The scorching sun shines on the red clay, so that everyone can't help but feel that the ground is burning, and today's sun is very like beating chicken blood, evaporating the water on the field.

"It's a good field, and it looks like the soles of your feet will be more slippery when you run." Thinking about the ever-changing nature of the field, Fan Ju put down his bag and sat on the rest seat.

The clay course is not an easy course for beginners to adapt to, the crushed red brick or basalt paving course, and the fine granular divisions make the whole course very suitable for skating.

On the clay court, if you want to play a good defense, you must use the technique of sliding step, accurate sliding step, so that the player can quickly turn while swinging the racket in position, reduce reaction time, and truly make the defense leaky.

In comparison, the friction on the grass field is too small, and the sliding step requires a longer sliding distance, once it is not mastered, it is very likely to cross the head, and the hard court is not suitable for sliding step, and the real running is the best way to defend and attack.

The dry arena is more suitable for the use of sliding steps, and Fan Ju has a solid underhand, and he is also unusual in this regard, in terms of movement, he may not have the feel of Nadal on clay, but he is not lost to the opponent at all in the short sliding step.

Of course, the strength of the opponent is not bad, Fan Ju did not take it lightly because of some good skills, defensive and offensive play, when he stepped into this arena, it meant that Fan Ju had occupied a disadvantage.

As the sun shone straight down, Fan Ju and Coria had little ball boys with umbrellas behind them, providing a moment of shade for both players between matches.

Fan Ju walked on. He felt the gaze from the audience, and the Frenchman may not have been friendly to him at first, but now he saw the demonic banners that could be seen everywhere on the field. But there is a feeling of grudge and hatred.

After the incident, Fan Ju may have been very angry at that time, and even once he had to meet the French player, he had to defeat Cheng Dù with all his might. I'm trapped.

Players are also human beings, and even Fan Ju can't stay out of it completely. Just like a game, if you want to win, you have to put your heart and soul into it.

Fan Ju's serve, clay's serve is not easy to play, and the serving speed may not be slow. But the bounce speed is really a big difference. The experience of the clay Masters in the past two months has made Fan Ju understand that simply relying fast is useless in this arena.

If the high-speed ball is useful, I am afraid that Roddick will also leave the court in the second round silently, the serve of clay needs to have the characteristics of clay, and the serve with strong spin is the best weapon on this court.

"Oh, today Fan Ju opened with a sidespin serve. This kind of sidespin is really rare, and many fighters will use it on the second serve. But the first shot uses pure side spin, and there are really very few. Of course, this is not the first time that the commentator has seen Fan Ju use side learning as a serve, but at this time, he needs to analyze the particularity of this ball from the perspective of the audience.

The serve with a cut is actually a side spin, but the deep cut is not deep, which is the difference between pure side spin and high-speed side spin.

After the second leg of the Rome Masters, Fan Ju began to stop pursuing speed on the serve, at first adding a lot of topspin, and then directly using cut and pure sidespin to his own tactics.

This makes Fan Ju feel a bit like returning to the earliest period when he was learning tennis, the bomb serve, the crescent moon serve, these names make Fan Ju remember deeply.

As the level of the game progressed, the higher requirements for speed and power, those unstable serve were gradually hidden by Fan Ju, and the pursuit of more efficient and planned scoring became the standard of his technique in the game.

The strong outside corner side spin took Coria and flew directly to the outside of the court, this side spin ball doesn't seem to be fast, the speed is only about 180 kilometers, but don't forget that this is a powerful shot, 180 kilometers of side spin, which means that the power it carries will not be smaller than the afterburner heavy serve.

“OUT！”

Returning the ball out of bounds, Coria has no way to fly to the outside of this precise corner, its extension is not a strong point, if Fan Ju can maintain this kind of serve from beginning to end, I am afraid that Coria can directly raise his hand and surrender.

But this is not possible, or rather, the reason why Fan Ju chose this serve as a serve is also to take a fancy to the weakness of Coria, if it is simply a side spin, as a second serve, such a speed is too fast, and the control force cannot keep up with the rhythm at all.

If it is slowed down, the effect becomes less obvious, and it becomes a technique that is no different from ordinary hair.

"Is it too powerful?" Looking at the serve that floated out of bounds, Fan Ju shook his head.

Continue to serve, the first ball may feel good, the second ball, biased to the other angle of side spin, but did not hit the bounds, want to speed up while maintaining a strong spin, you will encounter such a problem, especially the angle of the landing point he is not used to, the goal rate, is much worse than the other side.

