Chapter 84 High Ranking Qualifying Tournament
The Besanon Challenge, which started the main competition on March 3, was the only professional event in Europe at the same time, except for the Tokyo Challenge in Japan. Although there are two other tour-level competitions that started in the United States at the same time, under the competition of many top 50 players in the world, low-ranking players will be very difficult, even if they enter the main competition and pass the first round.
"No, you should feel lucky. The Italian schedule that starts on March 17 should be a headache for you. You should adapt to the feeling of playing in Europe. The players here are different from India." Raschett rejected Fan Ju's idea of achieving results without hesitation. This is the European challenge, and the strength to reach the quarter-finals is enough to win the challenge championship in many regions.
"But the French Open?" Fan Ju frowned and hesitated. He knew it was difficult to win, but he also had his own goals.
The goal that Rembrandt set for himself was close to 200 points. After the three Italian games ended, it was only mid-April. If he could not get more points in the previous game, it would mean a complete failure of the original goal.
If I won all the championships in the four-stop challenge scheduled by IMG, he will get 205 points of ATP points. With his original accumulation, the total points will reach 249 points. This point ranking should be about 150 places in the ATP rankings. Then, according to the previous 108 places in the Grand Slams who directly advanced to the main competition, there is a high chance of 150 places.
Of course, if you can achieve such a good result and still cannot enter the main competition, IMG will definitely try its best to win a wild card for the main competition. Although you may have to face the dilemma of meeting seed players in the first round, the Grand Slam has always been a place to create miracles. If Fan Ju can defeat high-ranking seed players, even if he can't enter the third round, IMG has already obtained enough publicity and negotiation chips.
Of course Fan Ju didn't talk about this goal with anyone. Even he felt it was a bit fantasy, but he believed that as long as he had superpowers, he still had the possibility of realizing it.
"Tennis matches in the highest level? Then let me experience it!" Fan Ju was full of fighting spirit, like a lion walking towards the arena. No matter how sharp the opponent had, he was ready to tear them apart with his sharp claws.
Three days of adapting to training, plus a day of rest, although it has not reached the best, it has been fully adjusted. This is his first game in the European arena, and he firmly believes that he can win the opponent!
On February 24, Raschet, who was holding the qualifying round, looked depressed. He really didn't know if Fan Ju was fighting with Europe. He was obviously just the first round of the qualifying round but encountered such an unexpected opponent.
"Filipino player Dai Na is also one of the only two tennis players from the Philippines. Although this Filipino player has lived in New York since he was a child to receive tennis education, he is currently ranked 156th in the world. If it weren't for the registration too late, he would be fully qualified to enter the main competition directly." Although other players are not weak, it is even more troublesome to encounter such an opponent.
Daina? I haven't heard of it. Fan Ju only knows a general idea about the domestic tennis world. The world's tennis world is limited to the top ones. Philippine players have never cared about it.
"Don't worry, just the ranking looks high. Look, he has been in the professional tennis world for 6 years and is already 28 years old. He has only highlighted his doubles scores. He has not even won the championship in the challenge several times. What's there to worry about?"
Raschett couldn't see if Fan Ju really didn't care or was confident, but as long as the player was not nervous, there was no need for him to lose his position.
Worries are inevitable. IMG hopes that Raschet can lead Fan Ju to get better results in the challenge. Of course, they don’t expect that Fan Ju will win the challenge championship immediately after entering the European professional world, but he also hopes that he can reach the semi-finals in one game and that he will be very satisfied if he can enter the main competition in other games.
Raschett did not tell Fan Ju about IMG's hope because he was afraid of hitting Fan Ju's desire to win. After all, he could see that the boy in front of him was arrogant and only the champion in his eyes.
It can be seen from the previous game that he has not experienced a failure since the Orange Bowl. After winning the Orange Bowl with a record high, he swept in two sets in three future matches in India. With such a result, even Laschet was slanted at Fan Ju's stability.
Being able to perform like this undoubtedly means that Fan Ju is definitely capable of suppressing the strength of the top 200 players at this age. As long as he does not perform frequently, it should not be difficult to complete the first event and enter all the main competitions.
