Chapter Eighty-Four: Serve to Save Your Life
As soon as Panci said this, the referee was very surprised and once again confirmed to Panci whether he could continue the game.
He took two more steps carefully, and although he was not completely unable to move, Panci did not dare to put any weight on his right foot. Now, he is just tapping his right foot on the ground, which is actually equivalent to supporting his body with his left foot.
"Pansiqi, is there really no need for a medical pause?" The referee asked with concern.
"No problem referee, I can continue to play." Inhaling in pain, Pansic replied.
"Okay, then the game continues, please return to their respective courts." After that, the referee turned around and returned to his referee's chair.
Looking at Pan Xiqi, who was slowly moving towards the field step by step, Li Tianming, who was stunned in place, had black lines on his face, and countless grass and mud horses rushed past in his heart. In his opinion, Panci's ankle sprain this time is a relatively serious injury, which has seriously affected his movement. In such a situation, it would be very unwise to choose to continue to play.
"Hmph, it's useless to fight against fate. Since you're going to do it, then don't blame me for being rude! Seeing that Pan Xiqi was already in place, Li Tianming had anger in his eyes, and trotted all the way back to his side.
The match continued, and Li Tianming continued to serve. I saw that Pansiqi did not bend down like he had received the serve before, but straightened up and touched the ground with one foot, and the racket in his hand was not raised. Looking at it like this, due to the injury to his right ankle, he couldn't even do a normal return preparation.
Seeing the other party like this, Li Tianming's heart blossomed with joy.
"Haha, sure enough, fate is on my side, no matter how strong you are, you can't escape the arrangement of fate." The title of 'Beijing Team Buster', it seems that he is going to retire with me! ”
Considering that Panci's movement is now severely restricted, Li Tianming decided to take the initiative to attack from the serve. A sidespin serve from the outside corner, the tennis ball landed and immediately flew off the court. Sure enough, Pansiqi didn't make any reaction to this hair extension, which required a wide range of movements, and didn't even swing the racket, just quietly watched the tennis ball fly off the sideline.
"ACE ball, 30:0, Li Tianming leads in the sixth game!"
"Oops, Pansiqi can't even finish the serve! It seems that the injury is worse than expected! Wang Yan secretly shouted in her heart.
Looking at Coach Zheng on the sidelines, he was even more restless, his face full of anxiety. Deeply worried about Pansiqi's foot injury, he seemed to be eager to rush to the court immediately to get Panci out of the game.
At this time, Panxiqi's face was extremely calm, if it weren't for the slight convulsions from time to time because of the pain, he really couldn't see that he was now enduring the sharp pain in his right ankle all the time.
"Looks like you've given up. Then why do you insist on staying on the field, do you want me to humiliate you fiercely? Seeing that Panci didn't even pick up his own serve, Li Tianming felt that the victory of this match seemed to fall into his pocket in the end.
Then two more aces, Pansiqi still didn't react, standing still in place without moving half a step. In this way, Li Tianming won the first game of his game with four straight points, chasing the second set score to 1:5.
Next is Pan Xiqi's serve, seeing that the opponent's right foot can't land at all, Li Tianming feels that Pan Xiqi must not be able to make a normal serve, and it is estimated that he just casually makes a serve to deal with the ball. Then he took two more steps to the baseline, and he was about to stand on the sideline of the receiving area.
"Fortunately, it was my right foot that was sprained, otherwise it would have been really difficult to serve." Anyone who has ever played tennis knows that it is important to support your feet when serving. At the moment of serving, the whole body will be pressed on that foot, and if the supporting foot is injured, then it will not be able to complete the serve at all. Pancic's serve was supported by the left foot, so the sprain of his right foot did not have a fatal effect on his serve.
Due to an injury to his right foot, Pansiqi was unable to make the back-arch movement as usual. He just threw the ball up, then raised his right hand and slapped it straight out. In the eyes of the audience, this ball is not so much like a serve, but more like a high-pressure ball standing behind the baseline.
However, a shocking scene emerged. Pan Xiqi's ball in this situation was not as soft as everyone expected, but still had a strong force. Looking at the electronic display screen again, the data of 185 on it is simply blinding everyone's eyes.
"Oh my God, you can still send out such a fast speed in this situation, just a dozen kilometers slower than if you didn't get hurt. This is faster than Li Tianming's full serve! "One viewer felt incredible.
At this time, Li Tianming directly felt the power of this serve. Standing too far forward, he didn't react at all, let alone react, when the tennis ball bounced in front of him like a bullet. In this way, Pansiqi's first serve after the injury turned out to be another ace.
Now it was Li Tianming's turn to be dumbfounded. "Damn, is there any reason for this, should this be a ball from an injured person?" In this game, he felt that he had experienced too much incredible. And the person who brought this is Pansiqi on the other side!
"Whoa", the audience who reacted also began to burst into the warmest applause, and the successive accidents on the field made their mood rise and fall.
After serving, Pansiqi slowly moved to the second zone. At this time, the audience remembered that Panci still had a very serious foot injury, and it was even more incredible that he had just served.
This time, Li Tianming learned the lesson of the previous point and obediently returned to the bottom line. In the second serve, Pancich was still high on the spot. Only this time, he smashed the ball to the inside corner touchline. 182 kilometers, another serve that exceeds Li Tianming's highest ball speed!
