Chapter 160: Surprise

Pan Xiqi naturally knows nothing about the situation that fans are arguing about themselves on Taiwanese Internet forums. Although Lu Yanxun had heard of it a little, he had long been accustomed to public attention and did not take this matter to heart. At this point, all the energy of these two players is on the upcoming men's singles final.

Regarding Pan Xiqi's strength, Lu Yanxun had a certain psychological preparation after his victory over Tian Tianhao. However, after learning that it swept Serra, he was still taken aback. Because in Lu Yanxun's opinion, Tian Tianhao's state has declined too quickly, and it is not difficult for him to win him. But Serra is still a real top 100 player, and his strength is not much different.

Originally, in this Chengdu Challenge, he regarded Serra as his number one opponent. But now, Pansiqi won against Serra without much effort, and this result made Lu Yanxun realize that the situation was not good, and at the same time began to worry about his own future.

"Hey, I knew that there would be such a freak as Pan Xiqi, so I wouldn't have been able to make such a bet with Zheng Jie. Although there is no loss, it is still difficult to face. At this moment, Lu Yanxun began to regret his recklessness.

"Haha, it's really the way to the sky! I thought I was going to lose, so I sent me a Pansiqi. Lu Yanxun, this time you just wait to be laughed at by me! But then again, Pansizi's kid was really unexpected to me, and it seems that the national victory was not won by accident. Zheng Jie over there was in a good mood, and the more she looked at Pan Xiqi, the more pleasing she became.

Standing on the final court, facing Lu Yanxun, who is about to become his new doubles partner at the US Open, Pan Xiqi does not seem to have any intention of letting go. Since Lu Yanxun and Zheng Jie bet that the mainland players can't win a single set in his hands, Pan Xiqi wants to show the arrogant Taiwanese player the true strength of the Chinese men's players.

As soon as he opened, Pan Xiqi showed Lu Yanxun his strong serving strength. So far in this tournament, Panci has not been allowed to break once by his opponent in his service game, precisely because of his super high service scoring rate.

For the average male player, having a strong serve is often an effective weapon to ensure a smooth service game. The rate of scoring a goal on a serve will directly determine how easy it is for you to keep your serve. Because once the first serve is wrong, in order to ensure the success rate and avoid double faults, players often adopt conservative tactics when serving the second serve, and it is difficult to pose a direct threat to the opponent.

Therefore, the level of men's players in serving occupies a very important proportion in their technical and tactical composition. There are even some super serve cannons, although the baseline skills are miserable, but with that terrifying serve, you can maintain a high ranking in professional tennis.

The reason why only male players are emphasized here is not to say that serving is not important to female players, but that in today's women's tennis world, there are too few players who really serve well. The reason why Empress Wei is so old and capable of overpowering a group of young players is inseparable from her powerful and terrifying serve.

For women's players, the service advantage is very inconspicuous, and it is often easier to break serve than to hold. It is precisely because of this uncertainty that the drama of the women's game is always much stronger than that of the men's game.

Having said that, Panci made three more aces on his first serve. And in the only time Lu Yanxun completed the serve, because the quality of the serve was too low, he directly gave Pan Xiqi a chance to be high-pressure in front of the net. In this way, with a straight four points, Pansiqi won the first game of the final.

Lu Yanxun was not too surprised by this situation. After all, he had also watched some footage of Pansic's game before, and knew that Pansich's serve was amazingly powerful. Therefore, he didn't think too much about Pancic's serve, but focused on holding his serve.

According to Lu Yanxun's thoughts, although it is difficult for him to break Pancic's serve, as long as he ensures that his serve is won steadily, then the two sides will come to a tie-break. At that time, the chance will be infinitely magnified, and it is difficult to say who will die in the competition.

In fact, Lu Yanxun's tactic is very reasonable, and when facing a cannon player, looking for a chance to win in the tie-break is an effective way to win. Take the cow, which can be called the nemesis of the cannon, for example, he has a much higher probability of stealing seven in the game against the cannon-type player than in other competitions. However, with a very high tie-break win rate, the cows always get the final victory.

Next, the two sides exchanged courts and came to Lu Yanxun's service game. Although his serve is far less aggressive than Pansiqi, the angle and spin are quite changeable, so Lu Yanxun is not worried about Pansiqi's direct attack. Sure enough, after sending a 180km spin ball from the outside corner, Panci took a safe return and sent the ball back to Lu Yanxun's middle baseline.

Pansiqi's return serve can be described as a failure, neither leaving too good an offensive opportunity for the opponent, nor being able to pose much threat to Lu Yanxun. As is customary in previous rounds, Lu Yanxun and Pan Xiqi will enter the bottom-line stalemate stage, looking for suitable fighters in multiple rounds.

Pan Xiqi also thinks so, in his opinion, the top 100 players have a mysterious confidence in their own bottom-line ability, and when they are not familiar with the opponent's routine at the beginning, holding the bottom line can be said to be the safest choice. Therefore, he did not hesitate, and after completing the extension, he came to the bottom line in the middle and waited for the opponent's next shot.

However, what Pan Xiqi didn't expect was that Lu Yanxun didn't intend to play his cards according to his intentions at all. In the face of Pancic's deep mid extension, he first pretended to hit a big slash with a sideways forehand, and when he swung his arm to hit the ball, he suddenly slowed down and made a forehand cut on the tennis ball.

It can be said that Lu Yanxun's sudden change of tactics is very rare in a tennis game. Because ordinary players, even if they want to put the ball in front of the net, they will hold on to the opponent for many boards, nail the opponent to the back of the baseline and then attack suddenly, so as to catch the opponent off guard. Therefore, it can be said that it is completely unreasonable to put a small ball directly in the face of the opponent's return.

This ball Lu Yanxun released suddenly, without any warning. Although Pan Xiqi had an extremely perfect prediction in advance, he was still deceived by Lu Yanxun's unreasonable cards.

Lu Yanxun's small ball in front of the net, although the rotation is average, but the magic is very suitable for strength. The tennis ball landed lightly near the sideline in front of the net with a distance of one more point and one point less. At the same time, because there is no strong impulse, it almost always bounces vertically after landing.

At this time, looking at Pansiqi's position, the possibility of saving the ball is not high.