Chapter 178: A Decisive Counterattack
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"It's an illusion, it's just luck...... Fan Ju knows that this can't be true, but he already has an accurate judgment about his opponent's ability to receive serves.
The first game was played, but the two sides did not really play each other, and only relied on four serve to solve the problem, which is rare in Fan Ju's matches, especially when the speed has not been turned on.
"Well, the rhythm is good, keep it up." Fan Ju never thought of giving himself an immutable inherent rhythm, but chose a rhythm that was most suitable and familiar to him according to his opponent's expression.
In the face of a strong enemy, Fan Ju should have chosen to deal with it at the highest speed, but when Fan Ju discovered the opponent's problem, he found that such a high-speed rhythm may not have an impact on the opponent.
On the contrary, the particularity of the Grand Slam determines that Fan Ju cannot use the speed ability excessively, otherwise there is no need to wait for the tiebreaker at all, just the normal game can consume the double speed that exerts the greatest power at the critical moment.
"Take your time...... Especially when you can hold your serve now, play with him at a fast pace in your normal state. Fan Ju is very aware of the difference between himself and his opponent, and he doesn't think that the suppression just now means victory.
The action of the serve is very stiff, there is no high-speed bounce, there is no jump, and the joints seem to be rusty, and if you ignore the height of the opponent, you will think that this is a big man over 205 in height on the serve.
But in fact, Sharken was only 193. It is simply not possible to play the kind of high-pressure serve effect of a player over 2 meters, and such a serve is more of a special technique to cover up the defects in his serving ability and effectively improve his stability.
Don't jump. Without exerting too much force, the landing point of the ball is still biased towards the outside corner, but the flight trajectory of the ball is very clear, and Fan Ju only opens the speed of the base, and he can easily grasp the direction of the incoming ball.
Unlike Scharken, Fan Ju's muscles are like springs with added force, and the moment they are released. The speed of the bounce is fast and precise.
In the same position, the forehand position received the serve, and Schalken could only barely play back, and Fan Ju. However, he was able to add some power pads to hit the service point back, and the man was able to complete the movement to the midfield at the same time.
It's a beautiful hair extension, and it's also a very beautiful movement action, and a qiē runs as imagined in Fan Ju's script.
If the opponent hits the middle line. Fan will definitely flash a forehand. Fight back diagonally, and if the opponent attacks a line-changing backhand, then Fan Ju will pull a downspin ball and make the opponent's stiff joints suffer.
Even Fan Ju's stance is slightly biased towards the right side of the serve, and he is so well prepared to watch out for a return shot from his opponent, Fan Ju thinks he's ready to take on the world's top challenge.
"Papapa......" There was a clapping sound from the sidelines, but Fan Ju, who had just finished posing to receive the ball, was dumbfounded.
…… Fan Ju's return ball did hit the back corner. If in the challenge, such a hair extension is indeed enough to make his opponent hesitate for a moment.
But he forgot that his opponents were not rookies who were still marching towards the TOP100. In his opinion, the player full of holes is a real ATP No. 12 player, a high-ranking player who is even higher ranked than the old high-ranked players he has encountered!
Calm and powerful, the stiff muscles that Fan Ju looked down on completed the power process of the two feet and the instant volley of the forehand position in an instant.
In the face of Fan Ju's beautiful serve, Schalken was calm as if he had not been suppressed at all, and his quick counter-angle volley was just pressed at the moment when Fan Ju made a preparatory move.
In less than a second, or even less, this forehand volley is faster than the serve and more difficult to react to than the serve.
Accurately grasped the moment when Fan Ju's center of gravity changed, even Fan Ju's quick reaction ability had not had time to prepare, it can be said that this ball caught the moment when Fan Ju's consciousness was blank, when Fan Ju thought he was ready to catch the ball and relaxed, the ball had already completed the conversion from one side of the court to the other in an instant.
"It's incredible, how did he do it?" The moment the shot was completed, Fan Ju resumed his normal movements, slapped his palms with his racket, and kept thinking about the changes in the ball just now.
Why can you hit such a sharp attack with a weak serve and a slow pace? Is there a real secret hidden in this?
The game was still going on, and Fan Ju knew that he had to let go of the myths in front of him, he had to continue playing, and he couldn't move forward after being bothered by the problems in front of him.
Schalken's serve wasn't entirely useless, or he did lack the power to play a lethal crush on his cutting-edge serve.
