What is a rookie wall? This statement comes from the professional basketball NBA, players enter the league game at the beginning of the smooth sailing, invincible, but at a certain time, suddenly feel completely empty, unable to shoot, and unable to play the game.

Tennis is different from basketball, but it has the same problems, but unlike the wall of basketball, tennis is more powerful and more real.

TOP200, TOP100, TOP50, TOP10, each strength level, there are many excellent players in it, your progress means surpassing them, defeating them, every time you will face great challenges.

Fan Ju has had a smooth ride since he entered the competition, and his initial achievements were even more dazzling among newcomers, and when he reached close to 50 in the rankings, this wall naturally appeared in front of him.

The "Tour Wall", unlike the previous competitions, can win the championship if you are strong enough, this is the top world, you can't reach the top position, you can't play the top state, and you want to peek at the title of champion, that's wishful thinking.

Now Fan Ju is in distress, his ranking is still rising, but his game is facing either loss or elimination in the previous rounds.

This is completely contrary to his mentality of competing for the title, especially the match against Nalbandian a few days ago, which allowed Fan Ju to encounter the first game of being targeted by his opponent.

The body lì on the fan move can keep up, and the state is also adjusted well with the assistance of the team, but the only victory is that no one else can help him.

"To win a game, you have to go to more races. At the moment, you don't see a chance at the Masters level, and many players who reach the top 10 may not have won the Masters title. Raschet knew what Fan Ju was worried about. He explained.

Looking for a close game? Isn't this the desire to compete on the same level as those top players?

Fan Ju's strength is not enough to reach that level, but he wants to progress faster, even if Fan Ju matures, he will ignore the time it takes to make up for the gap.

Sometimes beating the top does not mean reaching the top, ordinary games are not necessarily meaningless, and Fan Ju is tired of ordinary games. It's not that the opponent is not strong enough, it's just that defeating the opponent makes him unable to generate the excitement and passion when he wins against the top and competes with the top.

This is a common problem for on-the-spot players. The stronger the opponent, the better the form, Fan Ju played the fourth-ranked Carlos Moya, and when he fought with Federer in front of the net, he showed his form and strength. It's completely different from other competitions.

Fan Ju is not depressed. He always loses, and he can't see the time to win, but this is also to blame himself, what non-masters and non-Grand Slam do not participate, and it directly cut off his way to win the championship.

You need to be patient before you meet a master, Roddick has a simple style of play, but at least he is good in strength, but he has to take out Scharken first. This is a hard bone that is difficult to gnaw in front of Fan Ju.

The second round of Cincintina was still a lonely battle. Perhaps the loneliness is also due to the fact that there are no friends to accompany them, Raschet and others are more busy with work, unlike Nadal and Sharapova, more youth and laughter, which makes Fan Ju depressed even if he wants to be depressed.

Coming to the arena, today is finally no longer the kind of small venue surrounded by spectators on the sidelines, the No. 12 seed is still a seeded player after all, the scale of the sub-field is not small, the cheering audience and the high atmosphere in the arena, so that Fan Ju can't help but find some feeling on the field.

"You still have to win the game!" Hold the racket and shake off those worries.

Focusing on his own tactics, Fan Ju looked at his opponent, Scharken looked stern, 193's height was still half a head taller than Fan Ju, and his slender and slender body still made Fan Ju feel stiff.

Schalken was also quite surprised to see Fan Ju, who met Fan Ju in the Queen's Cup not long ago, and Fan Ju at that time was very different in terms of world ranking and field table.

The tactics have been adjusted, the style of play has been focused, and in his team analysis, Fan Ju's serve and forehand are very powerful, which is a level higher than when he met him before.

"Young people are progressing so fast." Schalken couldn't help but sigh, even if he himself is only 27 years old now, but for professional competitive players, his skills can not change much, and it is difficult to increase his strength even if he exercises muscle strength.

Fan Ju served first, and his serve was very good this week, with a first-serve goal rate of 62% in the last game, which was definitely his best record in the match, but a few double faults really made him suffer on serve.

"Good shot!" Fan had a good feeling as soon as he hit the ball, and he knew that this ball must have it!

The speed of the ball is not fast, and the speed on the sidelines shows a figure of 192 kilometers per hour, which is very abnormal, and this number is very low in Fan Ju's serve, but looking at Fan Ju's slam swing action, it is not like an ordinary return on the serve at all.

Scharken didn't think so, either, but his brain didn't have time to think.

