At the National Tennis Center, the contest between Zhang Guan and Murray has begun.

"The arc of this ball is really low, Murray is not afraid to go to the net!" Zhang Guan thought silently in his heart.

Murray's batting arc is extremely low, which can be said to be Zhang Guan's encounter with the lowest arc among well-known players, and several times Zhang Guan thought that the ball would go down the net, but in the end the tennis ball still flew over the net.

Murray's movement speed is also very fast, so his defensive ability is also outstanding, but the quality of the defensive ball is relatively average, as Coach Zhang analyzed before, Murray's defense belongs to the defense of the dead resistance, and his defense is constantly wearing down the opponent's patience and waiting for the opponent to make mistakes.

Murray also knew that Zhang Guan would participate in track and field competitions at night, so he hoped for a quick victory, so Murray also aimed at this, playing slowly, looking like he did not seek merit but no fault.

In the first set of the match, both sides started a little restrained, obviously testing each other, and the score was tied at 1-1 after each held serve. Then Murray began to drag his feet, occasionally using far-reaching summation control to disrupt the rhythm of the crown, waiting for an opportunity to surprise him.

In the first set, Murray led 4-2 and switched sides, but in the final volley, a return error caused him to lose the first set 5-7.

After a set of matches, Zhang Guan basically figured out Murray's style of play, and at the beginning of the second set, Zhang Guan took advantage of Murray's loose play and took advantage of the situation to get a break.

The semi-finals of the Olympics were also a best-of-three format, with Zhang Guan having already won the first set and now breaking in the second, and Murray even had a premonition that he was about to lose.

"Another 227-kilometer serve, Zhang Guan is still as strong as ever!" Murray looked at the ball speed monitor on the sidelines, his face full of helplessness.

Murray knows that this is a gap in strength, and the gap is not half a star. Although he is known as the "master tactician" in the tennis world, he is powerless in the face of this gap in strength.

The second set can be said to be a crushing match, Murray finally could not resist Zhang Guan's strong attack, Zhang Guan won the second set 6-2, and successfully advanced to the final.

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No sooner had the game ended, and reporters flocked to it.

"Zhang Guan, let's talk about this game!" A reporter asked.

Zhang Guan thought for a moment and said: "This game consumed a lot of my energy, now I do feel a little tired, in fact I also feel very lost in the game, I don't know if I can win the whole game in the end, you have all seen that Murray performed very well, his performance completely shocked me." It was a difficult race, but in the end I persevered. Now that I've made it to the men's singles final, I'm very happy. ”

"Tired? I see you're obviously very energetic. Still having a hard time competing? In the second set, Murray was about to be abused like a dog by you! A foreign reporter couldn't stop complaining.

"Zhang Guan, let's look forward to the upcoming finals!" Another reporter asked.

"I have only one goal, and that is to win the championship. No matter who it is, they can't stop me from winning the championship! Zhang Guan said categorically.

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For those who don't usually pay much attention to tennis, Zhang's victory over Murray is probably just an Olympic semi-final victory, and he can win at least one medal; But for tennis fans, Zhang Guan's victory over Murray to reach the final of Olympic tennis is not as simple as a silver medal, and he is only one step away from the golden slam of tennis.

The Golden Slam needs to collect the champions of the four Grand Slams of tennis and the tennis champions of the Olympic Games, although the Golden Slam is only one more Olympic champion than the Grand Slam, but the four Grand Slam competitions are held every year, and the Olympic Games are held every four years, and a player's career can participate in three Olympic Games is considered to be too much, so the difficulty of the Golden Slam is much more difficult than the Grand Slam.

Only Andrew Agassi has won the Golden Slam among men's singles players, but there are only six who have won the Grand Slam, and if Zhang Guan can win the Olympic final, he will become only the second male athlete in history to win the Golden Slam.

During the Olympic Games, people may only be interested in the Olympic gold medal and ignore the Golden Slam, but the tennis center will not let go of this great opportunity to promote it. The staff in charge of publicity at the tennis center had already written the draft, and after Zhang Guan defeated Murray, he sent it out as soon as possible.

"Zhang Guan is only one step away from the Golden Slam! 》

Under the leadership of the propaganda department, this article quickly occupied the headlines of the sports section or the Olympic section of major media, and also let people who followed the Olympics know about the Golden Slam, and many people on the Internet began to discuss this matter.

"I just learned that tennis also has a Golden Slam, four Grand Slams plus an Olympic champion, it sounds so good!"

"As long as Zhang Guan can win the championship in the final, he can win the Golden Slam, which should be the highest honor in tennis!"

"The tennis Golden Slam, if it had been two years ago, I wouldn't have thought that our country's players would have won the Golden Slam!"

"Zhang Guan is a cow, some people said before that Zhang Guan participated in several events, maybe he couldn't win a gold medal, this time those people were dumbfounded!"

"Zhang Guan is invincible, Zhang Guan will win!"

Honor is obviously very satisfying, and the Olympic Games can bring people a sense of national honor, but there are hundreds of events in the Olympic Games, and there are hundreds of gold medals. The first gold medal may be remembered for the process of winning the championship, the second for the gold medal may be remembered for the name of the champion, and the third may be remembered for the event of the competition, the fourth, fifth, fifth, ...... Maybe in the end, all that can be remembered is one number.

So at this time, you need to add some other ingredients to it, such as how miserable the gold medalist's family is, how much pain the gold medalist has experienced, and so on. However, these lace-like ingredients are obviously not as attractive as the Golden Slam, and this topic can attract more public attention. Even though Zhang Guan still has a tennis final to play, people's expectations for the Golden Slam have reached their peak.

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National Stadium.

The athletes who participated in the 1500-meter preliminaries walked out of the aisle.

"Hey, long time no see, Igouid!" A voice suddenly rang out, and Igouid, from Morocco, looked back and saw Kenya's Kiprop walking over.

Morocco is a middle-running powerhouse, and Igouid is the leader in the Moroccan middle-running event. However, Kiprop, the Kenyan who spoke, is the strongest person in the entire Africa in the 1500-meter middle distance. Kiprop is also the second favorite to win gold in the 1500m event after Bahrain's Ramz.

I heard Kiprop step forward and say: "Igouid, I've seen the game grouping, your group is quite strong, South Africa's Devontel, Britain's Badley, but they are all in your group, and there is also Zhang Guan!" He's the king of athletics! How is it, are you worried that you won't be able to qualify? ”

"The king of athletics? Hum! A king of athletics who competes in the Olympics with the Olympic B standard? Igouid laughed disdainfully: "Kiprop, don't be kidding. In the 1500m event, Zhang Guan couldn't even run into the Olympic A standard, maybe he could enter the second round, he should be thankful! (To be continued.) )