tennis giant

Chapter 405: Stable as Mount Tai
"Ansheng, you have defeated Zverev many times in a row, and every time you have done so cleanly, is there any trick?"

An Sheng glanced at the reporter who asked the question, with disdain in his eyes.

"I don't know why you're asking that, or is it that you don't understand tennis at all."

"I evaluated Zverev a long time ago. He has great potential, but he is not enough to be called a top player. His performance is still not stable enough. On the psychological level, there are also some problems. question."

"That's why I was able to beat him many times."

"In addition, if he wants to treat me as his sworn enemy, I don't mind at all. If he really has the strength, I look forward to him being able to defeat me!"

These words are extremely domineering!

And Ansheng is indeed very confident. He may lose one of the games for a long time in the future, but he will never lose to Zverev.

This is very similar to Nishikori's situation.

At the same time, Anson is very disgusted that the media always likes to compare him with Zverev.

Because he feels that he has already surpassed Zverev's level. Even if he wants to make a comparison, the comparison object should be players like Federer and Djokovic.

Even Tim and Coric are better than Zverev.

From here, it can be seen that An Sheng really doesn't like Zverev.

As for whether Zverev will feel angry after these words spread, and even regard him as a "mortal enemy", An Sheng really doesn't care.

On November 11th, at three o'clock in the afternoon, An Sheng ushered in the semi-finals of this year's Paris Open, and his opponent was the No. 7 seed of this tournament, Tim.

I still remember that when Anson won his first ATP500 championship, the opponent he defeated in the final was Tim.

Over the years, Tim has also maintained a very high level of competition and has never fallen out of the top ten in the world.

But since An Sheng was able to defeat Tim at the beginning, would he still lose to him now?

"Oh!"

At the start of the game, Tim served first.

Compared with Federer and other four kings, Tim's serving strength is actually better.

Even An Sheng, in the face of Tim's serve, can't play a strong return effect, and more can only make some fuss about the line and the landing point.

For example, in this ball, An Sheng used a rebounding return and hit the ball to the opponent's backhand corner.

But then, Tim didn't look like a big player at all. He used his fast movement to catch up in place in time, and then hit a powerful forehand.

Its power is great, resulting in its ball speed is very fast, if it is not for the slightly worse angle, this is completely a winning point.

And it was precisely because it was so short that An Sheng blocked the attack with this shot.

However, Tim's strength is not only the first attack. After he has the initiative on the field, his offense will only become more fierce with each attack.

That is, in the third shot, Ansheng was unable to withstand it and made a mistake in returning the ball.

And this is exactly the characteristic of Tim. His continuous offense is extremely hot, and he also has a very strong serve ability, which is enough for him to gain the offensive initiative.

However, how could An Sheng be so easy to deal with?

"Oh!"

On the next ball, Tim's serve was still undiminished, and An Sheng had to avoid his edge. He did not blindly choose to return and attack, and only played a regular return.

Immediately afterwards, as before, Tim started to attack, but after one beat, his attack was difficult to sustain.

In this shot, Tim used his forehand to hit a diagonal line, attacking the bottom corner of An Sheng's forehand.

According to common sense, relying on its ball speed and angle, this is enough to pose a threat to anyone, even if it cannot score directly, it will allow Tim to continue to expand his advantage.

However, under such a high-quality attack, An Sheng resolutely chose to attack!
With his forehand, he completed a forehand swipe, not only completed the return of the ball, but also played a higher speed and strength of the ball.

And Tim obviously didn't expect this, but he also refused to admit defeat, and then chose to use force, but when he was attacking, he made a mistake in judgment, which caused him to make a mistake in returning the ball.

Anson pulled back a point.

Of course, it must also be said that in Tim's serve game, An Sheng wanted to complete such an attack, and the risk of making mistakes was not small.

For example, on the next ball, An Sheng made a mistake in returning the ball and lost another point.

But having said that, what An Sheng wants is not to complete the attack with every ball, let alone completely suppress Tim.

In fact, if he is just a "probability".

In other words, he only needs some luck. With a certain success rate, he hits a few good shots in a row. Then, he can use this to complete the break and win this victory.

Therefore, he must have this patience.

And when the game reached the seventh game of the first set, Ansheng's patience bore fruit as he wished.

In this round of the game, Tim made two first-serve mistakes, and Anson seized the opportunity to use the return and attack to take the initiative and complete the score.

In addition, he forcibly reversed the offensive and defensive situation through a strong counterattack, and then scored two more points.

In this way, Ansheng successfully completed the break in this game.

In the fourth and sixth innings of the second set, the situation was basically similar. While Anson made several strong attacks, Tim made several mistakes, which allowed Anson to break serve.

As for An Sheng's serve, it can be described in four words, which is "steady as Mount Tai".

First of all, Anson's serve ability is definitely the top in the world, and secondly, compared to Djokovic, Tim's serve ability is quite different.

Furthermore, Tim is also slightly inferior in terms of defensive ability and ability to counterattack in adversity.

Of course, this is normal, but not every professional tennis player can be as versatile as An Sheng, and all of them are at the top level in the world.

In this way, the result of this game came out.

耗时一小时四10分钟，安生是以7比5、6比2，战胜了当前世界排名第8的蒂姆，继而挺进了本次巴黎大师赛的决赛。

And its opponent in the final, after nearly an hour of waiting, waited for the answer.

In another semi-final, the No. 7 seed Djokovic defeated Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-5, 7-7, 6-[-] to reach the final. Anson confluence.

The final of the Paris Open this time was actually another "Battle of Ander"!
(End of this chapter)