Chapter 116: Surprised Soderling
The second round of Wimbledon has begun.
In the first game, Soderling started to serve first.
Soderling is a good player at flat serves, and flat serves are also known as cannonball serves, so Soderling is known as the "Swedish heavy artillery".
However, what made Soderling famous was the French Open in '09, where he staged a counterattack battle
Nadal is known as the "King of Clay", with five French Open titles, and Soderling was the first man to beat Nadal on French clay, but unfortunately, he failed to win the title.
In 11, like Soderling, he eliminated Nadal in the semi-finals and became the second person to defeat Nadal at the French Open, but Li won the French Open final against Federer and won the Grand Slam trophy.
Therefore, the two were also taken out for comparison, because Li Cai won against Soderlin at the Paris Masters, so many people thought that he was inferior to Li Cai, which also annoyed Soderlin.
When Soderling served, his eyes glared at Li Cai, wanting to vent the anger in his heart.
Seeing Soderlin's angry appearance, Li thought that he had just said something to the reporter that made him know, so he was so angry.
"Such a fast serve! I didn't see the landing point at all. Sure enough, on grass, Soderling's heavy artillery serve has improved a lot, and the ball will become faster and harder to catch. Li Cai looked at the tennis ball rolling on the ground and knew that he was in trouble.
originally thought that Soderling's heavy artillery serve was the same as in the Paris Masters, but I didn't expect that after just over half a year, the ball speed became so fast.
Li Cai could only struggle to adapt to Soderling's heavy artillery serve and prepare to shoot back.
It's a pity that after the addition of the grass court, Soderlin's serve speed was a little faster, and Li saw it, and before he could react, Soderlin was scored.
In Soderling's service game, Lee only received the last ball, but it was useless because the force of the return was too strong, and he made a mistake directly into the net.
Let Soderling take an easy point.
The score of the first game became 0:1.
"Whew", Li Cai took a deep breath and did not use the external rotation serve, but also used the cannonball serve.
If the opponent is Kei Nishikori, it is normal for Li Cai to use external rotation to serve, because there will be no mistakes, and Nishikori Kei's current strength is far from Soderling, so it is natural to use a stable external rotation serve.
Although there is no systematic skill in the cannonball serve, Li Cai himself has practiced it himself, so there will not be too many mistakes, and the use of cannonball serve on the grass court is the king, after all, there is a court bonus.
Seeing that Li Cai did not use his signature serve, the topspin serve, Soderling was only slightly surprised, and then stared seriously at Li Cai's cannonball serve.
Although Li Cai practiced the cannonball serve, yellow athletes have disadvantages and advantages in physical talent. The advantage is that our reaction speed will be relatively agile, the coordination of the body will be better, and the ability to move feet is also very flexible, and the disadvantage is also obvious, strength and explosiveness, yellow people and even Asians are at a disadvantage.
Therefore, Li Cai's cannonball serve is a step worse than Soderling's cannonball serve.
Soderling naturally took Li Cai's serve easily and hit it back, and Li Cai also understood this, and did not expect his cannonball serve to score in one shot.
After serving, he went to the net with the ball, and when Soderling hit back, a beautiful volley was hit back, which caught Soderling off guard.
In this way, Li Cai relied on his excellent net skills to easily keep his serve and turn the score into a 1:1 draw.
It's Soderling's serve again, and Li can only use the skill - Ice World.
After using Ice World, Soderling's cannonball serve became slower in Li Cai's eyes, and Li Cai naturally easily used the ball and hit it back comfortably.
Soderling saw his serve in the second round, and Li Cai got used to it, and he was able to play back so comfortably, which was very incomprehensible.
You must know that in his first round of serve, Li Cai couldn't even touch the edge of the ball, and was completely pressed and beaten by himself.
Soderling couldn't understand that the media reported that Li Cai was injured, and based on Li Cai's performance in the first round, he also thought so, but he didn't expect that when he came to his second round of serve, Li Cai would change his appearance, just like knocking viagra, so excited, not at all like an injured person.
Two days ago, after Li Cai received a closed injection in the hospital, he returned to the hotel, and in the system, he spent 50,000 achievement points to exchange for an injury recovery card, and the thigh muscle strain was healed.
Therefore, Li Cai does not have any injuries at all now, and he is already in a state of vitality.
After opening the Ice World, Li Cai hit Soderlin's weakness every time he hit back, so Soderin couldn't parry, and could only watch Li Cai score easily.
The score quickly became 2:1, 3:1, 4:1, 5:1, 6:1.
Li Cai failed to break serve in the first round, and in the next six rounds, Soderling did not have a chance to win the first game.
Seeing that Li Cai won the first game with a score of 6:1, all the audience was surprised.
The reporter who reported Li Cai's injury was even more stunned, not expecting that Li Cai could crush his opponent Soderling even if he was injured.
If Li Cai's opponent is Kei Nishikori, then it can be explained.
But Soderlin is different, you must know that Soderlin is ranked fifth in the world, three places higher than Li Cai's world ranking.
Of course, those who say these things are the audience watching the excitement, and those who really understand tennis understand.
After winning the French Open Grand Slam after winning Nadal, Li Cai is already a top tennis player.
Although Soderling is ranked higher than Li Cai in the world, there are many reasons why Li Cai has played fewer games, and if Li Cai is like "model worker" Davydenko, who plays more than 30 games a year, he can easily become the world's No. 1.
It's just that Li Cai doesn't want to play low-level ATP tournaments and finds it unchallenging.
In the second game, Li Cai opened the skill - Ice World when Soderlin served, and bullied Soderling.
Because of the need to conserve his strength, Li Cai did not use it in his own service game, and in addition to the cannonball serve, which is the most prone to error, Li Cai was broken by Soderlin several times in the service game.
This allows the audience to see the match and find that both of them can't hold their serve and are breaking each other's serves.
However, Li Cai's break was due to a lot of service errors, and after Li Cai switched back to his good external rotation serve, he easily held the serve.
Li Cai won 6:3 in the second game and got the match point of the game, as long as he won one game, Li Cai was able to advance to the next round.
In the third game, Soderlin couldn't find a way, and was beaten 6:0 by Li Cai, ate a duck egg, and lost the game.
This also made the reporters and spectators who looked down on Li Cai and thought that Li Cai lost the second round of the game were disappointed, and felt very faceless, and they were all slapped in the face by Li Cai.
What about the injury?
Where is the trust between people, which makes many people who bought Soderlin win very angry, feeling that this reporter reported indiscriminately, without a little discipline, and hurt so many of us to lose money.
In this way, Lee advanced to the third round of Wimbledon.