Reuters: The 21-year-old peerless duo will compete in the finals.
On Saturday, in the men's singles semi-finals of Wimbledon, the No. 2 seed Nadal eliminated the Serbian Djokovic and successfully entered Sunday's final. In this game, Djokovic Qi announced his withdrawal midway due to injury. In another match, Zhang Guan, the No. 3 seed in the tournament, successfully defeated Swiss King Federer and then met Nadal in the final. It is worth mentioning that Nadal and Zhang Guan are both 21 years old. We also look forward to them giving the fans a wonderful performance in tomorrow's final.
AP: Federer’s dream of fifth consecutive Wimbledon title shattered
On Saturday, in the men's singles semi-finals of Wimbledon, Zhang Guan, the No. 3 seed, eliminated tennis king Federer and successfully advanced to Sunday's final. Federer also failed to win five consecutive Wimbledon titles. In another semi-final, Djokovic announced his withdrawal midway due to injury. Nadal successfully entered the final, and Djokovic became the first person to withdraw due to injury in the history of Wimbledon semi-finals. Pros.
Reuters: Djokovic retired and Nadal benefited.
When Nadal's opponent Djokovic announced his withdrawal in the third set, the candidates for this year's Wimbledon men's singles final were also revealed - Zhang Guan and Nadal will meet again in the final after the French Open. In this game, Djokovic was troubled by back and toe injuries, so that he had to give up the opportunity to reach the finals that he had never had. It seems that Nadal, who was a little slow to enter the state today, got With the favor of God, his opponent stopped the game early and bought him valuable time to recover. You must know that Nadal has played every day since Monday, and in both games, the winner was not decided until the fifth set, so he took a rest. Time is too precious to him.
The news reports of the three major news agencies did not mention the detailed match process of the semi-finals. However, in the eyes of many fans, the outcome of the final was already determined in advance from the moment Zhang Guan defeated Federer. Zhang Guanhui defeated Nadal in the final and then engraved his name on the champion's Challenger Cup.
However, Nadal did not give up. He even told the media that he could win.
"Praise to Zhang Guan as the number one favorite, Nadal: I believe I can win the final!" 》
"In the past year, many things have changed. Now I am playing better than before, but I must admit that Zhang Guan is the number one favorite to win Wimbledon. I will play this game with confidence and enthusiasm. In the finals, I played an aggressive performance, and I also believed that I could win the final victory."
Nadal is also likely to become the second Spanish men's singles player to win Wimbledon since Santana in 1966. He believes that there is still a big gap between him and Zhang Guan in the grass court. Nadal said, "Zhang Guan has mastered all kinds of skills." My net-playing skills allow me to control the speed of the ball very accurately. So I have to perform better than usual in Sunday's game. For example, my chipping and net-volleying skills have to be improved. , but I still have enough room for improvement.”
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"Nadal refuses to give up!" Zhang Guan looked at the report on the computer screen and continued: "Yes, it's the finals, of course Nadal will not give up easily."
"I think Nadal is a little guilty." Sharapova leaned on Zhang Guan's shoulder and continued: "Nadal is usually a relatively humble person, and his English is not very good, so he is very uncomfortable in front of the media. He always seems a little shy when playing. Such a declaration of victory on a non-clay court is rare for Nadal. But don’t take it lightly tomorrow, after all, it’s Nadal.”
"Don't worry. If I beat Nadal tomorrow, I will be one US Open champion away from the Grand Slam." Zhang Guan said with a smile.
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July 8, the last day of Wimbledon, the only match today was the men's singles final, between Zhang Guan and Nadal.
Due to Zhang Guan's outstanding performance in previous games and Sampras-style playing style at the net, almost all professionals are not optimistic about Nadal, which in turn aroused Nadal's fighting spirit.
In the receiving match between the two sides, Nadal played very proactively and launched a powerful attack in Zhang Guan's serve, causing the two sides to be evenly divided in the first game. Then Nadal actually used a small diagonal to cross the ball. Got the break point first.
"Nadal took the lead and got the break point. I really didn't expect that Nadal would be the first to get the break point in this set. It seems that Nadal is also fighting for the championship. He gave Zhang Guan a kick!"
Zhang Guan was also shocked. He did not expect Nadal to launch a strong attack at the beginning of the game and even get a break point.
However, Zhang Guan did not give Nadal a chance to break serve. He showed that he used a powerful inside corner kick to directly serve and score, equalizing the score. Then he served again with an outside corner kick and successfully maintained his serve.
"It was a near miss. Zhang Guan still kept his serve. Looking back on the situation just now, it was really precarious. Nadal played really proactively at the beginning today. I think Nadal will still use it in the next serve game." Let’s play proactively like this!” With the commentator’s words, the second game began.
In the second game, Nadal's serve.
The tennis ball flew over the net. It was an inside corner kick and hit Zhang Guan's backhand. Zhang Guan caught the ball with his backhand, but the ball flew out of bounds.
"Topspin serve?" Zhang Guan was a little surprised. Most people on the grass court would choose the faster flat shot. If the first serve fails, the probability of choosing the slice shot for the second serve is also higher, because on the grass The power of small shots on the court is greater, and the use of topspin serves is much less. This is exactly what happened. Zhang Guan did not expect Nadal to use topspin, so the return ball went out of bounds.
The next time he served, Nadal still served with topspin, and the quality of Zhang Guan's return was not high. Nadal won another ball, and the score reached 30-0. Then Nadal hit an ACE ball to turn the score into 40-0. At this time, Nadal held three game points.
"40-0, it seems that Nadal is sure to win this game. Maybe he will give Zhang Guan a love-game!" the commentator said.
Zhang Guan also had a premonition that Nadal was very positive at the beginning.
"It seems that Nadal is well prepared today! He should really want to win the game." Zhang Guan quickly began to adjust his mentality, preparing to give Nadal, the "resistance", a fatal blow.
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