tennis giant

Chapter 166
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, this ITF International Tournament has reached the semi-finals.

In this round of competition, Ansheng’s opponent is Cai Changli from Huaguobao Island, a 17-year-old boy who is 1 meters tall and weighs 75 kilograms. His current ITF youth ranking is 64+.

In other words, Cai Changli, like An Sheng, is not a seed player in this competition, and they can be called a dark horse if they can get to this point.

Therefore, this match between them is known as the battle of dark horses.

But there is still a big difference between the two of them.

The reason why An Sheng failed to become a seeded player and the ITF ranking is also very low is because this is only the second ITF youth event he has participated in.

But in terms of strength, it is reasonable for him to reach the top 4 in this tournament. Only those who don't know his strength will think that he is a dark horse.

As for Cai Changli, his competition experience is much richer than that of An Sheng. To put it simply, he has been practicing tennis since he was a child, and he has played from U12, U14, U16 to U18 now.

But even though he has participated in ITF youth events many times, his ranking has still not improved. This basically shows that there are some problems with his current strength.

This point, in fact, can be roughly seen from his physical condition.

Compared with other contestants, his physical condition is obviously thinner, and correspondingly, his strength is likely to be somewhat insufficient.

For tennis players, although strength is not the only criterion for judging their strength, it is definitely a very important and very basic factor. If strength is insufficient, everything else will be difficult to play.

That being the case, logically speaking, An Sheng should be able to win this game easily, but in fact, he played this game extremely difficult.

It has to be said that he was lucky to meet the slightly weaker Cai Changli in the semi-finals. If he had had a stronger opponent, he might have been able to stop there.

The reason is that An Sheng's own strength has been affected by the previous game, and there has been a relatively obvious decline.

To be more precise, after he used the "spiritual burst" ability, it brought him some sequelae, which caused his mental attributes to drop by a whole level.

As I said before, although his spiritual attributes will not affect his hard power, they will affect his performance.

When his mental attributes are normal, he can exert 100% of his strength, but if his mental attributes change, the percentage of his exertion will also change accordingly.

Therefore, in this game, An Sheng's strength has dropped by at least a notch.

In addition, it is also obvious that in a short period of time, he will not be able to use this ability again.

Of course, An Sheng does not regret that he used his mental explosive ability in the last game. Firstly, it is because he has already achieved his desired goal and taught Ito Ryoma a hard lesson. Secondly, this can also be regarded as his an attempt.

Previously, although he had discovered that there might be some problems with his "spiritual outburst", he was still not sure what negative effects it would bring.

And now, through this attempt, he already knew the consequences.

Moreover, he also thought that even though the "spiritual outburst" has such sequelae, its effect is still very powerful.

It is conceivable that as long as he uses this ability in the finals, the sequelae will be almost negligible, but it is almost guaranteed that he can win the game and win the final championship.

And back to the game.

With An Sheng in a negative state, he and Cai Changli are just about the same.

In terms of strength and forehand strength, An Sheng wants to have some advantages, but in terms of backhand and pace running ability, Cai Changli, who is more flexible, has the upper hand.

It must also be said that apart from the lack of physical strength, Cai Changli's other abilities are still very good, especially his running ability, even An Sheng in his prime may not be able to match him.

In addition, he has been playing since he was a child and has a lot of experience in the game. He is very mature in terms of skills and tactics. In this regard, he is also better than An Sheng.

Therefore, in the competition, Cai Changli once had the advantage.

Correspondingly, thanks to his adequate pre-match preparations, An Sheng's mentality has always been maintained quite well, and he is very active in the face of difficulties.

In addition, when strength and forehand strength are dominant, and his performance is relatively stable, it is not particularly difficult for An Sheng to keep his serve.

In this way, although Cai Changli had some upper hand on the scene, his advantage was not obvious, so that he couldn't turn his advantage into victory, let alone gain the lead in the score.

And more importantly, Cai Changli was not that active in handling the key balls. In other words, his style of play and his lack of physical strength limited his offensive ability to a large extent. .

On the other hand, An Sheng, once the critical moment is reached, his forehand can win with one blow, and he is very decisive, and he never hesitates when it is time to make a move.

This point almost determines the outcome of the game.

When the game came to the third set, although An Sheng was broken once by Cai Changli, he immediately broke the opponent's serve again. After that, the score increased alternately until the final tie-break.

At this time, An Sheng naturally no longer had any scruples, just let go of his hands and feet, and went all out to fight.

Under such a state of mind, An Sheng showed stronger strength and used his forehand to hit winning points frequently. As a result, he won the most crucial tie-break and then the whole game. Advance to the final.

After the game, Cai Changli did not show any frustration, because in this event, he reached the semi-finals as an unseeded player, which can already be regarded as a breakthrough in his performance.

In addition, before the game, he had actually done some understanding of An Sheng, and he knew that in yesterday's game, An Sheng had swept away the favorite to win this event, Ito Ryoma from Japan.

Therefore, he was not surprised to lose to An Sheng. On the contrary, he was very satisfied with his own performance. After all, he once had an advantage in the game, and it was not until the last moment of the game that An Sheng came back to win.

As for this colleague from the Baodao area, An Sheng is more friendly, and everyone speaks Chinese, so there is no obstacle in communication.

However, An Sheng just chatted with him for a while and didn't do anything else, which was a little different from what he had done before.

The reason is that after the game, he felt a little tired.

Obviously, his game strategy has begun to show its shortcomings, which made him tired. Coupled with his mental problems, he might not be able to play well in this final.

(End of this chapter)