All-round Athlete

Chapter 277 Runner-up battle? (four more)

Zhang Depei is a Chinese-American tennis player. He once won the 1989 French Open champion and the 1996 Australian Open and US Open runner-up. It is worth mentioning that he was only 17 years and 3 months old when he won the French Open, and he is also the youngest winner of the Grand Slam men's singles competition ever. Zhang Depei's best ranking in history is the second in the world, and the world's number one that year was the world leader Sampras.

After Zhang Depei retired, he transformed into a tennis coach and achieved some achievements. However, the Japanese player Kei Nishikori is most familiar to Zhang Guan. Won the runner-up of the US Open, and the world ranking has also climbed to the top five in the world. This also fully shows that Zhang Depei is still very capable as a coach.

Besides Zhang Depei, Zhang Guan has no other better choice. Tennis, like other professional sports, generally changes coaches during the offseason. Those good coaches have already been hired by other players during the offseason, but now it is January, the entire tennis season It has only just begun, and naturally there will be no players changing coaches. So to be able to find a coach of Zhang Depei's level is no small surprise for Zhang Guan.

So Zhang Guan immediately said: "Then let Coach Zhang come here as soon as possible and reimburse him the air ticket. Although he will not be able to make it to the semi-finals, he will definitely be able to catch up to the finals. Martha also entered the semi-finals, Coach Joyce The task is very heavy, I can't keep rubbing against her coach!"

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For Gonzalez, being able to defeat Nadal and enter the semi-finals of the Grand Slam has created his personal best result. Before that, his best result in the Grand Slam was only the quarterfinals.

"My next opponent is Zhang Guan. This is really a good group!" Gonzalez was still very excited at this time. He defeated Nadal in such an important game. For him, it is indeed a big celebration. Fan.

"If the opponent is Davydenko, it is really troublesome for me. Davydenko has a lot of experience in the game. He can always crack my forehand and block my attack. I can't find the feeling of the game. But Fortunately, Zhang Guan helped me get rid of Davydenko, and I will play a tennis rookie in the next game, and it seems that reaching the final is no longer a problem!" Gonzalez continued.

At this time, Gonzalez fully demonstrated the natural optimism of the South American players.

However, Gonzalez's coach said: "I don't think you should be too careless. Although Zhang Guan is participating in the Australian Open for the first time, he is not an ordinary rookie. All the skills he has shown are very good. Mature, you have seen the match between him and Davydenko, Zhang Guan's forehand is very precise, and he uses the baseline offensive tactics similar to Federer's; and his serving level is also very good. He has served more than a dozen aces in one game! I made a statistic and found that his serves are more than 70% and his speed can exceed 200 kilometers per hour. This alone is better than you!"

"Better than me! That's because I didn't give full play!" Gonzalez snorted coldly, and then said: "Just wait and see, I will try my best in the game the day after tomorrow! Zhang Guan's serve is very good? Forehand Also good? Then I'll beat him with serve and forehand!"

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The Australian Open has come to the eleventh match day.

In the women's singles semi-final that started first, Serena Williams beat Vaidisova 2-0, and Sharapova beat Clijsters by the same score. Today's Australian Open final will again be a contest between Serena Williams and Sharapova.

However, this is not a very good result for Sharapova. It is well known that Serena Williams is Sharapova's nemesis. Sharapova has hardly won against Serena Williams a few times, although Sarah Sharapova's first Grand Slam title was won by defeating Serena Williams, but since the 2004 WTA year-end finals, Sharapova has never won against Serena Williams. Then when Sharapova faced Serena Williams, she was unbeaten for ten consecutive years.

After the two women's singles semifinals, Rod Laver Stadium also ushered in the most important game of the day. Federer faced Roddick in the men's singles semifinals. Roddick is the No. 6 seed in the tournament and was once considered the favorite to win the championship. Although his record against Federer is 12 losses and 1 win, Roddick is definitely at a disadvantage. But in the second half of last year, the famous tennis coach Connors became Roddick's coach, and Roddick has made rapid progress as a result. Roddick's only victory against Federer came in the Kooyan Classic before the Australian Open.

The Kuyan Classic was only a week away from the Australian Open, which means that Roddick beat Federer a week ago, so many people think that Roddick will cause Federer a lot of trouble, and maybe he can beat Federer again Federer; some people say this is a revenge battle for Federer.

However, the results of the game were surprising. Federer ended the game in just 83 minutes, and Roddick was swept out in straight sets 6-4/6-0/6-2. Roddick wasn't able to cause Federer an iota of trouble.

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"Federer has booked this year's Australian Open title"

"In the match held this afternoon, the defending champion Federer defeated the No. 6 seed Roddick and successfully advanced to the final. However, for many people, the championship of this year's Australian Open has lost suspense. Another men's singles match Although the semi-finals have not yet started, neither Gonzalez nor Zhang Guan can beat Federer in the final. Therefore, Federer can be said to have won the Australian Open in his arms."

This report speaks out the aspirations of many people. Federer is in good shape now. From the first round to the semi-final victory over Roddick, Federer won 3-0 without losing a set. .

In the pre-match media predictions, among the seeded players, only Nadal, Ljubicic, Roddick and Nalbandian could cause trouble for Federer. Among them, Nadal and Nalbandian are well-known "cow killers"; Ljubicic is a friend of Federer and knows Federer's style of play very well; Roddick just defeated Federer last week. Anyone can beat Federer.

The current situation is that Nadal lost to Gonzalez, Ljubicic was eliminated in the first round, Roddick could not stop Federer's progress, and Nalbandian lost to Zhang Guan. The four people who may beat Federer in the eyes of the media have all been eliminated, so everyone thinks that Federer has already set the Australian Open champion.

As for Gonzalez and Zhang Guan, one is newly promoted to No. 10 in the world, and the other is a rookie participating in a professional competition for the first time. Even if they have performed well in the first few rounds, no one is optimistic about Zhang Guan or Zhang Guan. Gonzalez can beat Federer. Therefore, the match between Zhang Guan and Gonzalez is also dubbed the "Australian Open runner-up battle".

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