Who would still play tennis after being reborn?

Chapter 18 Carousel
tennis court.

"So, you didn't even see the person run away?" Yang Zhen was trembling with anger.

"I saw it, but..."

Sun Xiaowan looked at Yang Zhen with a pitiful expression: "Manager, he grabbed someone and ran away, I couldn't catch up!"

"That girl looks quite delicate, but she runs very fast."

Yang Zhen was speechless, but seeing Sun Xiaowan's eyes were almost red, he could only sigh.

At this moment, Xiao Fan rushed over with a racket on his back: "Manager Yang, I heard Gu Cheng is here. Which court is he at?"

"You are late."

"Uh?"

Yang Zhen briefly recounted what had happened, becoming increasingly speechless as he spoke: "I should have gone directly to him; I never expected something like this to happen."

Xiao Fan felt a little dejected. After returning home last night, he had been looking forward to playing another match with Gu Cheng. He rushed over after receiving Yang Zhen's notification, but he was still too late.

But he quickly perked up: "Manager Yang, could you please give me a copy of the surveillance video of his match?"

"Row."

"Thanks."

"Let's go to my office first. To be honest, I'm also quite curious about what happened to make Brother Gu Cheng run away in such a panic."

"it is good."

Xiao Fan originally planned to go back to school and watch the video frame by frame after receiving it, but after hearing what Yang Zhen said, he couldn't suppress his curiosity and agreed without thinking.

"I heard from the audience that his opponent was also strong, and apparently he was a professional player."

"Who?"

"I don't know, the other person was wearing a mask, no one recognized them."

Upon arriving at Yang Zhen's office, Xiao Fan made no attempt to be polite, pulling up a chair and sitting down in front of Yang Zhen's desk.

Xiao Fan started playing tennis at a young age, and after the Tennis Tennis Hall opened, he has been practicing there, so the two are acquaintances.

Yang Zhen smiled and opened the surveillance video, then fast-forwarded to the start of the match.

"So, do you recognize this person?" Yang Zhen pointed to Zhang Ming, who was wearing a mask, in the surveillance footage.

Xiao Fan frowned: "They look familiar, but the surveillance video was shot from too far away, so it's not very clear. Let's watch the game first. If they are professional players, we should be able to tell from their playing style."

Yang Zhen nodded, and the two continued watching the match video.

After seeing Zhang Ming hit that net ball and win a point, Yang Zhen, who was not around, asked, "How was that?"

Xiao Fan's expression turned serious: "Very strong! Stronger than me, and definitely a professional player, the kind who has played in the world championships."

"Is he really a professional player who has competed in world championships?"

"Do you remember anything about that?"

Xiao Fan took a breath and said, "Not at first, but that touch on the ball just now reminded me of someone."

"Who?"

"Zhang Ming," Xiao Fan said, offering a name.

"Zhang Ming?"

Yang Zhen was stunned for a moment, then quickly searched for Zhang Ming's photos online, compared them with those in the video, and then excitedly said, "It really is him, it looks so much like him."

"No, why did he come to our tennis hall? And even play a match with Brother Gu Cheng?" Yang Zhen asked, puzzled.

Xiao Fan shook his head: "I don't know, but if it really is Zhang Ming, then this match will be very exciting. Don't let Zhang Ming's carefree attitude fool you, he has a very delicate playing style and is very daring. He is good at using net touches to disrupt the opponent's rhythm."

"But doesn't Gu Cheng know how to serve with outside spin?" Yang Zhen was puzzled. In his opinion, Gu Cheng should have the advantage.

Xiao Fan explained, "Gu Cheng's topspin serve is indeed very strong, and it's not easy to return it, whether it's the spin or the angle of the bounce. But it's impossible to get points from Zhang Ming continuously with that kind of serve. Not to mention Zhang Ming, even I, once I get used to it, am very confident in returning it."

