CTA Level 7: This level allows players to control power and spin the ball well, start to process the pace, control the depth of their shots, and change tactics depending on the opponent's situation. Hit one shot with great force and control the second shot accurately. In doubles, there is aggression in front of the net. It is advisable to participate in the elite races in amateur ranking tournaments, national and provincial competitions, or other competitions at a similar level.

Hello everyone, my name is Qi Xiao, I am 21 years old this year, and I am a college student. I don't usually have many hobbies, except for studying and playing tennis. I fell in love with tennis when I was in junior high school, and since then I've wanted to make tennis my life's work.

However, due to the heavy pressure of schoolwork, tennis can only be played as a hobby in spare time. It seems that God appreciates food, and I found that my understanding of tennis is very high, although it does not take much time, but my tennis level is still improving quickly.

I didn't have any professional training, but I beat a lot of players who wanted to be on professional teams, and I made a name for myself in our city's tennis circles. With my tennis expertise, I was specially recruited to a key university in the provincial capital during the college entrance examination, which is the biggest benefit that playing tennis has brought me for so many years.

After joining the varsity team, I received guidance from a coach for the first time in my life. The coach of the varsity team, a retired professional, said that my body is particularly suitable for tennis, and I am a good seedling. It's a pity that I didn't take the professional path since I was a child, and the technology has been finalized, and there is almost no possibility of going to be a professional player.

I was devastated by what my coach said about me, after all, it has been my dream since I was a child to make tennis a career. After a period of sinking, I got back on my feet and I had to prove my coach wrong.

From that day on, I worked harder on tennis training, and even went a little crazy. In addition to eating and sleeping every day, the rest of the time is basically spent in the tennis hall. For this reason, I skipped many classes and missed a lot of studies. Even my girlfriend, who had been dating for two years, broke up with me because she complained that I didn't have time to spend with her.

But I can't do that much. Only through hard training can I further improve my level and get closer and closer to my dream.

Gradually, my efforts paid off. My tennis skills are getting higher and higher, and it's hard to find an opponent in the school team. Even at the provincial university games, I won the men's singles championship. Just when I thought I was getting infinitely close to the professional team, the coach poured cold water on me. He said that I am good in the amateurs at my current level, but I am still far from the professional team.

Even since our province is not a big tennis province, the level of amateur tennis is not too high in the country. Although I have won many good results in provincial competitions, once I look at the amateur tennis world in the country, I am not considered to be top-notch.

Okay, since participating in provincial competitions doesn't explain the problem, then I'll participate in national competitions. From then on, whenever there was a tour held by the CTA, I would basically participate in it whenever time permitted. In these competitions, I played against amateur players from all over the country, and it really opened my eyes.

Although there is no longer no opponent as in the province, but there are winners and losers. But the defeats didn't frustrate me, they strengthened my confidence. Because in such a competition that gathers amateur masters from all over the country, and even retired professional players, my level has been fully affirmed by everyone. Ordinary players are naturally not a problem, and they basically win easily. Even the few games that were lost were almost all against retired players or semi-professional players who had undergone a period of professional training, and there was still a chance to win on the field.

As a result of my performances in the previous races, I was ranked fourth in the National Amateur Tour standings and my CTA rating was seventh. As long as you get good results in the next Shanghai competition, you will almost be able to lock in the year-end finals, and it is only a matter of time before you reach the highest level of amateur players in the eighth level.

It is the first time I have come to Shanghai, which is worthy of being the largest city in my country, with the title of the magic capital, and the momentum is far from being comparable to my hometown town. Even the venue for this tournament is the venue for the Shanghai Masters, and everything here is very exciting.

The first time I saw Shanghai, I decided that I wanted to put down roots here in the future. As long as I become a professional tennis player, I will be able to earn a lot of money and have the ability to establish myself in Shanghai.

However, the road still has to be taken step by step, and the level of this Shanghai competition is high, and there are really many masters, and even the retired players of the former Beijing team who did not participate in several stations have also appeared. I looked at the matchup draw and since we were both seeded, we had a bye in the first round and we didn't have until the semi-finals. Hey, it's really unpleasant, I don't think I have much chance of reaching the final this time. Although I am very confident in my tennis skills, it is still a little early to play against the best players of the original Beijing team. But in two years, I believe he won't be my opponent.

Because of the first-round bye, I didn't have anything to do when the rest of the players were fighting fiercely. I walked around and watched the other players play, but they were all quite lackluster, and there were no surprise players. It seems that the top few people in this competition are still the ones I am familiar with, including myself, of course.

Finally, the boring waiting time passed, and I came to the No. 5 venue early for a warm-up exercise. After a while, the opponent has not appeared, so it can't be a waiver. But when you meet me, it's almost the same as abstaining, it's better not to show up, and I still have to do it.

