Chapter 304 China-Japan Showdown
The game between Zhang Huasong and Ilhan was quite hard and took a long time.
Before the end of the match between Zhang Huasong and Ilhan, another quarter-final match in the same half-zone as Zhang Huasong has ended, and Zhang Huasong's semi-final opponent has come out.
Zhang Huasong's opponent in the semi-finals is the number one player of the former national team of China National Men's Network, Tian Maoxin, ranked 540th in the Atp world.
Tian Maoxin performed exceptionally in this wild card match, and passed the hurdles and defeated several Asian players who were much higher in the world, entered the semi-finals with Zhang Huasong.
This is the real Chinese derby!
However, Zhang Huasong and Tian Maoxin knew their own affairs, and Tian Maoxin had lost to Zhang Huasong many times during the training of the national team.
With Zhang Huasong's state stability, even if Tian Maoxin performs extraordinaryly, it will be difficult for him to defeat Zhang Huasong.
The semi-finals on December 5 were just as the two expected, Tian Maoxin was indeed in better shape than when he was training in the national team, which was considered to be an extraordinary performance.
But after fighting with opponents like Ilhan, Zhang Huasong was in very good condition and very stable.
In the end, Zhang Huasong defeated Tian Maoxin as in training, with a total score of 3-1.
Zhang Huasong successfully entered the final of the Australian Open Asian Wild Card Championship as a beginner, which immediately caused a sensation among domestic and foreign media.
"The King of Track and Field Zhang Huasong entered the final of the Australian Tennis Open Asian Wild Cards, this is no joke!"
"Zhang Huasong entered the finals after participating in a professional competition for the first time in the tennis world. Zhang Huasong's talent is not limited to track and field."
"It is said that Zhang Huasong has been learning tennis for less than a month. Will he win the championship when he participates in a professional competition for the first time?"
When many people first saw Zhang Huasong crossing tennis, they either held the mentality of watching jokes or waited for a while before watching Zhang Huasong's performance.
Even Zhang Huasong's fans initially thought that Zhang Huasong could win the first round of the qualifying round and win the first victory.
After winning the first round of the qualifying round, I thought I could pass the qualifying round and enter the main competition.
No one expected that Zhang Huasong not only passed the qualifying round for the first time in a professional competition, but also continued to be unstoppable in the main competition. In the end, he reached the final and might win the championship.
Zhang Huasong's performance has aroused heated discussions among countless Zhang Huasong's fans and tennis fans across the country.
At this point, everyone naturally hopes that Zhang Huasong can win the game, win the championship and the 2009 Australian Open wild card, and enter the main Australian Open Open.
Not long after Zhang Huasong and Tian Maoxin's match ended, the result of another semi-final match also came out.
Zhang Huasong's opponent in the final was Tian Tianhao from Japan.
Tiantianhao's Atp points are 435, and the Atp rankings are 114th in the world.
There are 128 places in the Australian Open. If you directly take the top 128 ATP world rankings to participate, Tianda Hao can directly enter the main competition.
Unfortunately, only the top 107 were selected to enter the main competition directly, and other places were generated by the qualifying round and wild card.
The Grand Slam event is famous, has enough bonuses and high points. As long as you are a professional player, no one will give up easily.
Therefore, even if some of the top 107 people in the world withdraw from the competition and need to be replaced, there will not be too many places, at most two or three, and it will not be the turn of Tiantianhao.
Therefore, Tianta Hao had to participate in the Asian wild card competition, trying to enter the Australian Open by winning the championship and getting the wild card.
Tian Tianhao is the best-ranked Asian player in the Australian Open Asian Wild Card Championship, and is the No. 1 seed in the tournament.
Tiantianhao was also quite strong and easily won the game. He was only strongly blocked by Indian players in the semi-finals, which took some more time than Zhang Huasong and Tian Maoxin's game.
However, Tianda Hao finally defeated his opponent without any danger and advanced to the finals.
Seeing that his opponent was Zhang Huasong, both Tiantianhao, his coach, or domestic fans and audiences in Japan were quite surprised.
At the beginning, even Chinese people didn't expect Zhang Huasong to reach the finals, let alone foreigners. Japanese people started out as gossip news and didn't pay attention to Zhang Huasong's game.
Unexpectedly, the one who played against Tiantianhao in the final was Zhang Huasong.
However, after watching all the game videos of Zhang Huasong, Taita Hao and his coach found that among all Zhang Huasong's opponents, the highest ranking in the world is Turkey's Ilhan, currently ranked 213th in the Atp world.
In their opinion, the quarter-finals between Zhang Huasong and Ilhan played very hard, and in the end it was Zhang Huasong who won until the decisive set.
Moreover, there were two tiebreakers in the period, which proved that the middle game was also very hard, and the two were basically evenly matched.
Therefore, Tiantianhao and his coach judged that Zhang Huasong was at most comparable to the players ranked around 200 in the world.
Tiantianhao is ranked 114th in the world, and his Atp points are more than twice that of Ilhan. Their strength is not at the same level at all.
From this we can conclude that as long as you don’t make mistakes, Tiantianhao should be able to easily defeat Zhang Huasong to win the championship and get the 2009 Australian Open wild card.
As a result, Yoo Tianda became full of confidence in the upcoming finals.
As for the audience in Japan, they also came to the same conclusion from Zhang Huasong's previous games through media analysis, believing that Tiantianhao will definitely defeat Zhang Huasong and win the championship.
Countless Japanese people shouted online:
"Zhang Huasong should go to the track and field. There is no need to waste time on tennis. Japan will win!"
"If you can't win the championship in the wild card competition, everything is zero. Instead of being defeated by our Tiantianhao, Zhang Huasong might as well pretend to be sick and give up the game!"
"Let Tian Hao teach beginner Zhang Huasong how to play tennis!"
Naturally, netizens in China are not willing to be outdone and fight back:
"China will win, Japan will lose!"
"Zhang Huasong's journey is at the Australian Open. What's the point of Tian Hao? Zhang Huasong will win!"
"Zhang Huasong defeated the Japanese! China will win!"
Because of the historical grudges between China and Japan, once the competition between these two countries is involved, Mars will definitely hit the Earth.
In the past decade, the number one in the ratings of China's TV in the 2004 Asian Football Cup finals, China vs. Japan, with a rating of 18.5%. More than 200 million viewers across the country watched the live broadcast of the final.
The second place is the 2002 World Cup group stage China vs Brazil, with a rating of 14.4%.
The third place is CCTV's "News Broadcast", with the highest ratings in the past decade only 11.06%.
On the one hand, this rating shows the basis of football as the world's number one sport in China, and on the other hand, it shows how much attention the national hatred and family hatred of China and Japan will bring.
Although the Australian Open Asian Wild Card Finals of Zhang Huasong and Tianta Hao are far from the importance of the Asian Cup final, as long as the matches involving China and Japan are involved, and the finals are still the finals, they will naturally receive strong attention from audiences from both countries.
For China alone, the combined number of viewers of CCTV Sports Channel's live TV and Jisu.com's live broadcasts may reach 30 to 40 million.
It's definitely a record rating for a small wild card final.
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