Chapter 113: Wimbledon Match
After finishing his business activities, Li Cai began his boring life again.
Every day I practiced tennis and played Go, and every day passed.
However, Li Cai will soon be traveling all over the world again, going to Wimbledon, a Grand Slam-level event.
The tennis ATP series has more than 40 tournaments in a year.
Players of the level of Fei Tianwang and Nadal participate in about 15 to 20 tournaments a year, which is a relatively normal number, while "model worker" Davydenko can play more than 30 tournaments a year. Almost every week during the tennis season, his name appears in an ATP tournament – big or small, Europe, North America or Asia, and location is never an issue.
This can also show that the physical strength of the fighting nation is not blown, and after playing so many games in a year, the body of the average person can't bear it, but he can actually persevere. And many of the games are due to injuries, and they can get good rankings.
For the "model worker" Davydenko to play more than 30 games a year, Li Cai really admires it, and he can't do it anyway.
After winning the Grand Slam of tennis at the French Open, Li Cai is not ready to participate in some tournaments with high prize money. I only plan to participate in the annual Masters and Grand Slam tournaments, which are thirteen tournaments.
And after Li Cai won the French Open Grand Slam and got 2,000 points, many people know that Li Cai should be in the top ten in the tennis world.
Soon, the ATP officially announced the new edition of the world rankings.
The number one is still Nadal, with more than 11,000 points, followed by Djokovic, who is only 500 points less than Nadal.
And Li Cai ranked eighth in the top ten rankings with 3850 points, squeezing the original top ten.
Only Lee will be able to participate in the year-end tennis tournament if he maintains the world's top eight points.
However, this is very easy for Li Cai, as long as he wins a Grand Slam match, he will be safe, and he can even enter the top four of the world rankings.
In normal tournaments, seeded players are arranged based on your world points, so that the strong players are not eliminated early, and the semi-finals and finals are more exciting.
In the French Open, the four seeded players are Nadal, Djokovic, Fei Tianwang, and Murray, and the four top four players in the world are all assigned to four different tournament areas.
Although there are 32 seeds in the Grand Slam, eight of the four regions, the top four in the world are basically not in the same region, avoiding premature elimination.
Because Li Cai didn't want to participate in too many matches, after the French Open, he was busy participating in some commercial performances and endorsements, and did not participate in the tennis ATP tournament in June, although they were only 250 points in the game, but the types of matches were grass.
Li Cai has yet to play on grass, and Wimbledon, which will be held on June 20, is a grass.
Originally, Li Cai played a tennis ATP250 grass court match, and he adapted to what was different about the grass court, but for various reasons, it was delayed.
Li Cai has played on both clay and hard courts, but this is the first time he has played on grass, and his first time playing is at a tennis Grand Slam level.
However, Li Cai is not worried, because the characteristics of the grass court are that the ball has little friction with the ground when it lands, the bounce of the ball is low and irregular, and the ball rushes forward and the ball speed is the fastest. The requirements for the player's reflexes, agility, running speed and skill are very high. There are fewer rounds of play on grass. It is the world of "offensive" players, and various efficient online offensive tactics such as excellent serve and net with the ball are almost regarded as the magic weapon to win on the grass tennis court.
And Li Cai is an offensive player, and the skills of serving and going to the net with the ball have been mastered.
Coming to London, England, Li Cai's group is in the fourth group, and he is in a group with Djokovic, but one of the two is in the first of the fourth group, and the other is at the end.
Wimbledon Tennis Championships, known simply as Wimbledon. Founded in 1877 by the All England Club and the British Lawn Tennis Association, it is one of the four Grand Slams of tennis.
Players are required to wear "white" jerseys, the only of the four Grand Slam tournaments to have a colour for the players. Unlike the French Open, where the US Open is flooded with advertising, with the exception of a few major sponsors, Wimbledon's main court is always spotless, a Grand Slam tournament with zero ads.
Although Li Cai is the eighth-best tennis player in the world, he is not favored because it is his first time participating in Wimbledon, and he is ranked last few in the 32nd seeding ranking.
Some people even asserted that Li Cai would be eliminated in the first round.
Wimbledon is seeded differently than the other three Grand Slams, and Wimbledon is not seeded exactly according to the world rankings, as the tournament is run by a private club. They will look at the grass performances of these players over the past few years and then rank them according to their world rankings.
Fei Tianwang, who is not as good as Nadal and Djokovic in the world rankings, is listed as the top seed by the organizers, and Fei Tianwang is optimistic about winning the championship.
If it weren't for Li Cai's world ranking eighth, it is likely that he would not even be ranked as a seeded player, because Li Cai did not have any record of grass court competitions before, and Li Cai's placement as a seeded player was arranged by the competition party based on Li Cai's world ranking.
With most people not optimistic, Li ushered in his first grass match.
Li Cai's opponent in the first round was Kei Nishikori from the Neon Country.
As a tennis genius in the Neon Country, Kei Nishikori is naturally jealous of Li Cai, feeling that Li Cai won the tennis Grand Slam championship at such a young age, and he is still in a Grand Slam level competition, struggling in the first round, and has not even entered the quarterfinals.
Thinking of this, Nishikori Kei is not far behind, you know, before Li Cai played tennis, he was the most high-profile tennis star in Asia, and after Li Cai won a tennis ATP singles championship, this Asian tennis star was won by Li Cai, and until Li Cai won the French Open Grand Slam, famous all over the world, let the world not know that Nishikori Kei.
Before the competition, Nishikori Kei knew that Li Cai had not participated in the competition on the grass court, and he had participated in it many times, as long as he won Li Cai, he would be able to become famous in one fell swoop and be praised by the country, and when the time came, the money and reputation would not come.
Just when Nishikori Kei was thinking about Meizizi, Li Cai also got the information of Nishikori Kei from his own team.
Because he lent Coach Carlos to Sister Na, Li Cai's current coach is Coach Zhang sent by the Tennis Association.
Although he was not able to guide Li Cai in training, Coach Zhang was still very good at collecting information.
Looking at Nishikori's information, Li found that it was average, nothing powerful, and he didn't even have a record of taking shots.
However, Li Cai still used the ability value query and the eye of data to check on Kei Nishikori.
[Tennis Peak Ability Value]: 92
[Tennis Stats Now]: 91
[Tennis Potential]: 95
Seeing that the potential value reached 95, Li Cai was a little surprised, but he didn't expect that Kei Nishikori would have the potential of a top tennis player.
However, Li Cai is not worried, his ability value has reached 95 points, and he is already the strength of a top tennis player.
But what Li Cai didn't expect was that he almost capsized in the gutter and lost to Kei Nishikori.