Chapter 338: Challenge Hawkeye

Athletes, referees, spectators, live TV hosts and guests from all over the world all rested for more than ten minutes, and the TV station also took the opportunity to insert a few minutes of advertisements before the game continued!

In the 31st game, Zhang Huasong successfully won his own service game. In the 32nd game, Nadal's serve did not give Zhang Huasong any chance, and the two sides still drew 16-16.

After that, the two continued to repeat the previous tug-of-war, winning back and forth, and neither of them lost their own serve!

It wasn't until the 39th game that Zhang Huasong won the serve again and led 20-19 that the situation suddenly changed.

At this time, the time had reached 16 o'clock in the afternoon, and the final between Zhang Huasong and Nadal had been played for 7 hours, which had already surpassed the 6 hours and 33 minutes of the French Open, becoming the longest match in the history of the four Grand Slams.

Moreover, this happened in the final, and hundreds of millions of people around the world tuned in to watch the live broadcast, which is even more rare!

Commentators and guests from all over the world have excitedly shouted that this match is the greatest game of the four Grand Slams!

Many people who had never watched tennis before heard the news and temporarily joined the ranks of watching Zhang Huasong and Nadal compete in the final deciding set.

At the scene of the game, Zhang Huasong won the 39th game, and after temporarily leading 20-19, the 40th game was Nadal's serve.

Due to physical exhaustion, Nadal's serve after the 30th game began to deliberately pursue the angle of the serve, rather than speed and power.

However, the consequence of pursuing angle is that some balls can easily go out of bounds if they are slightly off!

The first few games were not obvious, but when it came to this one, Nadal had lost two goals in a row. One was his own second out of bounds, and the other was defeated by Zhang Huasong.

Nadal fell behind Zhang Huasong 0-30 on his own serve.

The hot summer weather in the southern hemisphere of Australia, coupled with 7 hours of fierce battles, Zhang Huasong, whose body has been systematically transformed, has little strength, and Nadal should be completely exhausted!

So, Nadal dropped two serves in a row.

However, after losing two consecutive serves, Nadal was also awakened and continued to serve.

In the third and fourth balls, Nadal adjusted his mentality, played his original strength again, and took advantage of his own service to win, and the two sides were tied 30-30.

Then, on the fifth ball, after the two tugged back and forth for five rounds, Zhang Huasong successfully broke serve with a smash in front of the net and won the ball, Zhang Huasong 40-30 Nadal.

This ball is so crucial!

This is the game point!

It's like a game with a score of 5-4, and the leader gets a handicap! Another game wins, and the whole set is won.

40-30, in Nadal's service game, Zhang Huasong rarely took the lead to get a game point.

If Nadal loses one more goal, he will lose this game, 19-21 in the fifth set, and the seven-hour final will also lose to Zhang Huasong 2-3 on aggregate, losing the Australian Open Grand Slam title.

Seeing this situation, the scene immediately burst into huge applause, which was the excited cheers of Zhang Huasong's fans and supporters.

Under intense pressure, Nadal began to serve the sixth ball.

As a result, the exhausted Nadal wiped the net again on his first serve and needed to make a second reserve.

On his second serve, this was Nadal's last chance.

As a result, Nadal used the remaining strength of his body to hit a ball that Zhang Huasong failed to receive and was ruled by the referee as an ace.

Immediately, Nadal's fans applauded wildly!

Just when Nadal's supporters were relieved and applauded that Nadal had finally grasped the advantage of serving and played an ace to equalize the score, Zhang Huasong judged that the ball was out of bounds with his super eyesight.

So, Zhang Huasong applied to challenge Hawkeye.

Seeing Zhang Huasong's application to challenge Hawkeye, Zhang Huasong's fans and overseas Chinese viewers were all in high spirits, Nadal's fans were shocked, and Nadal's face was unprecedentedly solemn.

In all the matches before this Australian Open, Zhang Huasong challenged the eagle eye more than ten times in total, and only looked away once, and all the others were correct.

According to this probability, Zhang Huasong launched an eagle-eye challenge, which almost means that Nadal's ball is out of bounds.

And there are only two service chances for each ball, Nadal has already wiped the net for the first time and re-served, if this second serve is judged to be out of bounds, Nadal will directly lose this service game and lose the whole game!

However, Nadal and his supporters still have the idea of luck: Zhang Huasong has a time to look away!

Although there is only one time, there is always one time! Perhaps, this time Zhang Huasong has lost his eyes again?

The scene and countless Nadal fans and compatriots prayed in their hearts: Zhang Huasong failed to challenge Hawkeye!

However, Zhang Huasong's eyesight has been transformed by the all-round system, which is much stronger than the average person, and the error rate is very low!

When the Hawkeye device on the scene replayed the trajectory of Nadal's ball, the ball was really out of bounds by a fraction of a second, and it was not Nadal's ace.

With the replay of the tennis flight trajectory of the Hawkeye device, the ace, which could have been out of bounds by only 1 millimeter, was declared invalid, and Nadal failed to serve twice.

Zhang Huasong finally broke Nadal's serve for the first time in the deciding set and won the fifth set 21-19.

In this set, Zhang Huasong and Nadal played a total of 40 games and took more than 3 hours.

Including the first four sets, the final took a total of 7 hours and 18 minutes, from 9 am to 16:18 pm, Zhang Huasong finally defeated ATP world No. 1 Nadal, won the deciding set with a score of 21-19, and won the 2009 Australian Open men's singles final with an aggregate score of 3-2.

When the referee announced that Zhang Huasong had won the final, Zhang Huasong didn't have the strength to look up to the sky and yell to celebrate, but his whole body was weak, and he threw away the racket and lay directly on the ground, really wanting to lie here and sleep for three days and three nights!

Nadal on the opposite side is even more unbearable than Zhang Huasong!

After more than seven hours of fierce battle, and finally losing the entire final on his own serve, Nadal was dealt a serious blow, both physically and psychologically.

At the end of the match, the audience applauded thunderously, paying tribute to the longest match in the history of the four Grand Slams, and for the wonderful final presented by Zhang Huasong and Nadal to all audiences around the world!

Nadal fought to the end, only losing the match with a slight physical disadvantage!

Nadal is still glorious despite defeat!

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