On Tuesday, February 25, the qualifying round of the French Besanon Challenge quietly kicked off in this small town, without noise or cheer, but only from the battles of those who did not qualify for the main competition.
Daina's skin is very dark, and it can be seen that she is a person who loves outdoor sports. Although Fan Ju also plays tennis outdoors, her skin easily turns white. Compared with her opponent, her skin color is as obvious as the color difference between black and white.
Fan Qiu could see some differences in his opponent's appearance from the Chinese. Perhaps in the eyes of those Europeans, he and Dyna are both Asian, but even in southern China, northern China and further south China have their own characteristics, which is very obvious to Dyna.
With a height of 175 cm, like most Asian players, Daina is not a tennis player who plays tennis with a height and arms. His weight of 75 kg has solid and powerful muscles, his calf has strong explosive power, his running flexibly and quickly, and his return to the ball is also very solid. Fan Ju found that the opponent he had underestimated before actually had "unfathomable" strength.
"The level should be similar to myself!" Fan Ju initially judged his opponent's strength when he was warming up with his opponent. He played the game with his own ability. This would be a very difficult player. No wonder Raschet showed concerns about the game.
At this time, Daina also looked at the young opponent in front of him. Although he was a Filipino, he was actually born and raised in the United States, but he has not heard of this new orange bowl champion.
On the contrary, Fan Ju's appearance attracted the renewed attention of many American fans to Chinese and Asian players, and even he benefited from it and received some additional sponsorship fees.
Fan Ju performed very strongly in Orange Bowl. Although his previous professional competition experience was equal to zero, as long as he watched Fan Ju's game, he knew that this kid's future prospects would be limitless. No one could tell the result of the Tour or Grand Slam, but one thing is certain that this kid is very strong and will become stronger in the future.
When Daina looked at the opponent who was about to serve carefully, Fan Ju thought that he should start with the serving. On a hard field, high-speed serve is good, and the power of bomb serve is not small. In fact, Raschett hopes that Fan Ju will focus on one serving technique, which can better improve the success rate of a goal scorer.
From the current point of view, high-speed serves with a speed of professional masters must be better than bomb serves that can only barely reach 190 kilometers. Of course, the first-shot rate of both servings is not high, which is a big problem. Fan Ju is also trying to improve during the training process.
A high-speed serve at an outer corner, Fan Ju made a decision after seeing Daina's short but strong arms. His bomb serve was not enough to be fatal to an opponent with outstanding arm strength.
On the contrary, if you can play a serve with a speed of more than 200 per hour from the outside angle, the opponent can lose the position as soon as you catch the ball.
Daina rushed to the right with great force. Fan Ju's shot was very fast, and the angle was also very tilted to the outside. The side rotation lacked a side rotation. Although the threat of the ball was not that great, this speed alone was enough to make the receiver feel the heavy pressure brought by the speed.
Short hand is Daina's weakness. Of course, under normal circumstances, this weakness is not obvious. However, a smaller range of receiving balls also requires him to use more running to make up for the position. The moment he receives the serve, Daina quickly moves and takes the position.
When he looked up at Fan Ju, he found that his speed was fast enough, but his opponent was not bad. With a standard forehand hitting force, Fan Ju had already stood in the middle position early, waiting for the ball to be hit back to enter his strike range!
"Bang!" The sound was not loud, but it was fatal. Although Daina had returned to the middle, Fan Ju was too prepared. He slashed at a small angle and the ball was already outside the boundary of the doubles when it flew to the bottom line.
Such a quick sprint at an angle will only have the opportunity to receive unless the placement is predicted as soon as possible when returning the ball. However, if Dynah is standing at the corner position, will Fan Ju's counterattack change the direction?
"What a perfect fatal forehand!" There was no formal audience in the preliminaries, but there were several rows of benches for watching the game to be provided to the audience. Larschet sat in the audience, and there were already many spectators waiting with him for the start of the game.
Chapter completed!