“CCTV, CCTV! Good evening viewers, this is the French Open women’s singles semi-final broadcast live for you on Sports Channel, and the two sides playing against each other are Rice junior Stephens and our Chinese junior Zheng Yanzi. Commentating on this match with me today is Li Xiaona, who has won the Australian Open women’s singles title!”
On the screen of CCTV5, there was a red tennis court, and two figures, one black and one white, were warming up to serve on the court.
The commentator said, “Although they are both juniors, but in fact the age difference between the two players is quite large, Stephens is called the second Williams, twenty-five years old this year, the world ranking of twenty-two. And our player, Jung Yeonji, is only nineteen years old, but he has already reached the final round of the four major open tennis tournaments for several years in a row. This is a very remarkable achievement, her current ranking is forty-seventh, although there is a bit of a gap between her opponents, but we still firmly believe that she will not be intimidated by her strong opponents. What do you think, Na?”
Li Xiaona was always straightforward, “Not really! Research Violet must win, it’s well known that Research Violet has been eliminated by Xiao Wei several times, so if she can’t even beat Stephens after all these years of hard training, then she’ll never be able to beat Xiao Wei, and the title will always be a fantasy.”
“But Chinese players can’t match the strength of black players, and the opponent is known as Williams II.”
“We, Yan Zi, are also known as Eastern Sharapova!”
“That’s because she’s pretty.”
“No! It’s strength! Being pretty is also a strength, and opponents get jealous, really! I’m not sure about men, but whenever I meet Sharapova I get extra excited, like beating her to death, but I’m always impatient.”
“Haha, Na is so funny. Ah! We saw that today Research Violet specially wore a big red wrist guard, which was never seen before, I hope the red colour can bring her luck!”
Just then, the match started, and Jung Yeon Zi threw her towel and took the tennis racket to the court, and at the same time, raised her left hand and kissed the red wristguard.
Commentary: “It seems to be a very meaningful wristguard that I haven’t seen before. Has Na ever had a similar item before?”
Li Xiaona: “Yes! Beat my husband when I lose, kiss my husband when I win.”
Commentator: “Ummm …… well! Let’s watch this ball, the first set is Jung Yeonji’s serve.”
Roland Garros Stadium, it’s packed today, it’s the semi-finals after all.
There were also many Chinese fans on the scene, most of them Chinese or international students, holding banners to cheer for Jung Yeonji.
Li Tiezhu and Song Zhu’er were drowned in the excitement of the audience, the two were also quite nervous, afraid that Zheng Yan Zi lost again, before the match, Zheng Yan Zi’s condition is not good.
She was a little anxious, as the media said, because Stephens had the title of Xiao Wei II, making her more stressed. Losing to Xiaowei, she didn’t even want to, losing to Stephens was even more unacceptable, even if the other party was ranked higher than her.
The ups and downs in her mentality made Jung Yeonji’s training and competitive status fluctuate a lot.
Last night, when he went to see Zheng Yanzi, after understanding his situation, Li Tiezhu sneakily bought the last item in the system mall, the lucky wrist guard worth 66 points, and gave it to Zheng Yanzi in front of Song Zhu’er.
At that time, Song Zhu’er joked, “Yo~ I’ve been running around with you for a day and a night, and I didn’t even know that you had quietly prepared a gift!”
Li Tiezhu was speechless, the system bought it temporarily, what can I say?
Zheng Yan Zi is atmospheric: “What? You are jealous? What kind of zoo does this measure still open?”
Song Zhu’er turned around and hugged Zheng Yan Zi: “When will you join the organisation?”
Zheng Yan Zi: “Get lost!”
It was an unusually anxious fight, and Song Zhu’er was so anxious that she was shouting, but when the match started again, she could only keep quiet.
Li Tiezhu couldn’t read it, he only knew that it was a three-set-two-victory match, and after two hours passed, the total score was one to one.
And the third set was played to the sixth set, the set score was three to two.
According to Song Zhu’er, Stephens relied on a vigorous return of the ball to break one of Jung Yeon Zi’s serves, and this game is Stephens’ serve again, which is called the serve winners’ game, and if Stephens wins this game, she will win two to one to advance.
And Stephens’ powerful serve made the already tired Jung Yeonji tired to fight, and the quality of her reception was not high, and she soon dropped two straight points, 0:30.
One more ball and she lost.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the lucky wrist guard effect appeared, Stephens almost sent an ace ball. Jung Yeonji did her best to only block the ball with her racket, but the flight line of the ball was so low that it looked like it was going to crash into the net, but the tennis ball jumped on the net and flipped over.
Jung Yeonji, who had struggled to get a point, raised her hand and signalled that she was sorry.
The match continued, after this Stephens’ serve was not very good quality, by Jung Yeonji continuous pumping straight line to get, finally, Jung Yeonji last set to complete the break, three to three, into the robbing seven sets.
Players off the court between sets, Jung Yeonji ate half a banana, took a sip of drink, went to listen to the coach’s instructions on the sidelines, nodded and walked back. Then, waved her fist towards somewhere in the stands with a determined expression.
The close-up camera caught her movement as well.
Commentator: ”Research Violet seems to be interacting with the crowd. Oooh! It’s Song Zhu’er! She used to go to see Research Violet’s matches, oh, and Li Tiezhu.”
