Chapter 304: Sino-Japanese Duel
The match between Zhang Huasong and Yilkhan was harder and took a long time.
Before the end of the match between Zhang Huasong and Ilhan, another 1/4 final in the same half as Zhang Huasong has ended, and Zhang Huasong's opponent in the semifinals has come out.
Zhang Huasong's opponent in the semifinals was Tian Maoxin, the former No. 1 player of the Chinese men's tennis national team and ATP world No. 540.
Tian Maoxin played exceptionally well in this wild card tournament, beating several Asian players who are ranked much higher than him in the world in a row, and entered the semifinals with Zhang Huasong.
This is the real Chinese derby!
However, Zhang Huasong and Tian Maoxin know their own affairs, and Tian Maoxin has lost to Zhang Huasong many times in national team training.
With Zhang Huasong's state stability, it is difficult for Tian Maoxin to defeat Zhang Huasong even if he plays extraordinarily.
The semi-finals on December 5 were as the two themselves expected, Tian Maoxin was indeed in better shape than the national team training, and he was considered to be extraordinary.
But Zhang Huasong, after fighting with opponents like Ilkhan, is also in very good shape and very stable.
In the end, Zhang Huasong still defeated Tian Maoxin as in training, with a total score of 3-1.
Zhang Huasong successfully reached the final of the Asian Wild Card Tournament of the Australian Open as a beginner, which immediately caused a sensation in the media at home and abroad.
"The king of track and field, Zhang Huasong, broke into the final of the Australian Open Asian Wild Card Tournament, this is not a joke!"
"Zhang Huasong's cross-border tennis first participated in a professional competition and reached the final, Zhang Huasong's talent is not limited to track and field. 》
"It is said that Zhang Huasong has been learning tennis for less than a month, is he going to win the championship in his first professional competition?"
When many people first saw Zhang Huasong's cross-border tennis, they either had the mentality of watching jokes, or they had the idea of waiting for a while to see Zhang Huasong's performance.
Even Zhang Huasong's fans thought at first that Zhang Huasong could win the first round of the qualifying tournament and get the first victory.
After winning the first round of the qualifiers, I thought that I could pass the qualifiers and make it to the main tournament.
No one expected that Zhang Huasong participated in the professional competition for the first time, not only passed the qualifying round, but also still broke through all the way in the main competition, and finally reached the finals and may win the championship.
Zhang Huasong's performance has aroused heated discussions among countless Zhang Huasong fans and tennis fans across the country.
At this point, everyone naturally hopes that Zhang Huasong can win the match, get the championship and a wild card to the 2009 Australian Open, and enter the main draw of the Australian Open.
Not long after the match between Zhang Huasong and Tian Maoxin, the results of the other semi-final were also in.
Zhang Huasong's opponent in the final was Tian Tian Hao from Dongying Kingdom.
Hiroshi Tima has 435 ATP points and is ranked 114th in the ATP world.
There are 128 seats in the main draw of the Australian Open, and if he directly takes the top 128 in the ATP world rankings, Hiroshi Tima will be able to enter the main draw directly.
Unfortunately, only the top 107 players at the Australian Open will qualify directly for the main draw, and the rest of the places will be generated by qualifiers and wild cards.
Grand Slam tournaments are famous, with plenty of prize money and high points, and as long as you are a professional player, no one will give up easily.
Therefore, even if someone in the top 107 in the world retires and needs to be replaced, there will not be too many places, at most two or three, and it will not be the turn of Hiroshi Timda in any case.
Therefore, Hiroshi Tima can only come to participate in the Asian wild card tournament, trying to get the wild card to enter the Australian Open main draw by winning the championship.
Hiroshi Tima is the highest-ranked Asian player in the world to participate in the Asian Wild Card Tournament of the Australian Open, and is the No. 1 seed in the tournament.
Tim Tian Hao was also quite strong, winning easily all the way, only to be strongly blocked by the Indian player in the semi-finals, which took some more time than Zhang Huasong and Tian Maoxin's match.
However, Tian Tian Hao finally defeated his opponent without danger and advanced to the final.
Seeing that his opponent was Zhang Huasong, whether it was Tian Tianhao or his coach, or Dongying's domestic fans and audiences, they were quite surprised.
At the beginning, few Chinese people thought that Zhang Huasong would reach the finals, let alone foreigners. Dongying people only watched it as a lace news at first, and they didn't pay attention to Zhang Huasong's game.
Unexpectedly, it was Zhang Huasong who faced Tian Tianhao in the final.
However, after watching all of Zhang's match videos, Hiroshi and coach Tian found that the world's highest-ranked opponent of all Zhang's opponents was Turkey's Ilkhan, who is currently ranked 213th in the ATP world.
And the 1/4 final between Zhang Huasong and Yilkhan, in their opinion, played very hard, and finally played until the deciding set Zhang Huasong won.
Moreover, there were two tie-breaks during the period, which proved that the middle game process was also very hard, and the two were basically evenly matched.
Therefore, Tian Tian Hao and his coach judged that Zhang Huasong was at most comparable to the strength of the players ranked around 200 in the world.
Hiroshi Tima is ranked 114th in the world, and his ATP points are more than twice that of Ilhan, and the strength of the two is not at the same level at all.
From this, it can be concluded that as long as he does not make mistakes, Tian Tianhao should easily defeat Zhang Huasong to win the championship and get a wild card at the 2009 Australian Open.
As a result, Hiroshi Timda became confident about the upcoming finals.
As for the audience of Dongyingguo, they also came to the same conclusion from Zhang Huasong's previous games through media analysis, believing that Tian Tianhao will definitely defeat Zhang Huasong to win the championship.
Countless Dongying people shouted on the Internet:
"Zhang Huasong still plays track and field, there is no need to waste time on tennis, Dongying will win!"
"If you can't win the championship in the wild card game, everything is zero, rather than being defeated by our Tian Tianhao and losing face, Zhang Huasong might as well pretend to be sick and give up the game!"
"Let Tian Tian Hao teach beginners how to play tennis!"
Huaguo netizens were naturally not to be outdone, and fought back one after another:
"Huaguo will win, Dongying will lose!"
"Zhang Huasong's journey is the Australian Open, what is Tian Tianhao, Zhang Huasong will win!"
"Zhang Huasong defeats the little devil! Huaguo will win!"
Because of the historical grievances between Huaguo and Dongying, once the competition between these two countries is involved, it will definitely be Mars hitting the earth.
In the past ten years, the first in the ratings of Huaguo TV is the 2004 Football Asian Cup final Huaguo VS Dongying, with an audience rating of 18.5%, and more than 200 million viewers across the country watched the live broadcast of the final.
In second place was the 2002 FIFA World Cup group stage Huaguo vs Brazil, with a rating of 14.4%.
The third place is CCTV's "News Network", and the ratings of the highest episode in the past ten years are only 11.06%.
On the one hand, this rating can show the fan base of football as the world's number one sport in China, and on the other hand, it can also show how much attention will be brought by the national hatred between China and Dongying.
Although Zhang Huasong and Tian Tianhao's Australian Open Asian Wild Card Tournament final is far from the importance of the Asian Cup final, as long as it involves the match between Huaguo and Dongying, and it is also the final, it will naturally attract strong attention from the audiences of the two countries.
As far as China is concerned, the total number of viewers of CCTV's live broadcast of sports channels and online live broadcasts on Jisu Network may reach 30 or 40 million.
For a small Wild Card final, it was definitely a record rating.
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