But it doesn't matter, one shot doesn't go in, Fan Ju still has two shots, and the power on the racket has been strengthened, but this time it is not sideways, but directly forward and upward.

Some people may not understand what kind of power is this, but if you can play a spin serve, you will understand that this is an extremely difficult to control instantaneous power rotation technique.

Instead of simply moving forward, or bringing out a certain sideways angle, it is a quick spinning force to the side forward at the moment of touching the ball.

How fast the speed of the explosion is means how strong the topspin of the ball is, and a barely played topspin ball will not pose much of a threat, but when it comes to the spinning master of Fan Ju's level, a perfect topspin ball is enough for his opponent to be directly headshot!

The moment he saw the ball bounce, Coria had already subconsciously measured his head, no way, the ball was too close to his head, no! It should be said that it is simply aimed at his own head.

In order to make the ball fall into bounds accurately, Fan Ju chose a very middle arc of the ball's landing point, but when the ball landed and jumped, the power of the topspin made the ball pop up an extremely high arc.

If the opponent is 185, the ball is estimated to have just reached the shoulder, but Coria is only 175, and he is in a slightly squatting posture when he receives the serve, which makes his eyes directly become a parallel line with the ball.

If it was on a hard court, I am afraid that Coria would have to lower his head to avoid this fast bounce ball, but fortunately this is on clay, and the ball speed becomes very slow after bounce.

Even so, Coria was scared into a cold sweat, and the return ball that the racket barely blocked hung on the net and was not found again.

"Fan Ju's topspin serve bounces very high, which is not seen on hard courts, and I think if he doesn't serve and focus on the baseline defense, he will definitely be a great clay fighter."

Well, Fan Ju also felt quite embarrassed, of course he didn't mean it, and raised his hand to signal, even if this ball had nothing to do with him.

But that's the case with tennis, where you score because you hit a hanging tennis ball, or if you accidentally hit your opponent's body, you will have this kind of voluntary apology.

Fan Ju didn't hit directly, but it scared the opponent, on the surface, Coria didn't seem to suffer, but the mental threat was just as frightening, at least Coria's frightened look, which might affect his play in the next few balls.

For this point, Fan Ju must apologize, of course, the apology is an apology, and the serve must continue, the two have not yet beaten each other, which is really not in line with the style of play on clay, or the characteristics of the venue have not yet played its unique characteristics.

A shot was scored, but this time Coria did not miss the ball again, and the backhand shot half picked an arc, the ball speed was very slow, if it was a hard court, Fan Ju absolutely did not hesitate to intercept it in mid-air.

But on clay, Fan Ju didn't, and it should be said that the previous matches gave him several memorable lessons, and he learned that the net opportunities on hard and grass courts are not universal on clay.

Pull out a forehand position, Fan Ju's preparation is not in a hurry, the opponent's ball falls very deeply, the ball speed is also very slow, and more importantly, when the ball bounces, there will be a moment of slowing down again, and that is the best time for clay to judge the swing of the racket, too fast will miss the rhythm, can not play the full power.

"It's coming!" The moment the ball hit the ground, time seemed to slow down, Fan Ju didn't use double speed, all he saw was the illusion of the ball's impact being absorbed by the ground.

On the hard ground, the time is so fast that the contestants are not allowed to think about it, and on the grass it is like an escaping mouse, paddling across the ground.

It is only on clay that the moment of touching the ball is extraordinarily slow, and in the eyes of the player, it is as if you can see the ball hit the ground and bounce up.

It's just an illusion of the eyes, but there is no room for error with a swing!

Pulling the ball up with precision and cutting through the prepared arc of power is a connection that cannot be mistaken, and all the power must be released to make the ball spin as fast as possible!

Coria watched Fan Ju's swing in his eyes, and kept chasing to the landing point, like Fan Ju, he was facing a return ball that lost speed after landing, but the difference was that this return ball not only had speed, but also stronger spin.

Yes, the spin was too strong, and Coria had to hurry up and even take a step back in bounds from the baseline he was more accustomed to in order to hit the most comfortable return ball at waist and abdomen height.

He has played with Fan Ju, and he knows very well that the horror when the jumping power of this ball fully explodes, and Fan Ju's return ball, forced him to play his slow pace into a fast-paced return attack, and enter the rhythm game that the opponent is more suitable for! (To be continued......)