Chapter 187: A Difficult Opponent

A return ball at a great angle, the ball was hit back to Fan Ju's half by Santoro in front of the net with an acute angle of less than 30 degrees, and there was no need to chase it at all, even if Fan Ju was replaced with four legs, it was impossible to chase the ball at this distance.

Fast-paced, ever-changing, for no reason, without warning, that's what Santoro, the tennis magician has to make even the best players feel intimidated.

How to play with both hands to cut the ball? It's just a façade of his disguise, and Santoro's most terrifying weapon is his rhythm, the rush that makes people panic.

Fan Ju stood on the bottom line, he only conceded the first goal, but the special features of the opponent have been revealed.

This opponent is terrible, and there is nothing special about it in the warm-up, but judging by the applause of the crowd on the sidelines, this style of play is not unfamiliar to them at all.

This is Santoro, a liberal educator from French tennis, who grew up to be a strange man, without constraints, without the shadow of traditional tennis, whether it is hitting or rhythm, all showing a unique personal color.

"It's so hard! The rhythm feels like ...... It's like driving at double speed. Fan Ju saw a familiar shadow from his opponent, the self who drove at double speed, scurried around the field, and hit an unexpected return!

However, Santoro is stronger than he was at that time, the technology is perfect, and he will not be limited by double speed, this flexibility is the most terrifying.

Compared to a two-handed paddle and a flexible one-handed abrupt change? This is the most terrible and direct weapon.

"The slicing ball is heavy and fast. The power is not as good as Nadal, but the quality of the landing point is very good, and the suddenness is strong. Fan Ju thought of countermeasures. Of course, time is limited, and he has to use his brain faster.

Santoro was amused when he saw Fan Ju slapping the ball, and he was thinking about it now, isn't it too late? Is it complacent to win a high-ranked player? It seems that he is still too young, and he needs to accept the lessons of failure a few more times.

As a tennis veteran, Santoro certainly has the right to think so. Cheng Dù, who is difficult to deal with in the tennis world, is the number one in the row.

But the way to deal with him is not very versatile, want to slow down the pace? I'm sorry. Santoro never hits the slow ball that his opponent wants.

Want to use the sparring to suppress yourself? Santoro won't hit the monotonous riback with a repetition of the landing point! If you want to shoot against each other, run all over the court with your feet, and there will always be a time to catch the ball.

As for the fast pace? Santoro is one of the top rhythm experts in tennis, and he has never met an opponent who can suppress his rhythm. You can go with it fast. Run with him, but you never want to play the same rhythm as him, because he's Santoro, a rhythm perversion.

Continuing to serve, Fan Ju did not make too obvious changes, but with the experience of the first ball, he began to move more flexibly on the baseline.

The receiving position is elevated to an area with a big stride inside the service line, which can take care of the baseline ball in the backcourt. It can also prevent the opponent from suddenly releasing a small ball to disrupt the rhythm.

Santoro doesn't have a lot of shooting ability, so he takes advantage of this variation and slices to attack. You don't need to take much precautions against this, just pay attention to the opponent's changes, changes, and changes.

"This rhythm is really tiring." Fan Ju gasped, and the score finally changed from 40 to 1, and he was too tired to win the first game.

Santoro's shooting is weak, but the ball control is strong, the two-handed cutting ball is extremely stable, and the landing point and angle changes are tricky and accurate.

Fan Ju can fully imagine the dilemma of those world's top players facing Santoro, this guy is simply not a guy who can communicate well on the court.

In addition to being uncomfortable, he was still uncomfortable after winning the game, and he didn't even get a real shot after playing a whole game, Fan Ju felt very unaccomplished, in addition to being harassed by noise in his ears, it was also a great challenge to his spirit.

"This signing is really "lucky", it's not enough to win a high ranking, you have to play with a strange guy, what kind of sin have you created! Fan Ju couldn't help but sigh, he originally thought it would be a bitter battle at best, but he didn't expect it to be a torture war.

Santoro's serve is also of an ordinary level, except for his rhythm, his two-handed racket, and the ordinary technique of serving, which is obviously not important to him.

The sound of moving under the feet on the red clay is different from the "squeak" sound on the hard ground, and the fast and short movement is like sanding each other with two pieces of sandpaper, making it difficult for Fan Ju to concentrate in his thinking.

"After serving, you actually took the initiative to slow down? This way of playing is weird...... "No adjectives are just weird."

After Fan Ju's serve gains the initiative, he often accelerates his swing towards the opposite corner, suppresses the opponent in the bottom corner, and then instigates a line-change attack.

Whether on hard courts or clay, this set of tactics is basically universal, as long as you use a strong enough swing and bring a large enough angle, no matter who the opponent is, this set of press can be combined with a quality serve to score.

Although Santoro's changes are great, Fan Ju still follows his own tactics, but he has to guard against changes in his opponent more, which will cause more trouble.

