Chapter 358: Preparing for the Grand Slam of the French Open
After the match, although the Western media reported the big news of Zhang Huasong's first defeat in the tennis world, Zhang Huasong's fans and compatriots can still understand it.
After all, Zhang Huasong has only been in the tennis world for a long time, and it is enough to win 3 hard court championships in a row.
The Monte Carlo Clay Masters can reach a long-set tiebreaker with Nadal, which is already a very talented performance.
failed to defeat Nadal, but it was just not enough time to give Zhang Huasong.
With the speed of progress that Zhang Huasong showed before, as long as he is given another month, he will definitely be able to make a big difference from the current clay court strength.
At that time, Nadal wants to win the French Open and achieve five consecutive French Open titles, I am afraid it will not be so easy.
In fact, everyone still underestimated Zhang Huasong's adaptation speed.
The ATP1000 Rome Masters, which started just two days after the Monte Carlo Masters, Zhang Huasong let people around the world see the extent of his wickedness.
The Rome Masters, like the Monte Carlo Masters, are clay courts with 64 signings.
This time, after training in the previous clay tournament and scoring a long-set tiebreaker with the king of clay, Nadal, Zhang Huasong showed a very different form from Monte Carlo at the Rome Masters.
In the first round, Zhang Huasong shaved his opponent's head with two 6-0 and advanced strongly.
Subsequently, in the second round, the third round, and the 1/4 finals, Zhang Huasong advanced 2-0 and reached the semifinals.
Although he was unable to send his opponent a bald head in the first round in the later rounds, it was already very different from the path he stumbled to advance at the Monte Carlo Masters.
In the semifinals, Zhang Huasong met Djokovic again.
Although Djokovic has more experience on clay than Zhang, Zhang Huasong, who already has experience in one event, is not the same Zhang Huasong as he was in Monte Carlo.
This time, Djokovic failed to play Zhang Huasong in three sets like Federer, but was defeated by Zhang Huasong in two sets 6-3, 7-5 and failed to enter the deciding set at all.
As soon as the semi-finals were over, the media exclaimed: the terrifying Zhang Huasong, who advanced 2-0 at the Indian Wells and Miami Masters and finally won the championship, is back.
After only one Monte Carlo clay tournament, Zhang Huasong's clay court strength has undergone earth-shaking changes!
It's really wicked!
And Zhang Huasong's opponent in the final is Rafael Nadal.
Can Zhang Huasong beat Rafael Nadal this time?
At 9 a.m. local time on May 10, Italy, the men's singles final of the ATP1000 Rome Masters officially began, with Zhang Huasong facing Rafael Nadal.
Nadal wants to defend his position as the king of clay, Zhang Huasong wants to become the world No. 1, and the two are in a battle again.
This time, Zhang Huasong did not lose to Nadal again.
Although Nadal is really strong, much better on clay than Federer and Djokovic.
However, Zhang Huasong is no longer the clay junior brother of the last event.
In the first set, Zhang Huasong won 6-4, and in the second set, Nadal dragged the match into a tie-break and won the second set.
In the third set, Zhang Huasong didn't even let Nadal drag in the tiebreaker, and ended the game with a score of 7-5.
6-4, 6-7, 7-5, this is the result of Zhang Huasong's match against Nadal at the Rome Masters.
After losing to Nadal at the Monte Carlo Masters, Zhang Huasong immediately returned the favor and won back at the Rome Masters that followed.
Moreover, looking at Zhang Huasong's momentum, it may be a little difficult for Nadal to win the French Internet celebrity clay championship this year!
After the game, Nadal did have an ugly face, and looking at Zhang Huasong's eyes was like looking at a monster!
Of course, Zhang Huasong's performance is indeed too demonic! The audience can watch the excitement, only people like Nadal who have a championship competition with Zhang Huasong can feel the pressure brought by Zhang Huasong!
However, who called Zhang Huasong to be born in this era, and he happened to be possessed by the system? He can only step on other people's shoulders to complete his own system tasks!
With 600 points from the runner-up of the Monte Carlo Masters and 1,000 points from the winner of the Rome Masters, Zhang Huasong reached 5,600 ATP points, moving up two places in the rankings after the Rome Masters and ranking fifth in the ATP world rankings.
In front of Zhang Huasong are Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, and Andy Murray.
However, Nadal has more than twice as many points as Zhang Huasong. To become the number one in the world, you need more championships and points!
A few days after the Rome Masters, it was again ATP1000 Madrid Masters.
