Chapter 299: An Opponent from the Eastern Ying Kingdom
For more than a week, Zhang Huasong trained with the Chinese national tennis team, slowly upgrading his tennis skills while training.
Tennis may seem like a single sport, but it's more influential than athletics, which can be combined with countless small sports. Tennis is firmly among the top three sports in the world, while athletics is not necessarily in the top five, and the number of fans and attention varies greatly.
As a result, the prestige required for entry-level initial skills in tennis is high, at 100,000.
The tennis skills given by the system are from beginner level 1 to level 2, all the way to level 10 for full level, a total of 11 levels.
Zhang Huasong was upgraded while training, but by the end of the national team training, he had only been promoted to level six, and before he was promoted to the top, he had already spent more than 10 million.
According to the price of the system, Zhang Huasong wants to upgrade tennis to the highest level ten, and the total prestige cost is more than 200 million.
Fortunately, the influence of the Olympic Games is huge, and the unprecedented ten crowns have brought Zhang Huasong great prestige, which is enough for Zhang Huasong to rise to the top tennis skills.
However, when his tennis was promoted to the top level, there was not much prestige left.
If you want to enter other sports or film and television songs, you have to earn enough prestige in the tennis world.
Huaguo tennis started late and is indeed relatively backward.
Fortunately, there are world-class women's tennis players such as Li Na and Zheng Jie to support the scene, and Huaguo women's tennis has also won the women's doubles championship at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and the women's doubles championship at the Australian Open in 2006.
But in men's tennis, there are few achievements in the World Series, and Chinese tennis is a typical yin and yang decline.
As a result, by the time Zhang Huasong's national team training camp ended, his sixth-level tennis skills had become the player with the highest winning rate in the national team.
Even the previous national team men's tennis brother was beaten by Zhang Huasong to lose more and win less. Zhang Huasong has not played an official match, and he has already become the strongest male player of the Huaguo Tennis National Team.
When the leaders of the tennis center and the coaches of the national team discussed, they couldn't help but sigh that Zhang Huasong was really an athletic genius, and he was not limited to track and field.
Looking at this rate of progress, Zhang Huasong is really likely to have a place in the world tennis arena in the future and win a Grand Slam singles championship for Huaguo Tennis.
(Note: China's first Grand Slam singles title was Li Na's French Open women's singles title in 2011, and in 2009 there was no Grand Slam singles title in China or even in the whole of Asia.) )
However, the expectation for Zhang Huasong is only the future.
Now, Zhang Huasong has just started to practice tennis, and no one thinks about what Zhang Huasong has achieved in his first tennis match.
The coaches and leaders of the national team just thought that Zhang Huasong could pass the qualifying round and play a few rounds in the Australian Open Asian Wild Card Tournament, even if he was successful.
Even the wild card champion, everyone just thought about it and joked, and didn't take it seriously, let alone the Australian Open champion.
It was under such circumstances that in late November, Zhang Huasong boarded a plane to Shenzhen.
The Australian Open is an individual commercial event, and the athletes participate in their own names, and the national team is only responsible for coordinating with the organizers to help Zhang Huasong get a qualifying place.
The national team is not involved in the specific competition process.
Of course, the other national team players are followed by coaches.
But Zhang Huasong is still the same as track and field, and the individual event is not managed by the tennis center, so Zhang Huasong rushed to Shenzhen alone with Leng Guanglin and another bodyguard, Bi Menghui.
Although it has entered winter, Zhang Huasong's arrival still made Shenzhen Airport full of dozens of media and hundreds of fans to welcome Zhang Huasong's arrival.
This is the first time Zhang Huasong has set foot in Shenzhen, the largest special zone in China, and has naturally been welcomed by countless fans.
Zhang Huasong also stayed at the airport for more than half an hour, signing hundreds of signatures before leaving the airport and rushing to a hotel near the Luohu Tennis Center.
The arrival of Zhang Huasong ignited the enthusiasm of Shenzhen people to watch the game.
Originally, the qualifying round of a wild card tournament was not watched by many people in the past, and few spectators came to give out tickets.
However, because of Zhang Huasong's participation, even if the seats in the stadium of the qualifying matches that Zhang Huasong participated in were sold at the normal ticket price, they were still sold out.
It can be seen that fans are enthusiastic about Zhang Huasong.
Among them, many people don't even know tennis at all, and they never watch tennis, just to see Zhang Huasong, so they go to buy tickets.
It can be said that the biggest star of this Australian Open Asian Wild Card Tournament is Zhang Huasong, but Zhang Huasong is a newcomer in the tennis world, which is quite interesting.
The media across the country, and even many foreign media, also reported and heated discussions about Zhang Huasong's arrival in Shenzhen to prepare for the first official tennis match.
Countless people are curious about what the result of Zhang Huasong's first battle in the tennis world, who is alone in the field of track and field.
Don't be beaten in the first round of qualifying, it will be a shame.
In anticipation of the eagerly awaited event, on Saturday, November 29, 2008, the first round of qualifying for the 2009 Australian Open Asian Wild Card Tournament was about to begin.
More than a dozen courts at the Luohu Tennis Center are about to start at the same time, but only the No. 5 court where Zhang Huasong competes is full of more than 600 seats.
The other stadiums were empty, with only the players' coaches or relatives and friends watching from the sidelines, and there were few spectators in Shenzhen.
The spectators who cheered for Zhang Huasong in the stands of the No. 5 stadium shouted slogans when they saw Zhang Huasong appear, but they shouted "King of Athletics", "Zhang Feiren" and so on.
Calling the players the kings of track and field in a tennis match is also an unprecedented scene in the history of tennis, and dozens of media reporters are also smiling happily and shooting wildly at the audience.
Zhang's opponent is Yuko Harada from Dongying Kingdom, who, like Zhang, has no ATP points.
However, Yuko Harada is an excellent player who has participated in some domestic tennis tournaments and some competitions in Asia. Unlike Zhang Huasong, there is no record of an official match.
Although Yuko Harada does not have an ATP ranking in the world, she is not weak in Toei and is the main player of the Toei national team.
However, Zhang Huasong did not feel any nervousness.
Because men's tennis is a best-of-five system, he can upgrade his skills after losing one set, and upgrade his skills after losing another set.
Dongying and Huaguo tennis are half a catty and eight taels, and they are all about the same. Yuko Harada doesn't even have ATP points and a world ranking, and she can't think of it better than Zhang Huasong.
And Zhang Huasong is already the strongest player of the Chinese national team, and may even be better than Harada Yuko.
Therefore, before the start of the match, Zhang Huasong did not upgrade his tennis skills, but warmed up with Yuko Harada with level 6 skills.
After the two sides warmed up for a while, Zhang Huasong was suddenly full of confidence.
Zhang Huasong can see that Yuko Harada is weaker than him in terms of strength and technology.
It seems that Dongyingguo's tennis is not good, and Zhang Huasong feels that he should win easily.
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