Chapter 121: All the way to the top

As for the online scolding battle, both parties did not know about it, and they were busy preparing for the match in order to win the Grand Slam championship at the US Open.

As a seeded player, Li Cai's opponent in the first round was an unseeded player, Ireland's Sorensen, who is a player with average strength and average reputation.

When Li Cai heard this name, he was very unfamiliar, and he knew that there would be no players with decent results in the future.

And the name Sorensen reminded Li of a game elf in the Cell, also named Sorensen.

When it was time for the match, Lee eased up 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 over Sorensen. This is a game with a huge disparity in strength, in this game, Li Cai's first-serve scoring rate is as high as 90%, Sorensen has no way to take Li Cai's external rotation serve, he can only watch Li Cai's serve and score, and Li Cai's break rate is also more than 50%, looking at these two amazing data, it is enough to see Li Cai's strong strength, and it is normal to win the game.

Li Cai defeated American Bogomolov 7-5, 6-1, 6-1 in the second round.

Bogomolov's serve is ferocious, forehand hitting is strong, this style of play is actually very suitable for the US Open, but Bogomolov's stability is insufficient, like Cheng Biting Jin's three-board axe, the three axes are used up, and they can only rest, and in the game, Bogomolov played very fiercely, whether it was receiving the ball and serving was passionate, but once the momentum passed, the "three-board axe" did not have an effect, Bogomolov changed from a "big villain" to a "good baby", and was hung up and beaten by Li Cai.

The opponents in the first two rounds were average, and Li Cai was playing as a warm-up game to find the state of the game.

In this way, Li easily advanced to the third round of the US Open, where he faced American player John Isner.

Lee's third-round opponent Isner is no inexperienced rookie, having been a NCAA tennis champion and has been on the All-American Star Team every year.

Unlike the opponents in the first two rounds, who did not put any pressure on Li Cai, in this year's French Open, Isner was reversed with a big score of 2-1 over the "King of Clay" Nadal, and failed to become the second player in the history of the French Open to defeat Nadal, but this match also made Isner the first player in history to force Nadal into a five-set battle at the French Open.

However, Li Cai was much better than Isner, and with a 2-1 lead, he did not let Nadal turn the tables and won the match, becoming the second player to beat Nadal and also won the first Grand Slam title of his tennis career.

However, if Li Cai competed with Isner, he suffered a lot in terms of height.

Isner is 2.08 meters tall, he used to be a basketball player in middle school, but white basketball players in the United States are not so easy to mix, there are perverts everywhere, and if you want to do well in basketball, this height is nothing, so Isner switched to tennis, and achieved very good results.

Sure enough, in the game, Isner caused some trouble to Li Cai, Isner's height makes him serve very well, and Isner is also very good at serving the net, which makes Isner can hold serve relatively smoothly on the key ball, and at the same time, Isner with long arms is also very powerful, which is very helpful for playing on the cement field. At the same time, Isner, like the vast majority of American athletes, is relatively full of physical strength.

In the first set of the match between Li Cai and Isner, the two sides played a tie-break, Isner's serve was well timed to choose the net, Li Cai tried many times and failed to break serve, but Li Cai gradually became familiar with Isner's rhythm and play, and finally won the tie-break, leading 1-0.

In the second and third sets, Li turned on the skill - Ice World, and with the changeable style of play and fast offensive and defensive transitions, Isner lost his rhythm, and to add insult to injury, Isner made several service errors and failed at the net, which also caused Isner to be unable to follow up and lose the next two games.

Li Cai also easily entered the fourth round of the US Open with a score of 3:0, that is, the quarterfinals of the US Open.

In the four Grand Slam tournaments this year, Li Cai was in the same group as Murray in the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon, and met Murray in the quarterfinals, and defeated him, stopping him in the quarterfinals and unable to enter the semifinals.

Because of the sound of scolding on the Internet, the match between Li Cai and Murray has also received a lot of attention, and it is also the most suspenseful game.

