Chapter 159: A New Race Begins!

Fan Ju likes the game very much, but there are too many games, especially in a foreign country, and it is inevitable that he will feel a little tired.

The familiar people around are all "older friends", even if the mental age is about the same, but the living environment is too different, and it is difficult for Fan Ju to find a friend.

It's a good partner at work and a good helper, but it can't become a close friend.

When he needs spiritual comfort, Fan Ju is more likely to find Sister Yan on the Internet, as well as those friends to chat, and make one or two phone calls a week to go home to report to his parents that they are safe, but there is always a lack of a sense of reality, the Internet has shortened the distance, but there is a lack of real contact, and the emptiness can not be dissolved.

Fan Ju has been to the beach and has been on a yacht, as for the cost? There is no need for him to worry about it at all, Rembrandt's "vacation" can not be spent alone, in a foreign country, all he can find is a person, and he is not afraid of reporters taking pictures on the yacht, drinking wine and flirting with beautiful women, and he is not afraid of bad influences.

Of course, someone is not so profligate, and he doesn't drink wine, at most, when he is fishing on the deck, he secretly glances a few times, and Rembrandt doesn't know where to "catch" the beauties in bikinis, happily basking in the sun, as for the big white fat man who was laughing on the side, Fan Ju selectively ignored the past.

"On such a cold day, I'm not afraid of catching a cold." Fan Ju didn't dare to do this, and he also wrapped himself tightly at sea, once he had a cold, it would leave sequelae, and the damage to his lungs would have a great impact on his body.

A week passed in a flash, when Fan Ju received the schedule from Katrina. Fan Ju knows that his rest time is officially over!

"This table is so boring......"

Fan Ju was slightly dissatisfied, and the opponent in the first round was a wild card. While the No. 3 seed that he could face in the second round is a bit interesting, Fan Ju is a little less satisfied with an opponent who was once ranked high but has experienced a two-year injury slump.

No matter how unhappy he is, he can only hope that there will be some interesting opponents in the match, even if it is an old opponent from the past.

The first round of matches started on Monday as scheduled. Still divided into arenas, the enthusiasm of the audience in the casino for Fan Ju was extraordinary, and the poor Italian youth did not receive much cheering at home.

However, this may be a good thing for him, who was suppressed by Fan Ju and couldn't raise his head, not cheering. Too many people support it also means that too many people will be disappointed.

swept neatly in two sets, the opponent's serve was not bad, and he finally saved his 4 service games from Fan Ju.

In the case of not dominating, the technology is only at the level of ordinary professional level. Win the serve of Fan Ju, a hairstyle extension. This is also thanks to the fact that Fan Ju did not use the double speed state.

It was the first time he had won such an easy race without using double speed in a challenger, and there was no suspense, but it was just as uninteresting.

It's like doing a self-entertaining exercise, except that the opponent has more changes than the wall, and for Fan Ju, the reference value is almost zero.

"The first round of wildcards was wiped out except for Filippo." Fan Ju was not surprised to get the news from Lachester, or he had expected it a long time ago.

Filippo. That's right, it was the guy who took away a Challenger title from Fan Ju and Nadal, and Filippo is ranked much higher in the world than Fan Ju, who is just 200. His wild card was purely due to the fact that he had just finished the Davis Cup match against Morocco one day earlier, and he didn't have time to make the final registration.

Even if you can sign up by an agent, you still have to make sure that the contestants have arrived, and people like Filippo who are definitely not in the city where the competition is held, if you want to participate, you have to go through other informal means.

Of course, Filippo also has to thank Fan Ju, because because of his ranking, this wild card has been returned to the organizers, otherwise if you want to participate, you will have to waste some troubles.

In addition to Filippo, there are two wild cards for the "young" players in Italy, who are of course in their 20s, and Fan Ju and Nadal, who are already underage enough to participate in the main tournament of the challenge.

"The other wild card Austrian has also been eliminated and has not even participated in future tournaments, so it is not good for him to participate in European competitions at this level too early." Raschet commented with a slight sense of inappropriateness.

The Italians don't know what conditions they exchanged, but in short, Fan Ju finally looked at a "foreigner" who participated in the Italian competition with a wild card in addition to himself.

As for the ending, it was not as good as Fan Ju, who was eliminated in the first round, and the score of 6:1 and 6:2 seemed to be powerless, even more than the wild card player Fan Ju encountered.

Regardless of the outcome, the first round is over, and against the third seed, Fan Ju can finally look forward to the second round and absorb a lot of technical things, but he still needs a match of sufficient grade for him to digest some of the skills he learned when he played Nadal.

