Roches was sitting on the sidelines, his face as gloomy as the sky before a typhoon.
For a professional tennis player, losing a set is not terrible. The terrible thing is that he doesn't even know how he lost.
In the Australian Open, the men's event adopts a best-of-five-set system, so losing the first set is only a slight disadvantage for the players, and it is still an acceptable thing.
"It's just that I lost one set, and then I came back with three consecutive sets. The victory is still mine!" Roches clenched his fists tightly, and then thought: "In that set just now, I didn't seem to have anything. It was a big mistake, and there was nothing wrong with the tactics I used, so how did I lose?"
"There should be two reasons. First, I don't know Zhang Guan well, so I was caught off guard by him. Second, maybe it was because Zhang Guan had better luck in the last set. Players can't always have good luck. Yes, as long as I firmly implement my tactics, I will definitely win the next game!"
In tennis matches, coaches are not allowed to enter the court to give guidance to the players. Even if they shout from the seat, they may be asked to come out by the referee. Therefore, tennis players must have the ability to analyze the game alone and adjust tactics according to the situation on the spot. Of course, this ability can also be regarded as a kind of competition experience.
At this time, Roches obviously didn't realize that his competition experience was not as good as Zhang Guan's, and he didn't think in that direction at all. A man with eight years of competition experience and once won the men's doubles Grand Slam championship. How can a player think that his competition experience is not as good as that of a rookie competing for the first time
After a short break, the second set began.
Roches still unswervingly implemented the tactics of the previous set, dragging the game into a long set, and then used his experience to defeat Zhang Guan.
In the first game of the second set, Roches' serve seemed to work, and he gained a 30-0 advantage from the beginning. However, Zhang Guan suddenly exerted his strength and relied on his strong mobility to force the net twice in a row. He did not give Roches a chance to delay the game and tied the score to 30-30.
Roches's tactic is to drag the game into a long game, and in order to achieve this goal, Roches will definitely choose a steady style of play. The more steady he plays, the fewer mistakes he will make, and it will be harder for his opponent to find opportunities, so it is more difficult for his opponents to find opportunities. Easily extend the number of rounds in the game.
Zhang Guan quickly understood Roches’ tactical intentions, and coach Joyce once guided Zhang Guan before the game. Faced with this delaying style of play, there are two conventional ways to win. One way is to compare with the opponent. Be patient and delay your opponent longer than your opponent; another way to win is to adopt a very unrestrained playing style and forcefully create opportunities.
Zhang Guan obviously chose the latter method. Although Zhang Guan would not have lost to Roches if he had been more patient, the longer the game lasted and the more rounds, the more skills were exposed. At the same time, It is also easier to be studied by opponents. This is Zhang Guan's first formal tennis match. To other players, Zhang Guan is still an unknown, so it is in Zhang Guan's best interest to decide quickly and end the game as quickly as possible to avoid revealing too much of his strength. .
Zhang Guan tied the score to 30-30, and the two sides were evenly matched. It sounded like a close match, but this was Roches's serve, and a tie meant that Roches was at a disadvantage.
On the next ball, when Roches returned the ball, Zhang Guan once again chose to catch the ball forward, still moving at an extremely fast speed, and still delivering a very vicious blow.
"30-40!" Zhang Guan took the lead for the first time in this game.
Roches gritted his teeth in annoyance. He was not the kind of player who played very fiercely in the first place. What he was best at was mobility. But when he faced a player with even stronger mobility than him, he suddenly felt that So powerless.
Subsequently, Roches was once again broken by Zhang Guan in his serve.
In the second game, Zhang Guan still managed to hold serve, and in the third game, Roches finally held his serve for the first time.
In the next four games, neither Zhang Guan nor Roches broke serve. At this time, the score in the second set reached 5-3, with Zhang Guan temporarily leading.
At this time, Zhang Guan had two set points, and for Roches, he had to keep his serve in the next game, otherwise he would lose the second set. But even if Roches keeps his serve, Roches must complete the break in Zhang Guan's next serve, so that the game in the second set can continue. With Zhang Guan's serving level, Roches must It was almost an impossible task for Chase to break serve.
"It was Zhang Guan's serve again in the next game. His ball speed is so fast that it is not easy to control the placement when receiving the serve. How can I break his serve?" Roches began to think. .
However, Zhang Guan immediately told Roches that there was no need to think about how to break serve because Roches did not keep his serve.
At the end of the second set, Zhang Guan finally won the second set with a score of 6-3.
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In a best-of-five-set game, if you lose one set, it is acceptable; if you lose two sets and win one, the laggard will feel better mentally, but losing two sets first will allow your opponent to get the advantage. If there is a match point, the mood of the laggard will be completely different.
"What's going on? How could this happen? I lost two sets in a row! I lost two sets in a row to a track and field athlete! I was broken twice in the last set! What on earth is going on? Why does this happen? Thing? Is Zhang Guan really stronger than me? "
This idea flashed out of Roches's heart, and then it was infinitely amplified like a spark igniting a prairie fire.
"It's impossible. Zhang Guan is still a tennis rookie. How could I not even be able to beat a rookie! How could my strength be inferior to that of a rookie? Zhang Guan relied on sponsors as wild cards to be able to stand in this arena. , a sponsored wild card player, how could I be inferior to him!"
Roches tried to convince himself with various reasons, but when he thought of Zhang Guan's high-speed serve and Zhang Guan's powerful mobility, all the reasons he looked for were so feeble. In the face of hard power, what use are objective reasons
Roches' mentality was on the verge of collapse.
Then in the first game of the third set, Zhang Guan’s serve,
"Catch, you must catch this ball! No, I still have to break serve. As long as I can complete a break of serve, the advantage will return to my side!" Roches' standards reveal a sense of persistence and ferocity.
"Whoosh!" The tennis ball rushed over, and Roches immediately stretched out his racket to stop the yellow ball shadow.
"Blocked!" Roches swung the racket quickly and returned the ball, but he felt it was unusually light and there was no feeling of the tennis ball touching the racket.
"What's going on?" Roches turned around and saw that there was no ball on his racket, and the tennis ball had already bounced out of bounds.
At that moment, Roches did not stop the tennis ball. What he blocked was just the phantom left behind when the tennis ball flew by.
"217 kilometers! Oh my god, the serve speed exceeds 210 kilometers per hour, and it is already close to 220 kilometers! There is no way to catch it! Zhang Guanye has served many times before with a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour. It is really a super heavy weapon Hand!" As the commentator's excited voice sounded, there were also continuous exclamations and shouts from the audience.
Roches looked at the results on the display board, his expression momentarily stunned.
"This serve is faster than the previous ones. It turns out that Zhang Guan's serve can be even faster! Even if I serve at this speed, I can't guarantee that I can return the ball to the boundary. What should I do? What should I do? ?Can you really not win?"
At this moment, Roches finally collapsed.
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