At this time, Federer was a little confused. As a professional player, his thoughts were repeatedly guessed by his opponents, which was obviously a very uncomfortable experience. This is like a battle between two armies. One side's well-prepared tactics are constantly being seen through by the opponent. As a commander, he must be in a very bad mood.
So far, Zhang Guan has correctly guessed Federer's intention six times. Although this number is not very many, at most six goals have been lost, but if it is on the key ball, even if Zhang Guan guesses correctly once, for Federer Said it was a fatal blow.
The current score is 5-4, which is obviously a critical moment. For both sides, every ball must be fought for.
The score is 30-0. Zhang Guan only needs to win two more goals to win this set.
Zhang Guan served again, and it was still a ball with a speed of 210 kilometers per hour. Obviously Zhang Guan hoped for a quick victory.
If it is an ordinary player, he will definitely not be able to catch this ball, but Zhang Guan’s opponent is Federer at his peak, and Federer is extremely focused now. He knows the power of Zhang Guan’s serve, so he focused all his attention on it. Return of serve.
Federer successfully caught the ball.
But then, Federer fell into passivity again. He was once again mobilized by Zhang Guan to run back and forth. After persisting for six rounds, he still lost the ball.
In the baseline game, it is normal for the receiver to run left and right when being mobilized by the server, and Federer has long been accustomed to this situation. Looking at the score of 40-0, Federer sighed helplessly. In this level of competition, as long as Zhang Guan makes discontinuous mistakes, it will be extremely difficult for Federer to break serve.
At this time, Zhang Guan held three game points, which also meant that Zhang Guan had six opportunities to serve. In this case, even if the first serve failed, Zhang Guan dared to continue to fight for the second serve. So next, Zhang Guan chose an extreme serving method, making a second serve error, and then a first serve error. Finally, he served an ACE in the second second serve and won the game.
"Congratulations to Zhang Guan, he won the first set with a score of 6-4!" The commentator soothed his tone and continued: "I never expected that it would be Zhang Guan who won the first set! Knowing that in the pre-match predictions, everyone thought that this would be a one-sided game, and Federer might win by crushing him, but what he didn't expect was that Zhang Guan actually took the lead and won the first set. In this case, we don’t have to worry about the game ending 3-0, we at least have the fourth set to watch!”
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In the CCTV studio, the commentator and guest commentator Su were all in high spirits. Before the game, the foreign media were all not optimistic about Zhang Guan. Many media even thought that Zhang Guan would lose 0-3. Now Zhang Guan has won the first place. The plate made the two of them feel proud and proud.
In the directing room at the back, Director Du, who is in charge of the CCTV Sports Channel, is concerned about the ratings.
"There is a two-hour time difference between Melbourne and here. Five o'clock in the afternoon over there is equivalent to three o'clock in the afternoon here. Although it is not a prime viewing moment like seven o'clock in the evening, today is the weekend after all, and the ratings will definitely be higher than usual. Quite a few." Director Du looked at the information in his hand, which was the ratings statistics made just before the game started.
"The ratings for the previous period were 1.015%, which has already exceeded 1. This number is almost the same as the ratings for Dayao games!" Director Du was still a little dissatisfied. After all, Dayao games were all in the morning. The ratings are definitely lower than those in the afternoon. If the 1.015% ratings were placed in the morning, it would be about 0.8%.
"Although there is a big star like Zhang Guan, the audience is still far less enthusiastic about tennis than basketball. However, the game has just begun, and the ratings will gradually increase. I think the final ratings should rise to About 1.5%!" Director Du calculated silently in his mind.
A ratings of 1% is already a very high rating for ordinary games. For example, in the NBA regular season, the ratings of the Rockets and Dayao games are around 1%. However, for some key games of the Chinese Super League, the ratings are around 1%. The rate is almost 1%. If it were a European football league with games in the latter part of the night, the domestic ratings would probably be less than 0.2%.
Under normal circumstances, the Grand Slam finals will definitely not have a 1% viewership rating in China. After all, the audience for tennis is far less than that of basketball and football. But today’s game is different because Zhang Guan is participating, so 1% The ratings seem a bit low, and CCTV's internal ratings target is 1.5%, which is considered very high during the time period from 3 to 5 pm.
"The ratings statistics for this time period should be made. I don't know if they have reached 1.5%." Director Du was thinking about it when one of his subordinates came over with a form.
"Director, have the ratings been calculated for this time period?"
"Has it reached 1.5%?" Director Du asked immediately.
The other party nodded. Director Du took a deep breath, stretched out his hand to take the ratings statistics, and looked down.
"This is... 2.033%! The ratings have exceeded '2'!" Director Du exclaimed.
If it is viewed during prime time after 7 p.m., the ratings of some competitions can reach more than 2%, but in games starting at 3 p.m., few can reach 2% ratings.
"Why is it so high? The statistics for the last period just exceeded 1%. Why did the ratings increase so much in such a short period of time?" Director Du asked.
"It seems that it was because Zhang Guan won the first set. Then the ratings suddenly increased significantly."
"Zhang Guan won the first set! So that's it." Director Du's face suddenly lit up, and he said to himself: "Now that he has won the first set, the ratings have reached over 2%. If If we win another game, maybe the ratings can reach 3%!"
For the afternoon live broadcast of the game, it is already a great achievement to have a ratings of 2%, but if it can reach a ratings of 3%, it can be said to be an abnormal result.
As the director of the sports channel, Director Du is very familiar with the viewing habits of domestic audiences. Domestic audiences are roughly divided into three types. The first type is die-hard fans. This kind of audience will watch the game no matter how it is played. Take the national football game as an example. No matter how miserable the loss is, these fans will persist. After watching the game.
The second type of audience is the selective audience. They are used to watching the beginning of the game. If the game is going well, they will continue to watch. If the game is not satisfactory, they will not continue to watch. It is also a national football match. If the opening game goes smoothly, this type of audience will insist on sitting in front of the TV. However, if the opponent scores several goals in the first half, then this type of audience will definitely not continue to watch. The second half of the game.
The third type of audience is those who are used to watching downwind games. This type of audience is often "pseudo-sports fans". This kind of audience will only watch the game when the side they support is leading. For example, there are a large number of "fake fans". Many people are afraid that they can't even tell the difference between the 11 players playing in the national football team. However, if the national football team plays smoothly, such as leading by one or two goals in the first half, then this type of fans will have Those who are interested in watching the second half of the game will not go to the game if they are not interested.
Tennis does not have a strong mass base in China, and many people do not understand this sport at all. Therefore, the third type of audience has increased in a short period of time, that is, "pseudo tennis fans". Many of these audiences have been linked to The rules of tennis are not very clear, but after hearing that Zhang Guan led Federer 1-0, they began to pay attention to this game, or in other words, they started to pay attention to this sport. It is precisely because of this that the ratings soared rapidly in a short period of time.
"After today's game, there will probably be a lot more tennis viewers! With the 1% new audience, we have to try to retain these new audience groups." Director Du thought of this and picked up the phone. Called the broadcast room.
"Tell the studio and introduce some basic rules. There are many new viewers watching this game."
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