In the other quarterfinals, many people don't have to think about it to know that Federer, Nadal and Djokovic will advance to the semifinals, and only Li Cai and Murray feel evenly matched, and it is difficult to tell the winner.

Before the start of the quarterfinals, when Murray was interviewed by reporters, he was naturally asked if he was sure to beat Li Cai and enter the semifinals of the US Open.

As Li Cai's coach, Coach Zhang can't guide Li Cai in tennis training, so he can only collect information about his opponents and the like, and cheer for Li Cai in the game, and everything in the game depends on Li Cai to solve it himself.

This also made Coach Zhang feel that he might be the happiest tennis coach, not worrying about Li Cai's tennis results, and bothering to help Li Cai train, as long as he is like a parent, take care of Li Cai.

Coach Zhang understood that he couldn't help Li Cai in terms of tennis training and skills, so he naturally spent his time collecting information and the latest developments of Li Cai's opponent.

You must know that as long as Li Cai can win the Grand Slam championship again, he, as Li Cai's coach, will naturally rise, and the bonus and reputation will lie down with Li Cai, and he will naturally be interested in Li Cai's opponent.

And if you don't do anything, Li Cai will be bored when the time comes, and if you replace yourself as a coach, you won't be able to cry.

Coach Zhang understands that he is just a decoration, he can't train Li Cai, and he can't hand over Li Cai's tennis skills, and he can become Li Cai's coach because he left the relationship and got in, otherwise, any tennis coach of the national team will line up to want to be Li Cai's coach.

Therefore, Coach Zhang is very self-aware and helps Li Cai solve many small things cleanly, so he doesn't have to worry about Li Cai, as long as Li Cai plays with peace of mind.

When Coach Zhang saw what Murray said in the interview, he felt that he should remind Li Cai to be careful about the game and not to be careless.

Murray said this in an interview with reporters.

"Li Cai, I admit that he is a tennis genius, but in tomorrow's quarterfinals, it must be me who wins, and I must get a ticket to the semifinals of the US Open. ”

Looking at Murray's arrogant speech, reporters in Europe and the United States feel that it is normal, thinking that this is an old powerhouse, and they have such confidence.

Among the reporters who are interviewing Murray, there is a Chinese reporter named Zhang Qiao, who is naturally disgusted by Murray's words, plus Zhang Qiao is a die-hard fan of Li Cai, and Li Cai has watched every tennis game.

So, Zhang Qiao took out the data in his hand and asked Murray questions.

"Hello, Mr. Murray, as far as I know, you have played against Li Cai three times, all at the Grand Slam level, and each time you met in the quarterfinals, but you lost to Li Cai, stopped in the quarterfinals, and failed to enter the semifinals, why are you so confident in this US Open match?"

In Zhang Qiao's sentence, the subtext is that you have lost to Li Cai three times, and each time you lost in the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam, and you dare to be so ashamed, where does you get your confidence.

Murray listened to Zhang Qiao's question, looked at this Chinese reporter coldly, and felt that like Li Cai, he was so annoying.

At this time, the European and American reporters present heard Zhang Qiao's question, but they did not expect that the question raised by the Chinese reporter would be so sharp, and he also came up with solid evidence.

But for Zhang Qiao's question, they were all curious and wanted to know how Murray would answer.

Seeing that there was silence on the field, all waiting for his answer, although Murray was very angry and felt like he was about to explode, he still pretended to be relaxed and explained the question.

"Well, although I lost to Li Cai three times, I am already familiar with his tennis style, Li Cai is a typical net-playing player, but his baseline playing skills are not good. And in this year's Wimbledon, on the grass court that attaches great importance to attack, Li Cai was won by Djokovic in the match with Djokovic with excellent baseline skills, so in tomorrow's game, I can easily win Li Cai as long as I rely on baseline skills. ”

After listening to Murray's explanation, many people suddenly realized that what Murray said made sense.

When Coach Zhang saw the content of this interview, when Murray said the means to deal with Li Cai, he felt that Li Cai was going to be bad this time, so he hurriedly showed this report to Li Cai, so that he could prepare early and deal with Murray's bottom-line skills tomorrow.