Although he judged the right direction, the angle of this ball Pansiqi was too awkward, so when his racket touched the ball, it was too late to control the racket. Under the collision, the tennis ball flew off the sideline, and Pansiqi served to score directly.
"30:0, Pansich leads in the seventh game."
"Damn, damn it, how could you lose two consecutive serves! If you continue like this, you will probably lose the game! Seeing that the opponent was only two points away from winning the game, Li Tianming was completely anxious. He had already died before the accident, but with Pansizi's injury, he rekindled his hopes of victory. He thought that the victory was already in his hands, and if he lost the game again at this time, he would not be able to accept it no matter what.
On the third serve, Pancich still didn't make any changes. It's just that, at the moment of the shot, he suddenly exerted a strong topspin on the tennis ball through the movement of his wrist. This was much beyond Li Tianming's expectations, after all, Pan Xiqi had always made a strong flat shot before, and rarely made a fuss about spinning.
The tennis ball rebounded over Li Tianming's head soon after landing, Li Tianming hurriedly retreated and swung the racket, and the tennis ball did not eat the field point of the racket, and hit the racket frame, like a baseball home run, flying high into the audience.
"40:0, Panci leads in the seventh game."
In this way, in the incredible cheers of everyone, the injured Panci relied on his strong serving ability to get three consecutive match points without moving a single step in the service game.
"It's too strong, it's so strong!" Xiao Wu was already a little speechless with excitement at this time, just grabbing Wang Yan's sleeve. Looking at Wang Yan again, her eyes were also full of shock, and she watched Pan Xiqi shine with a strange light.
Coach Zheng clenched his fists tightly with excitement, but he didn't expect that he couldn't even sit down anymore when the game was full of twists and turns, just standing straight on the sidelines, waiting for a miracle to happen.
For the first time, for the first time in his life, he was given the match point by a player from the Beijing team, and Li Tianming was completely stunned. He didn't know how all this happened, the other party was obviously injured, why was it he who was about to lose the game now?
On the fourth serve, in the atmosphere of almost suffocation in the whole court, Panci calmly threw the ball and smashed it down. The tennis ball flew towards the outer corner sideline at high speed, and it was a fast ball of more than 180 kilometers. At the moment of landing, the tennis ball suddenly changed its direction, turned a big bend directly to the right, and flew out grazing Li Tianming's racket.
"Sidespin serve! It's a sidespin serve! Pansiqi wins! Xiao Wu couldn't hold back any longer and jumped up from his seat. At this time, he had been completely conquered by Pansiqi, and even forgot about the bet he made with Pansiqi.
"This guy, that's interesting." Wang Yan breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and her eyes gradually softened.
"6:0, 6:1, Pansiqi wins 2:0!" With the referee's final announcement, the audience boiled. In today's game, they witnessed the birth of a miracle, and the dedication to this wonderful performance was Pansiqi, who made people feel more and more magical.
"Pansiqi, Pansiqi!" The audience began to shout his name rhythmically.
"Lost, I lost!" Watching Pan Xiqi wave to the crowd on the sidelines, Li Tianming couldn't believe that his unbeaten record against the Beijing team for more than ten years was broken in the last game of his career.
Enduring the pain, Pansiqi limped to the sideline and sat down in the player's chair. Compared to the excitement of advancing to the quarterfinals, all he can think about is the bizarre wrestling accident just now.
It was the first time he'd wrestled in a match, and with his current movement and balance, it stands to reason that shouldn't have happened. But he did have a solid fall and felt like he had stepped on something.
But when I looked back, the floor was as clean as a mirror, and there was nothing. So why did you have that illusion at that time?
Thinking back to the situation for a moment, Pansic couldn't help but smile.
"Hey, it's all because Coach Zheng made too much fuss before the game, and kept emphasizing the so-called Li Tianming's law in front of me, and unknowingly wrapped me in." Pansic thought.
It turned out that Pansiqi didn't step on the so-called obstacle at all during the game, everything was just his delusion. At that time, the angle of the ball was too big for the opponent, and Pansic instantly mobilized his body to increase the speed of movement. Then he slowed down suddenly, and the pressure on his right ankle was so great that you can imagine it.
The main reason for this wrestling was that the muscle strength of the right ankle was not enough, so it caused the landing to be unstable, and the ankle that could not support the body was directly broken. As for the sensation of a foreign object coming from the soles of his feet, it was just an illusion caused by Pansiqi's own misguided thinking.
Although he swore that he didn't care about the so-called Li Tianming's law, due to the nervous performance of the Beijing team, especially Coach Zheng's repeated advice before the game, Pan Xiqi unconsciously subconsciously believed that this so-called law existed. Therefore, the closer to the victory of the game, the more vigilant Pansiqi became, always guarding against accidents caused by the so-called law.
In this highly stressful situation, coupled with the oversized foot movement, the two phases led to Pansiqi's accidental wrestling.
I have to say that in many sports competitions, it is precisely because athletes are too superstitious about a certain statement or a certain law, which makes them too psychologically stressed, which leads to abnormal performance on the spot, so that they have not been able to get rid of the so-called fate. Only this time, Panci relied on his strong serving ability to snatch the victory into his own hands.
Looking down at the red and swollen ankles, Pan Xiqi shook his head with a smile and said, "Feudal superstition kills people!" ”