Third consecutive clay tournament.
This time, Zhang Huasong met Nadal in the semifinals.
With the accumulation of two clay tournaments and winning the second game, Zhang Huasong should be able to win against Nadal.
However, Nadal himself is a Spaniard, and the Madrid Masters is being held in Madrid, Spain, and Nadal is playing at home at all.
Although Zhang Huasong ranks much higher than Nadal on the world star popularity list, the vast majority of viewers in Madrid are cheering for Nadal.
And Nadal also played super form in this semi-final, defeating Zhang Huasong 2-1 with a weaker strength than Zhang Huasong and advancing to the final.
Zhang Huasong and Nadal scored 7-5, 6-7, 14-16 in three sets.
The last set not only entered the long set to tie down, but also played 30 games, but Zhang Huasong was also defeated by the in-form Nadal!
Nadal advanced to the final of the Madrid Masters, while Zhang Huasong stopped in the semi-finals, scoring only 360 points from the semi-finals.
However, Nadal is not having a good time either.
Because he fought too hard with Zhang Huasong in the semifinals and exhausted his mental and physical strength, after entering the final, he faced his old rival Federer, but Nadal lost to Federer with the same score of 4-6 in two sets and 0-2 on aggregate on his hometown court, in front of his compatriots, and on his own clay court.
Federer won the 2009 Madrid Clay Masters with a rare victory over Nadal!
After the Madrid Masters, Zhang Huasong continued to rank fifth in the world with 5,960 points, and there was still a gap of more than 3,000 points from Andy Murray in fourth.
However, no one would have thought that Zhang Huasong would be worse than Andy Murray.
Not to mention that Zhang Huasong has defeated Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, and Andy Murray in a row on hard courts, Zhang Huasong has beaten these people in a row on clay courts alone.
The only one who can beat Zhang Huasong is Nadal.
However, Zhang Huasong also defeated Nadal at the Rome Masters.
From this point of view, Zhang Huasong's current clay strength and the king of clay Nadal are already in the middle of the best, and Nadal cannot form an absolute advantage over Zhang Huasong.
With Zhang Huasong's rate of progress, you can imagine that it will be very difficult for Nadal to continue to win the French Grand Slam.
What's more, Federer, who just beat Nadal in Madrid, is also in good shape.
Nadal's road to defending his French Open title looks very worrying!
After the Madrid Masters, there is a break of more than a week before the start of the Grand Slam at the French Open.
Originally, there were other ATP500 or ATP250 events to invite Zhang Huasong to participate in the past few days, and the appearance fee was very high.
However, Zhang Huasong refused all!
He has so much to do that he doesn't want to go to those low-level events.
Anyway, the ATP organization does not stipulate that you must participate in ATP500 or ATP250, but the best 4 ATP500 matches every year will be counted as points, and if you don't have it, it will be counted as 0 points, and you can't replace it with other ATP250 points.
Only if you do not participate in the Grand Slam and Masters tournaments will you be deducted points.
Zhang Huasong has calculated, he participates in 4 Grand Slams and 9 Masters every year, and if he wins all of them, he will be able to get 17,000 points.
Even if you meet an opponent who is in full form and win one or two fewer championships, you will have a lot of points for the runner-up.
Therefore, even if the low-level ATP 500 has no participation record to be processed by the ATP official zero score, Zhang Huasong is not afraid at all, and he is ready to reach the top of the ATP world ranking with the points of the four Grand Slams and the Masters.
What's more, Zhang Huasong, the men's group (ATP 500 level) of the China Open Tennis Championships in China, will still support it to help the motherland's events attract spectators and attendance.
Of course, in addition to the lack of attraction for Zhang Huasong in low-level events, what is more important is that Zhang Huasong has to prepare for the French Open.
Although he has accumulated three clay Masters, Zhang Huasong is still not sure that he will be able to reach the final of the French Open on clay court and win the championship.
It's not that he hasn't won the Rome Masters, but the Madrid Masters was defeated by the in-form Nadal again!
What if they meet Nadal again at the French Open, and Nadal is in great form again?
The Masters and the Grand Slam can be very different, the Masters can be lost, the Grand Slam must not be lost!
Therefore, for more than a week, Zhang Huasong decided to retreat and practice, all of which were used to train and adapt to the clay court, and even Zhang Huasong, a representative of many large European brand companies who came to Zhang Huasong to sign an endorsement, did not meet.