Mariano. Plata Argentinian names are always seen in a strong Spanish style, Argentines speak Spanish, but South American Spanish has a strong accent, and if he says it too quickly, Fan Ju is a little confused, just like when he first heard Wayne's Spanish.

Unlike the traditional Europeans, the Argentinian has a South American style on his face, with a bit of mixed race and a heavier skin color, but the European features of curly hair and deep brow frames are also noticeable.

The ratio of height to weight is good, and it can be seen that this player pays great attention to his exercise, although he is 4 cm shorter than Fan Ju, but if he simply wants to suppress his opponent in terms of height, it seems to be a little worse.

Fan Ju had seen his opponent's "brilliant" past, and before he was injured, he was ranked in the top 20 in 2000, when he was only 22 years old, and he became a professional player after completing his studies at the age of 20.

"The style of play is decisive and flexible, and the technique is very comprehensive, which is very suitable for the development trend of modern tennis." This is Raschet's assessment, which makes Fan Ju a little incredulous.

However, the genius is always jealous of the heavens, and before he reached his peak, the player began to suffer from injuries, during which he had several long breaks and adjustments, but after all, he could not stop the rapid decline in the rankings.

After finishing outside the top 200, he already had three doubles tour titles, two singles titles, and five runners-up finishes in the finals, and had to go back to the lower divisions, constantly adjusting and climbing the ladder.

"Nadal's injury is actually very lucky, although it is an elbow, but after healing, it does not affect his technique and condition, every professional player has to face another enemy in addition to the opponent, and no one is exempt from this, no one can escape."

Seeing the opponent who came to the court, Fan Ju remembered Raschet's words, whether it is training or playing, the most important thing is to prevent injuries, and even more important than winning the ball and winning the championship.

A single injury can ruin an entire career, but a champion who fights back with an injury can only represent a temporary achievement.

Raschet didn't want Fan Ju to be "stupid" like Nadal, but he knew that although Fan Ju was mature on the surface and his psychological adjustment ability was no worse than that of any adult, he had hidden blood in his personality and hidden risk factors that were easy to lead to injury.

Fan Ju got the serve, he looked at the tennis ball that seemed to be embedded in the sky with white clouds, and delivered his first ball of the day solidly, the ball did not carry any spin, but the quick flat volley made the ball more lethal than those slicing balls.

The air-tearing swing that sent the tennis ball flying towards his opponent at a very high speed, Mariano was not one of those "old" players, and the injury affected his swing and play, and did not slow down his reflexes and awareness.

He is a left-handed racket player who can be a very troublesome player for most opponents, especially when it comes to extensions, where the opposite forehand and backhand position is usually better able to contain the opponent's serve towards the outside.

But he didn't know that Fan Ju's last stop was with a very powerful left-handed opponent, even if he wasn't left-handed, his left-handed racket was more powerful than left-handed!

“ACE!” Listening to the referee's confirmed voice, Fan Ju served more and more and had a strong idea, with a stronger serve to suppress, with a direct serve to score to defeat the opponent, this idea is extremely difficult to wear off, Fan Ju believes that his serving skills still have room for improvement, and then improve some speed and power, and really turn it into a deadly weapon that can stab the opponent.

Now Fan Ju's serve is not strong enough, and the ace only appears occasionally, and the second serve Fan Ju changes back to its original shape, and the serve landing point is acceptable, but it is directly sent to the opponent's forehand position.

Mariano's offensive awareness is very strong, and he will never let go of the good ball sent to the door, and the forehand on the left side, although he returned the ball reluctantly, but then Fan Ju's speed of serving, still played a good small slash back shot.

After serving, Fan Ju completed the running action with the ball, and in the face of his opponent's forehand, he also returned a forehand volley, which carried out a powerful topspin and increased the ball speed again.

"It's hard to deal with!"

Mariano judged the direction of the return ball and smiled bitterly, and was returning the ball with his own backhand, which hit his own weakness.

His backhand was not weak in the past, but when his right hand was injured, he had to change from a double reverse to a single mirror.

In the past, he was very strong, able to use strong double reversals, give opponents a strong pressure on the bottom line, and with his aggressive style of play, his ranking has also risen.

But after the injury, he had to abandon the double reversal and switch to the single-reflex style of play, which expanded his receiving range, but weakened the counterattack of his backhand, which made him very passive.

In the face of Fan Ju's hit, he could only barely block the ball back with his backhand, the ball was too heavy, his one-handed hand had no time to exert force, he had tried his best to exercise SLR skills, but it was not enough, and it was far from enough now. (To be continued......)