Zhang Yifan smiled sweetly: "If you all have to register, I will also register." ”

In fact, she didn't have this idea, although she loved tennis, but due to her own limitations, she knew that she couldn't embark on a professional path, and even her brother's semi-professional path was not realistic.

However, if even Du Xinghe is going to register as a professional golfer, then it would be good for her to make up for this excitement. Anyway, the person in charge of the Internet Association in Fuwan has a good relationship with her family, which can provide great convenience for them to register.

If she becomes a professional player, even if she doesn't play singles, it will be quite interesting for her and Du Xinghe to play a professional mixed doubles match. With Du Xinghe's strength, coupled with her tactics and scheduling, they can easily achieve results in the mixed doubles field.

Du Xinghe was a little moved by what the Zhang brothers and sisters said, registered professional players really have no loss for him, even if he becomes a superstar in the music world in the future, for such an experience, he will not be criticized by the media or anything, and even if he achieves certain results in the tennis world, it will add to his aura for fans to worship.

Most importantly, he really wants to feel the thrill of playing against high-level players. Anyone with such a strong physical condition will want to challenge to a higher level.

After thinking for a while, Du Xinghe said to Zhang Yiyang: "Do I need to provide any materials for registration?" ”

Zhang Yifan saw that Du Xinghe agreed, and said happily: "You don't have to worry about this, Mr. Du, just let my brother handle it." As long as we can win the mixed doubles championship in this Youth Cup, you will definitely be able to register! ”

Zhang Yiyang said with a smile: "Actually, you should apply for a men's singles again, with your strength." Mr. Xiao Du, it is easy to win the men's singles championship. ”

What Zhang Yiyang said is true, he himself has been the men's singles champion of the Fuwan Youth Cup for two times, Du Xinghe abused him, to put it mildly, it was like abusing his grandson, not to mention the Fuwan Youth Cup, such a strength is a nationwide youth amateur competition, Du Xinghe can easily win the championship, Du Xinghe's strength is completely at the level of a professional player. And it's a very high-level professional player.

Zhang Yifan sighed: "It's true." It's a pity that now the registration has ended, and the schedule has been arranged, it would be nice if Xiao Du signed up for the Youth Cup men's singles competition earlier, and won the championship like that. There are more conditions to register as a professional player. ”

Zhang Yiyang's eyes suddenly lit up. said to Zhang Yifan: "The registration for the Fuwan Championship has not yet ended. Or...... Let's get a wild card for Mr. Xiao Du and let him directly participate in the men's singles qualifying round of the championship? ”

Zhang Yifan moved the sports drink he was drinking away from his mouth and raised his eyebrows to look at Zhang Yiyang. Question: "Aren't all 16 wild cards out of handout?" How do you get a wild card? ”

Zhang Yiyang said loudly: "It's over, it's over, but there must be wild card players who don't participate, go back and ask the organizing committee to see if anyone is injured or something, give up the wild card qualification, just let the organizing committee send another one." ”

Du Xinghe couldn't interject when he saw the Zhang brothers and sisters talking to themselves, and then couldn't help but say, "Don't be so troublesome......

Du Xinghe was only halfway through his words, and was immediately interrupted by Zhang Yiyang, saying: "Don't bother, Mr. Du, if you want to participate in the Fuwan Championship, you will definitely be a blockbuster!" ”

Zheng Sai, who was practicing in the adjacent field next to him, happened to walk to the sidecourt area, only seven or eight meters away from Zhang Yiyang, and heard Zhang Yiyang's loud voice, looking over here, he saw Zhang Yiyang and Zhang Yifan persuading Du Xinghe to compete, Zheng Sai showed an unhappy and disdainful expression, and walked away coldly.

For the Zhang brothers and sisters, professional players like Zheng Sai had heard of it before they came to participate in the Fuwan Championships, after all, these professional players are not separate individuals, and in the Chinese tennis circle, there are also factions among professional players, and basically every professional player has some friends and brothers around him.

