Chapter 112: Fatal Loophole?
How can you tell if a player's diagonal angle is big? Many people just look at the wonderful shots of the players, but they don't know how to judge whether the angle of the ball is really good.
Fan Ju has his own way of measuring this standard, just like the competition in front of him.
Since Cyril Sonniye was able to reach the final, regardless of the strength of his opponents in the previous rounds, whether he was lucky to win the local "wild card dark horse", one thing is undeniable, this player is undoubtedly strong.
Fan Ju doesn't believe in gratuitous luck, no matter how lucky a player is, as long as he meets an opponent stronger than himself in one round, then he can't go to the finals, maybe he can break through the first and second rounds, and even enter the third round, but whether it is the eighths of the finals or the semifinals, there are players who are not weaker than Fan Ju's non-double speed, and this kind of good luck is almost impossible to achieve.
So no one will say that the player who won the Grand Slam is lucky, even if there is luck in the 128-person competition, it is also given by God, and others can't envy it.
Cyril Sonier's luck was not good, because the opponent he met was Fan Ju, and Fan Ju at double speed is difficult to estimate with common sense, and the high-quality large oblique return ball he is best at was frequently rescued by Fan Ju, and he knew that he really met his opponent today.
The big bevel, the longest suppressed ball in tennis, whether it is the forehand or the backhand, uses a large bevel to return the ball, forcing the opponent to run and lose the position that he has already stood, which is one of the basic abilities that a professional player should master.
Fan Ju's mastery of the big bevel shot is flawed, not because his return power is not strong enough and the speed is not fast enough, or the angle is not enough.
Even in the state of double speed, Fan Ju's large oblique upspin afterburner and flat return ball are easy to lead out of bounds due to misjudgment of force, especially if you really want to hit the kind of landing and bounce, the opponent must return the ball from the doubles in-bounds area or even the out-of-bounds area, which is a very stable technique.
There are two boundaries on the left and right sides of the tennis court, one is the singles boundary, and the other is the doubles boundary, the area between this is called the corridor in tennis.
If the shot does not exceed the singles boundary, the range of the shot is almost as long as you stand in the middle of the baseline, and then adjust it with one or a half quick crossover steps according to the opponent's shot, and you can cover this area.
But once the point of hitting the ball reaches the corridor, or even the outside of the doubles boundary, it means that the receiver needs to take at least two or even three steps at a time to adjust the process before he can complete the process of hitting the ball.
"Damn it!" Fan Ju couldn't help but curse his opponent's big bevel balloon again, the quality was so high that it gave him a headache, the quality of his opponent's serve was not high, but the second shot could hit a fatal big bevel.
Just this one hit is enough to make Fan Ju lose his position, and it is difficult to cause a fatal counterattack with a reluctant return of the ball, even if the double speed ability is magical, it takes time to prepare for the power of the shot, and the power of the baseline is not like in front of the net, with a sudden interception of the ball, which has both lethality.
In particular, Fan Ju's own big slash return ball was not of high quality, and the opponent seized the opportunity to hit several balls.
Cyril Sonye served again, he was very confident in this match, especially after watching Fan Ju's several match videos, he found the opponent's shortcoming, the opponent's return was too strong, and he was afraid that he would not even have a chance to raise his head with his own serve.
However, Fan Ju's second ball connection was difficult to maintain a very high quality, which reminded him of himself who had just entered the professional game, and thought that he could make a big difference, but he couldn't even break through a qualifying match for a future tournament.
Cyril Sonier is a proud man, he disdains to learn from those people to go to backward areas abroad to brush points, because he is too old, he has no youth competition results, he can't get a wild card for the future tournament, gritted his teeth and gambled, Cyril returned to the tennis school for two years of hard training, which also made him rise in the rankings after getting his first professional point at the age of 23.
And Cyril Sony almost does not participate in low-level competitions that do not meet his ranking, even if the future tournament is almost always a high-level competition in Spain, France and Germany, and even the Tunisian Future Tournament close to Europe rarely participates, he believes that only by constantly challenging the strong can he have the motivation to continue to improve, which is actually very similar to Fan Ju, never looking back, sprinting forward as always, until his head is bleeding and he is not willing to bow his head.
Fan Ju's strength is very strong, but Cyril is also experienced, he did not grasp this point of death all the way after finding the opportunity, but flexibly used the transfer of the backfield, wanting to empty Fan Ju's body, he watched the game between Soderling and the opponent, Fan Ju's body lì particularly worried him, a superman who can't run to the death and can't be defeated, this is the most difficult place to deal with in the game.
Cyril's tactics were seen through by Fan Ju at a glance, but he is now the same as Soderlin at the beginning, dragged by the opponent's style of play, and began to run around the court after hitting a few balls.
