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Until the tennis ball came near his baseline, it dived down at an angle of nearly 90 degrees and landed on the baseline of his court. After the tennis ball bounced back, it returned directly to Zhou Ran's hands.
"why?"
"Why does the tennis ball fly this way?"
After being speechless, Zhao Wenke's mind was filled with doubts.
Chapter 28: Top Four Opponents! Expected Elimination!
"Zhou Ran scored!"
"Zhou Ran won this match, the score is 6:0!"
As the strange flying trajectory of the tennis ball kept appearing in front of Zhao Wenke's eyes, the referee quickly announced the full score.
At the end of the game, Zhou Ran won easily with zero points and successfully advanced to the third round.
In previous competitions, when a player won, the audience would give symbolic applause to encourage him or her, regardless of whether they supported the winner or not.
But this time the situation is very exceptional.
After Zhou Ran won, no one at the scene applauded.
This is not because no one recognizes Zhou Ran, but because the scene Zhou Ran showed in the last round shocked and unbelievable to everyone.
At this moment, the picture that appeared in front of all the audience was exactly the same as Zhao Wenke's.
Everyone was thinking about the trajectory of the tennis ball on the court, wondering why it had returned to Zhou Ran's hands.
"Could this be Zhou Ran's new special move?!"
Everyone thought that Zhou Ran had already demonstrated his full strength in the previous competition, and they would not be surprised by Zhou Ran's strength anymore.
But now their ideas have been completely overturned.
Because they could clearly feel that the strange flight trajectory of the tennis ball just now was not an accident, but Zhou Ran's new trick.
No matter how hard they thought, they couldn't think of any accident that could cause the tennis ball to take such a trajectory.
No way, is this Zhou Ran really just a high school student? "
"Why is his strength so terrifying? He even has hidden strength that he hasn't revealed yet. This is too exaggerated!
Zhou Ran is so powerful, why has he been unknown before? If I remember correctly, this guy is in the third year of high school. What was he doing in his first and second years of high school?
However, no matter how many doubts the audience has in their minds, they cannot get answers.
Because today's game has ended, they have no way to verify Zhou Ran's strength on the court before the next game starts.
Haha, Zhou Ran, I give in! "
“You are so amazing!
After the game, Zhao Wenke, who was also confused, took the initiative to come to Zhou Ran.
At this time, Zhao Wenke's face no longer had the arrogant expression of youth, only a bitter smile and embarrassment.
He originally thought that he could easily defeat Zhou Ran and did not take Zhou Ran seriously at all, but now it seems that the clown is actually himself.
Moreover, Zhao Wenke's admiration for Zhou Ran was genuine, without any hypocrisy.
Because he could clearly feel that Zhou Ran not only had hidden strength, but also that the hidden strength was stronger than what he had shown before.
He saw Zhou Ran's last trick, the strange way the tennis ball flew in the air, which was more exaggerated than any previous trick.
This naturally shows that Zhou Ran's last trick is far more difficult than the others, so he dares to conclude that Zhou Ran's hidden strength is even more terrifying.
When Zhao Wenke realized that he had tried his best but still failed to make Zhou Ran play at his true strength, he suddenly felt like a ridiculous clown.
So, after a brief handshake with Zhou Ran, he slipped away from the player tunnel in shame.
At this moment, unlike Zhao Wenke's embarrassment, most of the audience were still confused, but two groups of people had completely different ideas.
First of all, Zhao Qianguang and others were surprised and delighted.
To their surprise, they didn't expect Zhou Ran to have hidden strength.
To their surprise, they never expected that Zhou Ran would actually advance to the third round.
You know, before this, no one in the entire Qingyun County had advanced to the third round.
Zhou Ran successfully broke the best performance record of Qingyun County players in the high school tennis league.
They had only imagined that Zhou Ran could advance to the third round, but fantasy is just fantasy after all, and they never thought that Zhou Ran could really do it.
So when Zhou Ran's advancement became a fact, they found it difficult to accept it for a while and were so excited that they couldn't calm down.
Secondly, there are the staff of Qingyun County Experimental School, No. 1 Middle School, the Education Bureau, and Zhou Ran’s relatives. This group of people has more complicated ideas.
First, they feel that everything is too unreal.
In their opinion, Zhou Ran's strength should be very ordinary, and the news they saw in the group before may be exaggerated.
But now, after witnessing Zhou Ran's terrifying strength with their own eyes, they felt a sense of unreality.
Secondly, they were filled with intense envy, jealousy and hatred. If Zhou Ran was really much stronger than them, it would be more painful than killing them.
Logically speaking, as people from the same county or relatives as Zhou Ran, they should give encouragement and praise for Zhou Ran breaking Qingyun County's tennis history and advancing to the third round.
But now, intense jealousy and unwillingness have twisted them.
They didn't want to have any communication with Zhou Ran now, they just wanted to continue watching Zhou Ran's next game.
Since Zhou Ran's advancement to the third round has become a fact, they hope to see Zhou Ran suffer a crushing defeat in the third round.
If Zhou Ran suffers a crushing defeat in the third round, it will prove that he is stronger than imagined, but not much stronger, and their mentality will be balanced by then.
So, this group of people began to secretly search for the time and place of Zhou Ran's next game, and then quietly bought tickets, preparing to watch the game in secret.
At the same time, they also began to search for information about Zhou Ran's next opponent. They hoped that Zhou Ran's opponent would be as strong as possible, because only in this way could they eliminate Zhou Ran in the third round.
And when they finally found the information of Zhou Ran's next opponent, their expressions, which were originally distorted by jealousy, eased a little.
Because they found out that Zhou Ran's next opponent was a contestant named Sun He.
And this Sun He was actually one of the top four players in the last high school tennis league.