Zheng Sai has a junior brother, and he is also brought by Liu Wangsong, the old man who is now training Zheng Sai. The junior brother's name is Lu Heng, and Zheng Sai is a native of Henan, and he only turned to a professional player at the beginning of this year.

Because the professional points are too low, Lu Heng is not eligible to directly register for the ATP 250-level Fuwan Championship, but their coach Liu Wangsong went to apply for a wild card for Lu Heng, and also applied for a wild card for Zheng Sai's other two juniors who have just turned professional, a total of three.

Wild cards for tournaments like this are not available to anyone who wants to apply, after all, there are only so many wild cards that there are far fewer than those who are not qualified to participate. Therefore, there is a principle for the organizing committee to issue wild cards, that is, the exchange of interests.

This year's Fuwan Championship will issue a total of 16 wild cards, of which 6 wild cards are allocated to the China-State Tennis Association, which will cooperate with the Tennis Association to foreign players and issue wild cards to foreign players.

In addition to the 6 wild cards for the tennis associations, there are also 10 wild cards that are decided by the regional tennis associations and the organizing committee, and these wild cards are not necessarily issued to domestic players.

If there are outstanding players abroad, the organizing committee will also issue them with wild cards, and this kind of wild card is a wild card that does not need to participate in the qualifying tournament and directly enters the main competition.

This kind of distribution is concentrated in the kind of big names in the tennis world, who have been recovering from injuries for a year or two before and have not participated in professional competitions, so they are not eligible to participate in the competition because of their lack of points. For this kind of star with great ratings guarantee and appeal, the organizing committee will not only issue wild cards, but also provide the corresponding appearance fee to the other party, just like those players ranked in the top 15 in the world, when participating in many low-level competitions, they will pay for the game, they are not only here to play, but also to perform.

It's a pity that this year's Fuwan Championship did not invite such a superstar, and I have contacted the agents of several such stars before, but they all refused to the Fujin Championship under the pretext of recuperating from injuries. This also shows that the influence of the Fuwan Championship is actually very small, and people are not interested in running all the way to the competition.

The 10 wild cards issued by the Fuwan Tennis Association and the tournament party in this Fuwan Championship can only be issued to domestic players.

Of course, this kind of issuance is also conditional, and it does not mean that whoever applies will give it.

For those in the country who have already achieved results. However, in the past year, the organizing committee will also give priority to players who have participated in the competition due to recuperation or other reasons, and do not have enough points, and the wild card of this kind of player is also a wild card for the main competition, and there is no need to participate in the qualifying tournament.

(Professional tennis points in this dimension are calculated on a weekly basis, which is the sum of the points played in the past 52 weeks to rank the world rankings.) There will be changes every week, and if you haven't competed in the last 52 weeks, your points will be reset to zero. You won't be eligible to participate in some tournaments. ）

This year, two veterans have been awarded such wild cards. However, these two main draw wildcards are not included in the 10 qualifying wildcards.

Qualifying wild cards are usually issued to newcomers who have just changed careers and do not have enough points, but have more potential.

Especially for those newcomers recommended by the brokerage team of the more famous names in the tennis world, the organizing committee will give priority to the issuance of wild cards. Of course. Conditions for such issuance. Even the big-name players of the economic team have to come to the competition. If the big names don't participate. Only send newcomers to participate in the competition, and if you don't give face to the Organizing Committee of the Lucky Championships, then the Lucky Championships will not give face to those teams. Certainly won't approach the wild card.

This time, when Zheng Sai's coach Liu Wangsong applied for wild cards for Lu Heng and the other two newcomers, the quid pro quo was that Zheng Sai would come to participate.

Although Zheng Sai is only ranked sixth in China and is not the top player, as the most high-profile tennis star in China, Zheng Sai is definitely a ratings guarantee.

