Now that I've been reborn, I have to play tennis!

Chapter 14 Reborn

Chapter 14 Reborn
Ningzhou will host an international tennis tournament for teenagers next month, called Ningzhou J60.

As the name suggests, 60 is the youth points.

Junior rankings, ATP rankings for adult tournaments, and WTA rankings are all independent ranking systems.

Once a junior player turns 18, their junior points will be reset to zero starting January 1st of the following year.

At this point, young players must face two choices: go to school or turn professional.

Meng Hao got the information he wanted from Shen Dongguo, who would also be working part-time at the youth event next month.

"Alright, I'm off then. See you next month, and I hope you get good grades!"

Shen Dongguo waved his hand, then said to Shen Rongyu, "Little sister, you saw it too, your classmate is at a professional level and will be participating in a professional competition next month. It's not unfair that I lost, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm a skilled amateur!"

"Bragging and shameless!" Shen Rongyu showed no respect for her cousin. "I thought you could win. I should have stayed home and done my homework instead of wasting my precious time!"

The tennis tournament classification system that Shen Dongguo just introduced was a bit complicated, and Shen Rongyu didn't understand it for a while.

However, she also knew that her classmate Meng Hao was going to participate in a very prestigious competition, where all the players were top-notch, even better than her cousin.

"Meng Hao, are you going to take leave next month?"

"Absolutely, I'll have to take leave to participate in the competition!"

Shen Rongyu wanted to say, "Your grades were already mediocre, and they'll be even worse if you take leave," but after hesitating for a moment, she changed the subject: "If you participate in that competition and win an award, can you get extra points on your college entrance exam, or lower the admission requirements for certain schools?"

“I haven’t looked into that!” Meng Hao smiled calmly. “But if I can get a ranking, I should be able to participate in the athlete evaluation, but that’s not what I’m concerned about.”

Shen Rongyu was a little surprised. She thought Meng Hao wanted to use his tennis talent as a shortcut to get into a top university.

Watching Meng Hao's departing figure, she turned around and said to Shen Dongguo with a hint of arrogance, "You can't even beat my classmate, so don't brag about your tennis skills in front of me anymore!"

Shen Dongguo was speechless.

……

Meng Hao used his weekend time to complete the 3000-meter run in 12 minutes.

His physical fitness level increased by 2, reaching 73 points.

"With my current physical condition, I should have no problem handling a best-of-three match!" Meng Hao thought to himself.

Tennis demands a high level of physical fitness and concentration, as you need to be constantly running and fully focused.

This can also cause a player's performance to fluctuate significantly during a match.

Meng Hao is not in a hurry to review the "newbie gift pack" again, but is quietly thinking about how to prepare for the upcoming J60 race.

Don't underestimate this level of international youth competition. Some of the players who dare to sign up have ATP ranking points.

In the professional tennis world, there are countless examples of teenagers under the age of 18 earning ATP ranking points.

However, when players are minors, they can participate in both youth and adult competitions, and there are rankings in both systems.

It's already the end of March, so although the youth competition is said to be next month, it's actually only two weeks away.

Meng Hao, who was already somewhat famous because he had set up a "challenge" in the school's tennis court, directly asked to take a week off next month to participate in the competition.

"Shen Rongyu's cousin is a star player on the university tennis team and has even won a championship! But he lost to me!"

He repeatedly emphasized this point, saying, "I'm only 17 years old, and I should have more possibilities. I want to challenge my limits and live up to my youth!"

Although Meng Hao, the English teacher and homeroom teacher, is a bit snobbish and somewhat pro-foreign, she genuinely loves tennis.

"Alright, if you want to try it, go ahead. Anyway, you don't seem to have much interest in studying!" Teacher Yu said frankly, which was also what she really thought.

If you win an award in this kind of international youth competition, getting into a top university is definitely not a problem.

In this era, it is common for students with athletic talents to enter key universities, and many of them have only won awards in some domestic competitions that are not very prestigious.

Of course, all of this has a background.

The J60 junior tournament held in Ningzhou is quite prestigious, as it's affiliated with the International Tennis Federation and attracts talented young players from all over the world. So, Meng Hao naturally used this as an excuse to start training on the school's tennis court, since no one else usually plays there anyway.

The class is full of top students, and the homeroom teacher has tacitly accepted it, so the teachers of other subjects are even less likely to say anything.

"Hard court slide!"

He had learned a little of this technique in his previous life, but the sliding motion was still a bit awkward and not smooth.

When Meng Hao competed against Shen Dongguo before, Shen's sliding steps were much more natural.

He was intrigued and is now trying out "hard-ground gliding".

In fact, the sliding steps on hard courts, clay courts, and grass courts all have certain similarities in terms of technique, power generation, and movement, so you can learn from them and apply the same principles to other courts.

Meng Hao's clay court gliding technique has now reached 35 points. The experience he has accumulated here will allow him to achieve twice the result with half the effort when learning hard court gliding.

Hard court gliding +10!

This is the result of a day's training.

However, Meng Hao also keenly noticed that although he had practiced his forehand and backhand shots, as well as his serve, for a whole day, there had been basically no improvement.

That's right. These techniques are already quite advanced, and regular training can't improve them, while hard-ground gliding starts from scratch.

I have accumulated one "experience of the legendary perspective" and can still complete four more system-assigned tasks.

I aim to complete all four tasks within two weeks and experience the "Legendary Perspective" five times in one go.

Meng Hao hopes to push his skills to the limit before participating in this competition.

Half a month passed in a flash during Meng Hao's fulfilling and busy training.

10次100米冲刺，正反手各挥拍500下，12分30秒内3200米，以及发球1000次。

These were the four tasks assigned by the system that Meng Hao completed within half a month, and he finally accumulated five "experiences of the legendary perspective" in one go.

Their strength has surged once again, almost transforming them completely!
Host: Meng Hao

Age: 17 years old

Height: 1 meters
Clay Slide: 60 (+25)

Grass slide: 0
Hard court gliding: 30 (+20)

Serve: 70 (+10)

Forehand: 70 (+15)

Backhand: 65 (+20)

Net play: 45 (+25)

Steps: 50 (+20)

Fitness: 76 (+5)

Tactics: 60 (+15)

Running: 70 (+10)