Unexpectedly, when he left the game for ten minutes, the opponent actually arrived, and there was another person on the side, who seemed to be his partner. Hey, it seems that I can't be lazy. It's okay to come, just warm up. But the opponent is only level five, yes, it seems to be written on the signing form, and it doesn't seem to have any warm-up effect. As for his name, I'm sorry, I never cared about the names of the lower divisions, they were all stepping stones on my path anyway.

Soon, after the warm-up exercises, the game began. Seeing that the other party is older than me and looks harmless, it is quite impressive, so I won't play him, and finish my work early.

Normally, when playing against low-level players, as long as I keep the depth of the ball, I don't have to take the initiative to attack, and they will make mistakes. If I open up the angle to attack, then the opponent will not be able to hold on for a few rounds.

That's what I did at the beginning, holding on to the baseline, keeping the ball deep close to the baseline. However, things didn't go as I expected. Why did I hit more than a dozen shots, but the opponent still brought the ball back steadily, and even the depth of the ball was not worse than mine.

This surprised me a little bit, the average level 5 player would definitely make a mistake before me when hitting the ball in such a depth situation. However, today's opponents seem to be very comfortable with this kind of ball, and there is no look of anxiety on their faces.

It's kind of interesting, since the bottom line is so carryable, I'll add some strength. I added 20% more hitting power, and the ball at this time not only landed deeply, but also became faster, and the average level 6 player will have a bit of a hard time to deal with.

However, the unexpected reappeared. After another 10 beats, I didn't wait for the expected mistake, but my opponent completely caught up with my rhythm and had the same force as me. Could it be that I underestimate him too much, it seems that he is still a bottom-line master.

But that still doesn't make me look at him differently, tennis is a comprehensive sport, and it's not enough to have a good match. Changing tactics according to the opponent's situation is an ability that only our level 7 players can master. Now, let's give you a feel for the gap with the senior players.

After another four or five beats with him, we had a staggering twenty beats in the first round. At this stage, the average player may have adapted to this rhythm, and it is difficult to make any changes. But that's what makes me different from the average player.

Just as my opponent returns a return close to the baseline, I'm ready to hit the ball with my forehand. My right hand is very full, and it feels like I want to keep the depth and power of the ball and hit a powerful forehand. However, when the ball flew closer, the racket that I was about to hit the tennis ball hard suddenly stopped, and then slashed hard, and unexpectedly released a small ball.

The strength of the ball, perfect, the landing point is very close to the front of the net. The bounce, perfect, shouldn't be very high. Spin, perfect, powerful spin is very full. Hey, it's another classic multi-round scoring, I guess the coach will praise me when he sees it, and the curvature of my mouth can't help but rise.

What the! How did the other party appear in front of the net? This is impossible, it stands to reason that he should have been completely deceived by me, and he could only stand on the bottom line stupidly and watch the ball land! Why is his pace so fast? He seems to have predicted the ball and has come to the point where it lands.

No! What is he going to do? He actually picked the ball lightly, hoisted it to the sideline in front of my net, and objected to me putting a small ball. Oops, I'm completely too late. Before he could take a step, the tennis ball had already landed and rolled off the court.

That's when I realized that something was wrong, and the opponent seemed to be far from being as simple as a level 5 player. However, this first point, both sides are in the tentative stage, and it can't explain the whole problem, after all, I also have my backhand that I haven't used.

Then, the scene got out of hand again. I started to open up the angle and hit him on the baseline, but no matter how tricky I played, the opponent was able to get in touch and turn the ball back at a bigger angle. Why? Why did he predict all my returns, and could he know what was going on in my head?

Soon, I lost my first service game. This has never happened before against a junior player. Today everything seemed to be extraordinary, I wanted to make a difference in his serve, but I lost even worse, and I gradually couldn't keep up with his rhythm on the baseline, and my pace seemed to be getting slower and slower, and the distance from the ball was getting farther and farther away.

What went on, why I felt like I was playing against a master I'd never played before, and that feeling of powerlessness was far greater than the previous few defeats. In those games, I felt like I still had a chance to win, but I didn't handle the key balls. But in this game, I don't see any hope of winning, and even if I have to score points, it has become extremely difficult.

I must be horrible now, I can feel my eyes red, gasping for air, it must be embarrassing. But I didn't have anything I could do but run faster. The other party seems to be incarnated as the god of tennis, and in front of him, it seems that it is blasphemy to the god to want to win.

Gradually, I gave in to him from my heart, I no longer wanted to fight him, I just waited quietly for the game to end. Without any surprises, I lost my first match in Shanghai 1:6.

My name is Qi Xiao and I am a college student who aspires to pursue a career in tennis. Today we lost to a Division 5 player whose name is Pansiqi (I sneaked another look at the bracket after the match). The coach may be right, so I'd better go back and study hard. After all, you can't even win a fifth-level player, so what kind of tennis dream.