south wind into my arms

Chapter 81 Courage
In mid-November, Lu Sheng went to AH Hefei, where he played an ITF tournament.The level of the competition is 11K, which means a total prize money of $50.Xu Mengmeng and Ningxia also went there.

After more than half a year of hard work, Lu Sheng basically doesn't have to start from the qualifying rounds when playing low-level ITF matches. She can reserve her energy for the main match.

This is very important.Many players who have entered the main match all the way from the qualifying round are often faced with the predicament of expending their physical strength in advance, resulting in unsatisfactory performance in the main match.

Ningxia's ranking is much higher than Lu Sheng's and the others, and she has also played many higher-level competitions. She came to play the 50K this time purely to earn points.

Xu Mengmeng did it to make money.

The two of them asked Lu Sheng what it was for. Lu Sheng thought about it carefully and replied, "It's to accumulate more competition experience."

Indeed, not to mention comparing with Ningxia, even compared with Xu Mengmeng, Lu Sheng's competition experience is seriously insufficient.A player's true skill level can only be improved through the practice of actual combat, otherwise the training behind closed doors can only become empty talk, and the original shape will be revealed on the field.

Everything in the world is probably the same.

Among the three, Lu Sheng and Xu Mengmeng only played singles, while Ningxia also played doubles, with Ai Xiaomei from the HUB provincial team as their partner.Ai Xiaomei's women's singles strength can also be ranked in the top ten domestically. She has also played doubles, but has not found a suitable partner. This is the first time to cooperate with Ningxia.

Originally, Xu Mengmeng also wanted to form a doubles with Lu Sheng, but the purpose was still to make money... Although the bonus for doubles is far less than that for singles, it is still quite a lot!

Lu Sheng didn't want to play doubles, except for the cooperation with Xu Zhiyao, she couldn't find a normal rhythm in doubles with anyone else.But at that time, Lu Sheng was too embarrassed to directly reject Xu Mengmeng, so he asked Nanfeng what to do.

Nanfeng said: "I refuse to do anything I don't want to do. You don't have to accommodate others and wrong yourself."

"But……"

"No but. You are Lu Sheng, and no one in this world can wrong you, including yourself."

Lu Sheng listened to him and said NO to Xu Mengmeng.

Choosing a partner is similar to choosing a boyfriend and girlfriend. If you can't be together, you can't force it.Although Xu Mengmeng understood the truth, she was still a little depressed.

50K and 10K are completely different grades, and the opponents Lu Sheng met in the first round were a bit difficult.That person's style is very similar to Lu Sheng's, and he is also a defensive counterattack type. Two defensive counterattack players play. If both sides stick to their own habits, the fighting process will be more exhausting.Lu Sheng was a little stronger than her in terms of quick reflexes and better timing, so in the end it was Lu Sheng who won.

In the second round, Lu Sheng met the No. [-] seed player, and she felt that she was really unlucky.

"My lottery luck seems to be not good all the time." Lu Sheng complained to Nanfeng.

Nan Feng's answer was very interesting: "If you were the third seed player, would you still feel that your signing luck is not good?"

Lu Sheng was shocked.What Nanfeng said made sense. Luck is just a compensation for lack of strength. If strength is strong enough, who would care about signing luck?That must be whoever is drawn to hit whom!
When we encounter problems, we always look for reasons. In fact, the biggest reason is ourselves.

Lu Sheng walked onto the field with a balanced mind.

The strong beat the weak, and the one with the most pressure is not necessarily the weak one.Because the weak know that they are weak, they are mentally prepared for failure, the mental burden is small, and it is easier to relax.And the strong one is more or less burdened with the pressure of "will not lose" or "cannot lose", so it is hard to say how well he can perform on the field.

The third seed was from Russia, blond and beautiful like a Barbie doll.When Lu Sheng shook hands with her before the match, he said in his broken English: "You are so beautiful."

It's a bit embarrassing to talk about Russian beauties.

The ball of the Russian beauty is a baseline attack type.Her baseline attack is not the same as Nan Ge's.The attack of this beauty mainly depends on the route and landing point of the ball, and with the right power, it creates tricky depth and angle. It can be said that her ability to control the ball is very good.

Her attack style will greatly increase the difficulty of the opponent's defense.

In other words, the ball of the Russian beauty is just able to restrain Lu Sheng.

In fact, Lu Sheng has already embraced the mentality of losing, but if she is really held down and beaten by her opponent, she will not be reconciled.Before the game, she asked Nan Feng what to do, and Nan Feng asked her back: "How did I teach you before? What are the basic principles when you encounter a game?"

"Long and short? But now she is the one who is long and short..."

"Does she have any weaknesses?"

