"Federer defeated Nadal in the final set and ended Nadal's 81-match winning streak on clay"
"A great athlete needs a great opponent. Hamburg, Germany, local time on May 20, news, the third part of the French Open warm-up tournament and the last important warm-up event, the Hamburg Clay Masters final, the 11th episode of "The Cow Bean War" In the end, after losing one set first, Federer, the world's No. 1 player, swept his opponent in the next two sets and beat Nadal 2-6/6-2/6-0, ending Nadal's 81-game winning streak on clay. Beating Nadal on clay for the first time. Both will take a week off to prepare for the French Open, which will start in seven days."
This is a report from a certain domestic media, and then some details of the game are described. The report is relatively pertinent.
Foreign media reports are not so satisfactory. Many media have even started betting on the French Open champion.
A British media wrote: "Federer finally defeated Nadal for the first time in the sixth clay court meeting. Federer's record between the two was 4 wins and 7 losses. However, it is worth noting that the battle between the two in the last set. Federer broke serve three times in a row and defeated Nadal 6-0. I think Federer must have found a way to deal with Nadal. If the two meet in the French Tennis Finals on June 10, Federer's chance of winning may be Bigger!”
The British media is obviously more optimistic about Federer.
The French media are more optimistic about Nadal. After all, Nadal has won the championship twice in a row here, and his audience base in Paris is larger than Federer.
"Although Federer defeated Nadal and won the championship in the Hamburg Masters yesterday, what cannot be ignored is the record of the two on clay. Federer is still at an absolute disadvantage with 5 losses and 1 win. But in the last five times The fact that all the matches were in the finals also tells us that Federer can only be called the "second master on clay." In yesterday's match, we saw Nadal trying to use his forehand to suppress Federer's backhand, preventing Federer from having too much chance. There are many opportunities to hit the forehand, and on this clay court, Federer's backhand is obviously difficult to match Nadal's powerful forehand. Federer is full of unprecedented strong desire for the French Open title this year, and he will do so from the beginning of the clay court season. With the assistance of coach Roche, the Australian old man will accompany Federer to compete and train in Europe throughout the clay court season. But even so, the author is still more optimistic that Nadal will complete three consecutive French Open titles."
Zhang Guan read several more news reports about the French Open finals and found that the entire European media was talking about Federer and Nadal. Besides that, Djokovic was talked about the most by the media. His outstanding performance in the last few months of the Australian Open and last year's French Open quarter-finals were regarded by the media as having the potential to win the championship. It is worth mentioning that Djokovic has risen to sixth place in the latest ATP world rankings.
"They are all talking about Federer, why haven't they seen any news about me? I haven't appeared on the court for several months, and the media has habitually forgotten about me?" Zhang Guan searched for a long time and finally found a report related to him. .
This is an article written by a former tennis professional named Gaudens. It is also a prediction for winning the French Open, and part of it mentions Zhang Guan.
"Zhang Guan successfully won the Australian Open championship a few months ago, which also represented a successful transformation for the world track and field king. However, since the end of the Australian Open, Zhang Guan has not participated in any tennis matches. Master We did not see Zhang Guan at any of the Indian Wells, Masters Miami, Masters Monte Carlo, Masters Rome, and the just-concluded Masters Hamburg."
"I once suspected that Zhang Guan was suffering from injuries, but according to reliable reports, Zhang Guan has begun to cooperate with former French Open champion Zhang Depei, and Zhang Guan has been training in the past few months. Although we are still I don’t know the specific situation, but I learned from the organizer of the French Open that Zhang Guan has confirmed that he will not miss this year’s French Open.”
"Even though his new coach Zhang Depei was the youngest French Open champion, I still don't think Zhang Guan is a candidate for the French Open championship. My judgment is that Zhang Guan's playing style does not adapt to the rhythm of the clay court. .In the Australian Open, Zhang Guan's fast serve is very threatening, but the ball speed on the clay court will be greatly slowed down; at the same time, Zhang Guan used a lot of front-net tactics in the Australian Open, but we all know that the front-net tactics are Not suitable for fighting on clay..."
Zhang Guan read the entire report carefully. The author of this report, Gordons, was not trying to slander Zhang Guan. He just made some corresponding analysis based on the tactics used by Zhang Guan in the Australian Open, and the analysis was also It makes more sense.
The high-speed flat serve has always been a major scoring weapon for Zhang Guan. However, on clay courts, the power of fast serves will be greatly weakened. The ACE ball at the French Open mainly relies on angle rather than speed. In addition, Zhang Guan's net-playing style shown in the Australian Open is not suitable for the French Open. In Gaudens' view, Zhang Guan's two major scoring weapons have been abolished, and the prospect of the French Open is naturally worrying.
"When we get to the French Open, I'll let you see the power of running and attacking!" Zhang Guan looked at his watch: "Why did I forget about this? Today's French Open match list should be out. It's been several days. It’s been an hour, the match list must have been announced a long time ago! If there are no surprises, I will meet Davydenko again in the top 16.”
In the four Grand Slams, the group positions of the 32 seeded players are fixed, but the seeded players will not meet until the third round at the earliest, so what Zhang Guan is most concerned about now is the opponents in the first two rounds.
Since he has not participated in any tennis matches for more than three months, he has been overtaken by Djokovic, Murray, Haas and others, and dropped to the fifteenth position in the world, so he will be divided into 2/4 district.
Zhang Guan clicked on the French Open web page. As expected, the grouping of athletes had just appeared. Zhang Guan quickly found his position in the 2/4 area. But he discovered that his opponent had an Asian name and his nationality was Korean.
"Hyung-Taik-lee, it's Lee Hyung-taek! That guy is number one in South Korea and number two in Asia. No, now I'm number one in Asia, so Lee Hyung-taek should be pushed to number three in Asia." Zhang Guan thought for a while and found that he was right Li Hengze seemed to know very little, so he then searched for Li Hengze's name.
"Li Hengze, a veteran born in 1976, is 31 years old this year. He started playing professionally in 1995 and has been playing for 16 years. The only time he won the ATP championship was at the 2003 Sydney Open, and the best in Grand Slam His performance was in the top 16 of the US Open in 2000. His current ranking is 42nd. Players of this level are no threat to me!"
Zhang Guan didn't care that his opponent was Li Hengze, a player who had been playing tennis for more than ten years and was only ranked in the forties. He had only won one ATP championship. In Zhang Guan's view, he was no threat at all.
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"The first round of the French Open: Li Hengze VS Zhang Guan, the battle for the "number one" in men's tennis in Asia! 》
This article in the "Korea Herald" introduced that Lee Hyung-taek would face Zhang Guan in the first round of the French Open. This article quickly aroused discussion among the Korean media and the public, and most of the discussion was "As long as Lee Hyung-taek defeats Zhang Guan can become the number one tennis player in Asia”!
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