Fan Ju was stunning in the Queen's Cup, but Sharapova was no slouch at the other end, with the WTA Tour of Birmingham reaching the semi-finals from the qualifying rounds, and the quarterfinals eliminated top seed and Sharapova's compatriot, world No. 15 Yelena Dementieva.

It is not comparable to the effect of Fan Ju knocking out the world's TOP1, but don't forget that compared with Fan Ju, who is about to turn 18 years old, Sharapova, who has just turned 16, shows that her strength is no less than putting a huge bomb in the women's tennis world.

"It's a pity that I met Asaoyue Hirob, which just restrained Sharapova's style of play, and the female players are also getting stronger and stronger in the body, and Sharapova, who played in the qualifying round, suffered too much." Raschet had to get the news of this Fan Ju's concern first, and he was a little sorry, but Sharapova was still young, and even Fan Ju, who was fighting the field, was 2 years younger.

Fan Ju mainly attacks the bottom line, in his own service game, Fan Ju's baseline score is more advantageous than in front of the net, Tim Henman usually does not choose to raid the net tactics when he is facing a player who is not weak in the serve, especially in the face of Fan Ju.

After a few beats of cutting, the rhythm on the court changed, and Fan Ju relied on strong hits to suppress, and occasionally raided on the Internet, but there were not many of them.

After Henman's baseline attack was suppressed, his stability was much worse than his serve and tennis.

"The serve is still suppressed, and the extension is not very smooth...... Fan Ju shook his head, and the opponent's front serve was cracked, but it did not mean that there was no way.

Conversely, Tim Henman's high-speed serve is also extremely powerful. Whether it is the outside or the inside, it is more than 60% stable and stable, and Fan Ju can only wait slowly at this time. Wait for your opponent's second miss.

It's not that I don't want to attack in one shot, but unlike other opponents, the play in front of the net has the magical effect of narrowing the court, and when you advance to the halfcourt, you will laugh a quarter, and if you advance to the frontcourt, the whole court will be half smaller.

Although it is not easy to control this half of the court, when it comes to meeting the opponent's counterattack. Only the time to take a step to intercept, even the slightest hesitation can leak the ball.

But it also means high speed and direct return shots, with only a handful of Fan Ju's extensions capable of hitting through Henman's intercepts. Most of them were intercepted by the opponent and further played into a stalemate in front of the net.

Whether it is experience in front of the net or experience on grass, Fan Ju is not a few games worse than Henman. It's really a gap of several years. Relying on his style of play in front of the net, Henman has reached the semi-finals of Grand Slams several times, and it is not without reason.

Fan Ju quickly returned the ball during the run, seemingly catching the opponent's weak position, but at the moment of swinging the racket, he knew that he had made a mistake.

Henman may seem stiff on his feet, but he is not slow, and the racket interception is fast and accurate. Once again, Fan Ju's attack was intercepted in front of the net.

The ball was not released because Henman was not going to give Fan Ju a chance to net. He underestimated the speed of Fan Ju at the beginning, and wanted to mobilize the opponent with a small ball.

However, after Fan Ju used a quick backcourt to run straight to the frontcourt, lightly used his racket to cushion the return ball that was about to land for the second time, and played a beautiful crossing through his empty space, Henman realized that Fan Ju must not let Fan Ju go to the net.

The return of the bottom line, Fan Ju can chase it, but the line that can be crossed has long been blocked by Henman, and there may be some possible hitting positions left on both sides, but this is a difficult return ball that is extremely difficult for Fan Ju's current ball control accuracy.

"Damn it!"

The ball was picked up high by Fan Ju, and at this point he could only fight for his own accuracy, Henman's volley back was very fast, and he was not allowed to slowly control the feel, and after the ball left his hand, Fan Ju knew that the ball was out of bounds nine times out of ten.

“OUT！” The linesman unexpectedly shouted out of bounds, and with the referee's announcement, the score of 7:5 really made Fan Ju a little unacceptable.

Dropping a set first, Fan Ju often wins a set first and then continues to press with double speed, but Tim Henman is a seasoned man, and even if Fan Ju cracks his so-called serve trap, this is only one of his many skills.

Fan Ju was a little unhappy, but he had nothing to say, he did lose in the two aspects of seizing the opportunity to go online and controlling the opponent to go online.

can only continue to rely on the bottom line to suppress, but the problem is that the bottom line suppression on the grass is still not as powerful as the Internet.

Fan Ju's forehand and backhand suppression has not really reached the top, or even surpassed the top level, which seems to still be able to maintain the suppression, for his opponent, it is just the rhythm of the usual game.

"Why is it that the opponent can press the net smoothly after serving, but after he serves, he can only play the bottom line to suppress?" Fan Ju kept asking himself this question.

