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Chapter 103 New history, tour finals! (Please subscribe)
In all competitions so far, Chen Ran has not applied to use the "toilet plan" because he feels it is unnecessary.

But when others use this rule, it doesn't mean that there is nothing Chen Ran can do about it.

Players who often use "toilet plan" want to use this 8-minute interval to cool down the opponent's hot touch and adjust their own competitive status.

As for whether the other party has other small moves, it is unknown.

However, when Chen Ran was using the toilet, he seemed to be patiently sitting on the chair and waiting calmly. In fact, he was already in the "simulated training ground" and called out the coach to practice with him. .

He and his coach "Zhang Depei" had several heated rounds.

Therefore, Chen Ran's touch was not affected by Youzhini's "toilet plan" and was still hot.

Youzhini's face looked good. After going to the "toilet", he was no longer as gloomy as before.

Chen Ran stood calmly at the bottom line of the court and looked at Youzhini who was gearing up with interest.

"It's a pity that the time stipulated by ATP is only 8 minutes. Otherwise, you can continue to stay in the toilet for a while, so that I can practice more."

Taking advantage of the gap just now, Chen Ran glanced at the attribute panel again.

After the match with Safin, and the tough "tie-break" with Youzhny just now, Chen Ran's technical attributes finally increased a little, to 79.

This also made Chen Ran more confident about today's game.

Da~da~da~
Youzhini patted the tennis ball gently, looking focused and serious.

He felt that his mood had calmed down and his emotions had calmed down, while the other party's hot touch should have cooled down a bit...

The sun is setting in the west, filling the sky with glow.

The audience ate potato chips and drank drinks, sometimes whispering, sometimes bursting into warm applause.

Since neither of the participating teams is New Zealander, in such a neutral stadium, the audience will only cheer and applaud the side that performs more brilliantly.

The Chinese boy in front of him played extremely exciting tennis. Remembering that he had eliminated the No. [-] seed Safin, the audience gave him silent applause.

At this moment, Youzhini's face was extremely serious, and he felt that his painstaking plan had failed.

It seemed that his "toilet plan" had no effect on Chen Ran. The opponent was still in excellent condition, and even hit a few incredible fairy balls with his fiery touch.

Years of tour experience told Youzhini that such a situation is too rare, and only a few "microwave" players can do it.

The score in the second set came to 4-4 in a stalemate.

In Chen Ran's service game, he relied on high-quality serves and fast-paced sharp attacks to prevent Youzhini from finding any hope of breaking serve.

Chen Ran is often able to win his own serve very easily and freely.

But in Youzhini's own service game, Chen Ran kept putting pressure on him and even got break points several times.

This kind of continuous pressure will keep Youzhini's spirit in a state of high tension, and he will not dare to relax at all.

Youzhny tried his best to successfully keep serve.

But as the game progresses, the players' competitive status will always have ups and downs.

The ninth game was Youzhini's serve, and Chen Ran led 40-30 and once again got a break point.

This was the third break point in the second set.

As the saying goes, there are only three things you can do!
"Chen, break him!"

"come on!"

The audience started shouting.

A Chinese or a Russian has no preference for New Zealanders, and human instinct is to like to see magical dark horses in competitive sports to create one touching fairy tale after another.

On the other side of the court, Youzhini was hitting a tennis ball. The crisp sound of hitting the ball was not so clear amid the noise around him.

Chen Ran bent his knees, stepped lightly, and was swaying his body from side to side. He stared at Youzhini with a burning gaze, firmly locking the other's every move.

In the previous games, he failed to seize this break point, so how should he hit this break point?
Da Da Da~
Youzhini seemed to take a little longer to shoot the ball. Some spectators were impatient and lost their patience, so they began to boo.

Amid the boos, Youzhini finally began to move.

Toss, take a knee, kick, pivot, and hit!

boom!
The yellow-green tennis ball drew an arc and flew toward Chen Ran's center.

One zone, one shot, in the middle.

Chen Ran didn't have time to adjust his steps, but his upper body made a slight backward movement. The flexible waist strength made the audience exclaim: "What a waist!"

His forehand movement to lead the racket has been fully extended, and he uses turning movements to push and move, and his arms are fully exerted.

Snapped!
The tennis ball rushed out like an arrow from the string, with strong external spin.

At this moment, Chen Ran's steps were almost perfect. This was a muscle reaction formed after years of competition and training, but he was clearly less than 17 years old. "We must not let him break!"

Youzhini shouted in his heart, and then ran over with long strides, his whole body completely stretched, and his body's center of gravity relied on his bent knees to adjust to a stable state.

Invite the shot!Swing the racket!
Straight hit!

"Oh~"

"Pretty!"

The audience let out a gasp.

Youzhny's shot was not a fairy ball, but it was not far off.

Chen Ran immediately used a series of small steps to adjust his body's center of gravity, and responded with a backhand with both hands.

Backhand to backhand!
Soon, the two sides were going back and forth and entered into a multi-shooting stalemate stage.

Usually at this stage, in addition to the competition of will between the players on both sides, they are scheming against each other.

Just when Youzhni thought that Chen Ran would still adopt a defensive counterattack strategy like the first game, the opponent actually changed his combat strategy.

In a flash of lightning, Chen Ran immediately rushed to the net after completing a diagonal smash from a wide angle.

The whole movement was very smooth and decisive, clean and neat, without any sloppiness.

After all, Chen Ran had a break point in his hands.

Even if this point is lost, it is just a tie.

Youzhini ran over and hit the tennis ball back with a forehand swing.

But at this time, Chen Ran had already moved to the net and accurately predicted Youzhini's return route.

opportunity!

In a flash of lightning, Chen Ran immediately made a beautiful volley to the net and hit the ball to the other side of the baseline.

In an instant, offense and defense change shape.

Youzhini did not give up and once again ran over regardless of his physical strength and completed an almost impossible save.

But Chen Ran's interception skills in front of the net have long been perfected. He opened his arms, rubbed it lightly, and hit another beautiful volley, running at the opposite angle to Youzhny.

This time, Youzhini was finally beyond his reach.

Chen Ran successfully broke serve!
The analogy for the second set becomes 5:4.

Youzhini raised his head, his eyes closed tightly, and his mood was extremely low.

While you are sick, I will kill you.

In Chen Ran's subsequent service game, he didn't leave any chance to the opponent and won the game directly.

7:6（8:6），6:4。

Chen Ran won two consecutive sets and successfully locked in another finals spot.

"Won!"

"Finally made it to the finals!"

"At least no matter what the final result is, I can get a tour trophy."

Chen Ran finally lay flat on the ground exhausted, looking at the blue sky, breathing heavily, and his mood was extremely bright.

Winning consecutively against two Russians, Safin and Youzhny, Chen Ran's wonderful performance clearly conquered the New Zealand audience at the scene.

More than 6000 spectators stood up, shouted Chen Ran's name, and gave this Chinese boy enduring applause.

Chen Ran eliminated two Russians in a row, but Sergey had no awareness of being a Russian at all. He stretched out his arms, clenched his fists excitedly, and shouted.

"Good job, Chen!"

"Winning Safin and Youzhny in a row, your performance was perfect!"

"The final, you were able to reach the final on your first tour!"

"Go on, let's go on and create miracles!"

In the final of the Auckland Open in New Zealand, Chen Ran played against Sri Chaphan of Thailand, which became an Asian civil war!

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