Chapter 280: The Wolf Is Coming (Part II)
At this point, Pansiqi felt that the opponent's spin was too strong, and if he still attacked like before, he still needed to take a high risk of mistakes. So he took a few quick steps back and got two meters behind the baseline to get his opponent's topspin serve back.
In this way, Busta naturally felt the pressure greatly reduced and saw the hope of playing multiple rounds of baseline stalemate. Although in the previous game, the vast majority of the points in the end of the multi-round stalemate were still won by Pansic, but compared with the serve being directly caught by the opponent, Busta is still willing to continue to fight with Pansic on the bottom line.
Because of this, natto also saw Pansiqi's bottom-line technology for the first time. After several rounds of back and forth, Busta seemed to have increased his pace to the fastest pace, but it seemed that he was still starting to become more and more unable to defend at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.
Not for anything else, just because Pansiqi was holding on to the opponent's multiple shots, and he was speeding up his batting rhythm little by little. In other words, each of Pansic's shots is faster than the last. Correspondingly, the reaction time left for Busta has also been compressed more and more shortly.
"He moves so fast, and in the same situation, Panci can always get in place faster than Busta, which means that his anticipation and movement ability is a notch better than Busta." Seeing that the situation on the field was tilting in the direction of Pansiqi little by little, the surprised natto couldn't help but come to this conclusion.
"It's a notch better than Busta, doesn't that mean that Pancie's pace of movement has reached our level?" Thinking of this, Natto couldn't help but be shocked.
In the past ten years that the tennis world has been dominated by the Big Four, in addition to the record of throwing off a lot of other players, the Big Four have also established an unparalleled advantage over other players at the psychological level, it can be said that in the hearts of the Big Four, except for the other three, the remaining players cannot pose much threat to themselves.
And natto, as the second-in-command of the Big Four, is naturally the same. Although he is quite humble, in his heart, he is still very proud. In his opinion, the Big Four are already unique in various technical aspects, and they cannot be compared with other ordinary masters.
In particular, on-court movement, which is the foundation of tennis, occupies an extremely important part of the entire tennis technical composition, and the advantage occupied by the Big Four is also extraordinarily huge. Not to mention the unparalleled foot movement of natto and cows, Xiaode's super flexibility and ability to maintain balance alone are beyond the reach of other players.
And now, Natto actually felt that Panxiqi's movement pace had reached this level, which of course shocked him. This also means that, at least at this level, Panci already has the ability to challenge the Big Four.
Just when Natto was a little distracted, this point, which was more than a dozen beats long, finally came to an end. Although he had tried his best, under the pressure of Pansiqi, Busta could only watch himself fall into the abyss and give up hope of saving the ball.
A light direct push to score in the gap, and in this way, Panci successfully won this point through a faster hitting rhythm and reasonable landing point control, and won three consecutive set points in the second set.
Losing that point, Busta completely gave up hope of coming back to the second set. In the face of the first set point, he went out of bounds with two gamblingly serve shots and sent the second set directly. As a result, he also fell into the disadvantageous situation of falling behind 0:2 with a big score.
"Two 6:1, Busta actually only won two games. It seems that the situation in the first set should not be much different from the second set. I really didn't expect such a semi-final to turn into a one-sided massacre. ”
Looking at Busta, who had a somewhat glazed look on the TV screen, Natto's face was full of shock. After all, with his knowledge of Busta and the previous records of the two sides, it is difficult for Natto himself to suppress Busta to this point. But now it seems that Pansiqi has done it with ease.
"The return is super aggressive, and the baseline movement ability is outstanding, but I don't know how good this Pancic's service level is?" During the break, Natto, who had already seen Pansich's first two skills, was a little looking forward to the arrival of Pansich's serve in the third set.
The 90-second break ended, and the two sides continued to battle for the third set. After the first two sets, the crowd on the sidelines seemed to have realized that the suspense of this semi-final was almost gone. In the third set, it was just a matter of seeing how long Busta resisted in the end.
Pansiqi's serve, Busta, who was standing behind the baseline, did not keep his eyes on Pansiqi who was preparing for the serve as he did at the beginning, but looked left and right, looking a little inattentive.
"Busta: What is this doing? This is not his usual return form at all! Seeing his teammates behaving like this, Natto looked a little dissatisfied. After all, with his attitude of giving his all to every ball in the game, he still can't accept that other players are not serious about the game.
But this really can't be blamed on Busta, because Busta, who was standing behind the bottom line and preparing to receive the serve, didn't have the confidence to handle Pansiqi's serve at all, and his mind to win the game had already been lost by Pansiqi.
In the previous two sets, Panci actually implemented the serve net technique from the beginning to the end in the service game, and staged a wonderful serve performance for the more than 20,000 spectators in the court. Pancic's variety of serves, combined with his agile volleys at the net, once again made viewers around the world feel the unparalleled beauty of the serve-to-the-net, an ancient technique that is increasingly overlooked by modern players.
In addition to the smooth movements and elegant posture, the effect achieved by the hair is also very amazing. Because Pancic's serve landing point is so perfectly combined with the timing of the net, no matter what changes Busta makes, the return will always allow Panci to easily catch in front of the net and complete the extremely simple volley in front of the net. Even with a few points, Busta unexpectedly returned to a tricky return, but Panci was able to defuse the danger with his skillful skills at the net.
Under the pressure of Pansiqi's unreasonable hair technique, Busta did not even get a break point in the opponent's service game in the first two sets, and even scored points. So in the third set, Busta didn't have any confidence at all to make a difference on Pansizi's serve.
In the first point of the third set, Pansiqi hit another extremely spinning outside corner pressing serve, combined with high pressure in front of the net, and easily bagged the score. After seeing Pan Xiqi's freehand performance, Natto realized that this Chinese player also seems to be quite weak in terms of serving.
Thinking of Panci's return and baseline skills, Natto felt that this qualifier who he didn't care about very much before didn't seem to have any obvious weaknesses. It can even be said that Pansiqi's skills are very strong in all aspects.
"It's a terrible opponent and it looks like I'm going to have a good chance of facing such an opponent in the final." His eyes were fixed on Panxizi's figure on the TV, and Natto's face was grim. At this moment, he realized that his journey to winning the US Open this year did not seem to be as smooth as he imagined.