south wind into my arms

Chapter 121

After the US Open, Lu Sheng's ranking fell back to more than 60.

October is China Open, the highest level tennis event in China.Although China Open has a high level and a great reputation, its status in the world is a bit embarrassing.It is located after the last Grand Slam of the year and before the year-end finals. For big-name players, the importance of the China Open is naturally inferior to that of the US Open and the year-end finals.Players compete intensively throughout the year, and it is impossible to do their best in every game. After the US Open, they need to adjust or rest, or save their energy to prepare for the year-end finals... various reasons lead to the relatively high concentration of big-name players in the China Open of retirement.

This is a good opportunity for a second-rate player like Lu Sheng.

In this year's China Open, Xu Zhiyao received a wild card.

Domestic men's players rarely have the opportunity to play high-level competitions, and once counted as one, it is worth celebrating.The remote controllers were very happy, and they left messages on Xu Zhiyao's Weibo to encourage him.

Netizen A: Sister Yao draws a lottery!

Netizen B: Please God bless my elder sister Yao to draw a lottery!
Netizen C: Sister Yao looks like a lottery, she will definitely be able to draw a lottery!

Fans have far more confidence in your luck than in your strength... What kind of experience is this?
Xu Zhiyao felt that half of the credit for his good mental quality was due to his remote controls.

With fans' good wishes, Xu Zhiyao went to draw lots in person.

As a result, the No. [-] seed was drawn in the first round.

Ah!Ah!
How to play this game?how to spell!
When Xu Zhiyao competed, Lu Sheng also competed. She played the first round for an hour, 10 minutes, and it went well.After the game, she went to Xu Zhiyao's arena with Nanfeng. On the way, she was still thinking about how to comfort Xu Zhiyao.After much deliberation, Xu Zhiyao probably doesn't need comfort...

Lu Sheng always felt that Xu Zhiyao had a heart bigger than hers.Nanfeng once commented on Xu Zhiyao, saying that he has no desire to win in his nature.Lu Sheng found it incredible that the pursuit of victory is almost an athlete's instinct. How could Xu Zhiyao have no desire to win?
She didn't really believe it at first, but thinking back to Xu Zhiyao's state after every loss in the past... she believed it again.

Lu Sheng felt that this matter was a bit scary, but Nan Feng thought it was no big deal, he said, "This may not be a bad thing."

Xu Zhiyao's mentality on the field is very peaceful, and he rarely plays abnormally, which has a lot to do with his personality.

So, success is also Xiao He, and failure is also Xiao He.

At this moment, Lu Sheng came to the stadium where Xu Zhiyao was playing, and found that there were many spectators in the stands.

The sales of tennis tickets in China are actually not that good. It is really rare to have so many spectators in the first round.

It seems that Xu Zhiyao has more and more fans... This guy is really going to become an idol star.One day, if I stop playing tennis and start filming TV dramas, I'm sure I'll be able to make a splash.

Lu Sheng grabbed Nan Feng's hand and looked at his watch. Well, the game has been played for one hour, four and ten minutes, and it's not over yet.She thinks that Xu Zhiyao's ability to survive under the eighth seed's racket for so long is considered a success to a certain extent.Delighted, she glanced up at the scoreboard.

Uh... ah ah ah ah ah!

Xu Zhiyao had already fought the eighth seed to the third set, the score of the third set was 5:3, Xu Zhiyao led by two games.In the current round, Xu Zhiyao temporarily won 40:15.In other words, he has pushed the game to the match point, and if he wins another goal, he can eliminate the eighth seed.

How did this thing do it!

Lu Sheng was so curious, her eyes widened and she couldn't bear to blink, but all she could catch was the last ball.

On the last ball, Xu Zhiyao made a beautiful chip.The tennis ball spun and almost touched the net and fell to the opposite side. After landing, the trajectory of the bounce was reversed and bounced back.The height of the bounce is also very small, and it feels like a fucking man suddenly flaccid.

If you want to save this kind of ball, people can't do it, you can only let the dog go.

