Chapter 297: Australian Open Asian Wild Card Tournament
The purpose of Zhang Huasong's return to Qianyang City was to apply to the Qianzhou Provincial Sports Bureau for the qualification of a professional tennis player. Otherwise, you won't be able to compete professionally.
Hearing that Zhang Huasong was coming, several leaders of the Qianzhou Provincial Sports Bureau were very excited and ran out to receive them in person.
In the Olympic Games, Zhang Huasong won too much glory for the Qianzhou Provincial Sports Bureau, and Zhang Huasong's bonus was also given to the Qianzhou Provincial Sports Bureau, and it was endless, so these officials were very enthusiastic about Zhang Huasong.
However, when I heard Pan Xiaowen say that she wanted to register Zhang Huasong for the qualification of a professional tennis player, several leaders of the Qianzhou Provincial Sports Bureau were confused.
Isn't Zhang Huasong a track and field athlete? How do I register as a tennis pro? Does he play tennis?
The director of the sports bureau looked at Zhang Huasong and asked, "Is what Miss Pan just said true?" ”
Zhang Huasong nodded and said, "It's true!" ”
Several leaders and staff of the Sports Bureau looked at each other, and a deputy director surnamed Xiao, who was in charge of track and field, said excitedly: "No, no!" Zhang Huasong: Your track and field talent is so good, you should focus on the field of track and field and achieve greater achievements in the field of track and field. ”
After seeing him so excited, Deputy Director Zheng surnamed Zheng, who was in charge of ball games, suddenly had a thrill, and when he came back to his senses, he immediately said: "Deputy Director Xiao, how can you say that?" Do you think Zhang Huasong is a good talent in track and field? I haven't read the news reports in the past two days, can Zhang Huasong learn tennis for two days and play on par with professional players? This proves that Zhang Huasong's talent in tennis is not inferior to track and field. Tennis has a greater influence in the international arena than track and field, and if Zhang Huasong achieves achievements in tennis, it will be more conducive to foreigners to know China. ”
Deputy Director Xiao was so angry that his eyebrows were raised, and he glared at Deputy Director Zheng and said: "Track and field is a field that Zhang Huasong is familiar with, and tennis is completely an unfamiliar field, how can there be any reason to give up a familiar field and cross the border to an unfamiliar field?" ”
Deputy Director Zheng also said-for-tat: "Ten Olympic champions, the king of track and field, Zhang Huasong's achievements in track and field have basically reached the peak, and no matter how much he breaks through, it is not much fun." It is more meaningful to conquer tennis and make a breakthrough in the field of tennis. ”
Deputy Director Xiao was furious: "Nonsense! ”
Deputy Director Zheng also blew his beard and glared: "Who is talking nonsense?" I think you are reluctant to leave Zhang Huasong, right? It's just selfish! ”
Obviously, both of them are aware of the different impacts that Zhang Huasong's cross-border tennis has brought to the two projects, and even the impact on them personally.
Deputy Director Xiao, who is in charge of track and field, naturally does not want Zhang Huasong to leave track and field, and Deputy Director Zheng, who is in charge of ball games, wants Zhang Huasong to register immediately and then start playing tennis.
No matter whether Zhang Huasong plays tennis well or not, whether he can produce results or not, as long as Zhang Huasong is in which project, which project will attract the attention of the people of the whole country and even the people of the world.
The relationship between interests in this can be understood when you think about it.
However, obviously, the decision is not on the two of them, but on Zhang Huasong.
With Zhang Huasong's status today, no one can stop Zhang Huasong from playing tennis across borders.
The director of the Provincial Sports Bureau also knew this, reprimanded the two deputy directors a few words, told them to stop, and then seriously asked Zhang Huasong what he thought.
Zhang Huasong said that he has basically reached the top of track and field, so he wants to practice other sports. It just so happened that a few days ago, I tried tennis at a tennis hall in Beiping, and found that my tennis talent was not bad, so I wanted to try it.
