After returning to the United States, Howles seemed to be a different person, he did not go out to play at night, but rested early every day, and then put all his energy into the next day's training.

This trip to Spain, the impact on the Halls, he witnessed the two big football giants of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and even personally experienced a training match there, he finally saw what the world's top football youth training is like.

All this has given Halls a desire, he is eager to go to Real Madrid or Barcelona training, eager to enter their echelon to become one of them, more eager to get those better teammates and face those better opponents.

However, due to the closure of the pygmy and bone lines, Real Madrid and Barcelona clearly refused to accept him, which caused Halls' self-esteem to be hit, and this blow soon became the driving force of his training.

As Li Dai said, people have a clear goal, will work hard and fight for it.

Howls is like this, although he also wanted to play in Europe, but after all, he did not really see the top clubs in Europe, so the desire to play in Europe is very illusory.Now that Halls has been to Spain, to the two giants of Real Madrid and Barcelona, to play in Europe is no longer an illusory dream, but to pursue the goal.

Howells knew that height was the main reason he was shut out by two great men, that he suffered from pygmy, that his bones had been closed, something he could not change.At this time, Howles realized more deeply that Li Dai's training here has become the last straw for his long-term height.

Compared with others, Dupholism has given Howells a congenital deficiency, and those who have entered the Real Madrid and Barcelona echelons have a higher starting point than Halls.In the case of his own innate lack of innateness, and the opponent's starting point is higher, in this double disadvantage, Halls must pay more effort and sweat than others.

Howells had understood this, and he knew that his path would be more rugged than others, but he would not give up, he would charge toward the goal in his heart.

...

At 10 a.m., Li Dai also drew up a customer's training plan in his office, and the phone's bell suddenly rang.

Li Dai picked up his mobile phone and looked at him, and the caller showed his snack to be surprised.

“It’s Xu Zhongyi, how did he call?It's early in the morning."Li Dai in the heart of the calculation, the United States Western time and domestic difference of 16 hours, now the United States is daylight saving time, that the western United States time and the domestic also has a 15-hour gap, Li Dai here is the morning, the domestic is really early morning, it is a deep sleep time.

"This old Xu, call me at this time, afraid of what is important."Li Dai did not hesitate and immediately picked up the phone.

“Hey, old Xu, you don’t sleep in the middle of the night, call me, something?”Lee asked directly.

"It's not a fear of letting you rest."He smiled and said, “There’s something I really want to ask you.”

“What’s the matter, tell me.”Lee said very excitedly.

"Our provincial sports team, there is a coach teaching Chen Jianguo, is a tennis coach, you have heard of him before?" 」Xu Zhongyi asked.

"There's such a person in the impression."Lee Daiyinton, then said: "But tennis in our provincial sports team, but has always been weak, there are not many athletes, there are few coaches."

“Indeed, tennis is not being developed anywhere else except those first-tier cities, and the policy and financial support given is limited.”Xu Zhongyi did not too much tangled the problem, he went on: "Chen Jianguo and I are old acquaintance, he has a son named Chen Zhen, from childhood to follow him to practice tennis, this young man is very talented, 18 years old to get the third place of the National Games, in recent years also participated in some international events, the latest world rankings, Chen Zhen into the top 200."

"Our country's male players, can be sent into the world's top 200, is a very good result."Lee spoke praising himself.

“And he’s in the top 200 in the world this time, which means he can play in the U.S. Open.The men of our country have not been able to play in four Grand Slams for a long time.”Xu Zhongyi said.

The four major tennis tournament, a total of 128 places, of which 104 places are in accordance with the world rankings, the world's top 104 players, are eligible to directly enter the four major tennis tournaments, but there will always be some players suffered injuries and other unexpected factors to withdraw, the players behind the opportunity to replace, so in general, as long as the world ranking in the 110 before, there are opportunities to directly advance to the four major tennis tournaments.

In addition, there are 8 places for the players who are given the card, some of the big players who have not played for a long time because of the injury, the world ranking will drop 104, at this time they will often get the game to give the card qualification, the host players in the card qualification is also a certain discount.So in the Australian Open, Australia will have so many players to get the card, in the Wimbledon, the UK will have players to get the card, in the French Open, is the French players to get the card, to the United States, naturally is the United States players can get this card right.

