Chapter 173: Pre-Match Commentary
After Coach Zhang's analysis, Li improved his endurance.
For the special sliding technique to adapt to the clay court, Li Cai can only go to the time house to find Nadal to spar and learn.
Before the French Open, there were three so-called warm-up tournaments, namely the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters, the Madrid Open in Madrid, Spain, and the Banco Internationale de Italia in Italy.
The Masters is the only tournament with the Grand Slam level, so the players participating in the tournament are all strong tennis players, basically the seeded players who participate in the French Open will go to participate, because they have to warm up before the French Open, participate in some high-intensity matches, and adapt to the state, which has always been the rule, of course, except for Li Cai, a monster who does not have to worry about the state of the game.
Because the first to start was the Masters Monte Carlo station, and the time of the game was mid-April, Li Cai happened to be participating in the "Hope Cup" competition and competing with Lee Sedol in ten rounds, so he naturally missed the Masters game.
However, many tennis fans or organizers believe that Li will go to the next two clay Masters to warm up and find the state of the game, and also allow them to appreciate Li Cai's gorgeous tennis skills.
As a result, it turned out that Li Cai did not participate in the next two clay Masters tournaments, but trained alone.
This also made the tennis players who planned to collect information about Li Cai and see how he was playing.
Because Li Cai is now the public enemy of tennis players in Europe and the United States, everyone wants to beat him, young tennis players want to fight to become famous, and top tennis players want to prove themselves to be able to break Li Cai and prevent him from winning the annual Golden Slam.
But then they remembered one more thing, and then they were happy, in their opinion, Li Cai did not participate in the high-intensity competition, did not warm up in advance, although he would not be injured, but the state of the game was likely to be very poor, and he might even lose the game in the first round.
In this way, Li Cai conducted simple training in Germany during the day, and played high-intensity matches with sparring partner Nadal at night in the Time House.
In the remaining two clay Masters, the Madrid Open was won by Federer, and the other Italian Banco International was naturally won by Nadal, the "King of Clay".
These two rivals are naturally favored to win the French Open, and as for the world No. 1 Djokovic and the previous champion Li Cai, they have been ignored by the media and fans.
As the days passed, there was only one week left before the start of the French Open, and in the new week, the list of opponents for the French Open will also be announced.
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The closer the time is to the French Open, the media has also begun to guess the winner of the French Open.
A British media outlet wrote: "Federer's victory at the Madrid Open shows no signs of physical weakness as he gets older. It can be said that Federer's all-round skills against Nadal have an advantage, and if the two meet in the French Open Grand Slam final on June 10, Federer may have a better chance of winning!"
The British media is obviously more optimistic about Federer, and even thinks that Federer and Nadal will face off in the French Open finals, and they don't look down on Li Cai and Djokovic at all.
The French media is more optimistic about Nadal, after all, Nadal has won five Grand Slam titles at the French Open, is known as the "King of Clay", and his audience base in Paris is much larger than Federer's.
Li Cai read a few more news reports about the French Open final, and found that the entire European media was talking about Federer and Nadal, and the most talked about by the media was the world No. 1 Djokovic. As for his defending champion, he mentions very little, and he is not optimistic about himself, and if he wants to see his own report in advance, he can only go to the news media of Asian media to see it.
"It's all about Federer and Nadal, why haven't they seen my news. I haven't appeared on the field for a few months, and the media habitually forgets about me?" Li searched for a long time, and finally found a report related to himself.
In his article, Arthur, a well-known tennis journalist, mentions Li Cai in part of his prediction of winning the French Open.
Li Cai successfully won the Australian Open a few months ago. He also made a big statement about winning the annual Golden Slam, but since the end of the Australian Open, Li has not participated in any tennis tournaments. In the past few months, we have not participated in the Masters tournament, and we have not seen the figure of this person who wants to win the "Golden Slam", but in the Go competition, I saw his figure, of course, this is also related to the fact that the prize money of the game is as high as 50 million, which is five times higher than the French Open, not to mention the Masters These are even lower-level competitions, so in my opinion, Li Cai does not have the spirit and quality of a professional tennis player at all, he wants to win the Golden Slam, I think it would be good if he could enter the quarterfinals at the French Open. ”
Seeing this news, Li Cai didn't feel angry, and felt that what Arthur said was still reasonable, he really didn't show the quality of a professional tennis player, he completely had a system, and he chose tennis for the task.
And the next article of Arthur, this is what it says.
"I suspected that Li Cai was suffering from an injury, but according to reliable sources, Li Cai is now in Germany and has been training with his team for more than a month. Although we don't know the specific situation of Li Cai yet, we know it from the organizers of the French Open. Li Cai has confirmed that he will not miss this year's French Open. Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that he said that he wants to win the annual Golden Slam, otherwise he would only win the professional Golden Slam and may not even come to the French Open, after all, he is the defending champion. ”
Arthur joked about Li Cai in an article with a humorous statement, saying that he was too lazy to participate in other tennis tournaments, and that he participated in very few tennis tournaments every year, as if he only went to tennis tournaments for honor, and even gave Li Cai an alias called Sloth.
Just like Federer has the name of a cow, Nadal has the name of natto, and Demendieva is called the queen of double faults.
Regarding Arthur's acquisition of the title of sloth, Li Cai smiled and felt that he was indeed very "lazy".
"Even Lee is the youngest French Open champion and the defending champion. But I still don't think Lee is the favorite to win the French Open. The basis for my judgment is that Li Cai's style of play is not suitable for the rhythm of the game on clay. In the Australian Open, Li Cai's fast serve is very threatening, but the speed of the ball on clay will be greatly reduced, and Li Cai has used a lot of tactics in front of the net in the Australian Open, but we all know that the tactics in front of the net are not suitable for clay battles......"
Li Cai carefully read the whole report, the famous tennis reporter Arthur who wrote this report is not black Li Cai, but has made some corresponding analysis through the Australian Open game and the tactics used by Li Cai in the past, and the analysis is more reasonable.
Last year, Li Cai broke the tennis speed record at the US Open and reached an appalling speed of 300 kilometers, which also made Li Cai's charged serve have always been regarded as a big scoring weapon for Li Cai, completely forgetting that Li Cai used a good external rotation serve at the French Open last year.
However, on clay courts, Li Cai's charged serve will be greatly weakened. The ace ball at the French Open is mainly about angle rather than speed. In addition, Li Cai's playing style in front of the net shown in the Australian Open and his usual matches is also not applicable to the French Open. In Arthur's view, Li Cai's two major scoring weapons have been abolished, and the future of the French Open is naturally worrying, and he didn't notice that when Li Cai won the French Open championship last year, he used more than these two scoring methods.