent his energy.

It made him feel even more depressed. His previous plan also fell through.

Originally, he insisted that Zhang Zhizheng follow him to participate in the competition, the purpose is to be able to train during the interval of the competition.

But in fact, Zhang Zhizheng couldn't do this, because his game was not as easy as An Sheng's. After three fierce battles, he was already very tired, and there was a game tomorrow, so it was impossible for him to waste his energy Go for high-intensity training.

In this way, there was really nowhere to release An Sheng's energy, which made him very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)