Chapter Twenty-Seven: The No. 1 Seed of Soft Feet
"Fan Ju has become a professional player? Really? "There are doubts about what I just heard.
"Now there's a career ranking? So the U18 game is still playable? "There are also tennis center coaches who are concerned about whether Fan Ju will still participate in youth competitions.
"Wow! It turns out that it is so easy to go to Africa to compete, and I knew that I also signed up! "Of course, the most is that many young people who are training from good families, and they all come up with this idea, since the level there is very low, does it mean that they also have opportunities?
Coach Li is such a shrewd person, he can see the thoughts of the little guys below at a glance, in the words of Fan Ju, you just want to fart, you don't have to wait for the smell, just pout your ass Lao Li will know.
"What is the noise, sue sù is to remind you that if you don't have the strength of Fan Ju, don't think about what profession is not professional, which of you can play a 5:7 handicap with Fan Ju on the court?
The opponent of the first round of Fan Ju has this strength, this is still the luck of the Fan Ju Qualifying Tournament, and now I have to beg me to find him the information of the opponent in the second round, you group of things that do not grow, give me a good practice, today each person will practice 1oo balls, and those who do not score the area and wipe the net do not count! ”
If Fan Ju hears Coach Li teach these impetuous children a lesson by himself, he has to rebel, what do you mean by begging you? Didn't you take the initiative to make me have to win a few more rounds so that I could increase your face?
In the mourning of the students, Coach Li returned to the office with satisfaction, and the specific process of Fan Ju's game was also told to himself, although he took it, he still won a very thrilling game, especially when the opponent came up in the second set, he wanted to suppress Fan Ju in front of the net, if it weren't for Fan Ju's self-proclaimed "talented" and used the front of the net to suppress, the final result of the game really doesn't know what would have happened!
Of course, what Coach Li said to the academy was partly coaxing, if it goes all the way to these weaker regional competitions than in China, a few talented and family players in the tennis center will certainly have a chance to get points, but what if they get it?
Fan Ju's strength Coach Li is recognized, otherwise he will not be so active in helping Fan Ju to contact domestic and foreign competitions, he thinks that as long as Fan Ju has professional points, it is no problem to occupy at least a position in the domestic professional tennis world, as for the exhibition after a higher level, Coach Li can't see through and dare not guess.
Other students are different, getting a few points is nothing more than staying on the aTp professional rankings for a year, of course, they also have the priority right to sign up for several domestic hope tournaments every year, but even if they enter the hope tournament with their unsolid strength, it is just a waste of time, not to mention getting points in the domestic main competition, I am afraid that they will not even be able to enter the second round before the qualifying tournament.
What should I do if I can't get points at home? Trying your luck abroad? What if you do? You are not stupid, once the reputation in the domestic tennis world is stinky, if you want to be a coach in a provincial and municipal tennis center, no one wants you, maybe you can go to a private club and rely on the title of the former professional to make a good income, but compared with the cost of playing abroad, this is simply a waste of precious time and precious youth.
Fan Ju in Mombasa was holding the information sent back by Coach Li at this time, his opponent tomorrow was to start the game together at 9 o'clock in the morning in the first group with him today, but the playing venues were not close to each other, and Fan Ju only glanced at it when he went to find Matata, but he was not deeply impressed.
I only know that it is a white player from France, and his opponent is a country in Zimbabwe where the legendary currency has depreciated to the trillion level, of course, the current currency exchange rate of Zimbabwe is quite normal, but it still impresses Fan Ju!
Zimbabwe's players were not very strong, but they were lucky enough to lose the qualifying round, but they were lucky enough to substitute the main draw players who did not make it to the tournament, but even so, the sixth seed of the tournament, the Frenchman, who was ranked 889 in the world at the time of registration, still had to fight in three sets to overcome his opponent.
Fan Ju doesn't know if this Frenchman is bitter, but he must have guessed that the romantic Frenchman must have exercised too much in advance last night, and this Frenchman is also a traditional low-level player from the data, from Europe to Asia, and now to Africa, his family is rich enough to support him in this thankless career path "forward", in short, Fan Ju feels that as long as the French continue to exercise tonight, he can win his game tomorrow without playing......