The eighth seed was still a little confused, the referee had declared the game over and Xu Zhiyao won.

The audience cheered, and many people stood up and shouted in unison: "Sister Yao! Sister Yao! Sister Yao!"

Before Xu Zhiyao had time to be dazzled by the victory, he was shaken by the deafening "Sister Yao", and he looked at them unrequitedly.

Lu Sheng was overjoyed, tightly grasping Nanfeng's hand beside him, and asked, "How do you think he did it?"

Nan Feng didn't seem to be surprised, and replied: "Everything that turned out to be born is based on accumulation."

In the evening, Lu Sheng watched the replay of Xu Zhiyao's game and understood this sentence more deeply.

Xu Zhiyao is not as useless as Muller said all day long. He has an obvious advantage, that is, he has a very, very high understanding of various tennis skills.It's a pity that he has never had enough physical fitness to support his skills, so Muller always says he is a "weak chicken".This year, his physical training has started hell mode. After nearly a year of training, until now, his physical fitness has improved, and his overall strength has also made a qualitative leap.

Thinking about it this way, his eye-catching performance today is completely reasonable.

For Xu Zhiyao to achieve today's results, Lu Sheng watched him step by step with his own eyes.She was suddenly moved.

Nan Feng watched the replay of the game with her.During the whole game, he felt a little strange, and he couldn't tell what was wrong.But as a veteran player and semi-senior coach, he can be sure there is something wrong.

He played the video again from the beginning.

Lu Sheng asked: "What's wrong?"

Nanfeng: "How was your game today?"

They had already exchanged this question, and now he asked, she had no choice but to answer again: "It's okay, the wind is not small today, I made a lot of mistakes, and the ball control is not accurate, but everyone is the same."

"No, it's not the same," Nanfeng said, staring at the computer screen, "Xu Zhiyao is different from you."

"……what?"

"Although the wind also had a little impact on Xu Zhiyao, the impact on him was much smaller than that on others. In other words, the windy weather may make him achieve better results."

"This, this..." Lu Sheng felt that this matter was a bit mysterious, "Could it be just a coincidence?"

"Just ask him and you'll know."

Xu Zhiyao didn't need to train at night. For the first time, he didn't engage in his modeling activities, but played games with Donald and Song Tianran.Nanfeng and Lu Sheng found him and asked directly: "Xu Zhiyao, are you good at playing in windy environments?"

Xu Zhiyao put down the handle, scratched his head and replied, "No, if it's windy, it's easy to lose your aim. Coach Nan, don't you know?"

"Of course I know, I mean...how did you race in a windy environment today?"

"Estimate the wind direction and wind speed, add a variable in the tennis movement analysis, and then I have to adjust the vector of my force according to this new variable. This is only in theory, and there is a big error in actual operation. Alas, but I They found out that other people's errors seemed to be bigger, so they didn't even count them, and just beat them randomly. It's the eighth seed, tsk tsk..."

Donald asked Song Tianran: "What is he talking about?"

Song Tianran: "Talking in sleep."

Lu Sheng said: "Xu Zhiyao, I just found out today that you are a bit scary!"

Xu Zhiyao quickly said: "Junior Sister, don't say that, I'm not scary at all, I'm gentle... ouch!"

Nanfeng slapped him on the head.

The next day Southwind discussed his new discovery with Muller.This kind of thing is simply unheard of, and Xu Zhiyao himself thought it was commonplace, so he kept silent about it, which led them to not discover his characteristic for a long time.

Muller also found it very novel.But after all, the wind is a special factor, and Xu Zhiyao can't count on the weather changes to play, and there are still many games indoors.However, through this incident, his technical accomplishment can be seen.

The more he feels the rareness of his skills, the more angry Muller is at his substandard physical fitness.It's not enough to beat a No. 500 seed in a [-]-point race.With Xu Zhiyao's current level, when he meets a brute force player, he can just lay down and let him be ravaged.

