On Sunday, the second day of the tournament, Pancich will face a five-match challenge, provided he reaches the final in both singles and doubles. In the morning, there will be singles eight-in-four, semi-finals and doubles semi-finals, and in the afternoon, the singles and doubles finals will be played.

Pansiqi's first match was a singles quarter-final, and as expected, he was seeded. No. 5 seed Liu Mingming, a college teacher of similar age to Panxiqi with a CTA rating of seven, is also very likely to advance to this year's year-end finals.

Liu Mingming's tennis years are not too long, only four or five years. However, years of long-distance running training have made his endurance very good, so on the tennis court, his almost inexhaustible physical fitness has become his biggest magic weapon to defeat his opponents. It can be said that most of the opponents are worn to death by his undead defense.

Liu Mingming's tennis tactics are not particularly active, and he is rarely able to attack his opponent first without particularly good opportunities. Therefore, the area of one metre behind the baseline is his favorite place to stay, where he can have enough distance to slow down the opponent's ball speed, and also play to his advantage of running and physical strength to fight with opponents.

In a way, his style of play is somewhat similar to that of the newly debuted natto, relying on his physical advantage to adopt a purely defensive style of play, waiting for the opponent's mistakes to score. This type of player has high requirements for the offensive skills of tennis players, as long as the quality of your attack is not good enough, the angle is not sharp enough, the opponent can easily get there with super feet. At the same time, only one or two shots of high-quality offense cannot tear through the opponent's defense, so not only must the offense be good, but also have a super high degree of continuity, so it is possible to break the defense of such players.

Of course, Pan Xiqi didn't know these characteristics of Liu Mingming in advance, after all, for a rookie in the arena, every opponent he meets is an encounter. He can only slowly familiarize himself with the opponent's routines and find a way to crack them in the process of the game.

In the first game, Panci took the lead in serving, as usual, he was not very quick to hit the ball, and at a speed of about 150 kilometers per hour, he tested his opponent first. This ball is really not a fast ball, it can be attacked directly, but Liu Mingming is still standing one meter away from the bottom line, unmoved. By the time the ball flew in front of him over a long distance, the speed of the ball had dropped dramatically, and there was not much power left.

At this time, Liu Mingming waved the racket with a forehand and returned the ball. He slapped back a diagonal line, in order not to hang the net, the arc of the ball was a little high, and the power was not too great, and the ball fell right at the feet of Pansic, who had just finished serving.

"Hey, the return ball is so soft, and the line is so regular, it seems that the threat is smaller than the opponent in the previous rounds?" Pansiqi was a little confused.

"No matter, since it's sent to the door, I'm welcome." Seeing that the opponent's backhand was wide open at this time, and the hitting speed and angle were appropriate, Pan Xiqi dodged and hit a straight line, ready to sneak attack Liu Mingming's left bottom corner to score.

The straight line between the two points was the shortest, and it was seen that the ball quickly hit the spot that Pancich wanted, and it seemed that it was a perfect line change score.

"No, it shouldn't be that simple." Pansiqi suddenly felt that there should be twists and turns in this point, and it would not end so easily.

Sure enough, as soon as he thought about it, he found that Liu Mingming had appeared in the bottom left corner at some point. For Liu Mingming, Panxiqi's straight return shot was exactly what he wanted. Let the opponent think that he has a good offensive opportunity and vigorously attack his backhand, but as everyone knows, the opponent's own backhand position is also wide open at this time.

Although he won't take the initiative to attack, it doesn't mean that he won't take advantage of it. For a player like him, the most threatening moment is when the opponent just hits a violent attack and then uses the power to counter back. The power exerted by the opponent on the ball will be perfectly borrowed by him, resulting in a faster goal.

This is the case now, although Pan Xiqi's straight ball looks fast, in Liu Mingming's eyes, it is simply the best counterattack boost. He arrived early, the double reverse lead was full, and he aimed at the incoming ball with a counterattack, and the tennis ball actually returned to Panci's backhand position at a faster speed than when he came, and at this time Panci was in the stage where the forehand position had just finished attacking and had not had time to return to the position.

"Hehe, yes, yes, this shot is just right, and it almost doesn't require me to exert my strength. If I can hit a return like this every time, I don't know if I can fight that pervert for a few more rounds. Liu Mingming was obviously very satisfied with his return just now.

"It's not that simple, but to think that such a simple tactic can score in my hands would be too underestimated." Pan Xiqi, who had insight into his opponent's intentions, chased after the backhand without thinking about it.

The audience found that at this time, Pansiczy's pace seemed to increase in an instant, just like the movie screen accelerated, and he actually returned from the forehand position to the backhand position in a dozen steps. In the eyes of the audience, Liu Mingming first hit a very threatening backhand slash, and Pan Xiqi did not react until the ball left the racket. But for some reason, by the time Panci chased down the backhand, the ball had just flown in.

"Could he be running faster than the ball?" The audience was a little stunned.

But without waiting for the audience to think about it, Panci launched a new wave of attacks.

