Wiggins is the top tennis coach in the United States. He has coached many Grand Slam championship-level players. Of course, his fees are also the highest, at 20,000 US dollars a week, which is already a sky-high price among tennis coaches.
Wiggins dares to charge such a high price because his training is really worth the price. Especially for young athletes whose skills are not yet perfect, they can often make rapid progress after receiving Wiggins' guidance.
Chen Zhen is obviously that kind of young athlete whose skills are not perfect, and it can even be said that he has a lot of shortcomings. At least in the eyes of Coach Wiggins, the current Chen Zhen is really bad, and there are various problems in all aspects. Such loopholes.
After all, Chen Zhen is an athlete who grew up and trained in China. The domestic tennis training level and the overall tennis environment are far inferior to those in European and American countries. Therefore, compared with athletes from European and American countries, he still has a lot to improve.
The more shortcomings an athlete has, the more areas he can improve, which means he has enough room for growth. Every time such an athlete improves one of his own shortcomings, his strength will improve by one point.
Chen Zhen is like this. It is said that with his B+ talent, although it is difficult to win high-level competition championships, he can still enter the Grand Slam main draw, which means that he can be ranked around 100 in the world. , but he has just entered the top 200. This is because Chen Zhen's daily training in China is not effective, which leaves him with too many shortcomings that have not been improved.
After arriving at Coach Wiggins' training camp, Chen Zhen's main task was to accept Coach Wiggins' transformation and correct his various technical shortcomings.
Chen Zhen has never received such guidance from the world's top tennis coach. This opportunity is really rare for Chen Zhen. Every word and word that Coach Wiggins says to him is like an imperial edict. Chen Zhen will Implement it meticulously and don't dare to neglect anything.
Coach Wiggins did not disgrace his title as the world's top tennis coach. Under his transformation, Chen Zhen made great progress every day. Although the entire training lasted only five days, under Coach Wiggins' Under Duiyi's guidance, Chen Zhen's strength has made rapid progress, and he will take a big step forward every day.
Although Chen Zhen's talent is not top-notch, it is not bad either. Now that he has received the top-level training, he is almost completely transformed.
This is like a jade carving master processing raw jadeite. If it is the top-grade glass, even the jadeite raw stone without any processing is priceless. And after being processed by a famous jade carving master, the value will be even higher, and it will even increase. Considered a priceless treasure.
If it is a piece of waxy jade, its grade is much worse than that of glass, and the raw jadeite is far less valuable than glass. However, if the person responsible for processing this piece of "glutinous seed" is a jade carving master, then after this piece of "glutinous seed" is processed into a finished product, , the value will also increase. Although it is far inferior to the "glass species", it is definitely valuable among the "glutinous species".
Chen Zhen does not have an S-level talent, not even an A-level talent. His B+ talent can be regarded as the waxy seed of Jade. But Coach Wiggins is obviously a top "jade carving master". After his polishing and processing, even waxy jadeite can be sold for a good price.
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The first of the four Grand Slams held every year is the Australian Open, which is usually held in Melbourne, Australia, in the last two weeks of January every year.
The second is the French Open, held from May to June every year. The third one is the oldest tennis tournament, Wimbledon, which is held in June or July, and the last one is the U.S. Open, which is usually held in August or September.
Since today is the year of the Olympics, all major sports events have to make concessions for the Olympics. The French Open and Wimbledon have been held earlier, while the US Open has been postponed.
Before the main draw of the US Open begins, the first thing to be done is the qualifying round and the wild card round. The qualifying round determines the qualifications according to the world rankings, while the wild card round is mainly composed of American players. After all, it is the US Open. For the United States, Athletes, of course, need to take more care of them.
The qualifying round is a single-match competition system. As long as you can win three rounds, you can advance to the main round. As long as you lose one round, you will be eliminated. Therefore, for every player participating in the qualifying round, every game They are all life and death battles.
Chen Zhen's world ranking has just entered the top 200. Among the 128 athletes participating in the qualifying round, he is ranked in the middle and lower positions. According to the qualifications of the Grand Slam athletes, his opponent in the first game must be ranked higher than him in the world. former players.
