Chapter 69: Seeing Through

Federer ultimately won the game with a strong serve. The 3-2 score in the first set still left Federer behind for the time being, and he had to secure a break to equalise.

But with Zhang's service level, it is not easy for Federer to break serve, and of course it is also difficult for Zhang Guan to get a break in Federer's hands.

Both are top players, they are technically impeccable, and with the dominance of tennis serves, it is almost impossible to break serve if the opponent does not make mistakes. Especially in the ordinary game, the server needs to serve at least four times to win a game, so the occasional one or two mistakes by the serve will not have much impact on holding his serve, and the receiver may not be able to break successfully even if he can catch every mistake of the opponent.

4-2, 4-3, 5-3, this is the result of the next three games of both sides, Zhang Guan and Federer both managed to keep their own serve, and also did not break the opponent's serve, if this trend continues, the victory of this set will be Zhang Guan.

The ninth game of the match between the two sides, Federer's serve.

For Federer, he had to hold this game, and only by keeping this game and then breaking in the next game could he possibly take the set forward.

Zhang Guan looked at Federer, he saw a kind of tenacity in Federer's eyes, and Zhang Guan could feel that Federer had confidence in his service game.

Zhang Guan thought about it, and he felt that it was really difficult to break serve, so he decided to strategically give up this game. Go all out and play the next service game.

Federer, who was under pressure, did show great courage, and sent two aces in a row at the beginning of the game, which caught Zhang Guan a little off guard. Federer then went from strength to strength. The powerful forehand was played, and he didn't give a chance to breathe at all, and won two goals like a storm, giving Zhang Guan a love-game.

The score came to 5-4, and Zhang Guan could still win the set as long as he won the service game.

Federer has a habit of playing the opponent's serve if the tenth set is the opponent's serve. He will change to a new set of rackets, and the referee is obviously aware of Federer's habit, so he reminded Zhang Guan to wait a little. It is also hinting that Zhang Guan can drink some water or wipe his sweat.

Federer's breath was a little short, and the stormy attack in the previous game also consumed a lot of physical strength for Federer, and if he hadn't felt the pressure, Federer wouldn't have carried out such a high-intensity strong attack.

Federer, who had been replaced with a new racket, was back on the court. Wait for Zhang Guan to serve.

Zhang Guan throws the ball and swings the racket. Make a service move.

In the audience, Sharapova's eyes widened for the first time: "This movement is a little bigger than usual, is Zhang Guan going to try that kind of serve again?" ”

The thought had just crossed Sharapova's mind, Zhang Guan was already swinging the racket, and then the tennis ball had fallen to Federer's half.

"So fast!" Federer swung the racket almost instinctively without thinking, but this one was a miss.

"It's empty!" Federer realised that the ball was too fast. His physical reaction didn't even keep up with the speed of the ball. Federer immediately looked at the display on the sidelines, which showed that the ball had reached a speed of 230 kilometers per hour!

"A ball with a speed of 230 kilometers per hour!" Federer took a breath of cold air. In the previous match between Zhang Guan and Gonzalez, he had sent a ball with a speed of more than 230 kilometers per hour. Federer, who was at the TV at the time, sighed, but now that he was facing such a fast serve, Federer realized that a ball of this speed would never be received unless it was sent right in front of his racket.

"Zhang Guan, is this fighting for this game with all his might? Indeed, he only needs to win this game to win this set. Federer shook his head slightly, and he suddenly blamed himself.

"It's all my fault, I was too slow to enter the game, and Zhang Guan broke a game first, if I had this state at the beginning of the match, the winner of this set might be me, at least I could have played a tie-break! It will definitely not be as passive as it is now. ”

Federer took a deep breath, he quickly adjusted his mentality, and prepared to take the second ball, and it was clear that Federer was not going to give up.

"Drink!" I only heard Zhang Guan shout, the tennis ball had landed, and then popped out of bounds.

“OUT!” The line referee's voice only sounded a second later, and it can be seen that the line referee was also quite hesitant, and he shouted "OUT" after careful consideration.

Federer immediately looked at Zhang Guan, he wanted to know if Zhang Guan wanted to challenge Hawkeye, Federer obviously trusted Zhang Guan's judgment more than the line referee's eyes.

Zhang Guan did not challenge, he took out the tennis ball and prepared to serve the second ball, which made Federer breathe a sigh of relief.

"It really looks like it's an out-of-bounds ball." Federer bent down and prepared to catch the ball.

The tennis ball flew in, Zhang Guan's second serve was still very strong, but it was much slower than the first ball, and with Federer's ability, although the catch was a little hasty, he still managed to make a beautiful return.

"I left a flaw in my forehand, Zhang Guan will definitely attack the forehand, and when the time comes, I will directly change the line of the forehand to attack his backhand!" Federer thought of doing it, and when he received the ball again, he deliberately showed a flaw.

"Federer's forehand is flawed!" Zhang Guan on the other side immediately noticed this, and he attacked with a strong blow, that is, at the moment when Zhang Guan swung the racket, Federer's body suddenly changed direction and ran towards the landing point of the tennis ball.

Almost at this moment, an idea immediately flashed in Zhang Guan's mind: "The next ball will forcibly change the line to attack the backhand!" ”

This is a judgment that belongs to Federer's experience. In reality, Federer is preparing to do just that.

I saw Federer make a sharp stop, his body swinged, and his forehand made a large arc, and the tennis ball had completed the sideline and flew directly to Zhang Guan's backhand.

"It worked!" Federer turned his head to look, only to find that Zhang Guan had stopped sharply on the route of receiving the ball, and then Zhang Guan also made a large arc action, and instead began to attack Federer's backhand.

"What? He saw through my thoughts again! Federer was caught off guard, and instead of thinking about it, he ran quickly to get the ball.

"It's too far away, I can only slice the ball with my backhand!" Federer sliced a backhand over the net, but the quality of the ball was not high.

Federer's forehand slice can be said to be the strongest among professional athletes, but he rarely uses a backhand chip, because he is a one-handed backhand player, Federer's backhand slice is not as strong as the forehand, even if he can cut a very high speed of spin, but there is no guarantee of the speed of the ball.

This ball has a lot of spin power, but the speed is not fast, and Zhang Guan is a player who moves quickly, which means that Zhang Guan can catch the ball more comfortably.

Seeing the direction of Zhang Guan's return ball, Federer has realized that with this ball, he will definitely be mobilized back and forth by Zhang Guan, and then Zhang Guan will seize a certain opportunity to give a fatal blow. However, Federer did not give up, and he was betting that Zhang Guan would make a mistake.

However, Federer was still disappointed, and after Zhang Guan's three consecutive strong attacks, Federer's defense collapsed, and Zhang Guan scored another goal, bringing the score to 30-0.

"Why is this happening? This is the sixth time! Federer frowned: "This is now the tenth game, this is the sixth time that Zhang Guan has seen through my intentions, and this time I used a different way of playing, I deliberately set a trap, and he also saw through it, just that ball, except for me, no one in this world should think that I want to change the line, how can he know my thoughts?" (To be continued.) )

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