Chapter 138: Group Round-robin
Because it was an indoor hard field match in London, it was naturally arranged at London 02 Stadium.
The ATP Finals are divided into men's singles and men's doubles.
For the tennis doubles of the ATP year-end finals, Li Cai naturally didn't bother to pay attention to it, and he wouldn't pay attention to it, because Li Cai could only play tennis singles.
The eight spots in the men's singles are Novak Djokovic, Nadal, Li Cai, Federer, Murray (retired), Ferrer, Tsonga, Berdych and Fish (subs).
According to the order of world standings, it is divided into two groups, A and B, the four players in Group A are Djokovic, Li Cai, Tsonga, and Fish, who are ranked in odd, and the four players in Group B are Nadal, Federer, Ferrer, and Berdych who are ranked in even numbers.
In the group round-robin of the ATP year-end finals, only the top two in the group can qualify, and there are only four people in a group, and if you get rid of yourself, there are only three people left, which means that Li Cai only needs to win two people, and the number of game wins can reach four games.
The ATP Finals are best-of-three instead of best-of-five, like Grand Slam tournaments.
At this time, Coach Zhang brought Li Cai's tournament table in Group A.
Lee was first against Tsonga, then Fish, and finally Novak Djokovic.
On the day of the match, Li took on world No. 7 Tsonga.
This is also the first time Li Cai has played with Tsonga, as France's tennis brother, strong physique and amazing explosiveness, coupled with the appearance of the boxing champion Ali, but also Tsonga has the reputation of "tennis Ali", but also won him a place in the world tennis world, this year Tsonga's world ranking has risen to the seventh in the world, becoming one of the most powerful male players in France. In the era when the "Big Four" dominated the tennis world, Tsonga was also one of the few players to have won against four top players: Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray.
It's just that he hasn't played against the new Big Four Li Cai, and he hasn't won against Li Cai yet, and many people thought before the match that Li Cai would be able to easily beat Tsonga, just like beating Murray.
Because Tsonga is good at violent serve and forehand play, and after transformation, it is a bit similar to Li Cai's style, but compared with honor and record, Tsonga is far inferior to Li Cai.
This also made many people say that he imitated Li Cai's style of play, and the painting of the tiger was not an anti-dog, which was not as good as the original way of playing.
This made Tsonga feel very angry, why did he say that Li is a tiger and he is a dog. Moreover, the time when Li Cai entered the professional tennis world was 09 years, and he had already entered the professional tennis world in 04 years, so it stands to reason that Li Cai should imitate his own style of play.
Therefore, for Tsonga, this year-end finals is an opportunity to prove himself, and he must beat Li Cai, so that more people can understand that his playing style is more powerful than Li Cai.
The first match of the group round-robin began, with Li Cai playing against Tsonga.
At the beginning of the game, Tsonga caught Li Cai, who was still stiff, off guard, and directly broke Li Cai's serve and kept the serve, turning the score into 0:2.
And CCTV naturally broadcast this game, and the audience in front of the TV was waiting for Li Cai to beat Tsonga, but they didn't expect the start to become like this, which also disappointed Chinese fans.
A lot of people started to make a big splash on the Internet.
"Really, how can you do it, you can't even win a role like Tsonga, if you lose, wouldn't it be a round of tours, and you will lose the face of our country. ”
Those who say these words are generally pseudo-fans, who don't know that the year-end finals start the group round-robin first, and they will not be eliminated immediately if they lose a game.
For these ignorant people who spray everywhere, there are naturally real tennis fans who popularize the rules of science, refute these trolls, and in turn spray these trolls.
At this time, the CCTV commentator naturally helped Li Cai start talking.
Of course, this is also related to Li Cai's injury some time ago, so he hasn't adjusted it yet, but with Li Cai's real strength, he will definitely be able to win the game when the time comes, after all, Li Cai is the one who has won the Grand Slam trophy, and he is the pride of our country. ”
Li Cai didn't care, even if Tsonga was more ahead of him now, as long as he waited for his physical activity, he would definitely be able to win the game easily.