It was his first time participating in a Grand Slam qualifying match. Chen Zhen seemed very nervous. He performed very poorly in the first set. However, Chen Zhen's opponent was obviously not participating in a Grand Slam qualifying match for the first time. He entered the game from the beginning. In the end, Chen Zhen was defeated by his opponent 6-2.
In the men's singles of the Grand Slam, the main draw is a best-of-five-set system, while the qualifying rounds and wild-card rounds are a best-of-three-set system, which means that after losing the first set, the opponent has already obtained the match point.
Chen Zhen, who was forced to a dead end, finally broke out after losing a game in the second set, and finally managed to regain the set with a score of 7-5.
The victory in this set also gave Chen Zhen confidence. In the third set, Chen Zhen obviously fully adapted to the game. He was no longer nervous, but fully displayed his true level, and then defeated 6-4. opponent.
The final score was 2-1, and Chen Zhen successfully advanced to the second round.
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In the second round of qualifying, Chen Zhen's opponent was a Frenchman, and his ranking was also above Chen Zhen.
But Chen Zhen won more easily than in the first round, winning 6-4 with a total score of 2-0.
Obviously, this French player is not very good at hard court games. On the contrary, Chen Zhen is very good at hard court games.
Among the four major tennis tournaments, Wimbledon is played on grass, the French Open is played on red soil, and the Australian Open and US Open are played on hard courts. The difference is that the Australian Open court is made of plastic, and the ball bounces slower on the ground. It is a slow hard court. The ground used at the US Open is made of cement, with a layer of special material spread on it. The ball will hit the ground more slowly, making it a fast and hard ground.
Domestic tennis courts are basically plastic courts, without grass or red soil. However, the plastic venues laid in China use acrylic mixtures of relatively average quality. Construction with a conscientious approach is to lay two layers of fine rubber particles on top of two layers of coarse rubber particles, and then lay the filling and texture layers. If the construction team does not have a conscientious construction team, , that is, a layer of coarse rubber particles and a layer of fine rubber particles. The kind of labor-intensive materials cost fifty yuan per square meter. The hardness of the ground is almost the same as that of cement.
Therefore, most domestic tennis players are better at playing on hard courts, and can quickly adapt to the Australian Open and the US Open. On the contrary, it is difficult to achieve breakthroughs in the French Open because it is red soil.
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In the third round of qualifying, Chen Zhen's opponent was ranked 119th in the world. For him, this was an extremely difficult battle.
The player ranked 119th in the world obviously did not take Chen Zhen, who was participating in a Grand Slam qualifying tournament for the first time, in his eyes. You must know that at Wimbledon a few months ago, Chen Zhen's world ranking was not even qualified to participate in the Grand Slam qualifying tournament, so in the eyes of his opponents, Chen Zhen was just a passerby.
The player ranked 119th in the world obviously did not realize that his real opponent was not Chen Zhen, but himself. The mentality of underestimating the enemy was his biggest enemy!
Although Chen Zhen's world ranking has just entered 200, after training with Coach Wiggins, he has been completely transformed, and his strength is not much worse than that of his opponents. However, "119" is too underestimated, and as a result, the first set of the game ended. Defeated by Chen Zhen.
After losing the first set, "119"'s mentality was a little unbalanced. He was eager to regain the score, but he made more unforced errors, and these errors were also caught by Chen Zhen, who scored consecutively. .
After taking the lead, Chen Zhen became more and more courageous as he fought, while his opponent became more and more anxious, and the result turned out to be one-sided.
Another 2-0, Chen Zhen won the third round of qualifying and got a spot in the US Open main draw!
On the sidelines of the game, Dai Li sighed softly: "The 20,000 U.S. dollars were spent in vain!"
Then, Dai Li looked towards the field and saw Chen Jianguo.
At this time, Chen Jianguo was laughing and crying...
The dream of two generations to win a Grand Slam has finally come true!