In the training room, Zhang Guan took advantage of the break to ask Coach Zhang about Li Hengze's situation.
Coach Zhang said: "I paid attention to the player Li Hengze when I was a player. After all, there were few yellow people in the professional tennis arena. At that time, he even asked me for my autograph! In general, Li Hengze He is a relatively typical yellow athlete."
"A more traditional yellow athlete? What does that look like?" Zhang Guan asked.
"That's how I am." Coach Zhang pointed at himself with a smile and continued: "Compared with white athletes, we yellow athletes have disadvantages and advantages in physical talent. The advantage is that our reaction speed is faster If you are agile, your body will be more coordinated, and your footwork will be flexible. On clay courts like the French Open, it is easier to achieve good results if you have strong mobility. As for the disadvantages... "
"I know, strength, explosive power and physical fitness." Zhang Guan interjected.
"That's not entirely true. In terms of strength and explosive power, yellow race and even Asians are at a disadvantage, but physical fitness is not necessarily the case. Many yellow race athletes have poor physical fitness and will be unable to perform at the back. In addition to physical talent, What's more important is that there is no high-level systematic training. After high-level systematic training, the physical fitness of Asian athletes can still be comparable to that of European and American athletes. After all, tennis is not the most competitive sport. . Although Li Hengze cannot be said to be very good in terms of physical fitness, it is still commensurate with his world ranking."
Zhang Guan nodded and then asked: "What about Li Hengze's skills? Are there any shortcomings?"
"For a player who has played professional tennis for twelve years, even if he has any shortcomings in technique, he must have made up for it through training. In my impression, his technique should be considered acceptable, but there is nothing worth mentioning. In terms of praise, overall it is relatively mediocre." Coach Zhang said and laughed: "Actually, I was quite satisfied with meeting Li Hengze in the first round. His world ranking is 42nd, which is not high. It’s not too low, and it’s just right for us to try out our new style of play. Just think of him as a testing stone!”
Coach Zhang is obviously very confident in the new "running and attacking style". He didn't even give Zhang Guan much pre-match guidance. The core of this kind of running style is to seize the initiative and then drag the opponent's nose. Facing an athlete of Li Hengze's level, Coach Zhang feels that there is no need to provide too special tactical guidance.
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On May 27, which is also the last Sunday in May, the French Open officially kicked off.
There was no exciting match on the first match day, but the weather forecast brought bad news. There would be rain during the day. This is also true. The daytime match was disrupted by rain. Fortunately, Davydenko, Serena Williams and other big-name players completed the match smoothly.
In tennis matches, hard courts and grass matches, the court will become very slippery when it rains, and athletes can easily slip and get injured. The referee will often stop the game. However, as long as the rainfall on the clay court does not exceed 5 mm, the game can be played. It went on.
When the rainfall is less than 5 mm, the red soil will be relatively moist. As the viscosity increases, the hardness of the ground will increase slightly. However, hitting the ball can easily cause some small unevenness on the ground; if it rains heavily, the red soil will become It was muddy and it was completely unsuitable to continue the race at this point.
The second match day is also the day when Zhang Guan and Li Hengze compete. Their game is the finale of Court No. 7, and the game cannot start until 5 p.m. Paris time at the earliest.
However, the weather was not good, and the sky over Paris was covered with clouds early in the morning. It rained heavily not long after the start of the game, and all games had to be postponed for three hours. In the end, only seven games were completed today, including six in the women's singles event and only one in the men's singles event.
Sister Na's game was one of the seven games. Today, Sister Na started slowly. She fell behind 3-5 in the first set and was given the set point by her opponent. At this time, the game was suspended due to rain. After the rain, Sister Na suddenly broke out. , won the first set 7-6, and then won the second set 6-0, successfully advancing.
Because of the rain, the match between Zhang Guan and Li Hengze could only be postponed. Other matches of big-name players such as Federer and Nadal could also only be held on the third match day. Sharapova's match was even more difficult. It was postponed to the fourth match day.
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After two days of continuous rain, the sky finally cleared up on the third match day of the French Open. The match between Zhang Guan and Li Hengze was also moved to Court No. 6.
Today, Zhang Guan wore a red sleeveless tennis T-shirt and a pair of white shorts. Even on the clay court, he looked very conspicuous at first glance.
This set of tennis uniforms was specially customized by the sponsor for Zhang Guan, and Sharapova also wore a vest with red as the main color. The sponsor obviously got a couple's outfit for the two of them.
In Grand Slam tournaments, large sponsors often choose more uniform colors, which is also to establish brand benefits. For example, at this year's French Open, in addition to the traditional white, the colors of the clothing sponsored by Nike for its athletes are mainly blue, dark blue, blue-black, etc., so you can see that Federer and Nadal both wear sky blue tops. Color is the main color. However, when Zhang Guan came here, considering that Chinese people prefer red, the sponsors specially provided Zhang Guan with a red jersey, and even Sharapova also took advantage of it.
This is a contest between two Asian players, which does not seem very attractive to many French viewers. From time to time, some European and American-looking viewers can be seen yawning. However, the audience from Asia, especially the Chinese and Koreans, seemed very excited. Of course, there are definitely more Chinese in Paris than Koreans. In addition, Zhang Guan is much more famous than Li Hengze, so when Zhang Guan appeared on the stage, the audience rang. There was a lot of warm applause; but when Lee Hyung Taek appeared, the applause was much sparser.
"What is about to begin is the first round of the French Open men's singles. The 15th seed Zhang Guan will face the unseeded player Li Hengze. Both of them are players from Asia. I think for the audience from Asia, this game is You must be very much looking forward to the game." The commentator introduced the game eloquently, and the two people on the field also completed their warm-up.
"The game started, first of all, it was Zhang Guan's serve! Zhang Guan showed a strong serving ability in the Australian Open. His serve was very threatening. He also served the most ACE balls in this year's Australian Open. Player! I wonder if Zhang Guan can continue his good touch into today’s French Open!”
At this time, Li Hengze looked at Zhang Guan intently.
"The French Open is not the Australian Open. This is a clay court. Your fast serve is not that powerful here! Even if your serve is faster, it will slow down when it lands on the ground." Li Hengze was thinking to himself. As he stood, Zhang Guan was already throwing the ball and swinging his racket.
The next moment, the tennis ball flew over and hit the sideline.
"What a tricky angle! The landing point is so extreme! It hit the sideline just right." Li Hengze thought to himself.
The ball speed at the French Open is relatively slow, so even some fast balls will be caught by the opponent as long as they are hit correctly. If you want to send an ACE ball, you need not only the ball speed, but also an extreme landing point and flight angle. .
Li Hengze's reaction was relatively quick. He immediately stretched out his hand to catch the ball, but the ball had already flown out.
"ACE! 15-0." The referee's voice sounded.
Li Hengze stepped forward involuntarily, looked down at the trace of the ball falling on the sideline, and shook his head helplessly.
"I'm so lucky to be able to hit the ball at this angle!"
Chapter 3 is presented, please vote for me. This chapter will make up for the new leader of the Purple Prison Moon and a Half. I'm going to write Chapter 4 next.
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