Chapter 147: The Bottom Line Pressure
After playing this ball, Pan Xiqi was also slightly relieved in his heart. It turned out that the ball just now, although it looked like he was understatement, but in fact, his spirit has been highly tense.
Hiroshi Tima is arguably the first true tour player he has encountered since he entered professional tennis. Although the other party is no longer at his peak because of his age, he still has a certain amount of hard power. With his fight against Hiroshi Tata, Panci thinks he'll get a glimpse of what a tour-level player can do.
Although the current Tian Tian Hao can only be regarded as the last tour player, his level is far from comparable to Wu Enemy Zhang Ze after all. After the game started, Pansiqi really felt a noticeable difference.
At least judging from the ultra-long round baseline multi-shot confrontation just now, Tian Tianhao's strength is far superior to that of these current Chinese players. Don't look at him and Pansiqi playing on the court, but in fact, they can have this level of bottom-line confrontation with Pansiqi, at least Pansiqi has not encountered it in China.
Not to mention anything else, in terms of the depth of getting the ball back, it is enough to embarrass a group of Chinese players. Because in the round just now, almost every time the two players hit the ball back, they pressed into the deep area close to the baseline. You must know that this has been done in the high-intensity confrontation of the game, and if the players do not have a good baseline basic skills, it is difficult to be able to shoot so many shots in a row without making mistakes.
In addition to landing deep enough, the two sides also mixed a lot of return and line changes in multiple rounds. Although they are both very conventional two diagonal diagonal diagonal lines, the large range of back-and-forth runs undoubtedly greatly increases the difficulty of the player's return ball.
According to Pan Xiqi's judgment, if Wu Di was fighting against Tian Tian Hao on the ball just now, it would be difficult for Wu Di to be able to survive 20 beats. It is also a good example of the huge gap between Chinese players and tour-level players.
However, Pan Xiqi was still a little surprised by the strength that Tian Hao showed just now. Because he felt that he seemed to be overestimating his opponent. In his mind, since he can participate in the highest-level professional tour, in addition to having a solid bottom line, he must at least have a certain offensive ability.
But just now, Tian Tianhao just blindly defended the bottom line, without the slightest intention of taking the initiative to attack, and he didn't even try to change the rhythm of the sudden straight line. This was a little surprising to Pansich, because while he was holding on, most of his energy was on guarding against Tian Tianhao's surprise attack.
And from Pansich's point of view, there are actually several opportunities for Tim Tian Hao to attack directly, and Pansiqi has a plan to deal with it. But waiting left and right, Tian Tianhao never made a move, but dragged it out until the end, and he took the initiative to surrender the gun.
Therefore, after the ball, although Panci felt that Timda's baseline ability was very solid, his lack of attack still made him very puzzled, after all, it was a little different from the performance of the tour players he envisioned.
Pan Xiqi really wronged Tian Tianhao when he thought like this, where was the point just now, where did he not want to take the initiative to attack, but he couldn't do it at all! You must know that the intensity of the multi-point return ball just now has almost reached the maximum level that Takita Hao can withstand at this stage. In this case, being able to shoot so many shots is already considered strong enough for his willpower. Asking him to make other changes is really difficult for a strong man.
Although Tamada has been a top 100 player for many years, he has never achieved any outstanding results on the tour. This is precisely because compared to his stable baseline ability, his active aggression is a bit lacking.
Of course, the aggressiveness here is more than the target of those good tennis players. If we compare with the Chinese players, we can't wait for him to take the initiative to attack, and we will directly make a mistake to send points.
In the duel with other tour players, Hiroshi Timda is often the one who is beaten passively. His tactics are just to blindly fight the bottom line with the opponent, and he will hardly take the initiative to attack until the best opportunity.
This tactic makes the initiative of the game almost in the hands of others, if the opponent's baseline is not as good as him, and the offense is unreliable, then it is possible to be worn to death by him. If you have a good attack, it will be almost impossible to win the final victory.
But then again, in professional tennis, the baseline confrontation is not weaker than Hiroshi Tata, and the offense is stronger than him, this kind of player can definitely be called an excellent tennis player, and his world ranking is mostly among the top 50. Therefore, in Pan Xiqi's expectation, the shot that Tian Tian Hao raided was basically made by higher-level athletes.
Next, Pansiqi and Tian Tian Hao had a few more multi-shot tug-of-wars, and almost the same as the previous point, Tian Tian Hao will always be dragged down by Pan Xiqi who is more stable and has better physical fitness in the end. And Hiroshi Timda's offense still didn't come out, and even if there were occasional attempts, there was little threat.
In this way, Pan Xiqi also understood that the other party did not want to attack, but that his ability was not enough. Since grinding can grind opponents to death, there is no need for Pan Xiqi's prepared backhand. Because as long as the game continues to play at this pace, the No. 3 seed will have no chance of winning.
If the Japanese veteran knew that Pan Xiqi was just barely coping with himself, and there were still many means he had not used, he would definitely be so shocked that his jaw would fall to the ground. Because in his opinion, the level that Pansiqi is showing now, that is, the strength of the top 50 ranked players, is not an exaggeration.
Although Pansic did not take the initiative to attack, it can be clearly seen that in the confrontation with his own bottom line, Pansic has a clear upper hand. Not to mention, the steps are more relaxed, and the control of the line is also more skillful. Pansiqi's return ball almost always made the Japanese player have to run the maximum distance to defend in place. Because of this, after every point is played, the Japanese veteran will feel that his physical fitness has been greatly challenged.
"Damn, this is not at all a level that Chinese players can achieve. This bottom-line ability is really amazing! Panting for breath, Tian Tian Hao made his own judgment on Pan Xiqi in his heart.
You must know that in the qualifying tournament of the Shanghai Masters two years ago, Tian Tianhao also gave a Chinese player double duck eggs. Although that player is not well-known, when he fought against Wu Enemy Zhang Ze and others, Tian Tian Hao all passed the test with a big score.
And the reason why he can achieve such a crushing advantage is really because he is a few points higher than the bottom line ability of Chinese players. But now the situation is that in the face of Pansiqi's bottom-line skills, he feels that he has little chance of winning.
"It's really feng shui in turn!" Thinking of his previous brilliant record against Chinese players, and then looking at his current passive situation, Tian Tianhao lamented in his heart.