Tucao is complaining, Fan Ju is still honestly resting at night, and he still got up early in the morning the next day, the warm-up should be warmed up, the practice of the ball, there are only eight games on the second day, and the venue is no longer so tense, and the time of the game is also relaxed to the morning and afternoon, and the first round of the morning game Fan Ju, today's game starts at half past one in the afternoon, so he has plenty of time to prepare, and at the same time, if he is not afraid of affecting the state, he can also go to the arena to see the game or something.
Although Fan Ju has only played one match so far, he has become more and more aware of a very real problem, there are only two kinds of players who will come here to compete, one is a player who has some strength but it is difficult to get points in Europe, and the other is a player who has little strength but has a lot of money at home and can let him score as much as he wants.
Please forgive Fan Ju for ignoring those big African brothers who have neither strength nor money, it is not that Fan Ju discriminates against them, tennis is indeed a sport that requires a lot of money to lay a foundation in the early stage, and with the current economic situation in Africa, only white people in South Africa and these countries still have the opportunity to spend money to train systematically in Europe.
The reason why Fan Ju's training does not seem to be too expensive is because the current level of domestic tennis training is not high, and it is simply impossible to provide those high-cost services, and the basic training of 5-60,000 US dollars per year in European and American countries may not even be able to get the current Fan Ju.
And that's just the basics, but it's even more terrifying to get into the game, not only do you have to fly around the world to compete in the game, but you also have to hire coaches with high salaries and former pros with professional standards as sparring partners to stay in shape.
Even the children of many wealthy families in Europe can only sustain themselves for a year or two chasing their professional "dreams", after all, the huge phone bill of more than a dozen or even hundreds of thousands of euros a year is enough for many people to recognize where their strength is.
Fan Ju is also a relatively rare alternative, can it be rare to be reborn? He is not very young, but he has the financial foundation to support his training and even go abroad to participate in competitions, and he can have the strength of "quasi-professional" at the age of 17 in a region where the level of tennis is backward.
If it is placed in Europe, Fan Ju may have been favored by many tennis clubs, and provide subsidies and expenses to participate in the competition, and even invest a lot of resources to train such players to have the strength to compete in high-level professional competitions, and use some connections to help young players get wild cards, and to play against masters to hone their vision and level.
Only in this way can young people have a clear view of their career path and hit the top 2oo rankings in the real professional world.
There are more than 1,000 players with professional points in the aTp rankings every year, but there are only one or two hundred players who can really maintain and continue to move forward.
Fan Ju was still a little far away from that Cheng Dù, and now he was sitting on the sidelines, munching on Matata's local sandwich with fish cutlets and sipping a juice drink, watching the sweaty No. 1 seed in the arena in a fierce match.
In fact, Fan Ju didn't want to come, but who told him to disturb Matata's "business" yesterday, although he played in the same time period as Fan Ju yesterday, but today's No. 1 seed match did not start in the afternoon like Fan Ju.
And Fan Ju also took advantage of this time to observe his possible opponent tomorrow, of course, as for whether to fight, it depends on whether Fan Ju can win the match with the No. 6 Frenchman.
How to say, while watching the game, Fan Ju felt that the South African No. 1 seed on the court must have overexerted himself again last night, and was defeated by a Swede named Robert at the beginning of the first set. Gustavsson's opponent played in disgrace.
Although in the second set our No. 1 seed apparently regained some of his feel on the court and moved back to a set that was not as good as his opponent, and the final set was played to the end with the score deadlocked at 5:6, a Swede with a break in hand had a significantly better chance of winning.
The game is not exciting, anyway, in Fan Ju's eyes, compared with those world-class games, the tactics of the two players off the field are obviously lacking in variety, I don't know if it is self-selling and boasting, Fan Ju feels that his game yesterday is much more interesting than this one, at least in terms of suppression and tactical changes, unlike they are just competing whose forehand is more accurate and suppressive in the bottom line, and the pressure is more monotonous, and even the forehand and backhand in front of the net are fully used in actual combat.
The Swede unexpectedly beat the tournament's No. 1 seed to secure a ticket to the third-round quarter-finals, and our matata was also on the phone today to launch his own business in Mombasa.
After Fan Ju finished nibbling on the sandwich and juice in his hand, he forgot about the boring game in his head, saved his afternoon swing, patted his hand stained with breadcrumbs and stood up, ready to find something to fill his appetite, and prepare enough energy to meet his afternoon game.
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