Chapter 162: Winning the First Game
Lu Yanxun struggled to reach the net and reached the ball before the tennis hit the ground for the second time. Before returning the ball, he used the side light to observe Pansiqi's position, only to see that Panci had come to the front court and was facing him across the net.
Judging from Panxiqi's physical posture, Lu Yanxun guessed that he should have focused his defense on blocking the straight line in front of the net, because at this time, Panci's center of gravity was completely to the left. didn't have time to think about it, Lu Yanxun instinctively returned a small slash in front of the net, wanting to cross.
Who knew that Pan Xiqi reacted very quickly, and as soon as he saw the opponent's diagonal line hit, he directly changed his center of gravity and threw himself to the right side of his body. This ball Lu Yanxun hit the net and fell sharply, so if Pan Xiqi moved slowly, it would be easy for the opponent to cross successfully.
With fast enough reaction and footsteps, the moment the tennis ball just crossed the net, it was intercepted in the air by Pansiqi's racket. Seeing Pan Xiqi's angle, Lu Yanxun shouted "not good" in his heart, and immediately turned around and ran towards the backcourt.
It turned out that Pansiqi's paddle at this time was almost vertically upward, which was a typical action to let go of the top ball. After all, Lu Yanxun had just scored through this move, so he knew Pan Xiqi's intentions best.
"This kid is too vindictive. I just hit him with an overhead ball and he's going to pay me back. Looks like he's not a good one to mess with. While running back, Lu Yanxun couldn't help but start complaining in his heart.
Here, Pan Xiqi saw Lu Yanxun's pursuit action, and a smile on his face showed a trick succeeding. The moment the racket touches the ball, the angle of the racket card suddenly changes drastically, from facing up to facing left. At the same time, Pan Xiqi's right wrist shook lightly, and the tennis ball was almost completely returned to the original position of Lu Yanxun's shot along the diagonal line when it came.
"Beautiful! A wonderful return ball! The few spectators on the sidelines couldn't help but let out a burst of exclamations, and Zheng Jie, who was sitting on the rostrum, applauded even harder.
"This Pansiqi, I really don't know how there are so many crooked ideas in my head. Even Lu Yanxun, who is known as an organic ghost, can't please him under him. Looking at Pan Xiqi on the field, Zheng Jie's eyes were shining.
The ball just now, Zheng Jie, who was off the field, saw it very clearly. From the first shot of the return, Pancich was laying the groundwork for the final return ball. Among them, the most important thing is his accurate grasp of Lu Yanxun's psychology. Only when Lu Yanxun thinks that Pansiqi wants to return him an over-the-top ball, he will not hesitate to defend in the backfield, so that Pansiqi's return ball will show its true power.
You must know that when Zheng Jie was a player, in addition to her solid baseline skills, her brains were also praised by everyone. Therefore, no one knows more about the players on the field than her. It can be seen from the ball just now that Pansiqi has achieved accurate control of the opponent's heart.
"You know, this is Pansiqi's first Challenge Final, and he is facing a veteran who has been famous for a long time, so he can have such a careful thinking in this situation, and he can also perfectly implement the plan he has made in his mind. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would have been hard to believe that he was just a player who had just turned professional. Pan Xiqi didn't expect that he had already completely conquered Zheng Jie just by trying his luck.
In addition to Zheng Jie off the field, another veteran on the field, Lu Yanxun, was in a state of bewilderment. When he returned to the backcourt in time, before he could catch his breath, he heard the sound of a tennis ball hitting the ground. Looking at tennis again, he was jumping around in the frontcourt where he was just now.
"Damn, I took precautions, but I was still tricked by this kid!" Looking at Pan Xiqi, who seemed to be smiling on the other side, Lu Yanxun felt helpless in his heart. However, in addition to being a little unhappy, he actually felt a little appreciative of Pansic.
The ball just now was Pansizi's strong response to him. Pansic couldn't help but do it, and it was beautiful. This is enough to prove that Pancic's heart is very strong, at least in the face of these veterans of the tour, he does not have the timidity of ordinary rookies.
"The serve, the baseline, the front of the net, the mentality, oh my God, so many great conditions are concentrated in one person, I really can't think of a reason why Pansiqi can't be successful." As for Pan Xiqi's future, Lu Yanxun feels that it is really limitless.
However, at this time, Lu Yanxun did not have much time to praise Pansic, because in his own service game, the score had been chased to 15:15. Quickly collecting his emotions, Lu Yanxun focused on how to keep his serve.
In the next few minutes, Lu Yanxun used several tactical routines of his own unique collection in a row. This also opened the eyes of Pansiqi, who was not very experienced in the game. Because the players who have won consecutive victories before are almost all bottom-line players, they only know how to stick to the bottom line and blindly hold each other. It's like the current Lu Yanxun, sometimes in front of the net and sometimes cutting, how dexterous and how to come, which makes Pan Xiqi feel that the game is much more interesting.
At the beginning, Pan Xiqi, who was not familiar with the opponent's routines, was really easy to hit from time to time, and Lu Yanxun also scored some points with this. After successfully holding his first three service games, the first set came to 3-3.
From this moment on, however, the situation on the field changed significantly. Because Lu Yanxun sadly found that his routines seemed to have been almost used in the first few games, and Pan Xiqi's inadaptability to his tactics was almost gone.
Sure enough, as Pan Xiqi figured out Lu Yanxun's routine, it became more and more difficult for Lu Yanxun to score on the court, and his service game was also in jeopardy. And the comprehensiveness of Panxiqi's technical composition also led to Lu Yanxun's delay in finding Panxiqi's weaknesses.
Under the advantages of the other, Lu Yanxun's pressure to keep his hair is getting bigger and bigger. Finally, in his fourth service game, after a couple of deuce tug-of-wars, Panci took the lead with a break point. In the face of this break point, Lu Yanxun actually had strong psychological fluctuations. Because he had a hunch that once he was broken in this game, it would be difficult to get back in this set, or even the whole match.
With one serve, Lu Yanxun wanted to pursue the power of the serve too much, so that he could directly send Pan Xiqi to death. I didn't expect to use too much force and go directly out of bounds. When it was the turn of the second shot, Lu Yanxun had no choice but to reduce his strength to ensure the success rate. This has also led to a serious drop in the quality of the serve.
Faced with such a good opportunity, Pan Xiqi naturally would not let it go. One jumped forward to grab the rhythm of the return and sweep, and when Lu Yanxun did not react, he directly returned a return and scored directly.
After successfully breaking the opponent's serve, Panci relied on a strong serve to easily hold serve and win the first set with a score of 6-3.