Chapter 224 A Solid Backer
Training, lifting weights, training, lifting weights.
The clanging summer vacation life officially kicked off, day after day, repeating itself over and over again, making people truly realize that competitive sports are actually very boring and tedious. Only by being able to endure the loneliness can one grit one's teeth and persevere.
Thompson asked a soul-searching question.
“Am I crazy if I say, I’m starting to miss homework and exams now?”
Gawain replied calmly.
"No, you don't."
"Sit in the library for three minutes and you'll start to miss the court. Why don't you try going to the library now?"
Thompson waved his hands repeatedly, expressing his strong resistance with a series of "no, no, no". But when he calmed down and thought about it, whether to sit in the library and yawn continuously or be tortured by Gawain on the court, he always felt as if he had stepped into a trap. Both options were pitfalls.
Can I give up? However, at least I am not training alone, but with a few friends, which adds a lot of fun to the training.
Three weeks, which was neither long nor short, passed in the blink of an eye. Then, Gao Wen and his team were ready for the competition.
Unfortunately, the growth potential value remained unchanged, and there was still no sign of breaking through the bottleneck. Slowly, Gawain got used to it and persuaded himself to calm down. Even if the bar charts under each attribute changed, he did not track them all the time, but relaxed his mind and devoted himself to training.
As long as you work hard and accumulate experience gradually, you will naturally break through when the time comes.
Anxiety and irritability are not only unhelpful, but may also affect your mentality and even your training status, leading to unnecessary accidents.
He needed to focus on himself.
"…Relax and don't be too obsessed with the results. You are still in the growth stage. Try to absorb and learn. This is the most important thing."
On the other end of the phone, Gao Hongli's voice came slowly, comforting his son.
Originally, Gao Hongli and Jiang Yanyun were going to fly across the Pacific Ocean to North America to watch Gao Wen's game at the U.S. Championships, but they had many concerns. On the one hand, they all had their own jobs, and it would be difficult for them to take a long vacation at once; on the other hand, they were not sure how far Gao Wen could go.
After thinking it over, I decided to give up.
After all, this is only the first year, and there will be opportunities in the future. Once Gao Wen has secured his starting position and ensured that he can play in the U.S. Championship, it will not be too late to go to the scene.
result?
Unexpectedly, Gao Wen actually made it all the way to the top, so much so that Gao Hongli and Jiang Yanyun were unable to react and still don’t feel it’s real.
Now, Gao Wen is about to embark on the journey of the challenge competition again, and his parents can't help but feel a little worried.
Gao Hongli could sense that Gao Wen had been a little irritable recently. He didn't talk much during phone calls and hung up quickly, vaguely seeming dissatisfied with his own performance. However, in Gao Hongli's opinion, Gao Wen was already very self-conscious and self-disciplined. He just hoped that his son could understand the truth that "more haste makes waste."
As for the challenge match, Gao Hongli did not put any pressure on his son's performance. He just hoped that his son would go to the court with a learning attitude, as everything is new.
But before Gao Hongli could finish his words, Jiang Yanyun snatched the phone away from him, and he kept complaining, "My son puts so much pressure on himself, and you keep talking about other things. Let me do it." The vague complaints reached Gao Wen's ears through the receiver, and he couldn't help but chuckle.
"Hello, Xiao Wu, it's mom."
Xiao Wu is Gao Wen’s nickname.
When choosing the name, Jiang Yanyun thought of many names, but Gao Wen's grandfather excitedly went directly to the police station to report the name. After waiting for the household registration book to come out, Jiang Yanyun learned that his son's name had been decided.
Jiang Yanyun was very depressed, but thinking that it was done, since the real name could not be changed, he called himself by the nickname -
Yes, Xiao Wu deliberately targeted the name "Gao Wen", and praised it as "both civil and military". Although he didn't say it explicitly, one could still see that Jiang Yanyun was resisting a little.
When Gao Wen grew up and learned the story behind his name, he felt that his mother was truly a wonderful person. No wonder he liked tennis in the 1990s, a sport that was still unpopular in China at the time.
"The last time I spoke to you on the phone, you said you were gaining weight and forcing yourself to eat? Are you still like that now?"
"You have to eat enough, but not too much, or your stomach will get upset. Also, you don't want to have too much muscle. Mom doesn't like muscular men like Schwarzenegger."
Gao Wen: ...
Gawain couldn't help laughing. Only his mother could have such a conversation.
"Don't worry, Mom. I won't become a muscle man."
"Yeah, that's good. You've been training harder recently. Did you pay attention to the ice baths and massages after training? You still need to pay attention to injuries. During the fall season last year, didn't you say that your knee muscles were not feeling well? So you still need to pay attention to your daily training."
Although Jiang Yanyun lacked professional knowledge and didn't understand much about the training and strain, the warmth of his concern filled Gao Wen's chest.
"Xiao Wu, Mom still hopes that you are healthy. Of course, it would be even better if you win the championship."
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The first half of the sentence moved Gao Wen deeply, but the second half ruined his mood and he laughed happily.
The sound of Gao Hongli and Jiang Yanyun arguing and bickering came immediately from the other end of the phone.
"Why are you like this? Didn't you say not to put pressure on Xiao Wu?"
"I'm just talking, just talking, can't you even think about it?"
"Xiao Wu knows his limits. He knows what to do..."
"Okay, okay, I won't argue with you."
Then Jiang Yanyun reminded Gao Wen to pay attention to his diet and health, and to relieve strain after training, and then he hung up the phone first.
Even after the call was hung up, Gao Wen could still feel the buzzing sound lingering on his eardrums. Even though there was a Pacific Ocean between them, he felt as if he was at home, and his mood couldn't help but soar.
In fact, tennis is a lonely sport.
Because professional players need to travel all over the world, their lives every week are switching between one hotel and the next. They have no time to explore the city, and they don’t even have much time to leave the court. They are constantly changing battlefields.
For professional players ranked below 100, they do not have enough ability to support their families to travel around the world with them, so most of the time they travel alone, and the coaching team is equivalent to their family - if they are ranked below 500, they do not even have the ability to travel with their coaching team, and are basically lone rangers.
It is very lonely indeed.
Fortunately, technology is now advanced, and telephone and video calls have become more and more convenient. Even if we are thousands of miles apart, we can still feel that our family is fighting side by side and that we are not fighting alone.
Second update.
(End of this chapter)