Zhang's third-round opponent, American John Isner, is a year older than Zhang, and Isner, like Zhang, also turned professional in 2007. But Isner is no inexperienced rookie, having been a NCAA tennis champion and has been on the All-American Star Team every year.

Isner is 2.08 meters tall and used to be a basketball player in middle school, but white basketball players in the United States are not so easy to mix, so Isner switched to tennis and achieved great results.

Isner caused some trouble to Zhang Guan in the game, Isner's height makes him serve very well, and Isner is also very good at serving the net, which makes Isner can hold serve relatively smoothly on the key ball, and at the same time, Isner with long arms is also very powerful, which is very helpful for playing on the cement field. At the same time, Isner, like the vast majority of American athletes, is relatively full of physical strength.

In the first set of Zhang Guan and Isner, the two sides played a tie-break, Isner's serve was well timed to choose the net, Zhang Guan tried many times and failed to break serve, but at this time Zhang Guan also slowly became familiar with Isner's rhythm and play, and finally won the tie-break, leading 1-0.

In the second and third sets, Zhang's versatile style of play and quick transitions took Isner out of rhythm, and to add insult to injury, Isner suffered several service errors and net failures, which also led to Isner's inability to follow up, and he lost the next two games 4-6, 3-6.

Zhang Guanyou made it to the fourth round of the US Open, where he was still against a seeded player.

Zhang expected to meet 13th seed France's Gasquet or 21st seed Ferrero in the third round, but both seeds were eliminated in the first two rounds, and it was another Spaniard, Fie Lopez, who made it to the fourth round and will be Zhang's opponent in the next match.

Fie López is 1.87 meters tall and has a very good image. has a star face, and once had the nickname of "Girl Killer".

Lopez is also a strong serve, and his serve is also strong enough, so he can often send aces, and this characteristic of him is also accompanied by more mistakes, on average, Lopez will have a double error for every two successful aces.

In the match, Lopez also made more unforced errors, and under the pressure of Zhang Guan's attack, Lopez made as many as 12 unforced errors in the first set. Facing an opponent of Zhang Guan's level. There are three or four mistakes in a set, and there are still hits, and more than ten unforced errors in a set are basically closer to the rhythm of the set.

Lopez caused less trouble for Zhang than Isner, who managed to advance to the quarter-finals 6-4, 6-4, 6/2, and face fifth seed Roddick of the United States.

Roddick, who won the US Open in 2003 and reached the final of last year's US Open, was runner-up to Federer, and this year, Roddick has had good luck. He met Argentina's Akasuso in the second round, only to have Akasuso retire due to injury, and then in the fourth round Roddick faced ninth seed Berdych of the Czech Republic, who also retired due to injury after the start of the match. Roddick made it to the quarterfinals.

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September 5, the tenth day of the 2007 US Open. One of the highlights of the day was fifth seed Roddick taking on top seed Zhang Guan.

When the game reached the quarterfinals, Roddick was the only remaining American player, and the American audience also had high hopes for Roddick. So this match also attracted a lot of spectators, and many Americans expected Roddick to defeat Zhang Guan and advance to the final four.

Zhang Guan also has a lot of supporters. Because the U.S. Open is held near the famous Chinese community in New York, the Chinese audience will of course support Zhang Guan, and the momentum in the court is not weaker than that of Roddick's supporters.

At the beginning of the first set of the game between the two sides, because the two played each other for the first time and played to the quarterfinals, both sides were more cautious in the first four games, one was a test of each other, and the other was a warm-up.

Roddick's serve was really good, sending four aces in his first two service games, and Zhang Guan did not miss out on letting him serve four aces in his first two service games.

After four games, the score of the two sides was 2-2.

In the fifth game, Roddick's serve, he began to strengthen his offensive, and the service landing point became more extreme, you must know that Roddick was known as the "world's No. 1 serve", in the US Open, such a fast court, Roddick's kind of ultra-fast serve as long as it can have a better landing point, you can score.

Roddick's serve can be called a stunt, but his volley skills in front of the net are very rough, whether it is the timing of the net, the selection in front of the net, the feel of the volley is more general, and the prediction of the crossing ball, it is even worse, many times Zhang Guan hit some crossing balls, Roddick often judged the wrong direction and ran in the opposite direction. Sometimes, even if he judged the right position, Roddick's mastery of the racket, the control of the power and the grasp of the angle were not at home.

With a failed volley from Roddick in front of the net, Zhang Guan took the lead on break point. Then Roddick once again slashed the ball very frizzily and directly attacked Zhang Guan's backhand position, but he didn't expect Zhang Guan to be waiting in place, and as the tennis ball flew in, Zhang Guan adjusted his pace and won with one blow.

"Although Roddick serves very strongly, his ball quotient is really average! There are also problems in judging where the ball will land, no wonder he has never been able to beat Federer, with Federer's flowing attack, Roddick is impossible to win. Zhang Guan got the break and he felt that he should have won this match.

The score rose alternately, and finally Zhang Guan won the first set with a score of 6-4 by virtue of a break in one game.

Roddick is a very experienced player, after all, and he made adjustments to his tactics during the break between sets, and he felt that he still had to play to his strengths and avoid weaknesses, and he had to use his serve speed to the maximum.

The second set began, with Roddick's serve.

Between Roddick throwing the ball and swinging the racket, the tennis ball suddenly appeared in Zhang Guan's half, Zhang Guan's corner of the eye caught the position of the ball, but then he gave up receiving the ball, and the speed of the ball was too fast for Zhang Guan to be accurate.

The ball speed display on the sidelines showed a speed of 233 kilometers per hour, a speed at which the receiver would not be able to catch the ball unless it was pounced on.

The 233 km/h serve instantly detonated the whole court.

"A serve of 233 kilometers per hour, worthy of Roddick! The Roddick we remember is back! ”

On the next ball, Roddick hit the same blow again, winning another point with a serve of 227 kilometers per hour.

Immediately after Roddick's first error, the second serve was hit by Zhang Guan on the net and gave away a point, but then, Roddick still relied on a fast serve to rewrite the score to 40-15.

"Well done, Roddick! You should play like this, play to your strengths, and don't have to pursue too tricky service angles, as long as you have enough ball speed, your opponent will be just as difficult to deal with! ”

On the fifth ball, Roddick hit another serve with a more conservative point, but the ball speed was extremely fast, and he also won his service game with this ball.

"241 km! Oh my God, a 241 km/h serve, which is very close to the 245km/h serve that Roddick himself maintained! This is the strongest serve Roddick in my memory! The narrator sighed in amazement.

Roddick, on the other hand, roared to the sky, venting his frustration at losing the first set.

"It looks like Roddick is out of shape, and the next game is going to be tough." (To be continued.) )

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