After Li Cai finished the game, he held a celebration banquet to celebrate his victory.

Among the chess players who watched the game in the game, except for the Korean chess player, only Cao Yanzi came, the rest of the chess players came.

For the Korean chess player only came to Cao Yanzi, Li Cai can also understand.

After all, Lee Cai let Lee Sedol, the 'world No. 1' chess player they touted, beat him first, and they didn't have the face to participate, so they felt ashamed.

As for Cao Yanzi, he had a good relationship with the older generation of Chinese chess players, and he didn't like Lee Sedol, so he didn't have to worry about his face.

Moreover, Cao Yanzi has a transcendent status in the Korean Go world, known as the "Emperor of Go", and is also the first professional nine-dan chess player in South Korea, and in the eighties and nineties of the last century, he is also the undoubted first master in the Korean Go world. Even one of the disciples he accepted surpassed him to become the "world's first Go player", and made South Korea crush the other two countries in the three-country Go hegemony, until Lee Cai appeared, and this situation was broken.

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As for the place where the celebration banquet was held, it was naturally in the hotel of the sponsor Wancai Group.

At the celebration banquet, naturally there was no drinking to celebrate, but Li Cai was still a minor, so everyone didn't ask him to drink, and the rest of the chess players were old opponents who had played games with each other for many years, and they were all very familiar, and they were all drunk, and when the celebration banquet was over, Li Cai was left alone.

In last year's international competition, Korean chess players achieved dazzling results, which made Chinese chess players feel very aggrieved, and they could not refute being ridiculed by Korean chess players.

When Lee Cai won Lee Sedol first in the ten games, it dealt a severe blow to their arrogance, and also allowed the Chinese chess players to ridicule the Korean chess players.

Therefore, at the celebration banquet, after the Chinese chess players poured Cao Yanzi unconscious, they aimed at the master and apprentice of the Nie family.

It's a pity that the apprentices of the Nie family are not only numerous, but also all of them have strong combat effectiveness, and they are not ambiguous at all when they drink, causing everyone else to lie down before slowly falling.

Looking at the chess players lying on his stomach in the room, Li Cai could only shake his head helplessly, called the waiters, and sent them to the hotel rooms one by one.

After the "Hope Cup" match, Li Cai is also going to prepare for the French Open.

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A few days later, Li left Beijing and flew to Europe to prepare for the French Open.

The biggest feature of the French Open is the clay court, and in tennis, the clay court is second only to the hard court in terms of extensiveness, especially in continental Europe, there are many clay courts, not only in France, but also in many countries in Western Europe. For example, the Tennis Masters Rome and Hamburg, the Portugal, Sweden, Netherlands, Croatia, and gold tournaments in Germany and Austria are all clay courts.

However, there are very few clay courts in China, and most of them are hard courts.

There are many reasons for this, the first is that clay courts are very troublesome to maintain, and clay has to be specially flown over, not all clay can be used, and it is far less convenient than hard courts.

The second is that clay courts are not suitable for beginners, and Chinese tennis is a niche, and most of them are beginners.

The third is that Huaguo has no clay court matches yet, so it does not pay attention to the construction of clay courts.

It wasn't until Li won his first Grand Slam title at the French Open last year that there was a true clay-themed tennis center.

And in July this year, Huaguo had the opportunity to hold the first international professional tennis clay tournament in the ATP International Tennis Challenge.

Because Li Cai was busy preparing for the "Hope Cup" Go match after winning the Australian Open, he missed the tennis ATP tournament for more than three months and did not go to a tennis match.

As a result, Li Cai dropped to fourth place in the tennis world standings, behind Djokovic, Nadal and Federer.

As for the original "four-thousand-year-old" Murray, he can only be ranked fifth now, but Murray's points are tightly behind Li Cai, and there is only a difference of more than 1,000 points.

And Li Cai has not played for more than three months, which also makes many fans unclear about Li Cai's current tennis status, worried about whether he can defend the French Open Grand Slam championship and realize his pride of winning the professional Golden Slam this year.

The tennis ATP series in May is all played on clay, which is also a warm-up to the Grand Slam tournament of the French Open.

But Li Cai is not going to participate in a tennis tournament on clay courts to warm up. Nor did he go directly to Paris, France, where the French Open was held, to train.

Instead, they rushed to Germany first. First, because of the old injuries on his body that need to go to Germany for a series of recuperation, and secondly, because the training conditions in Germany are better than in France.

In Germany, Li Cai rented a clay court for competitions for training.

"Clay field!" Li Cai stepped on it with his feet, and then couldn't help but bend down and touch the ground, although the ground was paved with red clay, it was actually very strong.

"It's been more than a year since last year's French Open, and it's almost impossible to forget what clay is like. Li Cai said involuntarily.

Coach Zhang, who was on the side, listened to it, and only felt that Li Cai's heart was really big, he was about to play the French Open, and he was not familiar with the clay court, and he was still in an unfamiliar state.

As Li Cai's nominal coach, Coach Zhang can't teach Li Cai any skills, all he can do is remind Li Cai of some precautions on clay courts and what style of play to use, and give Li Cai a reference.

"Laterite clay is not made of natural clay, but is treated with anti-slip agents,.。 With such fine red soil, even if an athlete falls, he will not suffer skin injuries. ”

Li Cai listened and asked curiously: "With the addition of anti-slip agent, you don't have to worry about slipping and falling in the game." ”

Because Li Cai was playing on the grass court of Wimbledon last year, he slipped and injured himself, and his physical condition was affected, which led to the failure to enter the semifinals.

"Although there is some anti-slip agent, it doesn't mean that it won't work, and I think the effect is very good when you use sliding steps on clay. Coach Zhang analyzed Li Cai.

Although Li Cai won the French Open last year, he won the match by luck thanks to his system ability and the poor form of the "King of Clay" Nadal.

Li Cai didn't know anything about what techniques to use on the clay court, and he didn't know anything about it.

It was only through the time house that the players were targeted and understood their playing style that they won the French Open Grand Slam championship.

So after listening to Coach Zhang's words, Li Cai learned a little bit of skills and began training for the French Open.