"If you can borrow power, I won't?" Facing the incoming ball, Pan Xiqi made a dashing one-handed backhand backhand to change the straight line, and the tennis ball was changed again, flying straight to the bottom right corner of Liu Mingming. This time it was not Liu Mingming's initiative to design, the scene changed beyond his imagination, and he was a little in a hurry for a while.

Having underestimated Panci's mobility, he thought that Panci would be almost unable to catch up with his return and was ready to celebrate. It wasn't until he found out that Panci actually returned to the defense and hit a straight line with his hand, that he felt that the ball might not be saved.

However, his agility was not in vain, and despite the distance, he activated in an instant, and his feet were like hot wheels, desperately rushing towards his forehand. Seeing that it was about to be too late, he was still an arm's length away from the ball, and at the last moment, he suddenly gritted his teeth, took a big stride, and touched the ball with his racket before it flew past.

"Huh!" A shrill sound of sneakers rubbing against the field sounded, and you can imagine how fierce Liu Mingming rubbed with the ground on the court this time.

However, although the racket touched the ball, due to the loss of balance in his body, Liu Mingming had completely lost control of the return line. He could only push a block and pick the ball high. Pan Xiqi will not be polite when he encounters this kind of opportunity, he came to the net early when he saw the incoming ball, and he hit a violent forehand to the tennis ball that fell in a hurry, and scored with a smash in the air.

It wasn't until the tennis ball flew high above the bottom line that the audience came back to their senses and burst into warm applause in an instant. It was a bit of a surprise to see such a variety of tactics in the first point of an amateur game.

"Damn, it seems that I underestimated this kid, but I didn't expect to be teased by him!" Looking at Pan Xiqi, who was still calm on the other side, Liu Mingming's face instantly sank. You know, this sneak attack is his forte, and he basically didn't miss the average level of players in the past, even the high-level ones are easy to be caught by him if they are defenseless. But the opponent in front of him was obviously playing against him for the first time, and it stands to reason that he should be defenseless, but later he was taken by surprise and suffered a small loss.

"It seems that the other party is a nobody, and it is not a complete fluke to break into the quarterfinals of the national competition. Next, you still have to show some real skills, otherwise if you are as careless as Qi Xiao's idiot, you will really be laughed at by people, and you will be laughed at by those guys even if you enter the year-end finals. "The first point, Pan Xiqi's amazing performance seems to have slightly attracted Liu Mingming's attention.

But in his heart, he still didn't think that Pan Xiqi could defeat him, even if the other party had won Qi Xiao who was about the same as him before. Because of the competition of these stations, although there are always a few dark horses who have won the seeded players in the first few rounds, once they enter the quarterfinals and beyond, when everyone shows their true strength, no dark horse can continue to survive. And Pan Xiqi is the kind of dark horse that Liu Mingming thinks is the kind of dark horse that accidentally upsets, and he is the best candidate to end the other party's dark horse road.

In the second minute, Pansiqi continued to serve. Liu Mingming obviously learned the lesson of the first point, and after returning the ball smoothly, he stayed at the bottom line honestly and no longer took the initiative to initiate any changes. He's now going to drag the game into the rhythm he does best, waiting for the opponent to change and then make mistakes.

In this way, you came and went back and forth for five or six beats, and Pansic could see a little way. "It turned out that the first point was to give me a dismount, but now it's the real way of playing. Why did you meet a turtle with a shrunken head, it looks like it's waiting for me to attack. Since I'm so confident in my defense, I'll see who makes the mistake first. ”

I have to say that Pansiqi's plan is quite vicious, after he meets his opponent on the field, he often likes to fight with the opponent what the opponent thinks is the superior technique, and when the opponent finds that even his longest point cannot be compared with Pansiqi, the collapse of his mentality is natural. This time, it seemed that Liu Mingming was unlucky, and Pan Xiqi guessed that he relied most on his own defense, so Pan Xiqi decided to fight with him to defend and defeat him from the front.

In the next game, the audience was surprised to find that Panci also seemed to take a small step back from the bottom line, and at the same time, the return ball was no longer obviously aggressive, but guaranteed not to make mistakes. In this way, the two sides continued to play for nearly 30 beats, and the tennis ball was still coming back in table tennis, and the scene looked like a peace ball.

The game entered this situation, which made it difficult for Liu Mingming. The previous opponent, how could he have such good patience to grind with him on the bottom line, either the offensive strength was strong and he killed him through the combination ball, or he was grinded by him to lose patience and make mistakes. It's good now, another self has completely appeared in front of me, and I have put on a posture to accompany you to the end.

Another ten beats were played, and this point lasted for an astonishing forty beats, and the two sides still had no intention of taking the initiative to change and attack. Liu Mingming couldn't bear it first, not because he wanted to take the initiative to change, but because he couldn't keep up physically. After so many rounds of running, the legs are in anaerobic exercise, as if they have been filled with lead, and they really can't run.

Finally, when Pan Xiqi quickly returned a not-so-fast forehand backslash, Liu Mingming, who was standing in the center of the court, actually stopped running, and the whole person stood in place, watching the tennis ball fly out of the bottom line.

"30:0, Pansich leads in the first game." The referee sounded.

In just two points, Liu Mingming was killed by Pan Xiqi's desire to die, and at this moment he seemed to realize that he had kicked the iron plate in this game.