"What? Are you ready to win against Lu Yanxun? Listening to Pan Xiqi's words, Zheng Jie didn't react for a while.

"Yes, this Chengdu race, I just went for the championship. Since you want to win the championship, you naturally have to pass the level of Lu Yanxun. Pansizzy replied as a matter of course.

"Champion? Did you know that this Chengdu tournament is the highest level challenge, and the Chinese male players have not won the championship at this level before? Zheng Jie wondered if Pan Xiqi was a little unclear about the situation.

"I don't know. Anyway, for me, since I'm competing, the goal is only to win the championship. ”

"Well, it's not a bad thing to have confidence in yourself." Hearing Pan Xiqi's tone so big, Zheng Jie didn't say anything more, but just encouraged Pan Xiqi.

In Zheng Jie's mind, Pan Xiqi is a newcomer in the tennis world after all, and it is estimated that he will not know the height of the sky after winning a national championship. When he really experienced the brutal professional competition, he wouldn't dare to speak out so loudly. However, in this way, Zheng Jie felt that her hopes of winning the gamble seemed to be dashed again.

After continuing to chat for a few more words, Zheng Jie left early. Looking at Zheng Jie's distant back, Pan Xiqi was still very excited. After all, today is the first time he has really met the star he has sought since entering the tennis world. It's just that he doesn't know that in the heart of his idol, he has been defined as a somewhat arrogant rookie in the tennis world.

But then again, it's normal for Zheng Jie to think like this. After all, anyone who listened to Pansiqi's words would think that he was a little whimsical. It's too rare for a player who has just risen from the Hope Tournament and is only participating in the Challenge Qualifier for the first time to win the championship in one fell swoop.

The next day, the Chengdu Challenge officially began. However, it was only the singles qualifiers that started first.

In this competition, the main match is still 32 signings, and 24 players directly enter the main competition by virtue of their rankings. The remaining eight quota places will be decided by 64 qualifiers through three rounds of qualifying rounds. The three tour players, Lu Yanxun, Serra and Hiroshi Timda, unceremoniously and directly occupy the top three seeds.

Compared to Hope, the Challenge is significantly more like a professional tournament in terms of hardware. The venue of Chengdu Tennis Center has been newly built in recent years, and the venue conditions are relatively good in the world. In addition, the caddies and drivers in the competition are also readily available, all of which are prepared according to the standards of the tour. This shows how much attention the organizing committee attaches to this event.

In the first round of the qualifying round, Pancici was unlucky to draw the top seed in the qualifying round, the Italian player Stefano ranked 180 in the world. With Stefano's world ranking, it stands to reason that he can directly participate in the main events of most of the challenges. However, due to the high prize money and points of this Chengdu Challenge, almost all the players before him came to participate, so he was squeezed into the qualifying round.

Despite being ranked just over 180 in the world, the Italian is now in a state of confidence. Because at this year's French Open, which just ended, he successfully fought through the qualifying round and entered the main draw of the French Open. Not only that, but in the first round, he also knocked out the German veteran, Zverev, who is ranked in the top 50 in the world, and broke into the second round of the Grand Slam.

It was arguably the biggest win of his career so far. For him, he has even reached the second round of a Grand Slam, so it is natural that this little challenge will qualify. Especially his first-round opponent is still a Chinese, although he is the host, but the presence of Chinese men's tennis is too weak, so weak that he doesn't feel that there are men playing tennis in China at all.

It was in this context that Pansiqi started his qualifying round. The opponent is the top seed, ranked much higher than him, has Grand Slam experience, and is in high morale, Panci has little chance of winning from any point of view.

Stefano thought the same thing, and even thought about the score. He expected him to only get Panci two games per set at most, so that would be in line with his status as the top seed.

At the beginning of the match, the first game did not go according to his plan. Faced with Pansizi's serve, he found that he didn't have a chance to complete the serve at all. This came as a surprise to the Italian, as Zverev was a typical serve-and-net expert. With a height of more than 1.9 meters and a variety of service combinations, many tennis masters have a headache.

However, at the French Open, Stefano was not afraid of Zverev's serve and completed a number of wonderful extensions. Therefore, Stefano is still quite confident in his ability to return the ball.

But now, Panci's serve made him completely unable to cope. Not to mention the speed, the angle of the serve is almost impeccable, and it is all according to the corners and corners. Even when he is able to touch the ball, he will often make a direct mistake or return a high ball that is not threatening.

What made him even more incomprehensible was that Pansiqi's first-shot success rate was surprisingly high, almost reaching **10%. This means that there are very few opportunities left for him to receive a second serve. But even with the second serve, Pansiqi will increase the difficulty of his hair extensions with variable spins.

"China actually has such a serving master, and let me meet it, what the hell!" Complaining in his heart, Stefano lost the first game without scoring a point.

Little did he realize, however, that this was just the beginning. Because in the next game of Pansic's serve, Panci maintained an amazingly stable level of serve. From the opening to the end, Panci didn't seem to have any physical problems, and the speed of the ball was as strong as ever.

In the whole match, with just the serve, Panci easily won several times more points than the Italian player. Naturally, Pancic's serve was a quick one.

That alone is not enough to pose a lethal threat to the top seed. What really spooked Stefano was Pansizi's aggressiveness on his serve.

As an Italian player, although his physical condition is average in Europe, he should still be able to crush compared to Asian players. However, Stefano was horrified to find that in the confrontation with himself, Pansiqi did not fall behind in the slightest. On the contrary, it is himself, who is often beaten by the other party.

In the face of his own serve, even if it is a serve, Pancich will often take the initiative to attack. This extremely aggressive return was completely unmanageable for Stefano to handle. As long as Pansiqi hits the shot, he will often get a return and score directly.

To Stefano's dismay, however, Pansiqi's success rate was particularly high. As a result, it was more difficult to hold serve than to keep the tire, and the initiative of the game was completely in the hands of Pansiqi.

It can be said that in this qualifying match, Panci only did a good job of serving and returning, and before he showed his all-round skills, he had already made the top seed unable to parry. The result of the match was not unexpected, 6:1, 6:0, Pansiqi won!