The director of the provincial sports bureau naturally hopes that Zhang Huasong will continue to stabilize track and field.
However, Zhang Huasong was determined to play tennis. If the Provincial Sports Bureau does not register him, he will directly find the national team, and then Zhang Huasong's tennis bonus and related income will have nothing to do with the Qianzhou Provincial Sports Bureau.
This is naturally not possible, so the director of the provincial sports bureau immediately agreed, but still said that Zhang Huasong wanted to play two sets with the tennis players of the provincial team to try Zhang Huasong's strength.
As a result, in the Provincial Tennis Training Center, Zhang Huasong's tennis singles strength made the tennis players of those provincial teams reluctant to bow down.
This is naturally the reason why Zhang Huasong has upgraded his tennis skills again.
Seeing such a result, Deputy Director Zheng naturally smiled, and tried his best to get the director to agree to Zhang Huasong's registration.
The director has no choice, Zhang Huasong's strength is no longer inferior to that of professional players, and this is the result of Zhang Huasong's only a few days of contact with tennis.
After practicing for a while, Zhang Huasong may really be able to play international competitions and achieve certain results.
In fact, Zhang Huasong decided to enter the tennis world after seeing that the Australian Open was about to start.
The Australian Open, one of the four Grand Slams of tennis, will be played in the last two weeks of January 2009.
There are 128 places in the men's singles and women's singles each in the main draw, and 107 of them will be directly entered by the top 107 players in the world.
Five of the remaining 13 main draw spots will be decided by qualifying for the Australian Open, while the remaining eight spots will be given wild cards.
Four of them were awarded to players from Australia's domestic tennis association who did not reach the top 107 in the world and directly qualified for the main draw, while one was awarded to the Americas, one to Europe and one to Asia.
The Asian wildcard will be decided at the Australian Open Asian Wildcard Tournament in late November and early December, and the winner will get the only Asian wildcard to enter the Australian Open main draw, without having to be ranked in the top 107 in the world.
In fact, it is not easy to participate in this wild card tournament, which is also based on the Asian rankings.
However, because the Asian Wild Card Tournament is hosted in Shenzhen, Huaguo, the Huaguo Tennis Management Center has allocated the most places.
Basically, as long as the players who enter the Chinese national team can be allocated a place to participate in the main match of the Asian wild card tournament of the Australian Open.
Even novices who do not have a point ranking can get the opportunity to participate in the qualifying tournament as long as they are recognized by the national team.
And Zhang Huasong's purpose is naturally to register the player qualifications, and then get the recognition of the national team and get the opportunity to participate in the wild card qualifying round.
After registering with the Qianzhou Provincial Sports Bureau as a professional tennis player and defeating the invincible opponent of the provincial team, Zhang Huasong rushed to the National Tennis Management Center and applied to join the national team.
The tennis national team has received a letter of recommendation from the Qianzhou Provincial Sports Bureau, and is also surprised that Zhang Huasong, the king of track and field, suddenly changed his career to tennis.
However, Zhang Huasong's joining is bound to arouse the attention of the people of the whole country to tennis, which is naturally a good thing for the relatively unpopular tennis management center in China.
Therefore, they did not hesitate and immediately arranged a training match for Zhang Huasong to play three sets against a player from the national team.
As a result, Zhang Huasong once again defeated the professional player of the national team with his tennis skills that had been promoted to the next level, which shocked all the members of the national tennis team.
It's really more human than human, and it's infuriating!
A few days ago, I saw the news that Zhang Huasong had just learned tennis, but I didn't expect to be able to beat the professional players of the national team now!
Although it was not a crushing victory, only won two sets in three sets, but it also made the coaches and athletes of the national team realize Zhang Huasong's talent and strength, and he can indeed enter the national team and qualify for the Australian Open Asian Wild Card Tournament.
Although there is no ranking and you can't enter the main competition, you can participate in the qualifying round.
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