Chapter 191: Grassland Offensive
"I'm still too young, and I can't help but jump out when I'm instigated, but it's just a record of no ace on the serve, what's there to fight for." Fan Ju heard the news of his opponent, but he didn't react.
Honorie on the side pouted, and said that it is you who are not normal, you are young but like an old man, if not all the records confirm Fan Ju's age, Honori may be the first to investigate whether Fan Ju is lying about his age and pretending to be young.
"I'm still not used to this field...... "Walking on the grass field, I feel a little slippery, the grass under my feet is freshly grown, and it is precisely because of this, without stepping on it, it will be more slippery and more difficult to control than the course that has been stepped on.
Grass courts are not like ordinary courts, not only are they very troublesome to maintain, but they also have seasonal restrictions, and you can choose to play hard and clay matches at any time, even in winter, you can choose to play indoor balls.
However, the grass court is subject to a lot of restrictions, which also leads to the fact that there are grass games in June and July every year in the European continent, and most of them are concentrated before and after Wimbledon, and there are few grass games in low-level events, and many young players have no experience in grass court games before they come into contact with Wimbledon.
Grass is a very slippery court with minimal friction and the ball bounces very low after landing on a hard court to only three-quarters of the height, which gives the serve an advantage on such a court, as the power of their serve will be lower and more difficult to take advantage of the return of the ball than on other courts.
"It's the world of serve and net players, and it's also the best place to perform in offensive tennis."
Why is there such a rarity of grass matches in the four Grand Slams? It is on this court that the most wonderful offensive tennis can be played.
Traditional bottom-line conservative attacks. There's no market here, all you have to do is speed up the pace and attack! Offensive! Attack again!
Just like Fan Ju did to his opponent at this time! Relentless attack. Attack endlessly until your opponent is no longer capable of countering!
Poor Fish, who had only played most of the game, regretted the big words he had released before the game, and he regretted that he didn't pay attention to the coach's reminder to him, where is the guy on the opposite side just suitable for the grass, this person is simply a grass maniac. A complete fast player, Santoro can't be compared at all.
Fish is miserable now, after getting the first serve. He seemed very excited, he was a good servant, not comparable to a real cannon like Roddick, but he was also a powerful American small artillery.
On grass he was confident on his serve. He's not a fool either. Of course, I know that Fan Ju is very powerful, but it is only on clay, and the bounce after serving has increased, but the bounce speed has also decreased.
It's incredible to be able to do 100% of the ball, but he believes that he will make mistakes on the grass, and he is the first opponent to make mistakes!
As soon as he got on the field, Fish held back his energy. Constantly improving his service speed, he is a powerful player in his own right. The height is not enough, but the arc of the serve is enough to hit, and the maximum speed is close to 220 kilometers per hour.
This kind of serve is not stable, but he only needs to hit an ace that his opponent can't catch, and he has a good idea in his heart, hit the opponent first with the serve, and then slowly solve it on the baseline.
At double speed, his catch had already slowed down to less than 170 km/h.
This speed is still very fast, much faster than many serve that is less than 150 kilometers after the deceleration, and it is close to the speed of those tricky angles, and the strong service power can also bring a strong suppressive effect to the opponent.
Of course, the serve is very good, very good, but it can only bring some suppression to Fan Ju, missing the connection? How is it possible, don't forget that the double speed of Fan Ju is an automatic transmission.
If it is really outside of the speed of his reaction, as long as he does not deliberately limit it, the gear will automatically increase, and he can't react at twice the speed, so what about one point and five times? With a reduction of more than 40%, even a 220-kilometer serve is less than 140 kilometers, which is not far from an ordinary forehand return.
Of course, Fish couldn't hit a 220 on every ball, and even after the first 220km serve was "easily" returned by Fan Ju, he couldn't increase his serve speed.
It didn't hit Fan Ju, but it affected his service state, and Madi Fish really wanted to slap himself twice to sober himself up.
But how can Fan Ju's counterattack end so easily, and the real game begins after the hair extension!
Although it was the first time to play on the grass court, after arriving in London, IMG had already prepared a training venue for Fan Ju, and this time even the effort of finding a sparring partner was saved, and Nadal, who came with him, was also the first time to contact Wimbledon and the grass court.
The ability to be close to Fan Ju, the similar age, the skill and courage of the opponent who are not afraid, and the standard bottom-line playing style of the player, even if you search the entire IMG banner, you may not be able to find a more suitable player than Nadal.
