Who would still play tennis after being reborn?

Chapter 124 Because activating the Light of Restraint requires breaking the body's limits

"Acheng, if it were me, I would have gone to play in the ATP tournament long ago."

While eating, Cao Hui suddenly looked up and said, "With his strength, if he had played in the ITF Hope Tournament and then accumulated points in the ATP Challenger Series, he wouldn't have had no chance of making it to the Australian Open in a while and competing against those big names. That would be much more interesting than playing in junior tournaments."

Yu Haoyang raised a different opinion: "Aren't junior Grand Slam champions?"

“If Acheng wants to play professionally, he naturally has to be different from others.”

"He has the ability to win the four Grand Slam junior titles, which would be an absolute milestone for the tennis world. If not the last, then he would certainly be unprecedented. Decades from now, whenever someone mentions tennis, the first person they will think of will definitely be Acheng."

"Acheng will definitely become the most influential professional player in the history of tennis."

Yu Haoyang became more and more excited as he spoke: "Playing tennis is nothing more than a hobby and a way to exercise. It's all about fame and fortune. Don't talk to me about such vulgar things."

"People live this life for these mundane things. Your Cao family is not short of money. I don't need to tell you this. Your uncle and aunt must have already taught you this a long time ago."

"You ask Acheng, did he really plunge into the professional arena just because Senior Zhang Ming said he wanted to prove himself better than others, better than everyone else?"

Gu Cheng curled his lip.

how is this possible.

The world is full of goodwill, and the world is all good.

No one can escape this saying in their lifetime.

To be honest, there are a few reasons.

For money, and for fame.

“After the match with Federer, there’s a new reason.” Gu Cheng’s sudden remark caught their attention.

"What's the reason?"

Gu Cheng thought for a moment and said, "Break through your limits."

Both of them rolled their eyes simultaneously: "With your strength, do you really need to break through your limits?"

"If you break through again, we might not even be able to see your back anymore."

Cao Hui agreed wholeheartedly: "Let alone the two of us, even Fei Tianwang and the others would cry if they heard this."

"Acheng, leave some of your tennis career for us!"

The two men winked and exchanged glances, but Gu Cheng's expression was serious: "You don't really think that the people standing at the top of the tennis world are so easily defeated, do you?"

The two of them stared at him, their eyes unblinking.

No?
“A single Tezuka Domain could easily defeat them,” Yu Haoyang said with a smile.

"Of course not." Gu Cheng said seriously, "You all saw the last two balls. The Tezuka Zone was actually broken by Federer unintentionally, so I had to use the Zero-Style Chop. Even so, the Zero-Style Chop didn't work. In the end, I was able to smash the ball because Federer didn't have a racket."

"Knowing that I possess the Tezuka Zone, do you think Federer would just sit idly by and wait to be defeated?"

Yu Haoyang and Cao Hui exchanged a glance, and finally shook their heads: "No."

Gu Cheng spread his hands: "Isn't that settled? Federer was able to break my Tezuka Zone unintentionally in a one-point match. When we actually meet in the Grand Slam, it probably won't be an unintentional breakthrough."

Yu Haoyang hesitated and said, "Tezuka's Domain isn't that easy to break, is it?"

Gu Cheng said, "The methods to break Tezuka's domain are all in Prince of Tennis. I won't even mention Sanada's lightning. Is eliminating spin and hitting a no-spin ball really that difficult?"

"No-spin ball?" Yu Haoyang gasped.

Gu Cheng glanced at him: "Don't underestimate them. Take you for example, you've mastered the one-legged shuffle step and the outside spin serve, haven't you? And the super half volley, you should be able to use it proficiently after a while, right?"

"There's still a year left. Can you say they won't have made any progress at all after a year?"

"You dare say they can't hit a no-spin shot?"

Yu Haoyang and the other man immediately fell silent.

Who dares to say?
Especially Yu Haoyang, whose skills have improved a lot in a short period of time, so when Gu Cheng said this, he knew what Gu Cheng wanted to say. "So, I've decided to stop using any ball skills starting from the Bellevue Cup."

Gu Cheng's decision left the two of them looking at each other in bewilderment.

Yu Haoyang hurriedly asked, "So the four Grand Slam titles for teenagers are no longer needed?"

Gu Cheng nodded: "No, no need."

For a moment, neither of them knew what to say.

Gu Cheng, however, had his own ideas.

If you want to improve your skills faster than Federer and others in a short period of time, you have to break your own limits. But how can you break your own limits with just your tennis skills?
"why?"

Cao Hui looked puzzled: "With your skills, even if you don't improve in the next year, you should still be able to compete with those top professional players."

"Because I want to be more confident," Gu Cheng said firmly. "Because I want to break my own limits."

Yu Haoyang looked at him, puzzled, and asked, "Even if it's to break your own limits, there has to be a reason!"

"Because... activating the Light of Restraint requires breaking through the limits of the body!"

"???"

The same word popped into their minds almost simultaneously.

Seamless?

……

The Bellevue Cup will be held at the end of January.

As a high-level event in the ITF junior competitions, the Bellevue Cup has a significantly higher level of skill and average age among its participants compared to other lower-level events.

Of course, the prize money for the Bellevue Cup is also higher.

The prize money for the champion alone amounts to seventy or eighty thousand, which is more than double the prize money for a Tier 4 event.

Gu Cheng did the math: if he won the Bellevue Cup, Yu Haoyang wouldn't get a share of the money, but he could still make a lot of money from this.

Yu Haoyang often says that Gu Cheng is probably the first junior professional player in ITF junior tournaments to make money.

There's no way around it. When they compete in youth tournaments, they're either eliminated in the first round or can't even make it to the quarterfinals, let alone the semifinals or semifinals. Going abroad is basically just a waste of money.

But Gu Cheng is different. He can win every competition, and the prize money can basically cover his expenses.

Especially at higher-level competitions, the prize money can not only cover expenses, but even leave a surplus. For example, with the Bellevue Cup prize money, as long as you don't spend money extravagantly, you can still have a large sum left after returning home.

Like other competitions, the Bellevue Cup has 32 slots. Unlike some domestic events that struggle to fill their quotas, ITF junior high-level events rarely have full slots, and sometimes there are no slots available if you register late.

Of course, the fact that the Bellevue Cup was able to fill all the slots is also related to the fact that there are not many Tier 1 events held.

Gu Cheng's opponent was also a teenager from Sweden, who looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old. However, unlike the lower-level competitions, most of the participants in the Bellevue Cup, a Level 1 competition, came from all over the world.

Since the draw for the Bellevue Cup was released, Andreas hasn't had a good night's sleep. The reason is simple: the Bellevue Cup is his last stop in the junior Australian Open. If he can reach the semifinals in this tournament, he will basically qualify for the junior Australian Open.

But he was very unlucky and encountered Gu Cheng in the first round.

When Andreas first saw the name Gu Cheng, he was actually quite calm. After all, he had started studying Gu Cheng and the anime "The Prince of Tennis" ever since that American prodigy suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Gu Cheng. Although he wouldn't dare say that he could crack all of Gu Cheng's tennis skills, he was quite confident that he could.

Therefore, even though he felt he might encounter Gu Cheng at the Bellevue Cup, he was somewhat worried but not desperate.

The competition is not nonexistent.

He also has a chance.

But ever since Gu Cheng's one-point match against Federer went viral online, he knew that he was no match for Gu Cheng and would be destined to be shut out like everyone else.

Especially when he saw Gu Cheng walk onto the court with his racket and the two shook hands, Andreas's smile was more like a grimace than a cry.

(End of this chapter)