Being one of the four strongest contestants among more than 200 contestants in the city is enough to prove that Sun He has real ability.
This immediately gave everyone hope that Zhou Ran would be eliminated in the third round, so they looked forward to the start of Zhou Ran's third round match even more.
Chapter 29: Real power suppression! Unable to use special moves?
The high school tennis league adopts the rule of six games per set to determine the winner.
A game consumes relatively little energy for the players.
Therefore, the competition schedule is very tight. As long as you advance all the way, there will be almost one game a day.
When Zhou Ran just won the second round of the game, the third round would come the next day.
During this period, Zhao Qianguang and others, including Zhou Ran, all learned about the information of their third round opponent Sun He with great interest.
They saw that the contestant Sun He was rather special.
Although Sunhe was eliminated in the semi-finals last year, it was not because Sunhe’s strength was only at the semi-final level.
It was because Sun He was injured during the game and had to withdraw temporarily because he could not compete before the game was over.
If Sun He had not been injured, he might not have been eliminated in the semi-finals and would have had a chance of winning the championship.
In other words, Zhou Ran’s opponent in the third round is at least last year’s top four, and the upper limit may be last year’s champion.
When Zhao Qianguang and others learned about this, they suddenly became nervous.
It was a pleasant surprise for them that Zhou Ran advanced to the third round, and they didn't want to force it too much.
But since Zhou Ran has advanced to the third round, they once again fantasize that Zhou Ran can advance to the fourth round.
However, when they learned about Sun He's strength in detail, their last fantasy was completely shattered.
They saw that Sun He was a typical power tennis player with great strength. In every game he completely suppressed his opponents with absolute strength.
It is no exaggeration to say that Zhao Qianguang and others believed that in the last high school tennis league, Sun He's strength was far ahead of other tennis players.
It’s just that Sun He was only a freshman in high school last year and had no experience in the competition.
This led to a failure to properly use one's own strength during the game, which ultimately led to injury.
This year, Sun He's mentality and skills are more mature, and he has better control over his own strength.
In the first two rounds, Sun He also won by suppressing his opponents with absolute strength, but the process of the game was more relaxed and comfortable than last year.
This is enough to show that Sun He can master his terrifying power more skillfully.
Zhao Qianguang and others believed that if it was another type of tennis player, he would most likely not be Zhou Ran's opponent.
But Sun He happens to be a power-type tennis player. You know, many of Zhou Ran’s special moves are technical moves.
Skill and strength are inherently incompatible.
Therefore, Zhao Qianguang and others believed that in the face of Sun He's absolute strength, Zhou Ran's technical moves might no longer be effective, and then Zhou Ran would be eliminated in the third round of the competition.
After thinking about this, they became more worried about Zhou Ran's upcoming third round of competition.
However, unlike Zhao Qianguang and others, Zhou Ran seemed calmer after learning the details of Sun He's strength, and even seemed a little excited in his calmness.
Zhou Ran didn't care whether Sun He was a power-type tennis player or whether strength and technique were mutually exclusive.
What he cared about was that he could clearly feel that Sun He's strength was much stronger than those opponents he had met before. Being able to compete with stronger players was what Zhou Ran wanted most.
Moreover, after winning the last round, the system also rewarded him with a large amount of achievement points. Now, as long as he is not greedy, he can easily defeat his opponent through the special moves exchanged by the system.
After thinking about this, Zhou Ran became even more excited for the upcoming match with Sun He.
Soon, the match between Zhou Ran and Sun He on the schedule is about to begin.
The players from both teams came to the field and made some preparations. The referee signaled that the game would begin immediately.
For today's game, all the tens of thousands of seats in the stadium were packed, and even many spectators who wanted to come and watch the game were unable to get tickets.
This kind of hot competition should only occur between very strong professional tennis players.
It is rare to see such a lively scene in just a city's high school tennis league, and it is not even the finals.
In fact, the reason why there are so many spectators today is mainly because the strength Zhou Ran showed in the past two games was too exaggerated.
Moreover, at the end of the last round of the game, the white whale used by Zhou Ran and the almost acrobatic flying trajectory of the tennis ball made many spectators obsessed.
Everyone wanted to see Zhou Ran's miraculous moves in person.
It’s started! It’s started! It’s finally started!
"Although I just watched Zhou Ran's match yesterday, I can't wait to see him use his special moves again!
You're not lying to me, are you? The video you showed me really shows the moves Zhou Ran used on the court? Isn't that a special effect?
Speaking of Zhou Ran’s last trick yesterday, I really want to see if he will use it again today!
The first game was Sun He's serve. Before Sun He served, the audience on the sidelines were talking to each other.
Today's audience includes not only those who have watched Zhou Ran's games before, but also some new viewers who were attracted by the videos recorded by viewers who have watched the games before.
But whether or not the audience has watched Zhou Ran's game, they are all looking forward to the strength that Zhou Ran will show in the next game.
On the court, although Zhou Ran was looking forward to the match with Sun He, he was as calm as ever, without much expression on his face.
Sun He is worthy of being one of the top four players last year. Not only is he strong, he also has a very stable mentality.
Faced with such a noisy game scene, Sun He actually did not have too many emotional fluctuations. He just kept hitting the tennis ball on the ground, and then hit the tennis ball directly out with very strong force.
At the beginning of the game, he hit an extremely powerful serve.
He has never been a person who underestimates his enemies, even though he is only a sophomore in high school this year and is one year younger than Zhou Ran.
But his mentality has long surpassed that of his peers and is very stable.
Before the game started, he also watched some videos of Zhou Ran's games several times.
He knew from the video that Zhou Ran was extremely powerful and could use some seemingly fancy moves on the court.
However, he believed that other contestants might be at a loss when faced with Zhou Ran's fancy tricks.
But his powerful strength can just suppress all the fancy things.
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