This is how tennis has evolved in this day and age.Neither skill nor strength can be established without talking about the other.

In this China Open, Xu Zhiyao finally made it to the quarterfinals.This is a remarkable achievement for Chinese men's tennis.Throughout the history of men's singles in Chinese tennis, except for the outlier like Nanfeng, he has been excluded from the circle of top players at other times. If he can enter the top [-] in the ATP ranking, he can be a famous Chinese player.

Women's singles always go farther than men's singles.After the women's singles quarterfinals, there are two remaining Chinese players, one is Lu Sheng and the other is Qiao Wanwan.

Unfortunately, the two are in the same quarter, so only one can advance to the semi-finals.

Lu Sheng felt that with her current strength, it was hard to say who would have the upper hand, so she kept persuading herself to be calm before the match.

However, the domestic media seem to be a little restless.Qiao Wanwan is a former China Open champion and has always been the first sister of Chinese tennis.Lu Sheng is the hottest rookie in the past two years. This year's record has improved by leaps and bounds. It seems that he has the qualifications to challenge Qiao Wanwan.So, will this match be a battle for Lu Sheng to win the Chinese tennis championship, or a battle for Qiao Wanwan's dignity?

In this way, a simple promotion match was played up by them as "China's first sister battle".The flames of war have not yet been ignited, and the smoke has filled the air.

Lu Sheng always felt that they were afraid that the world would not be chaotic.

Anyway, this semi-final match has attracted widespread attention, and many people who usually don't care about tennis have followed the live broadcast of the game.

Qiao Wanwan's style of play is relatively fierce, and what is rare is that he is also very stable in possession of the ball, and his overall tactical quality is very high.If she was at her peak, her violent ball speed would definitely be a threat to Lu Sheng.It's a pity that she has been troubled by shoulder injuries in the past two years, and her condition has been ups and downs.This year her ranking has fallen behind Lu Sheng.

After the ranking dropped, her influence did not decline. Many people, including Lu Sheng himself, have always regarded her as the No.1 of the Chinese women's singles.

Lu Sheng felt a little regretful about facing Qiao Wanwan in the semi-finals.What she hopes to face and defeat is the national player Qiao Wanwan at her peak.But the current Qiao Wanwan always gives people a sense of the vicissitudes of a strong man's old age, and I don't know why.She is only 26 years old!

When it comes to the real fight, Lu Sheng's feeling is even more obvious.Qiao Wanwan's techniques and tactics were still sharp, but unfortunately, Lu Sheng couldn't feel her fighting spirit.

The opponent gave up the fight at the beginning, and seemed to be fighting an exhibition match.

Lu Sheng didn't know what happened to Qiao Wanwan.

The game attracted a lot of attention, not only on TV and the Internet, but also on big screens in some squares.

In a coastal city in the south, Lu Weiwei stood outside the shopping plaza, looking up at the live broadcast of the game on the huge electronic screen.This screen usually only plays advertisements, but today it broadcasts Lu Sheng's game.

her daughter's game.

Lu Weiwei suddenly thought of a composition Lu Sheng wrote when he was a child.At that time, Lu Sheng wanted to be a tennis player.

She remembers very clearly that she also laughed at her.

People with dark hearts always hate the light of others.

But she really did it, for so many years, she did it.

Lu Weiwei was suddenly indescribably sad, her eyes were red, watching Lu Sheng's beautiful shot on the screen, and said to a strange woman beside her, "This is my daughter."

The strange woman glanced at her.

"Really," she added.

The strange woman sneered, "Is Lu Sheng your daughter, and Xu Zhiyao my son!"

Lu Weiwei suddenly cried.She turned her head away to wipe away tears.

The man standing on the other side of her patted her on the shoulder and said, "Why don't you go back and see her?"

Lu Weiwei shook his head, "I can't go back."

The man fell silent.Seeing Lu Weiwei's sobbing face, he took out his mobile phone and sent a message to a number that had not been recorded in the address book: You don't need to send money to me in the future.

(End of this chapter)