"No, you can't be led by the nose by the opponent, they have nothing to say if they say they want to fight! How can you throw in the towel now! Fan Ju glanced at the excited audience outside the venue, and Fan Ju felt more and more that there was a momentum in his heart that needed to burst out.
"4:3" Cyril won his own serve smoothly, he has not yet caught a chance to break his opponent, he would love to break in the next game, but he knows that this needs to be a chance, not a blind attack.
Tennis matches tend to see a lot of breaks and holds, but if it's a close match, these breaks tend to burst out in succession at a certain point in time.
Because both players are waiting for the opponent's form to fluctuate, and they can catch consecutive faults to complete the break, and such opportunities often come at any time in the match.
Fan Ju is not a slow player, his form can be played quickly in the opening game, and most of the mistakes are in the second set, and after a long set, it is difficult to concentrate in the second set.
And if you play the third set, Fan Ju will return to his state, sometimes Fan Ju feels that this also has something to do with his ability use, the first set is overused, the brain needs to rest in the second set, and the third set is gradually used to complete the final counterattack.
Fan Ju holds the ball, today's game is very wrong, his opening is suppressed, and even the double speed is difficult to come in handy, the premature suppression is almost passive to catch the ball, no need to take the initiative to judge, more consumable body lì double speed has become their own burden.
Patted the ball, Fan Ju completed a high throw of the starting serve, today's own service game is not bad, the opponent basically did not have any resistance than the table, so Fan Ju also played very naturally, only more than 200 kilometers per hour of flat hit speedball, can not only maintain a high rate of one-serve goals, but also suppress the opponent to stabilize a serve, since the qualifying round there are only two opponents not very good games than this serve game is easier.
However, this is a final, and any oversights can change unexpectedly.
"Chance!" Cyril's blue eyes shone like a hungry wolf seeing food, and wasn't it just because he had been dormant on his opponent's serve in the first set to wait for this time?
A large angle return ball with great power, Fan Ju suddenly found that the opponent suddenly used a large oblique hit when receiving the serve, the power of the ball was very large, and the strong Cyril had enough strength to control the direction of the incoming ball.
The ball landed very deeply, especially when Fan Ju was still running normally, and a sudden forehand hit the ball back, causing him to lose the direction of the return.
"Quick! Hurry up! Fan Ju roared hard in the brain, but the weakness of automatic acceleration is undoubtedly revealed, it is undoubtedly safe, but it is not the most effective, like the automatic transmission and manual transmission of the car, the manual transmission as long as the throttle is given enough acceleration is undoubtedly faster, and the automatic transmission needs to be improved one level at a time, which in the moment of crisis, but like an old ox pulling a cart, must move forward step by step.
Fan Ju felt that he hadn't even fully entered the state of first gear, and the ball had already completed the steps of bouncing up after landing, and the first landing point was deep, and it had already landed on the position of the two balls beyond the half-court line.
Fan Ju saw that the ball was out of the doubles boundary, but his racket couldn't hook the tennis ball in front of him, which was still "slowing".
"0:15" Fan Ju was ruthlessly placed by the opponent, but for Cyril, this is just the beginning!
was rescued by the opponent at a big bevel to score a point in his own service game, Fan Ju's serve can no longer be reduced in order to pursue the goal rate, Fan Ju not only speeded up, but also turned on the double speed, ready to use the serve to take back the points he lost and win his own serve in one go.
But where is the matter as simple as Fan Ju thought, Cyril's counterattack has already completed a careful calculation!
Fan Ju served again, he was preoccupied with the slightest sloppiness now, he first saw the opponent's position, and after thinking about it, he still chose to hit the outside of the opponent's backhand, although he will also be very uncomfortable with this serve, but as long as he enters the boundary, then the opponent's backhand will definitely not be able to play the high-quality return ball just now.
"Hey!"
Fan Ju shouted out when he rarely exerted his strength, this ball, he did use all his strength!
Cyril faced a high-speed serve, with a backhand to catch very reluctantly, he is not a master of receiving serves, he can only barely cope with such a high-speed serve, but he knows very well that catching this ball is not the goal, as long as he grasps the weakness of Fan Ju on the serve, even if it is not 100% weakness, but in terms of probability, this is enough for him to win!
“OUT!” But the linesman was very faceless, Fan Ju saw that the opponent's backhand return was obviously a beat slower, and he didn't even complete the due stride catch, but this ball was an out-of-bounds ball!
The speed exceeded 210 km/h, but the ball grazed the net directly out of bounds, Cyril saw Fan Ju's movements completely, he knew in his heart that his opponent did not know what was wrong with him, and maybe he could use this to get a few more chances to catch the break in the future!