He is the second Chinese to win the junior Grand Slam at the China Open, the first Chinese to win the Grand Slam junior at the Australian Open, and has also achieved good results in the junior category of other Grand Slams, so he has always been hailed as the future star of Chinese tennis.

Liu Wangsong used Zheng Sai to exchange for three play-off wild cards, although it was a bit of a lion's mouth, after all, the players in front of Zheng Sai were the most in front of Zheng Sai and only exchanged two qualifying wild cards for their fellow disciples, but after all, Zheng Sai's popularity was here, and it was not too much to ask for three.

In fact, it is very inopportune for the Fortune Championship to be held at this time. Because the French Open starts at the end of May or June every year, at the beginning of May, most of the top players, as well as those with ambitions, go to the clay court tournaments similar to the French Open to get used to the clay tournament. Very few people play hard games in plastic during this season.

The Fu Championship is also a last resort to be held at this time, because there are nearly 10 competitions with the same field specifications in China, and it is impossible for all of these plastic hard court games to be concentrated in the middle of the net before the competition, for players to practice adapting to the venue.

Every month of the year, there will be a competition on this plastic field.

The ATP 250 level of the Fortune Championship is not very high, and it cannot be held in the golden season of September before the China Open, so it can only be held before the French Open in five minutes.

Keep in mind that some lower-level ATP 100 or ATP 50 tournaments even overlap with Grand Slam tournaments, which will be less attractive to high-level players.

Tournaments like the Championship that don't overlap with the Grand Slam have the opportunity to attract some top players, such as those who are very bad at clay and are unlikely to get good results on clay, so they will choose to compete on other types of courts.

However, China's top players are quite suitable for clay matches, so only Zhang Di, the leader of the top five men's singles players in China, and Wu Tailong, who ranked third, will participate in this Fortune Championship.

Zhang Di is a native of Fuwan, and he made his official professional debut in the Fujin Championships, and he has a deep affection for the Fujin Championships.

In the past seven years, Zhang Di has participated in the Fortune Championship six times and won the championship three times, which can be said to be his blessed land. Therefore, even if he has to prepare for a more important clay tournament, he usually does not miss this event that has special significance to him, not to mention, the organizing committee has provided him with a generous appearance fee in recent years, including the championship bonus and appearance fee, the total value is higher than the French Open to the round of 16, how can he be absent from such a rich match?

Like Zhang Di, Wu Tailong also likes to participate in the Fu Championships, because he is nearly two meters tall, and Zhang Yiyang is the same way, and he is a super heavy artillery serve net player. On clay, he has almost no room to play, and he is usually eliminated early after one or two rounds, so he never pays attention to the French Open, and even if he does, it doesn't make sense. He doesn't even go to the French Open sometimes. He didn't participate in other dirt games, he specialized in grass and hard courts.

Wu Tailong also came to participate in the Fu Championships with a field fee, even though his world ranking is only 35, but his "Chinese third brother (ranked third in China)" is still very famous, and his violent style is very popular with the audience, and it is also a ratings guarantee, so the organizing committee wants to give him an appearance fee to ensure that he can come to the Fu Championships to support the event.

Participating in the Fu Championship this year, among the remaining Chinese players, Zheng Sai has the highest domestic ranking. However, the organizing committee did not provide Zheng Sai with an appearance fee. Because at the beginning of the year, when the organizing committee contacted Zheng Sai to participate in the competition. was rejected by Zheng Sai's team.

Zheng Sai was supposed to prepare for the clay season and travel to Europe to compete on clay, when he had registered for the ATP 250 clay tournament to be held in Naples, Italy, at the same time in May, but he was notified two months ago. There was unrest on the Naples side. Event safety is an issue. This year's Naples Championship was cancelled by the International Tennis Federation.

Zheng Sai had no games to play, so he reconsidered the Fuwan Championship. At that time, Liu Wangsong saw that there were not too many famous domestic players to participate in this Fujin Championship, and Zheng Sai was a wrist-level figure in this competition. Only then did the "lion open his mouth" and asked the organizing committee to give them three wild cards for the qualifying round.

