Chapter 227: Slightly tired
At this time, Pan Xiqi also faintly felt a slight soreness coming from his legs. Although this game has just begun, for Pansiqi's body, it has actually experienced more than an hour of high-intensity consumption.
In the mixed doubles match that just ended, Pan Xiqi single-handedly suppressed the two opponents to the death, thus leading Wang Chang to an easy victory. And the strange playing style of Panxiqi's combination is also destined to consume more physical energy than the two opponents across the net.
However, with this level of consumption, as long as Pansiqi is given enough time to recover, there is still no big problem. But what is terrible now is that the strange arrangement of the main committee has made it impossible for him to get enough rest time. Coupled with the short distance between the two competition venues, his physical exertion was further exacerbated.
But even so, Pancich still didn't have too many worries about this game. Because in his plan, as long as he adopts a fast play method after the opening, shortens the number of rounds per point, and compresses the game time, his remaining physical strength is still enough to cope with this singles match.
Judging by his pre-match preparation, Čurić is an offensive player. With him taking the initiative to provoke the incident, it is difficult for Churic to resist not attacking Pansich. In this way, the pace of the game will naturally be greatly accelerated, and your physical consumption will be significantly reduced.
In fact, Pansizi's choice is very common for older players, the most representative of which is the cow that has reached the age of 36. In more and more competitions, the cows have greatly increased their offensive ability, trying to minimize the number of rounds with their opponents on the baseline, so as to cover up their physical disadvantage to the greatest extent. Even natto, who has always been good at defense, has consciously strengthened the proportion of his offense as he gets older to avoid the appearance of ultra-long rounds.
At the beginning of the game, Panci, who took the lead in serving, firmly carried out a fast-paced active attack, wanting to catch Churic off guard. However, at the end of the first round, Pansiqi was surprised to find that Churic did not seem to have fallen into the trap he had set.
For Pansiqi's strong aggressiveness, Churic appeared to be prepared. At a young age, he acted like a battle-hardened veteran at this time, and he didn't have the slightest intention of being provoked by Pansiqi's anger and wanting to fight his opponent.
On the contrary, in the face of Pansiqi's fast-paced offensive connection, Churic showed unprecedented patience, and did not hesitate to run wildly all over the court in order to save the ball back to Pansiqi's court as much as possible.
Chestrich, who was dedicated to defense, showed the world his amazing ability to resist attacks at this time. Many of Pansiqi's attacks, which were already extremely tricky, were saved by him in an impossible way. However, on the contrary, Churic's running distance on the field far exceeds that of Pansic, and the physical consumption is much greater than that of the opponent.
"I really didn't expect that Churic still has such defensive ability. I thought he was just an offensive player with a missing leg, but now it seems that he is fully capable of becoming an all-round offensive and defensive player like Deyo! "The opening several wonderful defenses made the foreign media's evaluation of Čurić rise to another level.
In this way, under the opponent's running at all costs, the number of rounds of each point was greatly lengthened. There was even a round in which the two sides actually tug-of-war for more than 30 beats. As soon as you can enjoy such a fierce game at the beginning, the audience is fascinated by it.
However, in tennis, blind defense will never lead to victory. Although it was much more troublesome than he expected, Pancic, who dominated the attack, still won his first service game very smoothly. Looking at the display at this time, the first service game took nearly eight minutes, which is nearly twice as long as Pansiqi's normal service game.
Looking at Churic again, he spent so much energy but still lost this game, and his face did not show the slightest disappointment. The two sides exchanged venues, and Čurić immediately threw himself into the next game.
When he came to Churic's serve, the style of play he adopted made the audience cry out incomprehensible. With a strong serve, he didn't want to make good use of his serve to create offensive opportunities, but chose to fight Pancich for multiple rounds for every point, just like in the first game.
Because Panci lost the service opportunity this time and couldn't use his attack to hold down Churic at the beginning like in the previous game, the number of rounds between the two increased a little compared to the first game. At the same time, Churic's conscious two large-angle transfers forced Pansiqi to run back and forth on the baseline, and Pansiqi's physical consumption was much more than in the first game.
This time, the situation on the field has changed from the previous attack and defense to the mutual attack and defense of the two sides, and the scene has become more and more exciting. With the subtle defensive skills displayed by each of the two players, the crowd on the sidelines was eager to burst their throats.
It stands to reason that Pansiqi is the least afraid of this kind of opponent who has held him for many rounds, and the previous Bagdatis was not so alive and grinding to death by himself. But this time he still felt a little uneasy, on the one hand, Churic's unusually firm attitude made him feel a little uneasy, and on the other hand, the growing soreness in his legs kept reminding him that he had to find a way to solve it quickly no matter what.
In this way, the second game of the two sides took another ten minutes to end. Although Pansiqi felt a little tired, in the face of Churic's desperate defensive strategy, Pansiqi would not be able to quickly tear apart the opponent's defense for a while.
But fortunately, Pansiqi's ability to hold each other is still very good, and in this case, it was he who had the last laugh. In the second game, with a more balanced performance, Panci broke smoothly and brought the score of the first set to a 2-0 lead.
The next few rounds were like a remake of the first two rounds. Churich turned into a super little devil and dragged Pansiqi to death with a fearless attitude. Pansiqi tried several ways to shorten the round, but his increasingly tired legs prevented his tactical execution from being as effective as he could in full fitness.
The score came to 5-1, and Panci came to his own serve to win the set. Although it seemed that he had a huge lead in the score of the first set, looking at the game time, it actually took nearly an hour. This is well beyond Pansiqi's plans for this game.
Finally, when faced with his own handicap, Pansiqi made a stunning forehand straight to win with a wide range of runs. However, just when the audience was thundering, Pan Xiqi did not brake the car for a while due to the huge inertia of his body, and he stumbled and almost broke his right foot.
"Looking at it like this, the ankle strength should not be enough to support a vigorous run. Now that you're so tired, it's my turn to behave. Seeing all of Pansic's movements, Čurić, who lost the first set, did not show the slightest frustration, but showed a different kind of confidence on his face.