In the first game between Zhang Guan and Grosjean, the final score was 6-0, and Zhang Guan won. The game also entered a short break between sets.
Grosjean poured an entire bottle of water on his head. He instantly felt much cooler and more awake. He wiped his face and began to think seriously.
"Federer's signature topspin serve and forehand topspin when receiving the ball. Now that I think about it, it feels a bit like a 'Nadal spin'! One of these two is a killer in professional tennis. How about Zhang Guan?" He knows both! Is he really a track and field athlete? Damn it, if I had known one of these two techniques, I would have been firmly in the top ten in the world!" Grosjean complained crazily in his heart. , and then thought of his preparations before the game and the tactical arrangements given by the coach.
"The preparation before the game seems to have been useless. Zhang Guan didn't serve that kind of fast flat serve a few times. There was also that kind of forehand topspin, which was too restrained for my volley at the net. Zhang Guan's serve was too old. It's attacking my backhand. There's no way. I don't care how he attacks the serve. But in my serve game, I must stop his forehand topspin. Once he hits that kind of high-speed topspin, , my net play became ineffective. Calculating this, I will attack Zhang Guan's backhand as much as possible. If Zhang Guan catches the ball with his backhand, he will not be able to use the high-spin forehand topspin. ”
During the game, Grosjean fell behind all the way. He had no time and was not in the mood to think about how to deal with Zhang Guan. However, during the break, after Grosjean calmed down, his professionalism as a professional tennis player was reflected. , he clearly analyzed the situation on the field and quickly formulated new tactics.
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In the second set between the two sides, Grosjean took the lead in serving.
Grosjean's first goal was an ACE and he got off to a good start. The second ball was caught by Zhang Guan, but the direction of Zhang Guan's return was not good. Grosjean successfully intercepted the ball in front of the net and won another ball. Then the third ball was followed by Grosjean again. Score a serve.
In this game, Grosjean obviously strengthened his serve, and his choices for every ball were quite extreme, which made Zhang Guan have some trouble picking up the ball.
In the fourth ball, Grosjean's serve was still unrestrained, and the result was out of bounds. In the second serve, Grosjean felt that he had three match points and had capital to squander, so it was still an extreme serve, and the result was double. A mistake was made and one point was given to Zhang Guan.
In the fifth ball, the situation was exactly the same. Grosjean made a mistake in the first serve, and he still did not choose to be conservative in the second serve. However, this time he succeeded. With an ACE, he directly won the first game and successfully maintained serve.
The victory in this game boosted Grosjean's morale. In the next Zhang Guan's service game, he also played very proactively, but Grosjean's bad backhand still failed to break serve.
In the third game of the second set between the two sides, Grosjean maintained a good serving feel and successfully kept serve. In the fourth game, Zhang Guan also relied on his service advantage and did not give Grosjean a chance to break serve.
In this way, the two sides went back and forth, refusing to give in to each other, but each game ended relatively quickly, and there was no long round. The score quickly reached a 3-3 tie.
In the seventh game of the second set, Grosjean served again. In this game, Grosjean's touch dropped, and he made a double-serve error from the beginning, giving Zhang Guan a point.
"It's too hot!" Grosjean could feel the sweat dripping down his cheeks, and his clothes had already been soaked. Although his thick black hair was pressed under the tennis cap, it would not directly Contact with Yang Guo still brought him an unbearable heat.
"My physical fitness has dropped a lot compared to the beginning of this set, and my hand feel is not as good as before. I have to be a little more conservative when serving, otherwise I will double-serve errors again." Grosjean thought of this and chose to serve slightly better than before. A more conservative way of serving, which also greatly reduces the difficulty for Zhang Guan to receive the serve.
"Whoosh!" Zhang Guan returned the ball over the net, which was considered a satisfactory return of serve, but Grosjean did not choose to go to the net.
"Hit his backhand first! Then I'll hit the net and volley." Grosjean hit the tennis ball fiercely. He chose Zhang Guan's backhand as the target, and then Grosjean was ready to go to the net.
However, the next moment, Grosjean saw Zhang Guan still hitting the ball with a forehand, and another forehand with top spin.
"It moves so fast! How could I forget this! Zhang Guan already has excellent movement speed." Grosjean immediately regretted it.
Grosjean hoped to attack Zhang Guan's backhand, but he forgot that Zhang Guan had an amazing moving speed. For example, in this ball, in Grosjean's prediction, Zhang Guan would use his backhand to catch the ball, but in fact With his speed, Zhang Guan had already moved to a position where he could catch the ball with his forehand when the tennis ball arrived in front of him, so he could still hit back a topspin ball with his forehand.
In fact, sometimes, there may be only one step between the forehand and the backhand. If you move a little faster, or predict a little earlier, you can take one more step, and the backhand catch may become a forehand catch. In the same way, sometimes if you move a little slower, or if you anticipate a little delay and hesitation, you will lose one step, and the original forehand catch will become a backhand catch.
Zhang Guan relied on his own mobility to take just one extra step, so he could still catch the ball with his forehand.
"It's over!" When Grosjean saw Zhang Guan's forehand counterattack, he was already sure that he had lost the ball again.
"What should I do? Attacking with a backhand move doesn't work! Zhang Guan's movement speed is too fast, and my attack on his backhand has no effect at all. When my ball flies past, others have arrived, and there is only one step missing! If I hold it with my left hand, Just shoot." Grosjean thought with some annoyance.
Both Zhang Guan and Grosjean hold the racket with their right hands, so when they are holding the ball, the backhand of the opponent they attack each other will be relatively slower. If one holds the racket with the right hand and the other with the left hand, attacking each other's backhand will be slower. Much easier. For example, Federer and Nadal, one is right-handed and the other is left-handed. They are also wary of each other's forehands, so the contest between the two often sees them attacking backhands.
At 0-30, Grosjean was two goals behind in the service game. At this time, he was confused again. He could not find a way to restrain Zhang Guan. This was exactly the game where Zhang Guan successfully broke serve.
Zhang Guan then fought more and more bravely, winning two games in a row and setting the score of the second set at 6-3.
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Grosjean poured an entire bottle of water over his head.
At this time, Grosjean had confirmed that Zhang Guan was stronger than himself. Although Grosjean did not want to admit this, and he did not want to admit that a seeded player could not beat a wild card player, but the reason of a professional player made him Grosjean had to admit it.
"Zhang Guan's tennis ability is so strong! That kind of serve, that kind of forehand topspin, and that kind of speed are definitely the strength of a seeded player! And a track and field athlete? I'm not even his opponent. This guy is pretending to be a pig. Tiger guy, he lied to us all! And those damn media and sports commentators are also misleading me. Any sponsor’s publicity stunt or any marketing plan are all lies!”
"And that damn Roches! Did you lose to Zhang Guan because you were unwell during the game? You are simply not as strong as others, and you were completely blown away by Zhang Guan! You even made an excuse for yourself to be unwell. You are, after all, a Professional players don’t dare to admit their losses when they lose. Even I believe that you lost to Zhang Guan because you were unwell! Roches, you cheater, you screwed me over!"
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