Chapter 27: Advancing to the Final Four (Part II)
"Liu Mingming, pay attention to your actions in the game, next time this situation occurs, I will give a punishment." The referee's stern voice rang out.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I won't be next time." Liu Mingming hurriedly explained softly to the referee, and then quickly came to Pan Xiqi's side, picked up his tennis racket lying on the ground, and trotted all the way back.
"Wow, I read that right, right? I've only seen players throw rackets to save the ball in tennis competitions before, but this is the first time I've seen a racket smash people directly! It's a lot of fun. "The audience on the sidelines is not a big deal, and when they see the excitement, they are even more enthusiastic.
Pan Xiqi did not respond to Liu Mingming's first apology, but just glanced at the other party coldly, and then got up and walked to his bottom line. At this time, Pan Xiqi was already trying his best to restrain his emotions, if he was ten years younger, he would probably have smashed the tennis racket on Liu Mingming's unbeaten face.
"Damn, this kid wasn't actually provoked by me, if only he couldn't help but do it directly, then the person who made the first move would definitely be expelled from the field by the referee." Liu Mingming regretted that his plan had failed. His move was a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and it would be best if he could directly injure Panxiqi; If it hadn't hurt and provoked Pansic to do it, it would have been a good result.
However, being disrupted by this accident, his heart should fluctuate next. After all, the most unstable thing for newcomers in the arena is mentality, as long as he has a problem with his mentality, then my chance to fight back will come! Liu Mingming's move can be described as quite vicious.
Pansiqi, on his side, stood on the field as if nothing had happened, still standing expressionlessly, as if what had just happened had nothing to do with him. That ancient and waveless face made Liu Mingming a little more unhappy.
The game continued, and Liu Mingming obviously adjusted his impatience on the court, and returned to the steady defensive state at the beginning. Because he was waiting for Pansiqi's mentality to be unbalanced at this time, and he took the initiative to get out of control.
Returning a steady and deep slash, Liu Mingming shouted in his heart: "Make a mistake quickly, make a mistake quickly." ”
However, Pansiqi disappointed him again, responding with a more consistent straight return than he did. In desperation, Liu Mingming had no choice but to fight with Pan Xiqi again for more shots on the bottom line, straight diagonal lines, deep balls and shallow balls. However, Panci is still like that merciless wall, bringing his various balls back without any flaws. Thirty beats later, Liu Mingming, who was physically exhausted, hit hard, and the tennis ball flew far out of bounds.
"5-0, Panci leads." The referee reports the score.
Realizing that his off-the-board moves didn't work at all, Liu Mingming was a little desperate. It was only at this moment that he finally admitted that he could not have won today no matter what. Extremely disappointed, in the next sixth game, he had almost no fighting spirit, and seemed to be the first to give up resistance.
Soon, the score was stretched to 40:0, Pan Xiqi won three consecutive match points, and some of the audience had already left the court in advance, it seems that everyone feels that the overall situation has been decided, and there is no suspense. However, Pan Xiqi will not let the game end so easily, after all, he is not rude, and he almost suffered a big loss, so he has to make up for it from Liu Mingming no matter what.
This point, Liu Mingming served. Pan Xiqi suddenly made a quick return shot when receiving the serve, and the tennis ball flew directly towards Liu Mingming, who was still in a state of return. People who have just served the ball are most afraid of chasing the ball, because too close distance often prevents them from making a full stroke. And for Liu Mingming, who had no fighting spirit, he was even more taken aback.
Caught off guard, he saw the ball smashing at him, and he didn't have time to move his body at all, so he had no choice but to put the racket in front of him and block the ball very reluctantly. Due to the extremely heavy hand of Pansiqi's ball, under the rebound, the tennis ball flew high, and actually formed a high-pressure ball in front of the net for Pansiqi.
Pansiqi was waiting for this opportunity, and he seemed to have expected the opponent to return the high ball and come to the net early. Keep your eyes on the ball in the sky and adjust your pace on the other side to ensure the best position to hit the ball.
The tennis ball fell rapidly, and when he saw the optimal hitting height, the tennis racket that had already been held in the air instantly accelerated and smashed towards the tennis ball. It seemed that the game was about to end with a wonderful violent smash, but suddenly an accident happened.
Pan Xiqi, who was adjusting his pace at the moment, seemed to be shaking his whole body unevenly due to the excessive swinging of the racket, causing his feet to stumble and almost wrestle. I saw that at the moment when his body lost balance, he let out a soft breath in his mouth, and seemed to be very surprised. However, the imbalance of his body somehow did not affect his swinging action, and the tennis racket still hit the tennis ball with full force.
His body shook a few times in a row, and then adjusted his pace in time, and Panci finally stabilized his center of gravity to avoid actually wrestling in the ring. At this time, everyone, including Liu Mingming, seemed to be attracted by Pan Xiqi's surprise, but ignored another detail on the field.