This is not only good for Fan Ju, but Nadal can also be more familiar with the strength of players with such an aggressive style of play, minus the net, Fan Ju can become a standard bottom-line style of play, which is also a perfect sparring partner.
The two hit it off and had a week of low-density adaptation training, of course, low-density is just the statement of Tony and IMG's remote coaching team, for Fan Ju and Nadal are indeed a real game in the competition, trying their best to understand the characteristics of this field and play their own strength.
Poor Madifish, his own style of play is not offensive tennis, and if there is no opponent to provoke, he can stand on the bottom line and play a whole game.
In addition to a powerful serve, he can't use other targeted techniques on grass to defeat Fan Ju? This is only when he has not seen Fan Ju's hard ground and grass surface, and he will only say "mushy words".
Fast surfing, this is the last effective way to score on grass in the practice between Fan Ju and Nadal, but surfing the Internet is easier said than done.
Madifish hit a serve, which was his final struggle in the first set, and it was true that the match was just over halfway through, but the score was now 5-3.
The speed is still not slow, and in terms of the second serve, this 180-kilometer serve is already a very risky move.
But Maddy Fish had to do this, he already had a fear of Fan Ju's hair extension, and this fear prompted him, even in the face of possible double mistakes, to make his second serve as fast and faster as possible!
But this is precisely the most comfortable serve for Fan Ju, if the opponent pursues the angle, maybe he may not be so comfortable to catch, but if he pursues speed, it can be in his arms.
The ball was very positive, slightly to the left, and it was too late to flash his forehand, but he was able to hit a backhand on target.
The arc of the ball grazing the ground is very low, but this does not affect Fan Ju's catch, and his steady and solid horse step allows him to maintain a half-squat state, still ensure his body balance, mobilize enough power, and hit the ball back.
The backhand was not the strongest and the arc was not too big, but Maddy Fish did not breathe a sigh of relief, because he knew that this was the more terrifying place after that.
After receiving the serve, Fan Ju did not pause in the backcourt and ran quickly to the midfield, in fact, the ball just now did not need to be returned so hard, because the increased ball speed was not conducive to the second beat of his net transfer.
Madifish's receiving position is still in his own possession, Fan Ju did not lose his initiative, did not lose the initiative in the opponent's service game, it may sound a little strange, but this is the norm since the opening of this match.
Seeing the ball pounce on his backhand, he wanted to drop the ball, but he had already seen Fan Ju who pounced, and he knew that it was too early to drop the ball at this time, and Fan Ju didn't need to move too much to chase the ball, and hit a backcourt press, so that he had no chance to score.
There was no way or time to hesitate, the back and forth of the ball and the ball, only in a second or two between the staggered rackets, and at the moment when Madifish hesitated, he had already lost the best opportunity to swing the racket.
He reluctantly swung his racket, he already regretted it in his heart, it should not have been a mistake that he should have made as a 50-ranked player in the ATP rankings, but under the pressure of his opponent, he made it again, not for the first time, not for the last.
"The arc is a little high, and the force is ...... off" Fan Ju saw the ball and immediately realized that his opponent had made a mistake.
Without thinking about it, there was no need to think about it, he took another big step forward to the side, the racket stopped on the flight path of the ball, and it was too late to hit a fatal diagonal line at a small angle in the half, but it was enough for Fan Ju to hit a position that the opponent must save, but it was very difficult to save.
Seeing the return line, Madi Fish only had to chase the ball with his head down, and he wanted to make a change, but he knew that when Fan Ju came to the net, it would be over in one qiē......
"Whew! Won the first set. The forced ground pressure and running also made Fan Ju breathe, at this time, he must not make a mistake, once he misjudges, he will even accidentally swing the wrong direction of the racket and send the ball to the opponent's shot.
The back and forth of the ball is too fast, if it can be slowed down to 3-4 seconds on clay, 1.5 to 2 seconds on hard court, then almost all on grass is about 1.5 seconds, once one person speeds up, the other has to speed up with it, otherwise losing the initiative of speed and rhythm is equivalent to losing the blessing of the court and losing the hope of playing a lethal kill.
Never think about high-spin presses on grass, fast and direct volleys and smash-down presses are the best and most direct weapons.
Baseline defense is not a threat at all in front of these two weapons, and Madi Fish is no worse than himself in terms of running or hitting, but this one has always been passively suppressed by himself, and has no chance to fight back. (To be continued......)