Chapter Eighty-Eight: Quarterfinals, Let's Go!

As the only two singles and doubles players to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament at the same time, in order to avoid conflicts, the organizing committee arranged the two quarter-finals matches between Pan Xiqi and Lin Teng in the morning, and the two major matches in which the top two seeds, Wu Di and Zhang Ze, participated in the afternoon. In this way, the two Pancic, who ended their singles matches, can compete for the doubles eight into four as usual in the afternoon.

Lin Teng's match with the fourth seed Bo Yan started first. It can be said that this is a duel between new and old players, and Bo Yan, who was born in 89, is ten years older than Lin Teng. Although compared to his peak, Boyan's ability to move has decreased a lot, but he has more and more experience in the game.

As soon as the match began, Lin Teng caught the No. 4 seed off guard with his highly impactful play. You must know that Lin Teng's fast-paced tactics have been formed from childhood to adulthood, and they have almost been integrated into his bone marrow. As long as it is at the beginning, whether it is serving or receiving, Lin Teng will naturally play the ball faster and faster, constantly compressing the opponent's return space.

Bo Yan didn't encounter too strong opponents in the first few rounds, and this time he was in a mess. If he was at his peak, with his fast footwork, he should still be able to keep up with Lin Teng's rhythm quickly. But now, after all, he is ten years older than his opponent, and he is definitely at a disadvantage in terms of movement. Therefore, when he couldn't run, Lin Teng, who was mobilized left and right by Lin Teng, looked a little embarrassed.

Soon, to everyone's surprise, Lin Teng won the first set with a score of 6:3. Just when everyone thought that the first men's singles quarterfinals were about to cause a shocking upset, as a former top master of men's tennis, Bo Yan made his own response in the second set.

After adapting to a whole game, Bo Yan is completely familiar with Lin Teng's ball path. As soon as the second set came up, he increased his control of the ball. With a more varied combination of return lines, and a strange change of sometimes topspin and sometimes downspin, Lin Teng could no longer be as comfortable as he was in the first set. On the contrary, sometimes in order to rush to grab the rhythm, Lin Teng, who returned the ball with some unknown spins on the opponent, was also unrelenting and attacked directly.

This kind of ball is difficult to deal with even under normal circumstances, not to mention that Lin Teng didn't calm down to analyze it at all in order to compress the time. In this way, Lin Teng's error rate in returning the ball naturally increased greatly, and the situation began to return to Bo Yan's control little by little.

I have to say that Jiang is still old and spicy, just like that, Bo Yan, who changed to control the ball, took advantage of Lin Teng's increasingly impatient heart to quickly open the score and win the second set 6:2, successfully dragging the game into the deciding set.

In the third set, the match could be said to have become a battle of will and heart on both sides. Lin Teng is indeed talented, and ordinary young people have already messed up in this situation. But after losing the second set, Lin Teng calmed down and realized his impatience.

In the deciding set, Lin Teng also changed his tactics, no longer blindly grabbing the rhythm, but calming down and fighting the bottom line with the opponent. If it is a pure bottom-line attack, the threat of Lin Teng's raid is greater than that of Bo Yan. It was precisely by relying on this unexpected blow that Lin Teng frequently sneaked up on him. But in terms of the variability of the starting path, the old spicy Boyan is even better. often through subtle front and back transfers, Lin Teng is full of speed.

In this way, the two sides played a game and I played a game, and the direct battle reached a 6:6 draw. The game went into the final tie-break, and every next point seemed to be crucial.

I have to say that this old and young are really chess opponents, and neither of the two sides will give up lightly if they persist to this stage. The score rose again in an extremely anxious alternation, coming to a suffocating 5:5 draw.

Since both sides have similar willpower, in such a decisive moment, physical fitness becomes an important weight that affects the balance of victory. Although Lin Teng played several more doubles than Bo Yan, Lin Teng almost won those games lying down, and it didn't cost him much physical strength.

At this time, Lin Teng's advantage of being young was reflected, under the huge consumption of nearly two hours before, Bo Yan felt that his breathing was already a little unsmooth, but on the other hand, Lin Teng was still alive and vigorous, and he seemed to be full of infinite vitality.

In the end, Bo Yan still had no choice but to lose to time, and the last two points were due to physical strength could not keep up, and he took the lead in the multi-round confrontation and lost to the younger opponent with a score of 5:7.

In this way, after a thrilling three-set battle, Lin Teng, a player of the Beijing team who was not favored before the game, unexpectedly eliminated the fourth seed and became the first player to break into the semifinals.

For such a result, Director Xiao and Coach Zheng, who were nervous and soaking wet, couldn't wait to hug each other and cry. You know, the top four in the national competition, this is a good result that they have not achieved for many years.

However, now is not the time for them to celebrate, as the second quarter-final will begin in less than ten minutes. In this match, Pan Xiqi, who they have high hopes for, will make his debut and challenge Zhang Zhizhen, the recognized third person in China.

If Lin Teng's victory was a windfall, then the result of Panci's match was something they had predicted in advance. This game, Pansiqi must win!

Before going on the court, Panci reconfirmed that there was no problem with the bandage on his right foot. Although he felt a little uncomfortable playing with bandages, he decided to play like this in order to prevent others from being regarded as monsters, and at the same time, he could also play for the purpose of confusing his opponents.

Stomping his foot to make sure there was no problem, Pansiqi walked onto the court with his racket.

Zhang Zhizhen, who is on the opposite side, has already started to prepare for sports on the court, and he looks really different from ordinary Asian players because of his height and body, and he can give people a sense of oppression from European and American players from a visual point of view.

Looking at Pan Xiqi's somewhat slow steps, and seeing the thick white bandage on his right ankle, Zhang Zhizhen narrowed his eyes.

"Hehe, it looks like the injury hasn't healed yet! In this case, he still dares to play against me, I have to say, he still has some guts. But don't expect me to have the slightest mercy on my part of this act of sending me to death. Whoever dares to stand in my way to winning the championship will be ruthlessly defeated by me! ”

In the center of the first row of the audience, Director Liu still appeared there with a blank face. When the staff on the side saw Pan Xiqi on the field, they said with some contempt: "Director, it seems that Pan Xiqi's foot injury has not healed." In my opinion, after yesterday's wrestling, Panci should have retired from the fight. After all, in this game, he played against the famous Zhang Zhizhen, and even if he was not injured, he should not have much chance of winning. ”

"Not necessarily, Pansiqi is a very interesting person and has surprised me several times. I have a hunch that there should be another good show to be staged in today's game. Director Liu said leisurely.