The tennis ball that Pansiqi smashed as he lost his center of gravity was flying like a cannonball, whizzing forward in the air. The power contained in the tennis ball seemed to destroy all obstacles that stood in front of it. In the next second, the tennis ball flying at high speed really encountered resistance, I don't know what it was, soft and hot. No matter what, the tennis ball at the moment only thinks about impacting, destroying, and venting the energy all over the body.
"Ahh A scream rang out across the pitch, and everyone looked in one direction at the same time. I saw Liu Mingming lying on the tennis court on all fours, nosebleeds on both sides of his nose, but his hands were just spread out, and for some reason he didn't cover his nose with his hands in time.
The line closest to him hurriedly ran forward and crouched down to check on him.
"Hey, how are you? Wake up! Si Xian shook Liu Mingming, but saw that he didn't react. At this moment, the referee also came to Liu Mingming's side.
"How's it going? Why didn't he react? The referee asked the liner.
"It seems that he was hit by a tennis ball and fainted. But I think he's breathing well and it shouldn't be a big deal, but I'll have to go to the infirmary and the game won't be able to go. The line replied.
"Okay, arrange for someone to take him to the infirmary immediately." The referee said.
Immediately afterwards, several staff members came with a stretcher and carried Liu Mingming, who was still unconscious, away.
At the moment when Liu Mingming fell to the ground, Pan Xiqi was still in a state of wrestling. As soon as he stabilized himself, he rushed to the opposite field and cared about Liu Mingming's situation with the referee. After Liu Mingming was carried away, he hurriedly said to the referee: "I'm really sorry, I didn't stand firm on my feet for a while, how do I know that I couldn't control the ball at all, and I accidentally injured the opponent." Luckily, the injuries weren't serious, otherwise I would have been guilty of a dead end. ”
The referee rolled his eyes when he heard this, thinking that this was not a serious injury, and he was already in a coma, so what did he want. However, looking back on the situation on the field, it was indeed an accident, and it was not Pan Xiqi's business, only Liu Mingming's bad luck was blamed for standing on the flight path of the ball.
"It's just an accident, and you shouldn't blame yourself too much." The referee kindly comforted Pansiqi.
"Thank you, referee. By the way, the ball just now was the match point, and it should have been me out of bounds, so what should I do now in the game? Pansiqi asked.
"It stands to reason that the ball was supposed to go out of bounds, but who knows that he didn't dodge it and smashed him on the nose, so you can only count it as a score." The referee said.
Then the referee shouted to the crowd on the sidelines: "6:0, Pansiqi wins!" ”
"Wow!" The audience on the sidelines burst into cheers. They weren't so much happy with Pansiqi's victory as they were excited to see such a dramatic match.
Back on the sidelines, Da Wei, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately rushed over. He said to Pan Xiqi excitedly: "Wow, you kid is so funny, you actually won the match by stunting the opponent, I guess this kind of thing has never happened in the entire tennis world, right?" ”
"Well, who knew that the ball somehow flew into his nose, and he didn't know how to dodge it?" Pansiqi replied with a somewhat remorseful tone.
"That can only mean that he was unlucky today, didn't he almost hit you with a racket? That is, you can calm down, if it were me, I guess I would have theorized with him at that time, and hit him in the face with the ball. Speaking of this, Da Wei suddenly thought of something, and asked with a wicked smile: "I said, you won't deliberately hit him with that ball, right?"
"What are you talking about, boy? Am I like that? It was really just an accident. Pansiqi replied quickly.
"Also, if you really did it on purpose, you kid is too accurate. It shouldn't be possible. Seeing that Da Wei no longer asked, Pan Xiqi smiled proudly.
Some readers may have to ask, didn't it mean that not giving eggs to the opponent was Pansiqi's bottom line? Why did he break the bottom line this time and beat Liu Mingming 6:0? That's because they don't know that Pansiqi still has a bottom line of being a man, that is: people don't offend me, I don't offend people; If anyone sins against me, I will offend.
In this way, Pan Xiqi dramatically advanced to the semifinals of the singles competition in Shanghai. But there wasn't much time left for him to celebrate, as he and Da Wei were about to face the No. 2 seed in the doubles tournament for a spot in the final.
He and Da Wei hurried to the venue of the doubles semifinals, and there were still fifteen minutes left to leave the match. Once on the field, they didn't see their opponents for the first time. I thought that the opponent had not yet arrived, but after the staff came to confirm their identity, they were told a very shocking news that their opponent, the No. 2 seed in this doubles competition, decided to withdraw from the competition. In other words, he and Da Wei won without a fight and directly entered the final battle of this doubles match.
With gossip in their hearts, they asked the staff the reason for the other party's withdrawal, who knew that the reason told by the staff made him and Da Wei feel like they had been struck by lightning. It turned out that the two doubles players were a pair of good friends, and I don't know why, the two had an awkward quarrel before the game and actually decided to break up. To say that they are really talented, they chose to break up at this time. Pan Xiqi and Da Wei, who knew the real reason, glanced at each other, and then felt a chill at the same time, and quickly looked away.