Chapter 60: The Unlucky Zhang San and Li Si (I)

Time was pressing, and after understanding Pan Xiqi's appeal, Coach Zheng immediately reported the matter to Director Xiao. When he learned that Pan Xiqi wanted to sign up for the doubles competition, Director Xiao was also surprised.

Although Director Xiao is clear about Pan Xiqi winning the doubles championship at the same time in the Shanghai competition. But firstly, he did not watch Pan Xiqi's doubles match live, and secondly, he felt that the Shanghai competition was an amateur competition after all, and there was almost no reference value, so Director Xiao did not pay much attention to Pan Xiqi's ability in doubles.

But through Coach Zheng's report, it seems that Pan Xiqi is not just playing in the doubles competition, and he is still very serious. In this case, Director Xiao has to start paying attention to this issue. Although he didn't want Pan Xiqi to participate in his heart, after all, singles is the top priority of the Beijing team now, and participating in doubles competitions is bound to distract the players' physical strength and energy to a certain extent.

But if Pan Xiqi is emotional because of this incident and affects his performance in the singles match, it will not be acceptable to the Beijing team. Therefore, Director Xiao agreed with Coach Zheng's request that he must defeat the main doubles players before he could participate. In this way, if he loses, Pansic will have nothing to say, and if he wins, it will show that Pansic does have some strength in doubles, at least stronger than the current two pairs, and it is understandable to send him to participate.

In this way, after getting the consent of Director Xiao, Coach Zheng immediately set about arranging the doubles match in the afternoon. Of course, the most surprising were the two main pairs of doubles players. In preparation for this Grand Prix, they have been training in pairs for almost two months. Although according to the performance of the doubles players of the Beijing team in the past, the team leaders did not report any hope for them in this competition, and did not attach great importance to their training. Compared to the importance of singles players, they fully feel a feeling that they are not their own children.

But for these two pairs of players themselves, they still attach more importance to this competition. After all, in the Beijing team, they are all players with extremely average singles strength, otherwise they would not have been assigned to play this doubles, which is almost abandoned. For them, there is definitely no hope for singles, and they can only hope that there will be a breakthrough in doubles and they can also improve their treatment in the Beijing team.

Therefore, when they heard that Pansiqi was going to sign up for the doubles tournament and was going to fight them to qualify for the doubles, the anger they felt could be imagined.

"Damn, this Pansiqi, I didn't think it was a good thing from the moment I joined the team. It wasn't enough to occupy a precious singles spot, and now I've turned my mind to doubles. Isn't that even our last hope to be cut off? Zhang San gritted his teeth and said.

"Isn't it? We were not welcomed in the team, so we were counting on the results of this competition. That's good, I'm going to set off tomorrow, and I'll kill Chen Biting Gold halfway. I think the leader is too eccentric, what kind of excitement does he have as a single main force? You must know that I have never seen him practice doubles once in the past few months, and this kind of person participating in doubles is estimated to be a ticket nature, and the leader actually agreed to him. Li Si echoed his partner.

"Hmph, it's not actually a promise. Didn't the coach say this, only if he won our pair and Wang Wu at the same time, and he had to win by a big score, he could qualify for doubles. Although we don't dare to say that we are doubles masters, we have been training for so long, and it is impossible to lose to him no matter what. Zhang San said.

"Yes, although his singles strength is indeed strong, doubles is the most cooperative, and it is not particularly closely related to the level of singles. It's okay, let's clean up and suppress his arrogance in the afternoon game, so that he can know that not everyone can be bullied casually. Li Si said with his hands rubbed.

The other main doubles pair over there was also having a similar conversation, and Pansiqi had no idea that he just wanted to participate in the doubles competition, so he inadvertently made two pairs of big enemies for himself.

Pan Xiqi and Lin Teng were going to combine to participate in the doubles competition, and the news of competing for the qualification with the main doubles team of the two teams soon spread throughout the Beijing team. Pan Xiqi, who was already in the limelight, became the focus of everyone's attention. Almost all of the players took a break from afternoon training and came to the court to watch the next doubles matchup. Their coach did not object, but also came to the sidelines as a spectator, which shows how curious everyone is about the outcome of the game.

Of course, as the two main doubles pairs thought, most people felt that the Panci pair was almost self-inflicted humiliation in this match. After all, no one has ever seen Pan Xiqi and Lin Teng train in doubles, and some people even learned that Lin Teng had never participated in a doubles match before. For this situation, it is difficult for everyone to believe how high the doubles level of the Panci combination can be, after all, in the doubles competition, the cooperation and tacit understanding between the two people is even more important than hard power.

