Chapter 368: Advancing Behind
"Hello!" Lu Yanxun in front of Fan Ju was a very shy young man, a few centimeters shorter than Fan Ju, but he didn't look much different with a hat.
With a slender build, such a player is rarely offensive in terms of offensive positioning, and Lu Yanxun also took the usual flexible defensive path.
It is key to have a good balance between the forehand and backhand in defense, otherwise the flaws will become very obvious when the opponent attacks continuously against one position.
"Hello, Lu Yanxun, I'm Fan Ju, your opponent in this game." Fan Ju replied to his opponent with a smile, even if it was a match between the two soon, he couldn't see any nervousness.
Lu Yanxun was still a little pressured at the beginning, after all, the opponent was Fan Ju, who was invincible in front of the net and had just completed the French Open hegemony, and he was just an ordinary player who finally broke into the top 100, and the two could not be compared in terms of attention or fame.
Fan Ju is backed by the vast market in Chinese mainland, coupled with his own outstanding strength, with the help of Coach Nick and the support of IMG Group.
Compared to Lu Yanxun, who originally planned to complete his studies and then enter the profession, but had to start his career several years earlier because of his father's death, the beginning of Fan Ju was smoother and the speed of progress was amazing.
Lu Yanxun naturally couldn't not know Fan Ju, but he didn't expect Fan Ju to know him, after all, one of the two is in China and the other is in Taiwan, and there are still a lot of barriers to information exchange in between.
Of course, he didn't expect that Fan Ju would go and check his information carefully before the game. After all, how can a world-class player have the "leisure" time to understand this information.
"What's wrong? Don't be nervous, it's just a game. I see you've been playing pretty well lately, are you ready to play on the tour? Fan Ju took it as a chat, and seeing Lu Yanxun's expression that was not easy to speak, he guessed the reason in his heart and took the initiative to start chatting.
There is still more than half an hour before the game starts, and the warm-up of the two has just been completed, Lu Yanxun hopes to enter the locker room early to calm down.
And Fan Ju came specially to meet the Taiwanese player. Come and communicate.
"Well...... It's pretty much the same, but it depends on the results of the competition. Lu Yanxun has just gotten his tickets, and he is still a little afraid of the tournament at this level of the tour. His results are not too stable, and sometimes he loses like two or three hundred opponents.
He naturally knows how these top players advanced in the low-level competitions back then, not to mention winning them all. But before the promotion, they were almost with suppressive strength.
However, Lu Yanxun has only just started the challenge this year. In addition to relying on the ranking to participate in major tournaments to earn more tournament bonuses and maintain his career expenses, the tour may have to think more about some events in Asia to increase the chances of earning points.
Naturally, it is impossible for Lu Yanxun to say this to Fan Juming, such as the fact that the Asian regional tour has a lower level and is easier to advance, and it is obviously not appropriate to say it here.
Fan Ju could see that Lu Yanxun was still a little unable to let go at this time, and he was not reluctant. As long as the two are still in professional tennis, then they will come to Japan for a long time. Fan Ju left his contact information, saying that if he needed help, he could be reached on the phone number Guò.
Lu Yanxun accepted this number with some surprise, after all, he has been in the professional tennis world for so long, although he has known many professional players, but there is no one like Fan Ju who has stood at the top of the profession.
They each returned to the lounge to prepare, and Fan Ju was doing stretching exercises while thinking about Lu Yanxun's situation.
"It seems that Taiwan's professional tennis is not developed, a player who has reached the top 100 has lived so hard, I think when I reached the top 100, it didn't seem to be so hard, right?" Fan Ju compared himself with Lu Yanxun, but after a while, he shook his head self-deprecatingly, how many matches have he only been through when he reached the French Open?
Either the future champion or the challenge champion, the growth experience of the two sides is not comparable at all, backed by IMG and the big Chinese market, if he is still worried about money, I am afraid that professional tennis will really have no future.
Today's Fan Ju is not like back then, and you have to use QQ to contact your partners, of course, QQ communication is still essential, photos, group chats and other functions, or rely on QQ software to achieve.
The phone he just handed over to Lu Yanxun is a satellite phone that can be called all over the world, of course, this phone is usually kept by Perry, ensuring that it is turned on 24 hours a day, and the company's headquarters can contact Fan Ju at any time to determine his whereabouts.
Like Federer and Roddick, these rivals and friends, Fan Ju basically left this call to each other, and after he won the French Open, several people called to congratulate each other.
