tennis giant

Chapter 418 No Suspense
After a [-]-day closed training, An Sheng led his team, as well as the CCTV crew, on a plane to Melbourne, Australia.

In this Australian Open, the lineup of the Huaguo Legion is quite large, with more than 10 players participating.

Of course, most of them are female players, such as Wang Qiang, who is currently ranked 20th in the WTA world, there is also a 32-year-old veteran Peng Shuai, and there is also a 17-year-old young player Wang Yuxi.

It can be seen that in the Huaguo Women's Tennis Team, the three generations, old, middle-aged and young, are all representative figures who have performed well.

But among the men's tennis players, apart from An Sheng, there are only two veterans, Zhang Ze and Li Zhe, who seem to be much lonely. If there is no An Sheng, just the two of them are really not enough.

On the day of arriving in Melbourne, An Sheng had to spare half a day to complete the CCTV shooting task before he could concentrate on preparing for the competition.

By the way, Anson originally received an invitation from the Australian Open tournament to participate in some pre-match activities, but he refused.

It's not because of the cost, but because of the fear of affecting his game state.

In fact, as far as An Sheng feels about himself, he thinks that his current competitive state is not good. However, he also maintains a positive and optimistic attitude and is not too worried.

And Anson currently has a full 6000 ATP points and ranks fifth in the world. Therefore, in this Australian Open, he won the No. 5 seed.

With this seat, An Sheng is divided into the 3/4 area, and the other "guardian" in the same group is Tim, who is currently ranked No. 4 in the world.

In addition, the well-known players in the same group include Kei Nishikori, who is currently ranked No. 9 in the world, and Edmund, who is ranked No. 14 in the UK.

It seems that Ansheng's pick is quite good. As long as he can perform well and stand out from the 3/4 zone, there should be no big problem.

On January 2019, 1, the Australian Open officially started, and An Sheng also ushered in his first match at 15:10 am that day.

Its opponent is Pera from Argentina, whose current ATP ranking is 58th, which is not high.

At the same time, according to An Sheng's understanding, this Pera has never won any major championship in his nearly ten-year career.

According to his video data, An Sheng can basically confirm that this Pella cannot pose any threat to him, and is also an opponent who is quite suitable for him to test his own state.

Surprisingly, at the press conference before the game, An Sheng seemed a little low-key and refused to comment on Pera.

Such a situation gave the outside world some bad guesses about him.

But in fact, An Sheng just felt that the strength gap between this Pella and him was too big, and there was no need to quarrel with him, so he didn't bother to pay attention.

Unexpectedly, after only one and a half months, these media reporters seemed to have forgotten An Sheng's temper, and started acting like a monster again.

"Oh!"

At the beginning of the game, Pera took the lead in serving.

And at the moment when he swung his racket, An Sheng had already made a preliminary judgment that Pera's serving strength was relatively average.

Sure enough, according to the value displayed on the speedometer board on the sidelines, his serve was only 176 kilometers per hour.

However, this was the first time they had fought against each other. An Sheng didn't overdo it, and he didn't make any effort. It was just a routine, and he completed the reception.

On the other hand, Pella played fiercely. After serving the ball, he rushed forward two steps without hesitation and entered the court.

Immediately, Pella used his forehand to hit a strong flat blow, attacking An Sheng's backhand.

These are all conventional offensive routines. Although Pella's attack seems to have a fast pace because of the advanced position, but under An Sheng's quick reaction, it cannot pose a fatal threat to him.

Ansheng responded with a backhand chip without haste.

As for this cutting ball, the quality is quite high, and the line is very smooth, almost flying past the top edge of the mesh belt, and the landing point is extremely deep.

As a result, Pera had to withdraw from the field again, and retreated about one meter from the bottom line before barely completing the return.

With this, An Sheng turned from defense to offense, but he was not in a hurry, so he hit a forehand topspin and attacked the opponent's forehand corner.

It must be said that at Pella's level, his basic ability is still very good, including in terms of toughness, it is not too bad.

Therefore, even with some reluctance, Pera still struggled to catch up to the bottom corner and completed the defense at the cost of losing his center of gravity.

But when it came to the next beat, he had lost his center of gravity, but he was powerless.

But at this time, Pera not only did not feel frustrated, but to a certain extent, inspired his fighting spirit, because as far as he felt, he believed that he could still fight this game.

Including the scene, as well as a part of the audience in front of the screen, felt that An Sheng seemed not as sharp and powerful as before.

You know, before this, even when facing Federer, or Djokovic, An Sheng's offense was clean and neat. If the winner can be determined, why is it procrastinating like before?

And what does that mean?Perhaps, An Sheng's competitive state is not as hot as before.

"Oh!"

With a hint of luck, Pera fired the second ball.

Its quality is still mediocre, the speed of the ball, the line, and the angle are not good enough, and An Sheng still did not choose a strong return and attack, and only returned a regular return.

Subsequently, the two sides entered a stalemate.

But what makes Pella very depressed is that, in addition to the first attack, from the second shot, he found that he had no chance to launch an attack. If he had to force a counterattack, the error rate would definitely be very high .

As a last resort, Pella can only score points through tenacious defense and hope that An Sheng will make mistakes.

But in such a relaxed situation, how could An Sheng make mistakes for no reason?

As a result, after the two sides stalemate at the bottom line for a few shots, Pera couldn't hold on again, causing him to make a mistake in returning the ball and lose another point.

"Oh!"

For another shot, Pera learned the previous lesson. When attacking on the first shot, he forcibly exerted force, trying to control the offensive initiative.

But when he turned his head, An Sheng responded with a high-quality backhand blow, turning the situation around again and turning defense into offense.

In this regard, Pella was very helpless. He always felt that he seemed to have a little hope, but in the end, the game was not under his control at all, and he could only be led by the nose by An Sheng.

Very quickly, Ansheng scored four points in a row at a leisurely pace and won the first break of the game.

In the subsequent games, the situation was basically the same, but there were some changes. Of course, the person who took the initiative to make changes was naturally An Sheng.

In order to adjust his state, An Sheng used a variety of offensive methods. Whether it was a strong attack with a return, a strong attack with a forehand or a backhand, or a serve to the net, he roughly practiced it.

In the end, there was no suspense for Anson. With a score of 3 to 0, he swept the Argentine player Pella and advanced to the second round of the Australian Open.

But even so, Ansheng still heard some bad sounds after the game.

(End of this chapter)