All-round Athlete

Chapter 322 Grouping Opponents (Part 1)

"Federer sent an egg to Nadal in the final set, ending Natto's 81-game winning streak on clay"

"A great athlete needs a great opponent. News from Hamburg, Germany on May 20 local time, the third part of the French Open warm-up match and the last important warm-up event, the final of the Hamburg Clay Masters, the 11th episode of "Cow Bean War" In the end, Federer, the world's number one, lost a set first, swept his opponent in the last two sets, and beat Nadal 2-6/6-2/6-0, ending Nadal's 81-match winning streak on clay. Defeating Nadal on clay for the first time. Both of them will rest for a week to prepare for the French Open in 7 days."

This is a report by a certain domestic media, followed by some details of the game described, the report is relatively pertinent.

The foreign media's reports are not so regular, and many media have even started the French Open championship guessing session.

A British media wrote: "Federer finally defeated Nadal for the first time in the 6th clay court confrontation. Federer broke serve three times in a row and beat Nadal 6-0. I think Federer must have found a way to deal with Nadal. If the two meet in the French Tennis Finals on June 10, Federer's chances of winning may be lower. Bigger!"

The British media is obviously more optimistic about Federer.

But the French media is more optimistic about Nadal. After all, Nadal has won the title here twice in a row. His audience base in Paris is larger than Federer's.

"Although Federer defeated Nadal in yesterday's Masters in Hamburg and won the championship, what cannot be ignored is the record of the two on clay. Federer is still at an absolute disadvantage with 5 losses and 1 win. But the last five times The fact that all the matches were in the finals also tells us that Federer can only be called "the second best player on clay". In yesterday's game, we saw Nadal trying to suppress Federer's backhand with his forehand to prevent Federer from There are too many forehand opportunities, and on this clay court, Federer's backhand is obviously no match for Nadal's powerful forehand. Federer is full of unprecedented desire for the French Open crown this year, and he has been playing since the beginning of the clay court season. Will be assisted by coach Roche, the Australian old man will accompany Federer to stay in Europe to compete and train during the entire clay court season. But even so, I am still more optimistic that Nadal will complete the French Open three consecutive championships."

Zhang Guan read a few more news reports about the French Open final, and found that the entire European media was talking about Federer and Nadal, and Djokovic was the most talked about by the media. His outstanding performance in the last few months of the Australian Open and last year's French Open quarter-finals were all regarded by the media as having the potential to win the championship. It is worth mentioning that Djokovic has risen to the sixth position in the latest ATP world rankings.

"It's all about Federer, why haven't you seen my news? I haven't appeared on the court for several months, and the media has habitually forgotten me?" Zhang Guan searched for a long time, and finally found a report related to himself .

This is an article written by a former professional tennis player named Gordons. It is also a French Open championship prediction, and part of it mentions Zhang Guan.

"Zhang Guan successfully won the Australian Open championship a few months ago, which also represents a successful transformation of the world track and field king, but since the end of the Australian Open, Zhang Guan has not participated in any tennis competitions. Master We did not see Zhang Guan in the Indian Wells, Miami Masters, Monte Carlo Masters, Rome Masters, and Hamburg Masters just concluded."

"I once suspected that Zhang Guan was suffering from injuries, but according to reliable sources, Zhang Guan has begun to cooperate with former French Open champion Zhang Depei, and Zhang Guan has been training for the past few months. Although we are still I don't know the specific situation, but I learned from the organizer of the French Open that Zhang Guan has confirmed that he will not miss this year's French Open."

"Even though his new coach Zhang Depei was once the youngest French Open champion, I still don't think Zhang Guan is a candidate for the French Open championship. My judgment is based on the fact that Zhang Guan's style of play is not suitable for the rhythm of the game on the clay court. In the Australian Open, Zhang Guan's fast serve is very threatening, but the speed of the ball on the clay court will be greatly slowed down; at the same time, Zhang Guan used a lot of front-net tactics in the Australian Open, but we all know that the front-net tactics are Those who are not suitable for fighting on clay..."

Zhang Guan carefully read the entire report. The author of this report, Gordons, is not slandering Zhang Guan. He just made some corresponding analysis based on the tactics used by Zhang Guan in the Australian Open. More reasonable.

The high-speed flat serve has always been Zhang Guan's great scoring weapon. However, on the clay court, the power of the fast serve will be greatly weakened. The ACE of the French Open mainly depends on the angle rather than the speed. In addition, Zhang Guan's pre-net play in the Australian Open is also not suitable for the French Open. In Gordons' view, Zhang Guan's two scoring weapons have been abolished, and the prospect of the French Open is naturally worrying.

"When we get to the French Open, I'll show you the power of running and attacking!" Zhang Guan looked at his watch, "Why did I forget about this? Today's French Open matchup list should come out, and it's been a few days." It's been an hour, and the match list must have been announced long ago! If there are no accidents, I will meet Davydenko again in the top sixteen."

In the four Grand Slams, the group positions of the 32 seeded players are fixed, but the seeded players can only meet in the third round at the earliest, so now Zhang Guan is most concerned about his opponents in the first two rounds.

Since he did not participate in any tennis matches for more than three months, he was overtaken by Djokovic, Murray, Haas and others, and fell to the fifteenth position in the world, so he will be divided into 2/4 district.

Zhang Guan clicked on the French Open webpage, at this time the grouping of athletes had just appeared, and Zhang Guan found his place in the quick 2/4 zone. But he found that his opponent was an Asian name, and his nationality was Korean.

"Hyung-Taik-lee, it's Lee Hyung-taek! That South Korea's No. 1 in Asia and No. 2 in Asia. No, now I'm No. 1 in Asia, so Lee Hyung-taek should be squeezed to No. 3 in Asia." Zhang Guan thought for a while and realized that he was right. Li Hengze seemed to know very little, so he searched for Li Hengze's name.

"Lee Hyung-taek, a veteran born in 1976, is 31 years old this year. He started playing professionally in 1995 and has played for 16 years. The only time he won the ATP championship was at the Sydney Open in 2003, and the Grand Slam is the best. His result was the last 16 of the US Open in 2000. The current ranking is 42nd. A player of this level is no threat to me!"

Zhang Guan didn't care that his opponent was Li Hengze. A player who has played tennis for more than ten years and can only rank in the forties. He has only won one ATP championship. In Zhang Guan's view, he is not a threat at all.

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"The first round of the French Open: Lee Hyung-taek VS Zhang Guan, the "No. 1" men's tennis competition in Asia! "

This article in the "Korean Herald" introduced that Lee Hyung-taek will face Zhang Guan in the first round of the French Open, and then this article quickly aroused discussions among the Korean media and the public, and most of the discussions were "As long as Lee Hyung-taek wins Zhang Guan will become the number one tennis player in Asia!"

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