The first time the racket touched the tennis ball, the heavy feel made him know that this ball was not an ordinary flat speed ball, the height of the ball bounced made him feel very uncomfortable, and the hand and the racket showed an unnatural angle.

Fan Ju didn't make a second move, the net belt helped him complete the final interception, the heavy topspin serve, the bounce height was perfect, even if Scharken's height, this height close to the shoulder would make him very uncomfortable.

Topspin serve, this is a long-hidden killer move of Fan Ju, in the past, because the first-serve goal rate could only be hidden in the flat fastball.

Now, however, with an ever-increasing goal rate, he is finally able to reach a 50% qualified percentage on his topspin serve, which means that he has one more weapon to use on hard courts.

Schalken has also taken Fan Ju's topspin serve in the past, heavy and jumpy, but the current serve feels more threatening to him.

Unlike the speed and angle of high-speed cuts, a high-quality topspin serve is the kind of extreme serve that you can catch but can't play back.

When the weight of the spin and the unusual bounce height are combined with the angle of velocity, this side becomes a lethal weapon.

In the Sampras era, he relied on this kind of serve to make the opponent helpless against his serve, and the opponent left Sampras after receiving the serve was often a low-quality extension that was not threatening and could easily play the connection.

This is an important reason why he is so threatening on the first shot after serving, because when he serves, he has already decided the final direction of the ball.

The stiff Scharken was even more powerless to deal with in front of Fan Ju's serve, not that he couldn't take it back, but he couldn't play it all the time.

Fan Ju's tactics are very clear, when the opponent returns the ball, there is no need to consider directly choosing the opposite corner, or the opponent's changed center of gravity direction, and directly hit the return ball.

As long as the quality of the serve is guaranteed, he does not have to worry, the opponent will play too many high-quality direct returns, and there is no need to think about it before going to the net, so that the entire service game has extremely high efficiency.

"Impossible! Why is this happening? Scharken had a heart of "revenge", but the result of the first set made him unable to find a sense of revenge, 6:2 Fan Ju, in the first set of the opponent's momentum hit hard, 8 games, 3 breaks, except for the 4:0 after the overall situation has been decided by Schalken counter-break once, it can almost be said that he controls the whole situation.

"There are 2 rounds left! The next game is done. ”

Silently calculating his speed limit, Fan Ju became more and more accustomed to the rhythm of facing opponents who were slightly higher than him, but could not suppress him.

Of course, Schalken is not easy to deal with, and Fan Ju's topspin serve and forehand baseline, and even the net on the hard court may not dare to say that it can completely suppress the opponent.

However, the strength of the two sides is not too different, and it can even be said that after mastering the opponent's weaknesses, relying on the baseline play alone, Fan Ju can also snatch the opportunity to break from the opponent at double speed.

After deducting the double speed of 2 games, Fan Ju still has two more games in the second set to enter the state of rampage, and the power of rampage is that he can control the whole game in his hands, and the more the time of the rampage is extended, the more accurate Fan Ju's grasp of the game and ball sense is.

In the match against Federer, he went on a rampage in four consecutive rounds, almost making Federer completely lose hope of counterattacking.

However, there are also disadvantages of rampage, the initial stage of rampage requires a long warm-up time, and this warm-up is not double-speed, but a continuous process between double-speed and double-speed.

Whether it is wiping sweat or waiting for the opponent to serve, in order to keep the brain accelerating, you can't leave the double speed, which also means a lot of out-of-game consumption, which has a great impact on the sustainability of the double speed in the game.

At least one game must last, which is a demerit that Fan Ju has drawn after many rampage tests, which also gives Fan Ju a new definition of rampage.

"In a best-of-three match, in the face of an opponent slightly stronger than yourself, the rampage will become a conventional weapon for breaking, and in the face of an opponent who is much stronger than you, the rampage will become a means of raiding, and in the face of an opponent who is weaker than you, the rampage only exists in the category that can be used, but not necessarily used."

Scharken was slightly better than Fan Ju, who knew very well in the game that he might not be able to win the match if he played at a pace of double speed and double speed.

So he chose to use the rampage to break the serve, and use his own strength to hold the serve at double speed, such a combination is very effective, although it may not be successful every time the serve is held, but the rampage break directly makes the opponent mistakenly judge the strength of Fan Ju.

In his own service game, Schalken also blindly shrank on the bottom line, which brought more advantages to Fan Ju's attack, and the transfer of the left and right sides became more frequent, directly aimed at Schalken's dead end! (To be continued......)