Chapter 256: Smooth Hairkeeping
Pansiqi's backhand cutting is really not threatening. Although the ball is relatively low, the speed is not fast, the angle is not large, and the landing point is still a certain distance from the bottom line, so not only Querrey, but also the spectators on the sidelines feel that the ball is like Panci deliberately sent to the opponent.
Just when the audience thought that Querrey would end this point with a shocking double counterattack, the situation on the field suddenly changed! The moment Quirrey bent down to strike the powerful sides, he suddenly let out a scream, and his face was full of panic.
It turned out that Querrey, who arrived early, thought that he had lowered his center of gravity low enough to deal with Pansiqi's chipping ball. But who would have thought that the moment he hit the ball, he realized that the tennis ball did not bounce to the height he expected at all.
If Pansiqi's topspin bounce is surprisingly high, then the downspin he cuts out is deadly low. The tennis ball followed a straight line that sloped downwards, clinging to the net for half the court, and silently slammed into Querrey's court.
The point is that under the effect of strong downspin, although the tennis ball also rebounded after landing, the bounce height was nearly half lower than Querrey's expectation. For Querrey, who is more than 1.9 meters tall, this kind of bounce height hit, unless he uses topspin to catch the ball from the bottom up, even if he sits on the ground, he will not be able to hit the ball smoothly through the net.
But now, he had just made up his mind to attack directly. This time, the tennis ball smashed directly on the lower edge of the racket frame, and at a strange angle, plunged headlong into the bottom of the net. Looking at the height of the return ball he hit, let alone crossing the net, even if the height of the net is reduced by half, it will not be able to successfully return the ball to the past.
With Quirrey's outrageous return error, Panci overtook the score on his own serve and gained a game point to win the game.
A cupola cannon and a ground-drilling dragon, two outrageous mistakes in a row, made Quirrey a little unable to sit still. What made him feel even more depressed was that these two mistakes seemed to be a little different from the mistakes he had made before when he took the initiative to fight.
Before, in the face of Pancic's serve or return serve, he grabbed and attacked it was called a comfortable one. Even if they are mistakes, most of them are dangerous mistakes, and if he has a little better touch, those out-of-bounds balls are likely to be converted directly into goals. And these mistakes and scores all rely on his performance, and have nothing to do with Pansiqi, and it can even be said that the control is completely in his own hands.
But with these two mistakes, he had a feeling of being led by the nose by Pansich. He even felt that Pansiqi was intentional and wanted him to attack. But after just two goals, he couldn't decide something. Without further thought, Querrey quickly threw himself into the next point of return.
In the face of this serve at the game point, Pansiqi, whose tactics have been effective continuously, will naturally continue to increase the use of spin in the game. An outside corner topspin ball was fed into Querrey's outside corner backhand, and Querrey was once again faced with the choice of attacking or transitioning.
This time, due to the impact of two consecutive mistakes in the past, coupled with the importance of this point, Querrey still had to bow to Pancici and choose to give the ball back first.
It was still an upspin ball, and the tennis ball was returned to the middle of Pansizi's side. Panci was still determined not to attack, and then cut with a backhand SLR, sent the ball back to Querrey's backhand position, and hit a repeat landing.
This time, Quirrey, who has gained experience, naturally did not attack directly with a backhand as he did before, but lowered the center of gravity of his body to the extreme, and used a lot of strength to catch the tennis ball with extremely low bounce through the topspin strike.
The ball was returned to Pancic's forehand, and it was a comfortable opportunity for him to press down on a forehand. However, Panci still ignored such an opportunity, and instead hit a strong topspin slash.
The ball went straight back to Querrey's forehand, and the ball landed and the speed was not regular, not very threatening. It's just that judging from the landing bounce of the ball, it will be an extraordinarily high bounce ball.
But for Querrey, this kind of opportunity to spin the ball on the forehand is a rare one. The previous return error, Pansiqi's topspin was his backhand, making him uncomfortable to catch. But now it's different, when he switches to the forehand position, no matter how high the ball is, he is confident that he can directly slap it to death.
Rushing to the right, when there was still more than a meter from the ball, Quirrey hit the ground with his left foot, and the whole person soared into the air like a big bird, and at the same time held the racket high behind him with his right hand, aiming at Pansiqi's upspin ball was a domineering straight line attack.
At this moment, Quierrey's posture soaring in the air even made the American audience present feel as if they had seen Superman. Countless spectators were excited and about to stand up, and everyone suppressed their emotions, just waiting for the moment when Quirrey scored.
However, just as the American audience was holding their breath, an inopportune "out" exploded over the stadium like thunder. Looking at the line behind Pansiqi, who was spreading his hands out with a solemn face, holding it diagonally upward, it was obvious that the ball was judged out of bounds.
After his body landed, Querrey's eyes were firmly fixed on the tennis ball he played, without the slightest relaxation. The moment the tennis ball touched the ground, he was certain that he saw the side of the team overwhelm Pancizi's right touchline. So when the line shouted out of bounds, he challenged the referee with an unbelievable face.
Soon, in the nervous and expectant waiting of the audience, the big screen gave an eagle-eye replay of the ball. The replay showed that Quei's straight attack was indeed very close to the sideline, only two centimeters out of bounds. But even so, that point was lost by Quiley.
After receiving the exact result of the Hawkeye challenge, the referee announced that Pancich had saved his serve and the score was tied at 4-4 in the first set.
Looking at the extremely frustrated Querrey on the other side, Pansiqi couldn't help but have a smug sneer on his face. The diagonal spin just now was completely intentional on his part. At the moment of hitting the ball, he consciously increased the friction of his wrist to the right. As a result, the return not only has a strong topspin, but also adds a lot of side spin. And it wasn't until after Querrey attacked that he didn't notice that Pancic's return was a little more off the field than he expected. Please pay attention to the latest chapters in the future