In this way, Zhang Huasong found a tennis training hall with clay courts in the city of Paris, where the French Open was held, rented a separate court, and invited several coaches of the club to play against Zhang Huasong with different playing streams to train and prepare for the game.
Naturally, such news cannot be concealed from the media.
Zhang Huasong's own fame and the speed of improvement shown on the clay court have attracted him attention.
In the French Open Grand Slam, Zhang Huasong is already the same favorite to win the championship as Nadal, and the bookmaker offers Zhang Huasong the same odds as Nadal.
It can be seen that after only three training matches of the clay masters, Zhang Huasong already has the same strength as Nadal, the king of clay, in the eyes of the bookmaker.
Therefore, even if Zhang Huasong rents a training hall for pre-game training, it is very eye-catching, and the media have reported it.
"Zhang Huasong rented a clay court in Paris for pre-match training and prepared for the French Open!"
"Zhang Huasong did not participate in any ATP 500 or ATP 250 events, but specially rented a clay court for new training and preparation for the French Open!"
"Zhang Huasong is the biggest enemy of the French Open and may become Nadal's biggest enemy in defending the French Open!"
A Grand Slam is a Grand Slam after all, and it is very different from the treatment of the Masters. Even before the game even started, it had already attracted the attention of the whole world.
Zhang Huasong and Nadal, and even Federer, who is one short of achieving a Grand Slam at the French Open, who can laugh in the end, is very worrying and looking forward to it!
Just when Zhang Huasong was competing in European clay tournaments in a row, the audition in Beiping, North China, Dragon TV's "Huaguo Got Talent" in North China had begun.
On May 11, the day after Zhang Huasong defeated Nadal to win the Rome Clay Masters, Liang Zijia, who looked ordinary, had a slightly round face and was dressed very ordinarily at the Peking audition venue of "Huaguo Talent".
There is no audience in the audition, that is, three judges, and even if the two votes are passed, they can go to Shanghai to be recorded on TV. If you can't get through, you can go home.
Liang Zijia knows that her fate lies with these three judges!
If they also deny themselves like other song-based talent shows, I'm afraid their star dreams should really be buried.
However, thinking that the idol Zhang Huasong had just lost to Nadal in Monte Carlo and won back in Rome reflexively, Liang Zijia was full of fighting spirit again.
Anyway, the judges didn't press X to let me go down, so I had to finish singing this song well, and I couldn't be afraid before I frightened.
After briefly introducing himself, the judges were not in the mood to ask more, so they motioned for Liang Zijia to start her own performance.
When the music started, the three judges were a little stunned, because it was a song sung by a middle-aged male singer. That kind of heroic momentum, can this little girl sing?
The three judges are ready to accept that their ears are poisoned!
It's really that there are too many strange contestants encountered in the audition of this show, and they have to be mentally prepared.
However, when Liang Zijia's first lyrics were sung, the jaws of the three judges almost dropped. One of the female judges screamed "ah" and leaned back, nearly knocking the chair over.
It can be seen that the three judges were frightened.
Although Liang Zijia is not beautiful, she is not ugly, quite delicate, and an absolutely standard girl.
No matter how you imagined it, the three judges didn't expect that the song sung by this handsome girl would be a male voice.
A girl sang a man's song in a male voice.
It's shocking!
After the shock, the three judges were pleasantly surprised!
They have been instructed by the program team that this program is not to choose singers, but to select talents.
A girl singing a male voice may not be favored in a professional singing program. But on this talent show stage, he is definitely a candidate!
That's what I'm looking for.
Next, it depends on Liang Zijia's singing strength!
The three judges calmed down and listened quietly.
Seeing the serious appearance of the three judges, Liang Zijia became more and more confident, and the more she sang, the better she sang, and she almost perfectly sang the heroic feeling of this song.
If you didn't see Liang Zijia on the spot, no one thought that this was a girl singing.
After Liang Zijia finished singing realistically, the judges still felt incredible, and suspected that she was lip-syncing the recording, so they asked her to sing a song with a male voice they designated.
Liang Zijia sang perfectly in a man's voice, and the three judges believed that Liang Zijia could really sing male voices.
There is no doubt that the three judges voted unanimously that Liang Zijia passed the audition and could go to Shanghai to participate in the recording of the first official program.
The recording of the official program, whether it passes the first round or not, has a good chance of being edited and broadcast on TV!
participated in the talent show for the third time, and Liang Zijia passed the audition of a variety show for the first time, and had the possibility of being on TV and becoming a star.
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