However, when the opponent serves, Fan Ju feels that the rhythm is even more chaotic and more difficult to grasp.

Fan Ju's hair extensions are his strong point, but Santoro has a lot of experience in dealing with service masters, and Fan Ju's hair extensions did not suppress him.

A cut ball that can't tell the difference between double reverse and double forehand, the arc of the ball has become larger, but the ball speed has decreased, which is very abnormal, but Fan Ju can still only swing the racket according to this rhythm.

The biggest weapon of the forehand, the topspin ball, is difficult to exert under this kind of rotation, and it is difficult to achieve the best effect when it is barely played, so it is still a flat sweep and the speed of the ball is raised to the range that he is used to.

"Cut again?"

Santoro still has the same action, Fan Ju still has to slow down when he is an opponent, but he thinks too simply, Santoro's hidden hands shoot the same shot, but the direction and strength are completely different.

Before Fan Ju received the ball, the position was on the left side of the court because of the slow ball. Although the receiving position was raised, it did not move.

The opponent's speed suddenly increased, and the speed of the ball suddenly increased. In fact, it wasn't too fast, but compared to the previous ball, the contrast was too great, so big that Fan Ju didn't react.

The ball was precise, and the ball passed through Fan Ju's defensive range and pressed on the right touchline, if the change of tempo was thrown. and hidden power, with a very beautiful right side of the center of the course to cross the shot.

"I guessed wrong again...... If you take advantage of the opponent's cut ball just now to block it in front of the net. "Regret is useless, Fan Ju knows that even if the Internet is useless.

The opponent will still use that quick backcourt lob to pull themselves back to the baseline. Then change the line, continue to change the rhythm, if you don't want to find a way, then you can't get out of the opponent's control. Dragged alive by the opponent on the court.

The 31-year-old Santoro is no small age. However, the body is still good, even if the body is good, I don't dare to say that I will definitely be able to compete with the opponent's patience.

Under the mobilization of the opponent, attacking and defending in an unfamiliar rhythm, the consumption of the body will definitely be more than the normal game, and a momentary mistake will not only lose the score, but also lose the calm mentality and important body that are very important for the game.

The first service game was hard, but the opponent's serve was hard. But it was easily recaptured, even if it didn't drive twice as fast. Fan Ju also felt very aggrieved.

"What method can be used to break his control?" Fan Ju was thinking, thinking more than before, he didn't get a hint, but he was not willing to use this method to play.

What is the best way to beat Santoro? All the opponents who have played against this pervert know that Santoro's weaknesses are very obvious, his strength is not strong enough, and his speed is not as fast as he can seem.

Throw away your style of play and become the second Santoro! Play the same rhythm as him, using the power and speed of the shot to suppress the opponent's changes.

Playing against him is a knife to cut the flesh, with the same method, you can't play a hearty victory, you need to fight for every ball, to run, to chase!

Those players who run faster than him, have good skills in front of the net, and have strong and stable return power are Santoro's natural enemies, because in the same style of play, Santoro has no advantage in other aspects except for more pure skills.

Although Fan Ju's return ball is not stable enough, it barely meets the requirements of the above 2 points, but Fan Ju is Fan Ju after all, he has his own ideas, maybe he is forced to be helpless and has no choice, he will choose to do this to win the game, but now, he still wants to rely on his own way to win!

At this time, Fan Ju became unhurried, reduced the use of double speed, and rarely even opened one double speed, the opponent was not an opponent who needed him to suppress with double speed, he was looking for a law, a law that could be used by himself.

Perhaps many people in the tennis world have studied Santoro's style of play, and looking at the technical reports that come from the Internet, which are two or three times more than ordinary players, Fan Ju knows how troublesome this guy will be.

Fan Ju is very good at observation and analysis, but he still has too few opponents to deal with, and even if there is other information, it is not enough for him to find an effective way to solve his opponent.

"Get more information first, it seems that you have to make your opponent comfortable for a set first......" Fan Ju frowned and made a very difficult decision.

Handicap is not really for the opponent to win, but Fan Ju needs to summarize the rules from the continuous return of the ball, even if the opponent is a strange person without rules, but some things will not change.

Professional tennis does not allow for arbitrariness, a qiē technique is the result of thousands of tempering, the more experienced, it also means that when facing some counterattacks, the more will choose familiar and effective coping methods, Fan Ju does not believe that Santoro is an exception, which will inevitably find out the key to solving this magician! (To be continued......)

PS: Santoro is a pure pervert, Federer in 05 can't beat him normally, Santoro is 35 years old, and no one wants to meet him in the game, when Serena Williams was not afraid of any player, he put Santoro and Federer and Nadal together, listed as opponents he didn't want to meet, and even Djokovic and Murray didn't have a word.

This is the wonder of the tennis world, the only one, there is no semicolon!