Chapter 149: The "Unlucky King" of the Tennis World

Li Cai was condemned and disfavored by the outside world, and also ushered in his second round of the Australian Open.

And Li Cai's opponent list for the second round also came out, which is the German veteran Haas.

Haas can be said to be a veteran of the tennis world, although he has not won a Grand Slam trophy, but he has received a lot of attention from the tennis world because of his tortuous life. Her inspirational and touching life can be described as the Helen Keller of tennis.

Haas is a German man who has endured the teases of fate again and again, but has always held his head high, and his life can be described in three colors: "gold", "black" and "red".

There is no color more than gold to match Haas, who has been known as the "Golden Boy" since the beginning of his career as a professional tennis player. Since 1996, he has entered professional tennis, and his professional age of tennis is older than Li Cai, and older than the professional age of the current king Federer, at that time, Haas was once regarded as the most promising German player after Becker, and can be said to be the brightest new star in the tennis world, more famous than the current Federer and Nadal.

In May 2002, Haas had risen to second place in the world rankings. At the age of 23, he seems to have the pride of "the world is under control".

Unfortunately, happiness and pain go hand in hand. One month after ascending to the second throne in the world, Haas's nightmare began, which lasted for four years.

When Haas's parents went to visit Haas, they were in a serious car accident on the way, and only his father was able to save his life, but unfortunately he still pressed on Haas. At the end of that year, Haas inexplicably suffered a torn wrist rotator muscle. Usually, this kind of injury is only possible for baseball players. He had to walk into the operating room twice, in December and July 2003. For 16 months, Haas distanced himself from tennis. After recovering from his injury, Haas was ready to resume his tennis career when the "unlucky guy" encountered another bizarre thing. During a warm-up exercise before Wimbledon, he tried to stop a tennis ball rolling from his companion with his foot, but slipped and fell to the ground, injuring his right ankle. Haas had to withdraw from Wimbledon and rest for another two months due to the ridiculous injury.

It can be said that Haas suffered such a setback at his peak and did not appear on the tennis court, which can be said to be half-useless, and it is estimated that most people will despair, thinking that tennis will bring bad luck to themselves, and they should give up tennis and be an ordinary person quietly.

In addition to helping his father with rehabilitation training, so that he can move from paralysis to freedom of movement, he also spends more time than others every day practicing serve and baseline ball to make up for the wasted time lying on the sickbed, Haas also found his spiritual mentor Madis, and asked him to explain himself, "This is a movement of body and mind, and I want to come back with a stronger posture than ever." ”

In March 2004, Haas started his world rankings from zero after clearing his original world No. 2 from zero, and in that short year, he reached No. 17 in the year-end world rankings and was elected as the ATP year-end "returning star" that year. Although his golden years were wasted, Haas can be said to have risen through the brutal world of tennis with his unyielding will.

This makes European and American countries that worship individual heroism very much respect and admire him.

From 2010 to mid-2011, Haas was unable to play tennis due to an old injury that required treatment, and did not return to tennis until this year.

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Because Li Cai said after the first round of the game to win the Golden Slam, it also made many tennis players unhappy to see him, but Haas didn't think so, in the face of reporters, he was silent for a long time, depending on what he was missing, and then smiled and said: " I actually think that Li Cai is very similar to himself back then, the same tennis genius, the same world No. 2, with the same pride, although there is a lot of uncertainty in the future, just like me back then, after so many difficulties, but I am optimistic that he will win the Golden Slam this year, this is a manifestation of every tennis player's confidence in himself, if I didn't have an accident back then, I would also say this. ”

When a reporter heard Haas say this, he immediately asked, "Are you planning to release the water because Li Cai is like you back then?"

When Haas heard this, his eyes widened, and he became angry, and scolded the reporter: "Even if I am old and see myself from Li Cai, I will not release the water, I will still go all out and do my best to fight, and fight at the last moment, which is my quality as a professional tennis player." Don't take your filthy thoughts against me, you are slandering my personality. ”

The reporter saw Haas's frenzy, and even planned to sue himself, but he could only apologize on the spot and obtain Haas's forgiveness before being let go.

Because what Li Cai said was too sarcastic, and the sport of tennis has always been ruled by European and American countries, and it is what they think is an "aristocratic sport", and Li Cai's words obviously look down on other tennis players, which makes many European and American countries that claim to be tennis powers feel that Li Cai is too self-righteous and wants to provoke them alone, so they will naturally be attacked by players and media in these countries.

So even though Haas is now old and even openly optimistic about Li Cai, many viewers still support him, hoping that he can defeat Li Cai and create a miracle to let them know that their veteran can also beat him.

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Coach Zhang gave Li Cai information about Haas's matches, past results, and even Haas's interview yesterday.

After reading it, Li Cai felt very pleasing to Haas, a German veteran, and was very angry with himself.

And Coach Zhang Li Cai said: "Although Haas is old now, he could have been the second in the world ten years ago, but his luck has been bad, but he can be said to be experienced, you can't underestimate him, in Haas's previous game record, he has also eliminated Federer and other big-name players, which is why many people are optimistic about him beating you." You have to be careful not to capsize in the gutter! And yesterday's interview may have been a psychological war that made you let your guard down. ”

Li Cai listened, nodded, and said that he knew, although Li Cai still admired such a 34-year-old veteran, who had suffered so many injuries and was still fighting the tennis court, but competitive sports still have to rely on strength to speak, and go all out to defeat the opponent, which is the greatest respect for these veterans, and Li Cai himself will not be careless, especially what Haas said in yesterday's interview, which made Li Cai feel deeply, and felt that he took tennis too lightly, just like a game.

Soon, the two-man race came.

Before the game, Li Cai also checked Haas's tennis ability value, and found that the tennis potential reached 98, and the tennis ability value at his peak was also 97 points, which can be said to be almost the same talent as Federer, and now the ability value is only 91 points, which can be said to be far from the peak!

However, for the German veteran, Li Cai spent 100,000 achievement points to buy a peak state card before the game, which can allow Haas to return to the peak in this game and regain his previous peak strength.

For this veteran who has not reached the peak, and among so many professional tennis players, he is the only one who supports him, Li naturally wants to have a fair game and let Haas have no regrets.