But in terms of quality serve and first-serve goal rate, it is a different look, and at least Fan Ju has to admit that it is not easy to receive the opponent's serve at double speed.
It's not about speed or angle, but in terms of comprehensiveness, the opponent's shot will not make Fan Ju too uncomfortable, but it is not easy to catch.
Schalken is obviously very aware of Fan Ju's kung fu in hair extensions, and the name of 100% hair extensions is not called in vain, even if some returns are out of bounds and under the net, but as more and more games are played, after the number of jù has reached a Cheng dù, an amazing number of jù has appeared!
"No one can hit an ace in the match against Fan Ju, this player's reflexes are extraordinary!" This is a report by an American media on this number, of course, they are most right, but they only guess the surface.
Of course, Fan Ju would not let go of the opportunity to return and counterattack, but he found that he lacked effective countermeasures in the second set of his opponent in a state of non-double speed, or even double speed.
Just as he used his opponent's stiff movements to quickly suppress after serving, Schalken was even tougher on his second shot, and every beautiful return that Fan Ju hit back, he would be beaten back by his opponent with a strong force.
Except for one time when Fan Ju was lucky enough to pull out the gap in the forehand position, taking advantage of the moment when the opponent was on the right side of the court and had no time to move, he played a straight line through the score, but Fan Ju never scored the second point in the second game.
"How did he do that?" Fan Ju was not surprised to lose the second game, the opponent's attack was very accurate, and he controlled his movement rhythm very well.
It's amazing that Fan Ju is starting to want to control his opponent's return landing point, but his opponent has already done it, so accurately grasping the direction and rhythm of his movement.
It's hard to use luck to get past it, and Fan Ju has watched a lot of matches and found that many players can make such predictions, especially in high-level vs. low-level matches, the more often such a scene is seen.
Fan Ju realized that he was the low-level player in that picture, indeed, he was not in double speed, whether in terms of technique or strength, he was still one level away from the real top master.
This does not prevent Fan Ju from thinking about why, how the opponent did it, only by understanding this secret, can he really crack him, and one day let himself be able to do it, or even do better.
"Is it experience, or is there any detail that your own actions have revealed?" These two points are finally possible, Fan Ju doesn't believe in any sixth sense thing.
That feeling boils down to a collection of experiences, learning from past experiences, and then giving early warning before it happens.
In competitive competition, the sixth sense is transformed into anticipation, when the player swings the racket, nothing actually happens, but he can judge the opponent's next offensive position, and make moves and preparations in advance.
This is not a magical ability, but a talent and a talent to summarize experience, Fan Ju has not been in contact with tennis for long enough, his accumulation, his games have not allowed him to accumulate enough experience, but he has a double speed ability, which can make up for the gap between ten years of ball sense, and can also help him and those veterans who have been in tennis for several years to predict the gap in experience.
At the beginning of the third game, Fan Ju's rhythm did not change, and he consciously caught some characteristics of his opponent in the service game, taking advantage of the opponent's stiffness, he wanted to play a large-angle anti-angle attack.
His opponent's stride is very large, and his slender legs are stretched out, making him walk unsteadily, and such legs can exert power and make beautiful counterattacks, but they can't make nimble turns and flexible movements.
"Beautiful! It's so beautiful! It was like a match at Wimbledon, where I had never seen such a wonderful performance of moving and intercepting at the net! The broadcast host roared hard in the broadcast screen and the applause of the audience.
Once again, Fan Ju showed amazing ability at the net, and some of the technical options were still a bit naïve, but this was at the French Open, on clay, and it wasn't a small challenge, but a Grand Slam tournament that was broadcast all over the world!
The No.12 seed is not a low ranking, and broadcasters around the world will not let go of the highly-seeded player's match, and compared to many first-round players, Fan Ju is definitely lucky.
This may also be the reason why IMG is not too concerned about the possible elimination of Fan Ju, because their goal has been achieved, using the French Open to really promote Fan Ju to Asia, to the world, to tell the world, there is a rising superstar, in the near future, he will show a signal of unprecedented huge commercial value!
A victory in 100 Challenger matches is not as good as a Grand Slam-level tournament that will be broadcast worldwide.
This is Fan Ju's challenge, and it is also a big gamble by IMG on Fan Ju, and Fan Ju's previous cousin is indeed worthy of IMG's investment in him, maybe one day IMG will be glad that he chose Fan Ju and chose to save their future. (To be continued......)