Li Xiaona said, “With two good friends present to support her, I believe that Yuan Zi can be a bit braver! At this point in time, the fight is about courage and change, after all, anyone’s stamina has bottomed out. It’s time for the bayonet, one must grit one’s teeth and stick to the Lord!”
Commentator: “Yes! The game is too tense, let’s talk off topic to relax, I believe that many people do not know, in fact, Li Tiezhu and Zheng Yanzhi is a high school classmate, but also the same table, it is said that the two people have a very good relationship ……”
Li Xiaona: “But I heard that Li Tiezhu is always bullying Yan Zi.”
“Ah?”
“When we used to train, when Yuan Zi was still small, she always complained that her tablemate was bullying her, that’s Li Tiezhu.”
“Erm …… didn’t think that Li Tiezhu who is so honest would also bully people? It should be a misunderstanding, right?”
“That I don’t know, I just know that Yuan Zi seems to hate him quite a bit.”
“Maybe it’ll get better later, kids. As for the other one, Song Zhu’er, when she was studying in Rice, she often went to watch Research Violet’s Rice Tennis matches, and the two of them became friends. And more surprisingly, later research purple these two friends, but also became a boyfriend and girlfriend. It’s also …… no coincidence!”
Li Xiaona: “But I still think that Li Tiezhu and RYZ are more compatible.”
Narrator: “Erm …… you, didn’t you just say that the two are not on good terms? How do you want me to pick up on that?”
Li Xiaona: “It’s just nonsense, don’t pay too much attention to it, the match is starting, steal seven, the most important thing is momentum! Research purple cheering.”
Jung Yeon Zi tried so hard, so hard, but, it was still not good enough.
After ten minutes, Jung Yeonji was behind 2:5.
It was Jung Yeonji’s turn to serve, she adjusted her breathing and forced herself to get excited, but her stamina was already overdrawn.
When it came time to serve, it was the time for the whole audience to be quiet, which was a basic quality of watching tennis.
But, on the contrary, a voice shouted up, “Serve her backhand! Backhand!”
Li Tiezhu this naive does not know the rules, directly shouted in the stands, Song Zhu’er can not even pull.
The global live broadcast all aimed their cameras at Li Tiezhu.
Whether it is the scene or the audience in front of the TV, the first reaction is, what kind of person is this? So unqualified?
Take another look!
Oh, my!
Eun Pelah Lee? Mr Lee, feel free to defecate!
On the scene, the audience, who were originally contemptuous, laughed when they saw Ayn Bae Ra Lee’s intersecting chants on the big screen.
Even, some people shouted:
“Ayn Peyra Lee!”
That’s how international stars are treated, right?
Jung Yeonji froze, then laughed, flipping the racket in her hand over and heading in the direction of where Lee Tieju was, meaning, if you’re good, you do it!
The audience even burst into laughter.
Li Tiezhu finally sat down resentfully.
Narrator: “This …… is also too anxious for his friend, can’t blame Li Tiezhu for not knowing the rules.”
Li Xiaona: “Li Tiezhu just doesn’t know the rules, what’s there to explain? But what is this? One back to life, two back to familiarity! It’s a big deal. Let’s see how Yan Zi plays this ball! Power centre? Hey! Backhand ……”
“Good shot! Backhand steal and successful score.”
“Li Tiezhu …… took credit for it.”
Jung Yeonji, who had scored, also laughed and shook her head before pointing with both hands towards Li Tiezhu in the stands.
Li Tie Zhu returned an OK gesture.
Commentator: ”This is probably the legendary comic tennis! Haha! Regardless of whether Yan Zi wins or loses in the end, she deserves our respect, after all, she’s only nineteen years old, whether it’s physical strength, skill or experience, she’s still far from reaching her peak, the future is promising ……”
Li Xiaona daily sings the opposite, “Wait until you lose and then say something demoralising, I hope she wins!”
Sure enough, Jung Yeonji’s second serve forced an error, and she went online to score a direct kill.
These two balls allowed Jung Yeon-ji to play with momentum, scoring consecutive points in the two rounds of the opponent’s serve, and soon the score came to 6:5.
Jung Yeonji went one point ahead, and she served the ball.
As long as she scored, she won.
Match point!
Slapping the ball twice, Jung Yeonji looked towards Lee Tieju in the stands, who raised his right hand.
Jung Yeon-ji nodded her head.
Song Zhu’er said, “Blindly directing what? What if we lose?”
Li Tiezhu: “Losing is my responsibility, she has less pressure.”
“Huh! Disgusting.”
“What’s wrong with you? And what’s wrong with me?”
“Yuck!”
“Nuts!”
“Slightly.”
Bang–
A powerful serve, Jung Yeonji sent directly to the right sideline at a big angle.
Stephens couldn’t catch up and didn’t receive the ball.
Referee: “OUT!”
Jung Yeonji immediately raises his hand to challenge Hawkeye.
Soon, the result of the challenge came out, the ball has a tenth of the pressure on the sideline, this ball Jung Yeonji scored, steal seven 7:5 victory over Stephens, advancing to the final.
On the stands, the Chinese audience went crazy.
Song Zhu’er also jumped up and yelled, Li Tiezhu thought, this lucky wrist guard, seems to be a bit useful.
And on the court, Zheng Yan Zi directly kneeled down and cried, then, once again, kissed the red wrist guard, wiping tears to shake hands with the opponent and the referee, she won.