"Eh..." Lu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then thoughtfully replied, "She has a good baseline ability, but she is tall and her body is not particularly flexible. According to her physical characteristics and playing habits-her net ability is not good enough. would be too strong."

"Well, then what?"

"Then, I'd better play short and small balls to create opportunities?" Lu Sheng was not sure that this method would work.Compared with attacking at the net, she is more confident on the bottom line.What's more, increasing the number of matches in front of the net means that the defense of the back camp is empty. Isn't this in the opponent's arms?
Nan Feng sighed and said, "Lu Sheng, you should be more confident."

"But she is the third seed!"

"So what, you are Lu Sheng."

Lu Sheng was speechless.She thinks that Nanfeng's confidence in her is a bit blind... The strange thing is that although he now knows that he has high hopes for her, but with him watching the game live, she will no longer be distracted for no reason.Anyway, every time she looked at him, a few big words would pop up in her mind: female, god, you, yes, here, look, me, do you!

Hehe, it would be nice not to laugh...

Now, no matter what, Lu Sheng decided to gamble.

After a few rounds, the Russian beauty took the lead temporarily.Lu Sheng found that the Russian beauty is not confused at all in playing. Against Lu Sheng, she has a clear way of attacking, and she plays very confidently.

Confidence is because she knows very well that she belongs to Ke Lusheng.

Lu Sheng began to do the opposite, appropriately sacrificing defense and increasing the offense in front of the net.

Doing so means giving up one's own advantage, which is beyond the opponent's expectations.

But the effect was obvious. Lu Sheng seized the opportunity to hit two short balls, but the Russian beauty couldn't catch them. She was stunned by Lu Sheng and lost the serve.

Even Lu Sheng himself felt a little too smooth.

She didn't figure out the key to it, and glanced at Nan Feng on the sidelines, and found a mysterious smile on his face.

Well what does that mean……

Then Lu Sheng's own serve was saved, and the situation reversed and Lu Sheng took the lead.

"Coach Nan, why?" Xu Mengmeng asked Nanfeng.Because Lu Sheng called Nanfeng "Coach Nan", Xu Mengmeng also called him that.

In terms of lottery, Xu Mengmeng was even more miserable than Lu Sheng. He met the No. [-] seed player in the first round, and after that, there was no more...

So she is sitting next to Nanfeng watching the game.

Nanfeng explained: "Lu Sheng's advantage is defense, but when her defense is restrained, then the effect of this advantage will be compromised. On the contrary, the opponent's disadvantage is in front of the net, even if Lu Sheng is not best at Attacking in front of the net, but against opponents who are relatively poor in front of the net, the role she can play here is magnified. So at this moment, what she gains in front of the net is higher than what she loses in defense.”

Xu Mengmeng was very impressed: "It's amazing!"

"Well," Nanfeng looked at Lu Sheng's figure, feeling very happy, and even his tone became brisk, "The opponent's psychological quality is slightly weaker, which also makes her reversal smoother."

Xu Mengmeng thought about it carefully and found that although this principle is simple, it contains a very profound philosophy: what is an advantage?What is a disadvantage?The first choice of a general player is always to play the advantage, but the advantage and disadvantage are not eternal.Just like at this moment, Lu Sheng's biggest advantage turned into a disadvantage, giving up the advantage, the situation immediately reversed.

Alas, in fact, at such a moment, regarding one's usual advantage and the biggest bargaining chip, giving up as soon as you say it is a kind of courage and courage, the absolute demeanor of a general, you can't accept it!

Xu Mengmeng asked herself, if she was in Lu Sheng's position, her first choice would probably be to guard against death, use super willpower to defend against the opponent, and then counterattack.This choice cannot be said to be wrong, and it may not necessarily have no chance of winning, but compared with Lu Sheng's, it seems that he is inflexible and afraid to make progress...

Holding her face in her hands, Xu Mengmeng finished watching the game in a state of admiration for Lu Sheng.

In fact, Lu Sheng didn't play so easily in the following time.It is impossible for her to give up defense completely, and she still has to take care of the bottom line, so she runs frequently on the field and consumes a lot of energy.Fortunately, she has excellent quality, and after being reversed by her, the opponent became irritable and did not control the rhythm well.So in the end, two sets were played and the game was won.

At the end of the race, Lu Sheng was sweating all over from running, and the cool autumn breeze blew, it was so refreshing.

She ran to the auditorium and looked up at Nanfeng.Nanfeng bent down and stretched his arms, rubbed her little head, and patted her head after rubbing, like treating a small pet raised by himself.

Nanfeng asked, "Are you tired?"

"good."

"How do you feel?"

Lu Sheng scratched the back of his head, "Some things look easy but are not easy to do, but there are some things that look difficult but are actually not difficult to do."

"now it's right."

(End of this chapter)