Chapter 980: Meeting the Challenge

Looking at the smiling Gawain, a hint of smile flashed in Pert's eyes, but his expression did not change at all, and he reprimanded him in a serious tone.

"You still have the mind to joke around. It seems that you haven't trained enough. You still have the mind to question my authority."

"No problem, I can fulfill your wish. Next, we will enter nightmare mode, how about that?"

Shivering.

Although there was no particular change in Pelt's expression and voice, one could still feel the cold and bloody aura, which was chilling.

Did this awaken the Cthulhu monster? Gawain blinked his eyes with an innocent expression on his face, "So it's been normal mode so far?"

Pelt didn't say anything either, just looked at Gawain quietly.

Finally, Gao Wen let out a long sigh, "That's good, that's good. I thought it was hell mode so far. That's disappointing, isn't it?"

Pelt looked at Gawain, who was ready to fight, and couldn't help but feel amused, but his expression remained calm. "Boy, don't provoke me, or you will suffer."

After saying that, Pelt turned around and started walking. "Rest for five minutes. There are still three minutes left."

One step, two steps, three steps.

Pelt stopped suddenly and turned around, then saw Gawain making faces, with an upturned nose, a bloody mouth, and his whole face was distorted.

Freeze for one second.

Gawain immediately returned to normal and gave Pert a bright smile, looking like a completely harmless and obedient child.

The corners of Pelt's eyes twitched slightly. If anyone believed that the guy in front of him was a good kid, then there really was something fishy going on.

In the end, Pelt said nothing. He turned around and continued walking. A leisurely word floated over in the wind.

"Two minutes and thirty seconds..."

Gawain laughed heartily.

While there was still a little time, I summoned the system and scanned the data again: physical attributes, 90.

Technical attributes, 91.

Spiritual attributes, 94.

Hidden Attributes, 78(3).

Two key points.

First of all, the physical attributes finally broke through the 90th level, so let’s celebrate by throwing flowers.

Secondly, throughout the two-week Australian Open, she went through the test of three giants and a fierce five-set battle in the final. However, the "reward" was not as good as expected.

First of all, only the spiritual attributes naturally increased a little.

Secondly, the growth potential value only increased by three points. In order of priority, one point was allocated to each of the hidden attributes, technical attributes, and physical attributes.

Numbers are the most intuitive.

Through training throughout the off-season, his attribute points increased by a total of seven points, but only four points in the entire Australian Open.

So, is the intensity of competition at the Australian Open not as high as the intensity of training during the off-season?

Of course not.

To be precise, the bottleneck is gradually approaching, and with the improvement of strength, the difficulty of breaking through the bottleneck is also increasing.

It is precisely because of this that even with the intensity of competition at the Australian Open, the pace of improvement is slowing down.

In the future, this trend will probably become more and more obvious. By then, it may not be possible to break through the bottleneck simply by relying on training and competition.

However, Gawain has a bold guess -

So far, he has always played on hard courts, from NCAA to Challenge Tournaments to professional tournaments, all on hard courts, fast or slow, indoor or outdoor, plastic or concrete, all on hard courts.

So, is there such a possibility? The strength of the hard court is about to reach its ceiling, but after switching venues, it can cut in from different directions and find a new way to achieve a breakthrough?

For example, red soil, and then grass.

This is indeed a possibility. After all, different venues have completely different requirements for players' playing styles. Although the younger generation of players now basically do not distinguish between venues and use the same playing style to conquer the world in any venue, the venues are different and the content of the game is different. This is an objective fact.

An extremely unrepresentative but very interesting fact is that Medvedev, when his world ranking had reached third in the world, had already given outstanding performances at the Australian Open and the US Open, and even reached the US Open final in 2019, but, until 2021, he still had difficulty winning the French Open.

From this we can see that hard court and clay are two different types of surfaces, and the same playing style is difficult to adapt to different surface styles without adjustment.

Gao Wen is somewhat nervous but also somewhat looking forward to the upcoming clay court season:

He was nervous because he had only trained on clay but had never played any official matches, and even his training time was pitifully short.

The reason for the anticipation is that after changing the venue, I will indeed face new challenges and be able to explore new areas of tennis, which is really exciting.

Now, there is another reason to expect it. After the clay court season opens, let's see if he can quickly break through the bottleneck and usher in a new period of growth. This makes the expectation outweigh the uneasiness and makes Gao Wen eager to try.

However, we can still wait a little longer for the clay court season. Before the European clay court season kicks off, the climax of the North American hard court season in the spring has yet to come.

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In addition, although the attribute improvement is slightly lower than expected, fortunately, the growth potential value is still increasing——

Slowly but surely it is improving.

Growth potential: 33.8%.

After a series of basic training on footwork and batting, the growth potential value increased by 0.1%. It’s not much, but every little bit counts and we should learn to cherish it.

After experiencing rapid improvement throughout the past year, he should now adjust his mentality, not over-rely on and over-expect the convenient improvement brought by the system, and focus more on himself, training and competition.

The biggest revelation that the Australian Open final brought to Gao Wen is that strength is the foundation, which is the basis for his own game, but on-the-spot performance is more important than strength.

Obviously, not all players can play 100% of their ability in all games, not even the Big Four.

Most of the time, players can only perform at around 80%, and in a long game, there may be peaks and troughs; more often, players may not be able to perform at 60% of their strength, and then the game will fall into trouble and they will lose the game inexplicably.

Therefore, perhaps, Gawain's own strength improvement has reached a new stage, but outside the system, there are still many details that Gawain can improve.

Therefore, training still needs to be accelerated and details still need to be paid attention to. Pelt's hellish training is actually good news for Gawain.

Outside the system, the role played by the coaching team is becoming increasingly apparent and clear.

This is a good thing.

“Snap! Snap!”

Before Gawain could catch his breath, the sound of Pert's high-five was heard, timing the moment.

"Move! Move!"

"Training begins."

He didn't know if it was Gawain's illusion, but he always felt that he could hear the sound of Pelt gritting his teeth and smell the blood in every word.

That expressionless face was like that of a cold-blooded devil, and his calm eyes seemed to be saying: This kid actually dares to challenge the authority of the devil coach?

shame!

What a shame! Then, this guy should be given a taste of what a true nightmare is.

hehe.

(End of this chapter)