Considering Zheng Sai's influence and the exemption of appearance fees to participate in the competition, the organizing committee agreed to Liu Wangsong's request and decided to issue wild cards to Zheng Sai's three juniors and disciples for the qualifying competition. At that time, these three wild cards happened to be the last three wild cards that had not yet been issued, so they were all promised to Liu Wangsong.

Less than a week after the organizing committee made this decision, Zhang Yiyang was "lonely" and moved the idea of participating in professional competitions. His family is the biggest sponsor of the Fu Championships, and he wants to participate, how can the organizing committee not make an exception to give him a wild card? However, the wild cards have been distributed, and it is impossible to make a wild card out of thin air, so the organizing committee can only withdraw a wild card from the players who have been issued a wild card.

After some trade-offs, the organizing committee took back one of the three wild cards issued to Liu Wangsong and transferred it to Zhang Yiyang. The one that was withdrawn was Zheng Sai's fellow countryman and junior brother Lu Heng.

Zhang Yiyang didn't know the inside story about this matter, and he didn't know that he had taken this wild card back from someone else, because the officials of the organizing committee at that time said that there was still a wild card left in order to curry favor with him, the eldest son of the Zhang family, so he sent it to him.

And it was also emphasized that this is the last wild card. On the bright side, Zhang Yiyang is saying that he is very lucky, and if it is a few days later, there will be no wild card issuance. But in fact, he is reminding Zhang Yiyang not to ask the organizing committee for a wild card anymore, because the organizing committee really doesn't want to do it anymore because of this kind of offending thing.

Zhang Yiyang's personality is relatively straightforward and simple, so he naturally doesn't know what the organizing committee means when it says that this is the last wild card, because every year when he watches the competition, he will find that some qualifiers abandon the game, and he thinks that those who abandon the game are also wild card players. But in fact, most of the qualifiers who abandoned the tournament did not need a wild card to participate, but their own points had reached the specifications of participating in the qualifying tournament.

The people who really use wild cards to enter the qualifying tournament are newcomers who cherish this opportunity to participate in the tournament very much, and they rarely give up the tournament voluntarily. Even if they suffer minor injuries, they will continue to play to gain valuable experience.

You can imagine how frustrating it is for a newcomer to start getting a wild card and then lose it.

Liu Wangsong is a coach who cherishes his apprentices very much, and he was furious about Lu Heng's wild card being withdrawn, and almost came to Fuwan to make a big fuss about the organizing committee.

The organizing committee knows that it is ashamed of this matter, and honesty is the foundation of its foothold in this level of society, and the organizing committee first promised Liu Wangsong and then reversed itself, which is of course a big mistake. This matter is going to be exposed by the media, and the reputation of the Fu Championship may be stinky. Therefore, the organizing committee sincerely apologized to Liu Wangsong and Lu Heng.

And the organizing committee promised that next year's Fujing Championships will issue Lu Heng with a wild card to directly participate in the main tournament, and at the same time supply Liu Wangsong's tennis team with three qualifying wild cards next year, regardless of whether Zheng Sai will participate in next year.

This eliminated Liu Wangsong's anger.

Later, Liu Wangsong and the official who went to Zhengzhou to apologize to him in person asked why the organizing committee had reversed course.

The official had no choice but to tell Zhang Yiyang, the eldest son of the Zhang family, who wanted a wild card. The official of the organizing committee knew the background of the Zhang family in Fuwan.

Although it is not the most orthodox line of the Zhang royal family, the Fuwan Zhang family is also one of the five lords of the Zhang family, and its status in the south is second only to the Zhang royal family itself.

How could the organizing committee offend such a prominent prince?

Not to mention the organizing committee of the Fujin Championships, even the Fuwan Tennis Association, and even the China Tennis Association, have to sell this eldest son a face.

