Israel's Serra, 32, is currently ranked 97th in the world. Although he is almost at the bottom of the top 100, Serra is a true top 100 player compared to Hiroshi Takita, who has slipped down the rankings, and is the first player in the world to be ranked in the top 100 in Pansiqi's career.

The reason why there is so much emphasis on the 100 ranking is because it is a magic number. A hundred players before and after can be almost divided into two levels. Only the former can truly be called the best group of people in the world who play tennis.

Don't look at a hundred people, but compared to the thousands of active tennis professionals, and the tens of thousands of players who want to become professionals, and tens of millions of tennis fans, this number is simply not worth mentioning. And these 100 people, who can stand out in such a huge base, can definitely be said to be the most talented talents in the sport of tennis.

When a young player has just debuted or even before his debut, if he is asked about his future career goals, he will say that his first goal is to enter the top 100 in the world rankings. Because once this goal is achieved, it means that the player can really establish himself in the highly competitive professional tennis world, so that tennis will no longer be a hobby, but will become a means that he can really rely on to make a living.

Keep in mind that tennis is almost one of the most professional sports in the world, and its prize money is often too high for other sports to match. A Grand Slam singles champion can often win more than two or three million US dollars, and the most legendary Super Dan on the badminton court is estimated to have less than that total career prize money.

Finishing in the top 100 means that these players have plenty of opportunities to compete at the highest level of the tour, and high-level events often mean high prize money. As a result, as long as the top 100 players maintain a sufficient number of entries, even if the results are not good, it is often difficult to win, but the amount of prize money accumulated over the course of a year will exceed that of the challenger by many times. As for the Hope Race, it's even less worth mentioning.

Therefore, the top 100 players in the world can be called the wealthy class of the tennis world. Not to mention the top ten top stars, even the top ten ranked players, the awards they receive are unimaginable for ordinary white-collar workers.

Everyone in the world knows that money is good, but if you really want to become one of the top 100 players and get a piece of the pie, it is still very difficult. Each of the top 100 players stood out from the many tennis talents in their country, and then went through the tests of the Hope Tournament Challenge, and finally fought their way out of the encirclement.

Take Chinese men's tennis as an example, a country with a population of 1.3 billion has such a huge tennis population base, but it can't live or die a top 100 player. The closest time is only the 143rd place reached by Zhang Ze. It can be said that generation after generation of Chinese men's tennis players, while watching one by one Japanese, South Korean and even Taiwanese players enter the top 100, they have launched an attack on the top 100 again and again, but in vain.

And now, Serra, who is standing opposite Pansizi, is the winner of this hundred-big battle. He had already reached a higher ranking several years ago. Although the ranking is declining year by year due to age, after all, he still stays in the top 100, which makes him very satisfied.

Serra has been in average form on the tour this year, playing for almost half a year and not winning a few games in total. Just when he was about to drop out of the top 100, he participated in a challenger. In the Challenger, he won several big wins in a row and easily took the championship. The points of the challenge champion allowed him to stabilize his ranking in time and regain the feeling of victory.

As a result, Serra, who had tasted the sweetness, was naturally very happy with her decision to participate in the challenge. During this time, he felt that his performance was not very good, and he was out of the first round of several consecutive races, so he did not hesitate to sign up for the Chengdu competition.

Sure enough, in the first few rounds, Serra easily advanced all the way and came to the semifinals without any difficulty. thought that he would meet his old opponent Tian Tianhao, but who knew that the other party was actually upset by a little-known Chinese player. Of course, Serra is happy with this result, because it means that on the road to winning the championship, he only has one opponent left.

However, unlike Roh, who expressed shock at Pansiqi's strength, as an Israeli, Sierra is not in the habit of paying attention to the Japanese media, and the commonly used fastgram has little news about Pansiqi. Therefore, apart from knowing that Pansiqi defeated Tiantian Hao, he can be said to know nothing about Pansiqi.

Although there was some surprise in Pansiqi's victory, in his mind, it was estimated that Tian Tianhao was unwell and injured and other reasons, which led to this result. Facing a completely healthy self in the semifinals, the Chinese should not have any chance to upset themselves.

Pansiqi, on the other hand, doesn't seem to know much about his opponent in the semi-finals. In the last round, Hiroshi Timda, as one of the few Japanese players on the tour, Pan Xiqi still heard of it. As for Serra, that's really not impressive. After all, most of the fans watching the game are staring at those stars, and who will pay attention to Serra, an ordinary player.

With that said, both Pancicic and Serra's minds were blank on each other's technical play, and the match was a real encounter. However, even in the encounter, the psychology of the two sides is still different.

Needless to say, Serra naturally carried the belief that he would definitely win. And Pan Xiqi, after fighting with Tian Tianhao, does not have that sense of mystery for the top 100 players, and his mood is quite relaxed. Coupled with the good mood brought by Wang Yan's incident, this game can be said to be light.

Now that the mood is relaxed, what is shown on the court is a more ferocious serve. In the opening game, Pancic's first service game was unhindered, and Panci lightly made four consecutive aces to save his own serve. At this time, looking at the clock on the sidelines, the hands have not even reached the position of a minute.

"1:0, in the first set, Pansich leads."

This made Sierra a little dumbfounded. He was full of confidence before the start of the match, but he never imagined that his Chinese opponent would have such excellent serving skills. Although he has rarely played against Chinese players, from the few experiences he has, Pan Xiqi is definitely an outlier among Chinese players.

"This serve, it's really speechless. But next is my serve, I don't know if he has the ability to do this on the baseline. Serra thought to herself. It seems that Pansiqi's amazing performance when he comes up has made him have to cheer up.