Chapter 303: The Australian Open Begins

Fans gathered on the driving range, and during the open training session before the Australian Open, players could easily train and warm up, while interacting with the fans.

Although the environment is a little noisy, Fan Ju and Nadal are still practicing seriously, and they can't do anything about acting.

Some of them are just real collisions between the rackets, strong spins and provocations, so that the eyes that pay attention to them are involuntarily fixed on the court.

Strength and power, spin and spin, the sparring between Fan Ju and Nadal is simple and unpretentious, but there is infinite potential in it.

"Raphael, your backhand has become stronger, but the balance and movement are not enough, if I get to the net, you have holes in the bottom, and you can't play hard court with a strong topspin volley." Fan Ju walked to the net and communicated with Nadal, and this exchange helped to improve each other.

Nadal nodded, Fan Ju's strength on the hard court, he really can't compare now, he could have a forty percent chance of winning, now? This gap has not been narrowed, but has widened.

Fan Ju's swing on the bottom line is stronger, he has surpassed himself in strength, and the rotation is even comparable, and the disappearance of the obvious weakness of the original backhand has directly improved his strength on the bottom line to a huge level.

Not to mention Nadal, even if there are several highly-ranked clay players in the world at present, except for Ferrero and Nalbandian, who play with special styles, the other few will not only not take advantage of Fanju, but will also suffer a big loss.

'You're better on the ball than you used to be, but it's still not accurate. The clay landing point according to this style of play may make the logarithmic frequently pull out the strong topspin of the forehand to counterattack. Nadal's control of clay is far stronger than that of Fan Ju, and his understanding is clearer.

This is an exemplary acknowledgment. Compared with last year, he has made great progress on hard courts, grass and carpet, so is the clay court still standing still and stronger? This is not noticeable on laterite.

The ability to counterattack the backhand, in fact, is not too effective on the clay court, which is slow in itself, and Fan Ju's technique is still based on the faster and stronger, stronger and faster. The normal state can indeed adapt to the slow pace, but the ordinary state is never the state where Fan Ju can exert 100% of his strength.

At the end of the two-hour open training session, Fan Ju and the two did not stop practicing. The morning training session is just an appetizer, and the real doubles training needs to start in the afternoon.

It was the first time that he and Nadal formed a doubles partnership on the court, and it was a Grand Slam level event from the beginning.

Although Fan Ju has participated in doubles. However, the level of competition in Shanghai and Tokyo is already very "amateurish". Except for the first one or two seeded players, there are also some strengths, and the others are basically participating in the competition by the way, and they can't talk about good cooperation at all.

In fact, if he changes to a stronger partner, it is entirely possible for Fan Ju to challenge the doubles results of the lower level tour at the same time.

"Don't think too much, Rafael, do your defense on the baseline, when you serve on serve. With the Australian formation, Fan Ju serves with a double baseline formation. Raschet instructed the two on their positioning. Compared to in front of the net, Nadal's baseline can play to the advantage.

The Australian formation is not only a front and a back position, a quick interception tactic of serving the ball, and directly intercepting the opponent's serve, which is the strongest and most inexplicable tactic in the Australian formation.

In the Australian formation, the most important thing is to have both players have good serving ability, and at the same time have strong blocking ability in front of the net.

Fan Ju has both serve and interception, which can be said to be the most suitable tactic for him, but unfortunately, Nadal's serve has never been the essential, after all, his uncle Tony Nadal, who taught him tennis, is also not good at serving, and the key technique of guiding zhì is flawed.

Although it is not strong, it is still much stronger than Fan Ju's domestic partner Zeng Shaodi, coupled with Fan Ju's strong interception ability, it can also form a good combat power when used in Nadal's service game.

When Fan Ju serves, Nadal's interception efficiency is a little low, not because he can't intercept, but because compared with the efficiency of interception, the scoring of playing a double bottom line is more efficient.

Fan Ju can choose, after serving and suddenly suddenly going to the net, Nadal can stick to the bottom line, or he can use a double-bottom line play, using the strong spin that both of them have, to contain the opponent's return.

The ball is powerful enough to make a mistake even in front of the net, and it may not be enough to deal a fatal blow to a seasoned high-level doubles player, but the pair didn't see it as an important match of their careers, and at best it was a way to increase their singles and doubles experience.

The tactical coordination is not complicated or much, including the bottom line of Nadal in front of the net, the double bottom line of Nadal, the double bottom line of Nadal, the double bottom line of Nadal, the serving tactics of Fan Ju, and the serving tactics of Nadal, these 5 tactical combinations.