At 0:4, Tsonga had a four-round lead.
This also made the viewers who were watching the CCTV game feel more and more disappointed, they want to see Li Cai abusing his opponent, rather than watching his opponent abuse Li Cai.
When many people were disappointed, Li Cai also moved and began to explode.
At this time, Tsonga felt that Li Cai did not live up to his name, boasting so much, he didn't know how to win the Grand Slam championship, he really couldn't figure it out.
And in the fifth round, Li Cai's serve game began to serve.
If it weren't for the fact that he was worried that his body had not moved yet and was prone to injury, Li Cai would have wanted to use his skills and teach this Tsonga a lesson, and every time he scored, he yelled at himself like an orangutan, which made people feel angry.
After feeling that the joints had been stretched out, and after the body adjusted to the cold temperature, and began to heat up, Li Cai did not hesitate to use the charged serve.
Because he was not happy to see Tsonga, Li Cai directly charged the maximum and served.
"Boom", the ball was like a light, directly and steadily hit the bottom line, and the serve scored, while Tsonga was still standing stupidly, watching Li Cai serve.
Until the referee says, "Serve to score." ”
Tsonga came to his senses, looking at the 300 kilometers per hour serve displayed on the display, Tsonga was dumbfounded, and remembered that Li Cai's serve speed was the fastest in tennis, breaking the original serve speed of 50 kilometers.
And after the CCTV commentator saw Li Cai's serve and score, he said excitedly: "Wow, what a fast ball! Basically, in the blink of an eye, Li Cai scored, I guess many viewers didn't see how Li Cai scored, and they were wondering?"
At this time, after the on-site director broadcast Li Cai's serve ball quickly, the CCTV commentator began to be surprised again.
"The speed of 300 kilometers per hour serve, it seems that Li Cai has found his form, you must know that Li Cai's time in the US Open to break the world record is 300 kilometers per hour, now it can be said to be equal to their own record, and many people say that 300 should be the limit speed of tennis, I don't know if Li Cai can break his own record today, break the so-called limit speed, let us look forward to it!"
After the commentator's passionate commentary, many viewers who were ready not to watch the game watched the game with great interest, wondering if Li Cai could break this limit ball speed and break his own world record!
It's a pity that many viewers were disappointed, Li Cai was not able to break his ball speed record, but this full-strength serve announced the return of Li Cai's king.
The next game is very simple, Li Cai is to score, score, and score.
went from 1:4 to 6:4 and won the first game.
And after the first game, Tsonga was obviously surprised and shocked by Li Cai's strength.
"Why is it so good, is this what it takes to win a Grand Slam title? Then I used to win Nadal, Djokovic, Federer, all of them were not at their peak. ”
Obviously, Tsonga was already feeling lost in himself, and he didn't expect that there was such a difference in strength between himself and Li Cai, and he was reversed by Li Cai and won the game after leading four rounds.
Actually, Tsonga is also very good, his strength is about the same as Murray, but compared with Li Cai, the difference is too far, Li Cai's tennis ability value is as high as 99 now, and he is only a little short of the full value, so it can be said that he is the only one who can beat Li Cai.
In the second game, Li Cai looked at Tsonga pitiful, so he only used eight points of strength to maintain the score to 6:4 and won the second game.
Six days have passed, and in the remaining games of the Group A round-robin, Li Cai also easily won Fish and Djokovic, who was not in shape, won all three games, and won 6 games for the first place in Group A, and the remaining qualifying spot in Group A was not the world No. 1 Djokovic, but Fish, who came in as a substitute.
As for the two qualifying places in Group B, one is naturally the favored king Federer, and the other is Ferrer, and Nadal was unfortunately eliminated.
Both the world number one and the world number two were eliminated, which came as a surprise to many people.
After all, Nadal and Djokovic are both injured and in bad form, while Fish and Ferrer are in good form and are not injured and are normal to qualify.
The next match is the knockout round, and the semi-finals are Li Cai vs Ferrer, Federer vs Fisch.