"The topspin serve only gives Gu Cheng a slight advantage in his service games, but it can't be converted into a winning position."

"As you just saw, apart from the topspin serve, the two are actually evenly matched, and Zhang Ming even has a slight advantage."

"Therefore, Zhang Ming will definitely have no problem holding his serve."

Although Yang Zhen is the manager of the Tennis Tennis Hall, he doesn't know much about tennis. He's not a complete novice, but he's far inferior to Xiao Fan.

After hearing Xiao Fan's analysis, his eyes lit up and he nodded in full agreement.

The two continued reading.

Xiao Fan clenched his fists, regretting that he had arrived too late and missed this match that was no less exciting than any world-class event.

Zhang Ming served the third ball, and both players held their breath.

Then, when they saw Gu Cheng's raised racket in the video, and his serve return that slid close to the ground and out of bounds, their previously serious faces immediately turned to astonishment. This…

A return shot that flies close to the ground?

The two, who were practically glued to their computer screens, looked at each other in disbelief, both seeing a look of horror in each other's eyes.

"Xiao Fan, that was... a magic trick, wasn't it?"

Yang Zhen can play a little tennis, but not much, and he certainly wouldn't know anything about anime like The Prince of Tennis, which is only for kids.

In his view, that tennis ball that wouldn't bounce was no different from magic... no, it was no different from magic.

Xiao Fan took a breath: "Swallow Returns to Lightning!"

"what?"

"What did you say?"

Xiao Fan explained, "That shot just now has a name in an anime called 'Swallow Returns to the Nest,' though some people also call it 'Flying Swallow Returns to its Nest,' but that's not important."

"Swallow Returns to Swiftness?"

Curious, Yang Zhen typed those three words into the search box and quickly found a video. After watching it, he exclaimed in surprise, "Holy crap, it's really the same!"

Looking at Yang Zhen's surprised expression, Xiao Fan shook his head.

Why are you shaking your head?

Does it matter if they are the same or different?

"Isn't it important?"

Xiao Fan looked at the other person seriously: "Manager Yang, you just said that it was magic, so do you really think that kind of ball can be hit by a human?"

"But didn't he also hit the topspin serve that you mentioned?"

"Different."

"totally different."

"What's the difference?"

"I'm heading back now. Please send me the video via WeChat when you have time!"

Xiao Fan got up without explaining, left a sentence, and slung his racket over his shoulder and left the tennis court.

He was only amazed by the outside spin serve; how could one person control the ball so terrifyingly? But when he saw the Swallow Return, he knew that it had nothing to do with ball control anymore.

The landscape of tennis is about to change.

The king has appeared.

……

in the afternoon.

Romon Universal Park.

After walking for a while, Xia Zhitong finally stopped in front of a group of children playing on a carousel. She stared at it for a long time until the carousel stopped. Several children, accompanied by their parents, got on the carousel and then turned to look at Gu Cheng quietly.

Gu Cheng looked completely bewildered.

"This is something only little kids play with. You don't want to play with it, do you?"

Xia Zhitong looked at him, her eyes sparkling.

"No, Miss, you saw it yourself, all the people playing this are children under seven or eight years old."

"How old are we?!"

"The staff there will laugh at us if we go up there."

Gu Cheng felt he had to persuade her to give up the idea. Although adults also played with this thing, at Gu Cheng's age, sitting on it would be even more awkward than for an adult.

Adults usually play this game to accompany their children and don't care about what others think.

But he... really couldn't accept it.

But he clearly underestimated Xia Zhitong's persistence.

As a result, on the next round of the carousel, Gu Cheng sat on the largest zebra amidst the laughter of a group of children.

Beside him, the girl quietly gripped the metal bar on the rocking horse.

The song "die fledermaus - strauss" started playing in my ears.

Compared to Gu Cheng's despair, the delicate and beautiful girl was like a lotus bud about to bloom, her eyes like bright stars illuminating the world around her.

(End of this chapter)