tennis giant

Chapter 400 "The Master"

Chapter 400 "The Master"

The enthusiasm for the Huaguo Open has not yet passed, and the Shanghai Masters is coming one after another.

Here, I have to complain about the International Tennis Federation. Its competition arrangements are always unreasonable, especially for the players who reach the finals. They hardly get any rest and have to immediately invest in a new round of competition among.

Fortunately, An Sheng won the China Open this time relatively easily. Except for the last match against Del Potro, he crushed all his opponents without putting in much effort.

In this Shanghai Masters, An Sheng was placed in the upper half as the No. 14 seed. Most importantly, he was placed in the same group as the No. 1 seed Federer.

In other words, if nothing else happens, the two of them will meet in the third round.

But for this, An Sheng didn't have any resistance. Instead, he looked forward to it very much. He even wished he could play against Federer.

You know, since his comeback, Ansheng's goal is to be number one in the world.

This "No. 1 in the world" is not only talking about the ATP world ranking, but also "No.[-] in professional tennis"!

And if Ansheng wants to achieve this goal, then he will have no way to avoid Federer. As long as he defeats him, and defeats him without any controversy, Ansheng can legitimately take over the title of "Tennis No. 1" from him. .

It can be seen from this that An Sheng is determined to win this Shanghai Masters!

On October 10th, at 8:12 noon, An Sheng ushered in his first opponent. He was a young player from the United States, McDonald.

As for this McDonald, An Sheng only knew that his current ATP ranking was No. 186, and he didn't know any other information.

This is not because of An Sheng's arrogance, but because his time to prepare for the competition is indeed very urgent. In addition, he is very confident in his own strength.

In this way, he did not make special preparations before the game.

Originally, An Sheng thought that this MacDonald should be a white man, but unexpectedly, when he saw the other party with his own eyes, he realized that the other party actually had an Asian face.

In fact, Mike is indeed a mixed race, and has the blood of Chinese people.

But of course, An Sheng would not let him go because of this. In just one hour, he easily defeated him with a score of 1-2.

In the second round, An Sheng faced the famous player from Spain, Agut.

It must be said that Agut, who just turned 30 a few days ago, is at the peak of his career. His skills are mature and his mentality is stable. It can be said that no matter who meets him, he is not sure of winning.

However, except for An Sheng!At least during this time period, when An Sheng meets Agut, it can be said that he will win.

The reason is very simple. At this time, An Sheng is also in his most powerful period of time.Maybe there is someone who can defeat An Sheng, but this person is definitely not Agut.

On October 10, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the contest between An Sheng and Agut officially began.

"Oh!"

In the first game, Ansheng took the lead in serving.

As soon as the game started, An Shengke had no intention of testing, but opened fire with all his strength, intending to knock down the opponent's fighting spirit so that the battle could be resolved quickly.

In fact, An Sheng's strategy did work. His first serve gave him an ACE.

Including the next two goals, he relied on the advantage of serving to quickly complete the points.

But at the next goal, something unexpected happened.

"Oh!"

This is a powerful outside corner serve, the ball is extremely fast, and the placement is tricky, and it has basically played An Sheng's due ability.

Unexpectedly, Agut, who could barely complete the return before, actually hit a beautiful rebound in this return.

An Sheng was caught off guard. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and saved the ball by running fast, but he also lost the offensive initiative because of this.

Looking back, Agut's attack was stronger than An Sheng expected, not to mention its strength, at least in terms of the control of the line and the landing point, he did it quite perfectly.

At this time, An Sheng hesitated for a moment. He wanted to give up the shot. The reason was that anyway, he was still in the lead, and relying on his serve advantage, he would be able to keep his serve after all.

But just a moment later, Ansheng decisively abandoned such an idea, because his game experience told him that at this time, he must not let the opponent score easily, otherwise, there will be endless troubles.

To be more specific, if you lose one or two points, it may seem like it doesn't matter much, but in fact, this will give your opponent a chance to breathe.

And as long as the opponent still has a chance, then, maybe at some point, the opponent will rise up and teach you a painful lesson.

Therefore, in this kind of tit-for-tat situation, the more you have to face the hard steel, even if you may lose this point, you must not make it easy for the other party.

What's more, in this ball, An Sheng has not yet reached the end of the mountain. In fact, if he is willing, his strength is enough for him to have a stalemate with Agut.

In the end, it was Ansheng's persistence that allowed him to score this point, which to a certain extent dampened Agut's momentum.

But when the game came to the second game, the situation was more difficult than Ansheng imagined.

"Oh!"

The speed of Agut's first serve was relatively average, but its landing point was controlled quite accurately.

On the other hand, An Sheng relied on his ability to predict and hit a good-quality return, but then Agut forcibly completed a forehand slam, and the placement was also very tricky.

As a last resort, Ansheng used a forehand spin to make the transition.

And Agut chose to attack again, and moved Ansheng left and right. Under his precise control of the landing point, it really made it difficult for Ansheng to seize the opportunity to counterattack, and he could only be forced to fight with him.

The two sides held each other for ten or so shots at one point, and then An Sheng found an opportunity and hit a backhand counterattack to complete the end.

The next few goals were basically the same. In the confrontation with Ansheng, Agut was obviously at a disadvantage, but he was very tenacious, especially his control of the landing point, which was incredibly accurate.

Therefore, it is really not easy for An Sheng to score.

It is also conceivable that if Ansheng did not abandon that wrong idea in the first game, it left Agut with a glimmer of hope for a comeback.

Well, no way, An Sheng would have to learn a painful lesson today.

Fortunately, Ansheng kept his inner persistence and did not leave Agut a chance.

In the end, after a 2-hour competition, An Sheng was able to win, and then advanced to the third round of the Shanghai Masters.

What must be said is that although An Sheng's current strength has reached the top level, he cannot be taken lightly in the professional arena.

Especially, now, other players will no longer underestimate him, and will only pay more and more attention to his existence in the future, and will conduct in-depth research on his style of play and skills.

In other words, An Sheng's identity has begun to change, from the original challenger to the "leader" on the stage.

And this is probably the second threshold that An Sheng has to go through if he wants to become "No.1 in the tennis world". It may not be obvious now, but in the future, he will definitely not be able to avoid this problem.

(End of this chapter)