Chapter 119: Quiet Domestic
"Will the exhibition match on Wednesday and the open training on Friday?" Fan Ju lay on the bed silently. He will resume normal training and adjustments starting tomorrow. The clay court is very suitable for him and also very suitable for his opponent Nadal.
As the challenge begins, there are more and more tennis-related activities in Cagliari City. Compared with the quaint temperament of Besançon's culture and history, Cagliari's business activities are more lively and intense. In addition to the ongoing single and doubles qualifying matches, some commercial activities have also invited professional players to play exhibition matches to attract the attention of tourists who come to Cagliari for the sake of tennis.
Fan Ju trained in a private small sand field two days ago. It was not really red clay, but it was almost the same. Fan Ju really wanted to train well, but the constant messages made him feel a little irritated.
It’s not that adults cannot be angry or can completely control their feelings, but they will be more patient than minors. Just like Fan Ju, who is currently performing very easily and not affected by adverse news, he still feels that Fan Ju’s return is a bit bad in his rebate.
"Slow down, slower, man, we are not on hard ground and pasture. You have to learn a slow pace on the clay. Your opponent will compete with you on the court with stability and patience, beat you one by one, seize the opportunity and then attack." Raschet kept reminding Fan Ju.
Fan Ju is not slow, nor is he unable to control the rhythm, but the depression in his heart makes him unable to help but vent his strength on the tennis ball in front of him. A powerful explosion of shots can be far more vented than a cutting ball made by tightening his body. However, he knew that he could not do this in the game, especially against those powerful opponents.
"Wipe the sweat, I know you are in a bad mood. Although you don't show it on your face, the racket won't lie." Raschett is a master of emotions. He can not only subtly feel the difference between my woman's mood, but also the players' moods in some details.
"Okay, don't use your way of dealing with women to deal with me. I'm just angry that those guys are so shameless. They actually released all the recordings they recorded secretly," Fan Ju wiped the sweat from his forehead hard, and said unhappy.
The prosecution of the IMG's legal department was soon received by the other party, and it also created momentum in other media to whitewash Fan Ju's "injustice". However, the French sports newspaper was not a waste of time. First, it pretended to be defeated, but the next day it suddenly released a recording, which was a recording about the angel strike.
The recording only has three sentences, and the dialogue is natural and professionals also judge that there is no trace of cutting and patchwork. In the middle, the angel strike mentioned in the newspaper, there are also two words banned drugs. The most important thing is that one of the two people in the dialogue was proved to be the player coach of Fan Ju's Nick Tennis School, and Mr. Raschet, who serves as Fan Ju's assistant!
When the recording was released, the sports newspaper was like a French rooster who had won the battle, arrogantly publicizing his responsibilities in the newspaper Fan Ju and the IMG company behind Fan Ju. He also stated that if Fan Ju admits his mistake and takes the initiative to return the trophy and prize money from the competition, they will be lenient and do not require a lifelong ban on Fan Ju.
"Lifelong ban? Are these French madmen really the godfathers of their ITF and ATP? Just relying on a recording without any beginning or end, you dare to ask for a lifelong ban?" Fan Ju said disdainfully.
Although he doesn't know about professional tennis, Fan Ju knows very well how strict the bans are for these professional sports, especially high-profile world-class professional sports.
For ATP, manipulation of competitions is often more serious than banning drugs, because manipulation of competitions involves a large level, and even some international dealers will be involved. For a sport with extremely high moral requirements, manipulation of competitions is always strictly prohibited, and once involved, they will be high-level players, because ordinary challenge champions do not have this qualification to be involved in the qualification of the **.
Another banned drug, stimulants, is more common, but even if it is directly found to exceed the standard with urine test evidence, it will at most be sentenced to two years of ban.
For a competitive athlete who has only more than ten years of career, lacking two years of high-level competition experience will undoubtedly greatly reduce their strength and improvement potential. Coupled with the breach of commercial contracts, many players can only choose to retire directly, which is the most serious punishment.
Most bans are within 3 months to one year, and two years are already considered a serious punishment. Therefore, the French newspapers clamored for lifelong bans, which is completely a gimmick. Fan Ju even suspected that even if a real agency banned him for two years, the French newspaper would clamor for unfairness and use this as a gimmick to hype it up, criticizing the company behind Fan Ju and even ethnic issues.