Of course, in addition to Daohe, especially Federer and Roddick, they all said that they would not let him win so easily at Wimbledon, and Fan Ju also won with a smile, as for winning or losing, he had to go on the court again.
In recent years, the situation in the tennis world has been constantly changing, especially the top rankings, which will change almost every year, Federer, Roddick, and Fan Ju are the strongest big three, and it is rare that none of these three people are playing defensive tactics.
This also makes tennis analysts think that with the increase in ball speed, the spring of offensive play has arrived!
Really? Fan Ju doesn't think so, at least Nadal is a tenacious defensive player, and his success is destined to not decline in defensive play.
Although the top three rankings are indeed occupied by the Fan Ju trio, looking down, Nalbandian, who has entered the fifth place, as well as players such as Koria and Moya, still rely on defensive play to hold on to their top rankings.
It can only be said that in the current tennis world, stronger offense slightly dominates the mainstream, and the pure offensive players represented by Fan Ju and Roddick, as well as the offensive players with all-round play represented by Federer, are stronger than other players.
There is a way that the strongest defense is the offense, and the attacking player is to use their offense to defend, just like the example on clay, because the offense is limited, he chooses a more defensive counterattack tactic, not to say that the defense is abandoned in the game, but when the offense is more effective than the defense, the offense naturally dominates.
At the beginning of the game, the game between Fan Ju and Lu Yanxun was not much to watch, mainly because Fan Ju was too strong, especially on the grass, the faster the ball speed, the more obvious his characteristics were, if the lack of follow-up holding ability was removed, I am afraid that Fan Ju would not be afraid of any opponent on the grass.
But it is precisely because of this lack that Fan Ju has to face up to the advantages and disadvantages of double speed, and the French Open is the beginning of his change, and it is also a critical moment for him to reach the peak.
Lu Yanxun is very strong, the baseline is flexible, the backhand is also very sharp, and the style of play is very solid, Fan Ju saw the feeling of another German player, Schutler.
However, Lu Yanxun is not Schutler after all, and Schutler's style of play also needs to match the experience and physical condition of the peak to reach the top level.
Even technically, Schutler himself only has pseudo-top strength, relying on years of experience on the court, he has managed to squeeze into the top level.
Now Schuttler has fallen out of the top eight, and as for whether he can still participate in the Masters Cup final at the end of the year, Fan Ju is not optimistic about this.
Schutler can't pose a threat to Fan Ju, not to mention Lu Yanxun, who is more immature and has a more straightforward style of play, maybe in the challenge, he can indeed slowly and steadily get results, but it is only equivalent to just leaving the tennis school, entering the tennis world for the first time, and there is no high-speed state model.
At this level, of course, he can play well in the Challenger, but he will not be able to do it in the Tour, not to mention facing more than 100 high-ranked players, and even the 200 or so have a lot of storage that can threaten him.
Today's Fan Ju played patiently, of course, one because of the need to save body and adjust the ball feel for the grass court.
Another reason is that he also wants to bring Lu Yanxun, who is also Chinese, and Fan Ju hopes to see more excellent players appear, and it doesn't even matter if they are domestic or not.
Don't narrow to restrict a certain region and region, Fan Ju understands the concept of Old Nick Online School, the United States, where Old Nick is located, may be because it is a multi-ethnic immigrant country, and sees it more thoroughly, while Fan Ju stands in the perspective of Chinese and even Asian players, thinking about how to close the tennis gap between Asia and Europe and the United States.
In addition to himself, a player who seems to be a BUG, only this Lu Yanxun has more training potential at the moment, and as for the two players from South Korea and Thailand, it is not that Fan Ju rejects them.
South Korea's Lee Hyung-taek is 28 years old and his skills are mature and difficult to change, and as for Thailand's Sri Chapan, to be honest, no matter how much the opponent is a sub-top player, he can't use Fan Ju to guide and cooperate.
In the two-set game, Fan Ju not only used his own solid state, but also played a multi-tactical coordination that is usually not very practical.
In fact, if you just win the game, it is enough to serve and net, but Fan Ju has played a lot of countermeasures on the baseline, half court, and defensive transitions.
Lu Yanxun may also feel Fan Ju's kindness, and he dealt with it very seriously, two 6:4, Fan Ju broke 3 serves, and Lu Yanxun actually played one.
With Fan Ju's current technique, it is not easy to break even if he doesn't have double speed, which makes Fan Ju more optimistic about the potential of this player and loves talent.
"If you lose early in the next match, come to London to practice with me, I just don't need a sparring partner." Fan Ju smiled and shook hands with Lu Yanxun and said goodbye. (To be continued......)