Chatting and chatting, before I knew it, the bus drove into the stadium of the game. The ITF Hope Tournament held in Ho Chi Minh City was too low-level for no one to pay attention to in the local area, and the Vietnamese were not interested in tennis in the first place, so naturally there were no spectators.

Looking at the empty auditorium, coupled with the somewhat dilapidated court, Pansic couldn't help but wonder if he had come to the tennis court of a secondary school in a remote area. After all, if you were in Beijing, the conditions of any professional tennis court would be much better than here.

At the entrance of the arena, the participating players registered on the spot one by one and received their match sheets. At this time, Pan Xiqi realized how eye-catching he was among this group of players with an average age of sixteen or seventeen.

It turned out that almost all of the people in the queue to register were teenagers, and occasionally a few older ones should not be more than 20 years old. And those who are with them, whose age is obviously not at the same level, are mostly the same as the mother, who are parents who accompany their children to participate in the competition.

The Hope Tournament, as an entry-level tournament for players to start their careers, means to harvest the future hope of tennis, and the players are naturally extremely young. Elderly contestants like Pansiqi don't necessarily meet a few in a year.

Although it felt a little embarrassing, Pansic couldn't care so much. At the moment, he just wants to finish the tournament quickly and get enough world points so that he can really join the adult competition.

Since neither Lin Teng nor Lin Teng have any world rankings, they will have to participate in the qualifying rounds of the Hope Tournament first. After winning three consecutive matches in the qualifying round, you can enter the main match of the 32-sign hope tournament. That means that to win the Hope Race, Panci will need to win eight in a row in a week's time. And the three qualifying matches need to be played in one day today.

Although playing so many matches in a week is a big burden for the average professional player, the players who participate in the Hope Tournament are all ranked after the top 300, and even players like Pansiqi who are not ranked, so Pansiqi is not worried about the intensity of the competition.

This time, I had to stay in Vietnam for six weeks and couldn't be at home for nearly a month and a half, which really made Xiaolan and Xiaolu very unhappy. Pan Xiqi also took a lot of effort to say good things to appease the two little enemies, and pulled out two first-aid capsules from them in case of emergency. However, according to Pansiqi's estimate, this level of competition should not require such a precious capsule to be used by himself.

Since this is a race in Asia, and the runners participating in the Hope Race are generally short of money and cannot afford the long-distance flight expenses, there are very few European and American faces on the scene, and most of them are occupied by Asian players. Among them, China, Japan and South Korea have the most players, accounting for more than 70% of the entire contestants.

After getting the matchup draw, Pansiqi found out that his opponent in the first round of qualifying was an Indian player who was only 16 years old, almost half the time younger than Pansiqi. Seeing that the opponent was actually a post-00s, Pan Xiqi couldn't help but sigh that the renewal of the tennis world is too fast. After all, when he began to pay attention to tennis, the tennis world was still the world of the post-70s. Now the post-00s are starting to come out to grab the market.

Following the instructions of the draw, Panci arrived at Court 6, where the Indian was already waiting on the sidelines. For the Indian player, he was a little nervous after getting the draw, but when he saw Pansiqi appear, he instantly turned into ecstasy.

It turned out that after seeing that the age of his opponent was 30 years old, the Indian player extremely suspected that the organizing committee had made a mistake and beat his opponent by 10 years longer. However, when he saw Pansiqi enter, he confirmed that Pansiqi was undoubtedly thirty years old. Because to say that Pansiqi is now like twenty years old, it is really difficult for some strong people.

And for such an advanced player to participate in the Hope Tournament, there are only two possibilities for the Indian player. The biggest possibility is that Panci just played tickets and signed up for this competition on a whim, wanting to live a professional addiction. Another possibility is that Pancic's strength is too poor, and after so many years of playing, he still can't pass the qualifying round of the Hope Tournament. Of course, he thinks that this possibility is almost non-existent, because there would be no such crazy person in the world.

In this way, it means that his opponent in the first round is a big rookie, and it will be easy to advance to the next round. After some analysis, the Indian teenager thought that his victory in this match was simply in hand, and there was no problem.

The time for the game is approaching, and at this time, there is no third person on the No. 6 court, except for Pan Xiqi and the Indian players. This made Pansiqi wonder if he had gone to the wrong venue. You can confirm the sign again and again, and it's clear that this is the right place. Looking at the Indian player's unhurried appearance, it seems that there should be no objection.

After a while, seeing that the game was about to begin, Pansic couldn't help it. Just as he was about to leave to ask a staff member, a man in a referee's uniform walked into the court. I saw that he first climbed up to the referee chair in the middle unhurriedly, and then beckoned Pan Xiqi and the others to come to him.

The referee, who looked like a native of Vietnam, began to read out the pre-match notes in English with a strange accent and prompted the two to pick sides. For Pansizi's lame English hearing, the referee didn't understand a few words at all. But looking at the other party's gestures, he can also guess that ** is not far from ten.

After the two sides picked sides, the Vietnamese referee signaled the two to practice five minutes before the game, and the official game began.

After hearing this, Pansic was dumbfounded. On the tennis court now, in addition to him and the Indian players, there are only three people including the referee. It's hard to believe that you want to start an official ITF tournament like this. Even if there is no audience, there are a few caddies and lines.

After communicating his questions to the referee in super embarrassing English, the referee talked to the referee for a long time, and Pan Xiqi probably figured out that there was no division line or caddie in a hope game at this level, and everything on the court was decided by the referee.

Seeing Pansizi's fussy look, the Indian player was even more sure that the opponent was a rookie who played tickets, and he didn't even understand these basic common sense. For the next matches, his confidence to win has increased a lot.

"It doesn't matter if there is no division, no caddie, this is the standard three-no game. Such a shabby professional competition is really eye-opening. Compared to the Grand Prix that just ended, it was simply amateurish. Unable to complain in his heart, Panci's first international match began.