"Let's just stop here today. There will be an exhibition match tomorrow. I hope you won't be so annoyed by those guys that I lost the game." Raschet looked at the time and announced the end of today's training.
Fan Ju put down the racket and did a few quick squat movements to move his muscles. His physical strength was not consumed too much. His adjustments and training were in good condition for a few days, and his fatigue had recovered almost the same. Especially the training was done in half a day, which gave him a lot of time to adjust and rest.
"Have Nadal arrived yet? I couldn't help but practice with him." His physical strength was recovering well. Although he was in a bad mood, he became more and more excited as the game approached.
Raschett was quite satisfied with Fan Ju's condition and had some minor flaws, but it did not affect the game. Especially in the past few days, he has made certain adjustments to the habits he discovered by his opponents, which has made him less loopholes.
Professional competitions are like repairing. When you find a problem, fill it. If it cannot be filled, strengthen other aspects so that his problem can be hidden better before meeting a strong enough opponent.
Fan Ju's overall skills are relatively balanced, especially the balance between forward and back beats of the bottom line has few loopholes. In terms of control of the landing point, they can only rely on more practice and time and experience to make up for it. Fan Ju has no big problems in other aspects, especially in the arena, the ability to temporarily adjust tactics according to the situation is even stronger than many European players who have played professional competitions for 7 or 8 years.
"It's almost the afternoon after tomorrow, but you probably won't have much time to practice together. He will also participate in the promotional activities on Friday, and he will also need to rest and adjust the time before the game. You can have about half a day to practice together on Saturday." Raschet recalled the time Tony Nadal said in his memory, and said after calculating Fan Ju's training time.
Is it only half a day? Fan Ju felt that he was not satisfied. Half a day was only enough for him to warm up in training. Of course, if it was two and a half hours of competition, it would be enough for him to get it. However, after all, he would not try his best to train, and he had plenty of rest time, and his intensity was incomparable to the competition.
However, Fan Ju thought about it and felt that it was nothing. Anyway, he always had the opportunity to fight with Nadal in the game. After training too much, he was "too familiar" and less fun on the court. At present, Nadal's body is still "growing" like him. Nadal has not stopped developing in height. As for his muscle explosiveness, he still has a lot of room for training and improvement.
The youthful fight is more like a mutual improvement. Fan Ju is more looking forward to the performance when both of them reach their peak. He believes that the future of a tennis player who can leave his name in his impression will never be ordinary, just like the names of Mike Jackson, Bill Gates, Buffett, Federer, and Jordan, representing these important meanings that belong to him in his own field.
When he returned to the hotel, Fan Ju's leisure activities turned into Internet access. It was not that he was willing to stay in his room, but that there were too many "dangers" outside. In addition, the Italian hotel they stayed in was just average, and there were no high-end leisure and entertainment services in the hotel, and Fan Ju was not as old as he could go to the bar to pass the time.
So if you don’t want to laugh at the beach with those underage Italian teenagers when the temperature is less than 20 degrees, you can only choose to stay in your room and pass the time while wandering around the Internet in the morning.
The Internet in China is not yet developed, but in 2003, many websites have already shown their strengths. There are many strange things mixed in, and there are even some chat platforms full of curses. However, it has to be said that the Internet was still very pure at this time. At least in Fan Ju's opinion, the content on the Internet is very ordinary and suitable for you to hang out.
"Sure enough, there is still no news of myself. I don't know if it's because IMG's news blocked, or if the domestic look down on the title of a challenge champion?" Fan Ju was very depressed. Although the information on the ATP official website has been refreshed, Fan Ju, who has reached the ATP ranking of 289, has truly reached the throne of "China's No. 1".
But when I searched the domestic news websites, I didn’t have any news about myself. This made Fan Ju feel a little depressed and glad that if the news that a professional Chinese tennis player suspected of taking stimulants appeared in China at this time, wouldn’t he have to ask for the official of the Internet Association who was defeated last time? He would have to die after the "meeting"!
A lot of red slogans "Criticize XX's serious consequences of disobeying the organization and participating in the competition privately" have already appeared in Fan Ju's mind, and the scenes floating in the venue.
The domestic tennis news at this time is undoubtedly lagging behind. In addition to some game information that can be obtained through the ATP official, these rumor messages that are only circulating in Europe have not been able to be transmitted back to China so quickly. Even if there is any news, it will be at most just a small-scale transmission for international students and domestic practice.
Chapter completed!