Who made the China Tennis Association itself was established by Zhang He Yaping, the mother of the country.

After Liu Wangsong learned of this fact, he was finally relieved, he understood and understood the difficulties of the organizing committee, and accepted the apology of the organizing committee.

Originally, after Lu Heng was regained the wild card qualification, as Lu Heng's good brother, Zheng Sai was angry and wanted to withdraw "due to injury", and later Liu Wangsong said something bad, so he persuaded Zheng Sai to play seriously, after all, this competition has 250 points, and the champion has a bonus of 500,000 yuan, and the runner-up also has 250,000 yuan, which is quite generous.

Moreover, Zhang Di came to participate in the competition this time, in Liu Wangsong's opinion, Zheng Sai should use this precious opportunity to challenge Zhang Di's authority as a leader, even if he still has a high chance of not being able to beat Zhang Di, but he must also try to narrow the gap with Zhang Di.

Zheng Sai and Zhang Di have fought twice before, and Zhang Di won easily 2:0, including the second set of one game, Zhang Di also gave Zheng Sai an egg and swept 6:0.

But that was more than a year ago, when Zheng Sai's world ranking was still outside the 200 rankings, and he was a fairly pink newcomer, and he had only recently changed from the youth group to his profession.

After the tempering of the past year, Zheng Sai, who has won two ATP 100 championships and three ATP 50 championships, has matured a lot in terms of psychology and technical tactics.

Zheng Sai was later told by Liu Wangsong that he decided to prepare for this competition seriously, but he was still very unhappy because of Lu Heng.

What he wants to meet most in this competition must be Zhang Di, but the second thing he wants to meet is the son of a family named Zhang Yiyang, who won Lu Heng's wild card. He wants to abuse this disciple on the court, let him know that tennis speaks by strength, not family background!

Not only Zheng Sai has this idea, but his other two junior brothers Ma Chao and Hao Jinjie, who have obtained the wild card of the qualifying round, are also determined to avenge Lu Heng, and they actually have a better chance of meeting Zhang Yiyang, because they have to play three rounds of qualifying.

According to the schedule of the qualifying tournament of the Fu Championship, the 16 wild card qualifiers and the 16 selected qualifiers will be drawn to face each other one by one, and then two rounds of duel will be held according to the division, and only four of the 32 qualifiers can enter the main tournament in the end, which is very cruel.

If Ma Chao and Hao Jinjie can advance to the first round of qualifying, they will have a chance to meet Zhang Yiyang.

If Zheng Sai wants to meet Zhang Yiyang, the chance is actually very slim.

This early morning came to Blue Moon Bay to practice, and when he went to the management office level, Zheng Sai saw Zhang Yiyang's name from the whiteboard of the publicized venue arrangement! Zhang Yiyang is training at the No. 9 field next to him!

Zheng Sai was angry when he saw this arrangement, and later when he came to the court, he glanced at the field a few times during the practice, and at first he thought that Du Xinghe was Zhang Yiyang, because Du Xinghe's level was obviously higher than that of several other people. However, in the eyes of a professional player like Zheng Sai, many of Du Xinghe's technical actions are very amateurish, but the ball he plays is very lethal, and he belongs to an amateur talented player.

If such a person won Lu Heng's wild card, Zheng Sai would also be relieved, because the opponent's ball skills are indeed very special, and he doesn't even have to be bad for Lu Heng.

But later Zheng Sai found out that the big black man who was beaten by Du Xinghe was looking for teeth all over the ground was Zhang Yiyang, which made Zheng Sai angry! Isn't it pure amusement that this Nima level is also participating in ATP 250 level tournaments? It is estimated that he is not qualified to participate in the ATP 50 level!

At that time, Zheng Sai wanted to find Zhang Yiyang to theorize and ask Zhang Yiyang to give up his qualifications, but was stopped by Liu Wangsong. (To be continued......)