As for the very few interceptions in front of the net, even with Fan Ju's most familiar partner, Fan Ju's desire to intercept is too strong and too fast, and putting both players in front of the net will only become a wasteful tactic.

The joint practice of doubles only ends here, the two have no time to refine the tactical cooperation, and then have a sufficient understanding of the skills of both sides, and it is only 2 days of joint practice, and they have already played decently.

"Raphael, who is not angry, is still so poor in technology, no wonder he has not even won a championship until now, and he said that he wanted to challenge Brother Fan Ju, which is really stubborn." Sharapova was also Fan Ju's partner in practice, but of course Fan Ju didn't have the heart to play another mixed doubles match.

And Sharapova herself has doubles matches to participate in, and although she is jealous of Nadal, she can't snatch Fan Ju over.

"Don't be angry with Rafael, it's going to start tomorrow, I hope you all can play well, I don't want to see you after a few rounds." Fan Ju patted her head, this girl loves to provoke Nadal.

Obviously, it was her too much praise for Nadal that aroused the girl's competitive psychology, comparing rankings, results, and championships, especially after the girl won two tour championships last year, she had an absolute suppressive advantage over Nadal.

The girl is tall and strong, and the girl matures early, Sharapova, who is not yet 17 years old, is more like a sister than Nadal, who is 17 and a half years old.

However, this sister is very fond of bullying each "younger brother", but she is obedient to the eldest brother, which makes Fan Ju really embarrassed, so that no matter how calm Nadal is, there will be no big contradictions.

Nadal has always been a genius in his age, and he played very well before the age of 17, but compared to Sharapova, Nadal obviously lacked a little luck, with injuries and generally playing in difficult European competitions.

It makes it more difficult for him to win the championship, unlike the women's players, no matter how strong the body is, it will be the end of reaching the level of the Williams sisters.

The men's players, the age and experience of the players are too different, so that this gap is rapidly magnified, and they can still have the strength to compete with Fan Ju, but now they have lost a little, making Nadal himself inevitably anxious.

The Australian Open fixture schedule has been confirmed, with Fan Ju and Nadal in the upper and lower divisions, with ninth seed Fan Ju facing Schutler, Agassi and Roddick in the top half.

"This time I was lucky, the opponent in the fourth round, the strongest is only Schutler, even if he can't win steadily, but he won't be suppressed too much." Fan Ju is quite satisfied.

For Nadal, who has to deal with Hewitt, Federer, Nalbandian and Ferrero in the bottom half of the division, his ranking really helps him.

There are strong players in the first half of the division, but Fan Ju still has a great hope of reaching the fifth round of the eighths finals, and it is difficult to say if he will go up, and Fan Ju doesn't know if he will meet a strong opponent that he can't cope with, after all, this is a best-of-five Grand Slam, not a tour tournament that can be fought at double speed.

Fan Ju's opponent in the first round was Mikhail Yuzhny, and the last time Fan Ju met his opponent was at Wimbledon, when Fan Ju remembered that he controlled the pace of the game and won the match smoothly.

On hard courts, Fan Ju doesn't have the obvious advantage of grass, but the same opponent's style of play may not be able to take advantage of him.

Every match should not be taken lightly, even if the opponent is a former oneself defeated, it is not only Fan Ju who has grown, as long as you are in the professional tennis world, you don't know that one day you will be knocked to the ground by a player who suddenly bursts out of strength.

In the last game, Hewitt taught Fan Ju a good lesson, what is a comeback, a moment of depression and poor state is nothing, the real strength is that even if you fall hard, you can climb out of the abyss by yourself, this is a real professional player, a real fighter who can be feared on the court.

At the beginning of the Australian Open schedule, Fan Ju officially entered the state of competition, and the buffer of more than 10 days was enough for him to adjust to the jet lag, and his body was in a normal state, and the result of the game depended on his performance on the court.

"Fan Ju and Youzny entered the field, and the audience gave Fan a warm applause, and in the match at the end of last year, Fan Ju showed his outstanding strength, based on the serve and net, and the British player Tim Henman, jointly dedicated a wonderful game." The host did not mention the media, and after 2 months of precipitation, this matter has obviously lost its hot spot.

This is the first time Fan Ju has set foot on the Australian Open venue, and there are a large number of Chinese immigrants in Australia, as can be seen from the last tournament Fan Ju, except for those local Australian players, as long as there are Chinese places, it will be Fan Ju's territory! (To be continued......)