The final 16 matches were decided by the qualifying round.Before the four major tennis tournaments, the qualifiers will be held in advance, a total of 128 people will participate in the qualifying tournament, the qualification is also in accordance with the world rankings, a total of three rounds of knockout games, three rounds of winning can be promoted to the main event.

From the point of view of the rules, if no one retires due to injury, the world-ranked 104 to 232 players can participate in the four majors qualifiers, but considering that everyone who retires every year for various reasons, so basically those who are ranked in the world are within 250 and have the opportunity to participate in the qualifiers.

Chen Zhen's world ranking has entered the top 200, so it is safe to enter the qualifiers.

“You’re looking for me, aren’t you?”Lee asked.

"Yes, Chen Jianguo wants to take Chen Zhen, go to the United States in advance, adapt to the American environment, it is best to find an American tennis coach, first give Chen Zhen some guidance."You're more familiar with the U.S. side, so I'd like to ask you for a favor."Xu Zhongyi said.

"No problem, you can get Coach Chen Jianguo to contact me directly."Li Dai said.

"Yes, Chen Jianguo's family is not very rich, the general working class, all rely on the dead salary, training Chen Zhen to play tennis, but also a lot of money, so you don't give him too expensive a coach."Then he said, “Olivia.

"Yes," Li Dai hesitated a little, then said: "Old Xu, you are also a coach, you must also know that sports training this line, a little able coach, the price is not low, the higher the salary requirements."

"I know, I know, so I called you in the middle of the night, I want you to think of a way."You're in the United States, and you're sure to have a wide network, and you might be able to help Chen Zhen."Xu Zhongyi spoke.

"If not, let him come to my training center, my client is a few well-known tennis players, are the world's top 50, first let Chen Zhen follow them to train, although physical training, but with those players familiar with, maybe you can learn something."If possible, I try to recommend Chen Zhen and go to them as a sparring.Li Dai said.

“You can get a discount on that fee, and I know you’re not paying for it as usual.”Xu Zhongyi said very deliberately.

Li Dai understood the meaning of Xu Zhongyi, he smiled and said; "other people's face does not give, your old Xu face, I can't give it!"Anyway, it's not a few days away from the U.S. network, and I don't take their money."

...

Three days later, Chen Jianguo and Chen Zhen's father and son came to Los Angeles.

Chen Jianguo has also been the coach of the Hanbei Provincial Sports Team, but Li Dai is not very impressed, one is the two people with different scores, the other is tennis in the provincial sports team, has always been a niche competition, not too much attention.

Chen Zhen is a new generation of domestic tennis talent, Li Dai also detected him, B + talent, enough to dominate the country, to participate in some low-level international tour is also possible, but to compete in the four Grand Slam events, that is, barely reach the threshold of participating in the main event.

Tennis in the United States, is a relatively high penetration rate of sports, the United States has a lot of professional tennis schools, every year to train a large number of tennis players, Li Dai customers, there are several world top 50 well-known tennis players.Due to the proximity to the US network, they are also trained more frequently, especially in terms of physical training, which is the top priority of training content.

Under normal circumstances, the US Open lasts about half a month, most of its non-seeded players will not only participate in individual singles competitions, they will also participate in doubles or mixed doubles, some players even have to deal with individual singles and doubles at the same time, for physical consumption is actually very large, so they are willing to spend some time before the game, the training focus on physical fitness.

For Chen Zhen, these top 50 tennis players in the world are already "idols" that he usually find difficult to encounter.

Chen Zhen's world ranking has just entered the top 200, according to him and the world's top 50, just 150, the gap does not sound completely out of reach, but in tennis, 200 meters and 50, is really a gap between the sky and the earth.Many of the 200 athletes did not meet a 50-person opponent in a whole year.

Tennis competitions are basically based on the world rankings to determine the eligibility.For example, in the ATP tournament level division, the highest level is four Grand Slams, then ATP 1000, ATP 500, ATP 250, such as the world's top 10 players, basically will not participate in the ATP 250 competition, because for them, the ATP 250 competition level is too low.