For most of the men's players, the next game is even more meaningful. Because almost without exception, they are all defeated by Pan Xiqi and Lin Teng, and since they can't win in singles, it should be interesting to watch them being abused by others in doubles.

In this way, under the attention of the whole team, from the leadership coach to the players, the doubles qualification battle between Pan Xiqi and Lin Teng began!

Before the start of the first point, Pan Xiqi saw that Lin Teng was a little nervous, so he took the initiative to come to him, comforted him a few words, and once again explained some of the things that needed to be paid attention to in the game. Zhang San and Li Si flashed a sneer when they saw each other, ready to teach those two annoying guys how to behave in the next game.

Zhang San took the lead in serving, and Pan Xiqi received the serve. Before Zhang San served, Lin Teng squatted directly in front of the net on his side, forming a position with Pan Xiqi in front of the net and a bottom line.

"So it's mysterious, this kind of standing is simply looking for death!" After observing the position of Pan Xiqi's combination, Zhang San said disdainfully. In fact, there is some truth in his idea. In doubles competitions, this kind of position of one net and one bottom line requires a high degree of tacit understanding between the two players, and the positions of the two need to be kept in line with each other. Otherwise, once the positions overlap, it is easy for the opponent to catch the gap and be penetrated.

In other words, Lin Teng can only take care of one side of the net when he seals the net in front of the net, so Pan Xiqi needs to know at any time that Lin Teng will block the line in front of the net on that side next, so as to take the initiative to take care of the venue on the other side, so as to achieve the effect of covering the whole field by two people. If the tacit understanding between the two is not enough, Lin Teng blocks the left side of the net, but Pan Xiqi also runs to the left bottom line, then the field on their right side is an undefended space for the opponent.

However, what Zhang San didn't expect was that although Pan Xiqi's tactics allowed Lin Teng to stand in front of the net, he didn't need to take the initiative to seal the net at all, and he didn't even need to move too much. Lin Teng only needs to squat there and manage the lines in his small area. And Pansiqi doesn't need to figure out Lin Teng's blocking route at the bottom line of the backcourt, because almost the entire backcourt is his defensive area. It can be said that the last thing Pansiqi needs for this strange tactic is the tacit understanding between the two people.

In the first point, Zhang San sent a flat shot. This level of serve can be said to be very average for the two singles masters opposite. Pansiqi did not have any difficulty in receiving the serve, and it was a forehand attack to predict the incoming ball in advance.

Pansiqi's return angle can be considered perfect, flying straight along the right sideline, and the corner where the baseline meets the sideline. But in the doubles game, after all, there are two people defending on the bottom line, and the opponent must not be able to save the return ball in the singles game, but now Li Si still came to the return position in time.

However, Panci's return ball is really powerful, and the pressure on Li Si to return the ball is extremely high. Fortunately, he was in a backhand position at this time, and the stability of his two-handed backhand shot could alleviate the force of Pansiqi's return to a certain extent.

"Damn, that's heavy!" Extremely struggling to return the ball to the past, Li Si was shocked by Panxiqi's strength in his heart.

"Oops, a shallow shot back!" Li Si secretly shouted that it was not good. Although the ball was reversed, Pancic's strong force still affected his final shot, and the tennis ball did not have a good grasp of the force, and the landing point was not very good, located near the midfield.

At this time, Panci had already taken a few steps to the midfield and was ready to make the next shot. But unlike in singles, he doesn't necessarily get a direct chance to score on either side of the attack, whether he chooses to attack on the left or right. Because Zhang San and Li Sizheng were guarding the bottom line on one side, they were waiting for his return.

And Pansiqi doesn't seem to be in a hurry to score points, and he needs more rounds for Lin Teng to adjust to the rhythm of the doubles match. Therefore, he is just a lifter and hits the middle of the joint, and does not pursue a big angle on either side.

But at this time, this choice is better than attacking the left and right sides, because Zhang San and Li Si's attention is all focused on both sides, but they miss the middle. In a hurry, the two rushed to the middle at the same time. Because Li Si was returning the ball in the forehand position at this time, he came to the return position faster and returned the ball in an extremely thrilling way.

However, they still have a certain amount of doubles tactical literacy, and they still did not forget Lin Teng in front of the net in the panic, so they still returned the ball to Pan Xiqi's side, and did not let Lin Teng get a good chance to volley in front of the net. Next, Pansiqi turned the two people on the opposite side like a play, exhausted at the bottom line.

Seeing such a situation, the audience on the sidelines almost doubted their eyes. Because of the current situation, the other two are not Pansiqi's opponents at all in the bottom line. Lin Teng, who was squatting in front of the net, was almost forgotten by everyone, and this game seemed to be a one-on-two.