tennis giant

Chapter 168 Hidden dangers and opportunities

"Hello, I'm a reporter from Bolang Sports. Can I spare you a few minutes for a brief interview?"

"Are you talking to me?"

Looking at the beauty in uniform in front of him, An Sheng was a little surprised.

"Correct."

"Are you mistaken? I'm just a runner-up, and the champion is still there."

"No, you are the one I want to interview, An Sheng, right?"

"you sure?"

"very sure!"

"OK then."

In fact, this is not the first time An Sheng has met media reporters. He was interviewed when he was still playing amateur games.

However, that was just a collective interview, and the so-called reporters were those appointed by their Tennis Association or the organizer, not reporters from the public media.

Therefore, An Sheng is actually quite curious and interested.

In addition, Bolang Sports can be said to be the largest online sports media in the country. It is an honor for Ansheng to be interviewed by them.

After getting An Sheng's consent, the other party quickly picked up the recording pen in his hand, handed it to An Sheng's mouth, and immediately started asking questions, as if he was in a hurry.

"An Sheng, first of all congratulations on winning the runner-up in this event. I noticed that this should be your second time participating in an ITF youth event. How does it feel to achieve such a good result?"

"Uh~ I feel pretty happy, but it's also a pity that I didn't get the final championship."

"Then what do you think of the level of our domestic young players?"

"Ok?"

An Sheng was taken aback, not understanding why the other party would ask such a question, and the other party also saw his doubts, and immediately gave an explanation.

"An Sheng, you may not have noticed that in the previous ITF youth tours, the final champions were foreign players. However, Chinese players rarely reach the finals, and even the semi-finals are very rare. It’s rare to see them.”

"What do you think about this phenomenon?"

This time, An Sheng of course understood. He also knew that what the reporter said was true, and she seemed to want to make a fuss about this issue.

But from An Sheng's point of view, this is not surprising.

"I think this should be a relatively normal phenomenon. After all, compared with Western countries, our country's tennis program can only be regarded as just in its infancy. I also believe that in a few years, this situation will definitely change. "

"Then can you talk about your opponent in the final, what do you think of his strength?"

"His strength is very strong, and I know that he has participated in many adult professional competitions before, and he has very rich experience in competitions. Therefore, it is relatively normal to lose to him."

"Okay, thank you very much for accepting the interview, and I wish you better and better results in the future."

Very abruptly, the other party ended the interview, and it was indeed as she said, very brief.

And this made An Sheng even more sure that the other party's purpose was probably to target the Huaguo players' inability to achieve good results, and it seemed that she didn't get the result she wanted to hear.

In addition, of course, this is also because An Sheng's current status is not enough. Although the other party is very polite, he doesn't really value him, so the interview is ended in such a hurry.

An Sheng didn't care about this, but was afraid that the other party would make up and say something that shouldn't be said in his name.

However, An Sheng was too worried about this. Not long after, he found relevant reports about the Shenzhen ITF event from the Bolang Sports website.

Among them, the content about him only mentioned one sentence, "An Sheng, a player from the Shanghai City Team, won the runner-up in this competition."

Other than that, there is no other news.

In this way, An Sheng was completely relieved, but he never expected that just because this seemingly very common sentence planted a big hidden danger for him, and even affected his career.

But this matter probably still needs some time to ferment, but before that, An Sheng attracted a big opportunity.

After he returned to the Shanghai City Team with Zhang Zhizheng, he immediately learned that Wu Di, the No. 1 in men's tennis in Huaguo, had returned to the Shanghai City Team.

According to other people, Wu Di came back this time mainly because he was injured and needed a period of recuperation.

After confirming that Wu Di had indeed returned to the Shanghai city team, An Sheng immediately realized that this might be his chance.

As expected, Meng Xiangkang, who hadn't seen him for a while, came to look for him very soon. His purpose was to readjust his work, that is, to be Wu Di's training partner for a period of time.

This is actually not difficult to speculate, because during this period of time, the other adult players of their city team have already gone out to compete, and only Qin Shidong stayed in the team.

But An Sheng expected that with Qin Shidong's face-saving temperament and his state of eating and waiting to die, he might not agree to this matter.

In this way, An Sheng, who was able to fight Xiong Tengfei on a par with Xiong Tengfei, but often "lost" to Qin Shidong, became the best candidate.

There is no doubt that An Sheng immediately agreed to Meng Xiangkang's arrangement, and met Wu Di on the same day.

"So short!"

When I met him for the first time, this word popped up in An Sheng's mind unconsciously.

Indeed, Wudi's height is only 1 meters, which is really short among tennis players.

At this time, Wu Di was sitting on the sidelines with his upper body shirtless. This also made An Sheng notice that on his shoulders, there was a special medical tape, including Wu Di's right thigh, which was also covered with adhesive tape. strip.

It seems that someone said before that he was injured, which should be true.

At the same time, this also allowed An Sheng to see the extremely strong muscle groups on his body, but compared to his upper body, his lower body muscles were obviously more developed, especially his calves, which were really thicker than ordinary people.

It is conceivable that the shortest Wu Di's strongest ability should lie in his movement and body flexibility.

However, the first person who came to communicate with them was not Wu Di, but his big-name foreign trainer, Nestor from Sweden, and he seemed to be a little dissatisfied with An Sheng.

"Hey, Meng, are you sure he is the strongest player in your city team? But why is he still a teenage player?"

"Coach Nestor, I'm sure, I'm the strongest player among the players who stay in the team. If you don't believe me, you can find someone to try."

Meng Xiangkang hadn't responded yet, but An Sheng was already one step ahead, answering the other party's question "proficiently" in English, and his tone was very confident.

This was obviously beyond the expectations of Meng Xiangkang and Nestor, and at the same time, it also surprised Nestor.

In fact, in Nestor's view, if you want to be Wu Di's sparring partner, his strength is important and fundamental, but smooth communication is also crucial.

In this way, as long as An Sheng's strength is not bad, then Nestor doesn't mind letting An Sheng stay.

(End of this chapter)