Except for the set point when he was broken by the opponent, Fan Ju's serve was basically maintained in a good state, and the goal rate and speed of the first serve were basically the same as the opponent's.

However, the opponent has 4 serves, but 3 can form a net attack, while Fan Ju Fan Ju has only one of the 4 serves.

Don't underestimate this small numerical contrast, which means that Fan Ju was deprived of the number and proportion of points scored in front of the net by the opponent, and with Fan Ju's aggressiveness in front of the net, every time he increases his net, it means an increase in the chance to score.

The bottom line can score, but after all, it is not as efficient as in front of the net, Fan Ju knows this very well, but he also found the opponent's intention to restrain himself.

"Ginger is worthy of being old and spicy." I understand but it doesn't mean that there is a way to crack it, the first time I encounter an opponent with a serve net type, for this experience, Fan Ju is a complete zero egg.

In fact, it is not nothing, as long as Fan Ju strengthens the baseline offense, he can tear through the opponent's blockade in front of the net and gain a glimmer of life, but does Fan Ju still have the ability to strengthen the ground attack? The answer is yes, but the limit is big!

"Double the speed!"

Fan Ju opened the limit on double speed, and it can be said that even when he played against Hewitt and Gross, Fan Ju did not do so.

But there is a situation in this world, called type restraint, Gonzalez, who was able to suppress himself with direct attacks on the baseline, is still the same with Henman in front of him.

Before Fan Ju has stronger strength, the only way to face such an opponent is to play with all his strength, play luck, and before he has the tactics and skills to defeat them, he can only hope that the opponent is not in good shape to win the game.

"What's wrong with him?" Raschet began to mumble to himself again on the sidelines that he had been away from Fan Ju for a while, and he had to watch the fighters more to get more information.

Fan Ju suddenly changed his rhythm on the court at this time, this is not normal, it is obviously an unplanned change, is it because he lost the first set?

Very unhappy, very unhappy, started the double speed of the fan, like a wild horse on the field, Henman can only avoid its edge at this time, and put more energy on the game to hold the serve rather than break the serve.

Fan Ju's offense on the serve did not change much, on the contrary, in the opponent's service game, Fan Ju repeatedly played forced line change returns.

This seems to be so exciting that even the opponent is surprised, but only Fan Ju on the field knows that this is overdrawing the potential of the game, and it is also overdrawing the victory as a price.

Fan Ju did not lose his rationality, as long as the score was superior, he would stop using multiples, but Henman is not a player who will choose to retreat, once Fan Ju's offensive tempo slows down, he will follow, take advantage of Fan Ju's poor form, keep pressing, and then complete the break to equalize the score.

This kind of tug-of-war is physically demanding, and it costs double speed, and by the time the match finally enters the third set, Fan Ju has only the ability to activate double speed.

In other words, the double speed is no longer enough to increase to 3 times, and even the double speed can be opened less than 10 times at most, which is the price of overdraft, although the game is dragged into the last set, but still have to face the bitter consequences of failure.

Perhaps in order to try something, Fan Ju started a different style of play in the final set, going to the net more actively in the service game, and when he received the serve, he stuck to the baseline like his opponent, waiting for the opponent's mistake and then waiting for the opportunity to attack.

At this time, the audience on the field seemed to see a mirror reflecting each other, but the surface of the mirror was a little curved, and although the two sides were very similar, they showed different characteristics.

On the one hand, the bottom line is strong in front of the net, and on the other hand, the bottom line is strong and weak in front of the net, different playing styles have caused completely different results, Fan Ju is getting weaker and weaker on this side, but Henman is like finding the key to victory and grasping the initiative at the end of the key set.

"Thank you for your guidance and for giving me an idea of what it means to play on the serve and on the net." Fan Ju was very sincere, and it didn't look like he had lost the game at all.

"You're welcome, you did a good job in the second set, if you can keep it, I think you'll go further than me." Tim Henman was also very polite, as if the two were not opponents after a semi-final, but friends who had just finished afternoon tea in the courtyard and were saying goodbye.

When the speed disappeared, Fan Ju's held position on the field was finally broken by Tim Henman, which is not surprising, Fan Ju is ready.

It doesn't matter if he loses the game, Fan Ju saw the real way of playing on the serve and net, and also found the flaws of the style of play, maybe this style of play will become his own weapon in the future, but before that, those flaws must be improved and made up for in order to make him an invincible killer in the arena.

"It's not the first time I've failed, but it's a bigger change than the previous ones, and since that day, I've been convinced that the serve or net play isn't dead, on the contrary, it's just hidden and waiting for someone to open it again and dominate the new era." (To be continued......)