Chapter 100: Premonition of Bitter Battle
Raschet didn't expect Fan Ju to come this far in the first Challenger, which was no ordinary challenger, but a place that represented the highest level of professional tennis.
The ranking of the semi-finals alone is enough to bring Fan Ju 24 aTp points and $188o in prize money, although it is not much, only equivalent to the championship prize of a 1ok future tournament, but double the points of the future championship is enough to make Fan Ju's ranking rise significantly again.
Allowing Fan Ju to gain more points in these four challenge matches to improve the ranking is also the main task of the interim coach Raschet, who can only provide some solutions to deal with the game, and the only role is to be a good assistant to Fan Ju and provide him with more and better conditions for winning.
"I didn't expect the goal of a semi-final to be achieved so easily, I thought I would have to wait until the last two tournaments in Italy to have a chance, but he adapted to the European competition so quickly, as if he was born to come and play." Raschet can only sigh at Fan Ju's achievements, and the growth of this young man has allowed him to see the birth of another tennis talent.
But will it progress too fast? There are geniuses in this world, and there are never fewer of them, but the birth of geniuses is not smooth sailing, they have to face the sniping of the geniuses of the past, the pinnacle masters who defend their ranking.
"But with his psychological endurance, it shouldn't be a slump, right?" Fan Ju's strength is very good, but Raschet has gradually shown his limits in the competition.
When facing players whose strength and ranking are below the top 1oo, Fan Ju is often able to show his ease in the field, and at this time you can see a lot of technical characteristics that belong to Fan Ju's own skills, such as strong baseline shots, high movement and suppressive offensive technical characteristics.
However, once the opponent's true strength reaches the stage above Top1oo, Fan Ju begins to gradually lose some of his "self" in the arena.
Of course, this loss does not mean that Fan Ju's style of play has disappeared, but that these techniques will be integrated into another special feature that makes people confused, but can make Fan Ju wield more powerful strength.
Raschet prefers to call it the ability to swing on the spot, allowing Fan Ju to concentrate more when facing opponents who are stronger than him, and to be able to take a step ahead of his opponent's movements, so as to make more precise and threatening counterattacks.
However, Raschet is worried, what if Fan Jubiao does not have this ability to swing on the spot in the next game? If it is only because of the state of the single stop, and this kind of strength is displayed, then although this will be a temporary success, the blow will be heavier in the future.
IMG has great expectations for Fan Ju, especially in the report after several qualifying matches, Raschet clearly feels that IMG has raised Fan Ju's future potential by another level, which means that they hope that Fan Ju will achieve better results, and the original plan to rise to the Top 5o and then hit the Top 1o at the peak is no longer enough for Img to feel satisfied.
Fan Ju didn't know that Img's expectations and arrangements had changed, and now the important thing for him was the game in front of him, and he felt that Robin Soderling was a good opponent, but good opponents naturally had trouble with good opponents.
"Forget the damn ball, I'm still a master of playing flat shots, this is my sworn enemy of spinning the ball!" Fan Ju was idle and searched for Delin's information, although he watched the video, but the kind of video he shot by himself really can't be compared with the live TV footage, many times you can only see a rough idea, and even the rotation and landing point of the opponent's ball can only be judged according to the arc and degree of flight.
In the video, Soderling's shot is very fast, and it is normal to bounce up, and it is difficult for Fan Ju to judge whether the opponent is not strong enough to add topspin or not at all, especially after a few scoring assaults, Fan Ju felt bad in his heart, and after checking the information, he was completely sure of what he was worried about.
"Robin, what did you show up in your opponent's match?" Fan Ju is looking at Soderlin's information, and Soderlin is also looking at Fanju's information, but Soderlin's information is clearer, and the picture is the TV station rebroadcasting the match between Fan Ju and Christopher Verlegan.
Of course, the match between Robin and Richard Gasquet will also be replayed, but before that the results of Fan Ju and his match have probably been separated, after staring at the screen to carefully watch Fan Ju's movements and return balls, Robin Soderling is sure that the full outline of Fan Ju's technique has been reflected in his brain, and he can fully imagine what it would be like to play against such an opponent.