Then there is the challenge 125K+H level, the challenge 125K level, the challenge 100K level, the challenge 75K level, the challenge 50K level, the challenge 40K level, in the challenge 100K level below the competition, it is difficult to see the world's top 100 players.Under the challenge, there is also the hope game, and the lower level of the hope game is not the world ranking players.

Therefore, for a world-ranked 200th player, at most to participate in some challenge-level competitions, unless it is based on a foreign card, it is difficult to participate in the ATP250 or more competition, naturally, it will not encounter the world's top 50 players.

Even in Grand Slam tournaments, the world's top 232 players can participate in the qualification, but the three rounds of the game, for the kind of 200 players, each is a death trip, they want to advance to the main event, must beat the world ranking higher than their opponents, which is equivalent to the field needs to be cold.The possibility of a cold is good to say, but three consecutive cases of explosion, the possibility is really minimal.

So in the four majors qualifiers, the final can be promoted to the main event, are those who are the players before the world ranking of 150, 150 after the most basically can not advance to the main event.

...

On the training ground, Chen Jianguo looked at Chen Zhen, whose face was full of loving smile, and he said: "When Chen Zhen first took the racket, he did not have a racket high."At that time, I had just retired and was assigned to be a tennis coach on the team.He was like my little tail, I trained athletes on the pitch and he picked up the ball.Then I saw him learn the athletes waving, and I started trying to teach him to play tennis."

"Chen Zhen's talent is very good, at least in the athletes I train, his talent is the best, I teach him a lot of things, he only needs to learn it again to remember, from then on, I decided that even if it is a property, it must also be good to cultivate him."I’m really looking forward to the day when he’s been able to stand on the stage of a Grand Slam tennis tournament and fulfill a dream I didn’t achieve.”

Chen Jianguo said here, sighed: "When I was an athlete, I also hope to play four Grand Slams, even if it is only one, I am satisfied, but in our age, it is impossible, the tennis players of our era basically have no chance to go abroad to play."Especially after the defection of tennis players in the 1980s, we are even less likely to have the opportunity to play abroad.I've been out of the country until I've retired, and I haven't played abroad."

Next to Li Dai nodded, about this matter, he had seen some relevant information.At that time, a tennis player used the opportunity to play in the United States and left the United States without authorization, and applied for so-called political asylum in order to stay in the United States.But think about it, only those who are politically persecuted are qualified to apply for political asylum, and athletes are not influential politicians, and who will go to the political persecution of an athlete?So the athlete was nothing more than wanting to stay in the United States, and in that environment, the U.S. government was happy to use it as a political tool.If it were placed today, it would be possible for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to repatriate the person directly.

Just listen to Chen Jianguo continue to say: "At that time, I saw the latest world ranking, and when I saw Chen Zhen's ranking in the top 200, I was really happy because he had the opportunity to participate in the four Grand Slams.This is my lifelong dream, although I have not achieved it, but my son can help me achieve this dream!”

Chen Jianguo said that here, the tone became excited, and the expression was also a little excited.

Li Dai looked at Chen Jianguo this way, but his heart was somewhat impatient, with Chen Zhen's current level, not to mention the four Grand Slam tournaments, even in the qualifiers, it is quite difficult to survive the first round.

“It’s not easy to play tennis in the country.”Li Dai knows what the domestic tennis environment is like, he looked at the training of Chen Zhen, Chen Zhen looks very serious, but Li Dai can feel that Chen Zhen seems to be a little nervous.

This is not a game, just an ordinary physical training, and Chen Zhen will be nervous.This is not Chen Zhen's psychological state, but he feels the importance of this training, he cherishes the current training, cherishes the opportunity to train with the world's top 50 tennis players, even if it is just physical training.

"It seems that Chen Zhen also knows that he carries the dream of two generations, and he came to the US Open tennis this time, not only to represent himself, but also to fulfill his dream for his father!"

Li Dai finally made a decision, he intends to help this pair of dream-chasing father and son.