"In addition to his high-pressure flat shots are specifically aimed at opponents, he should be better at spinning the ball, I now he plays the ball with a very good spin, downspin, topspin, sidespin, and the arc of his sidespin ball, this guy is simply a master of spinning the ball, and there is no player in the world's Top 1o who can play such a powerful spinning ball." Soderling couldn't help but sigh that it would be a fatal disaster for such an opponent to meet on clay.
However, Robin Soderlin's coach doesn't see it that way, Fan Ju is a master of spinning the ball, so why isn't Robin Soderlin an expert at destroying spinning balls? A flat shot that can wipe out the power of any spin ball, and Fan Ju has a reduced spin ball on hard courts, and he believes Soderling has a way to crack it.
"And be careful of his catches, I know your ball is very powerful, but the East kid you will face tomorrow is a complete receiver, and the game when he beat Christopher Verlegan out of form in the first set, it was with those four catches, I think that kid has a more powerful trick to hide, so you have to be careful to deal with the surprise attack behind the ball." Robin Soderling's coach can teach a player like Soderling, and he is really old-fashioned.
He can see that Fan Ju's catches even have potential to be tapped, especially those high balls that don't land well, not to mention missing catches, not even a return mistake and shallow landing, which is not at all like the quality of a young player who is unstable in the state of returning the ball.
Robin looked at Fan Ju's catches according to the coach's words, and he also saw the difference, Christopher Verlegan's balls were almost all hit back by Fan Ju beautifully, and the opponent's ball was definitely not weak, so the only reason was that Fan Ju's catch was too good, and the opponent's ball was all invisible.
It wasn't too late to watch the footage, Robin Soderling was already in bed at 9 o'clock, his mind still replaying Fanju's weird but effective catches, simulating how to deal with this difficult opponent.
"By the way, kid remember not to take a long shot with this guy, your match with Richard Gasquet has consumed a lot of body, and you have to maintain your form until the final." The coach didn't go into too much detail, but he believed Soderling had seen what Fan Ju had done before he broke his opponent in the first set.
Robin Soderling said "um" and didn't respond again, he had already developed a good habit of resting, not to mention that after several days of fighting, his body was indeed about to dry up, and he had to rely on adequate rest to recover.
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The silent night passed, the small towns of France were not as noisy as Africa and India, and when Fan Ju woke up, he could only faintly hear the faint barking of dogs in the distance, and only a hint of white appeared outside the window, and the sun had just revealed his whole body from the ridge.
Fan Ju also slept well, he didn't admit the bad problem of the bed, and he didn't need medication to help him sleep, as long as he wasn't woken up by an accident, his sleep quality could be kept in a good state all night.
Today he is going to face a difficult opponent, at least some characteristics will be used to suppress his attack, Fan Ju has not met such an opponent, but he has not encountered a real match of his own strength, he has a hunch that this will be a difficult match.
Fan Ju was thinking about how to fight his opponent, and he wanted to spend the whole morning quietly, but at this time, the game had reached a critical moment, and the semi-finals that were about to determine the champion and runner-up were about to begin.
Fan Ju, as the top dark horse who eliminated the second seed, is not even less concerned than the French teenager Julian Benneteu, who eliminated the local No. 1 seed in the first game with a wild card in the first half of the tournament.
"TV interview?" Fan Ju didn't want to be disturbed, but Img had specially arranged these interviews for him, and the game would not be held until the afternoon, so Fan Ju reluctantly agreed.
However, what made Fan Ju sigh was that IMG really had a lot of face, and he actually invited the reporter of ESPN to this small city in France at this time.
The U.S. is having two tour events at a critical juncture, and the players who make it to the semi-finals of those tournaments are getting more attention than the semi-finals of the Challenge.
However, IMG has the ability and reason to operate for Fan Ju, and if the previous results are still insufficient, the first European Challenge, the semi-final result and the "encounter" with another Orange Bowl champion are enough to promote it.
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