All-round Athlete

Chapter 348 Fighting against the "King of Red Earth" (Part 1)

On June 10th, at 2:00 pm Paris time, the last and most important match of this year's French Open, the men's singles final was held at the Philippe Chatier Stadium.

At this time, the domestic time is 9:00 pm. Although the time is a bit late, it is a weekend night and Zhang Guan's game is on, so there are still many spectators waiting in front of the TV, waiting to watch this game.

When Nadal entered the arena, the audience immediately gave him warm applause. They greeted the "king" of the French Open with cheers, and the red and yellow Spanish flags around the court were even more conspicuous.

When Zhang Guan appeared on the stage, the applause and cheers were much smaller. Zhang Guan looked around the stands and found several five-star red flags in an instant, which made Zhang Guan feel more at ease.

"Sure enough, Nadal is really popular here." Zhang Guan could feel the gap between himself and Nadal from the voices of the audience.

Two years ago, at the age of 19, Nadal participated in the French Open for the first time. He defeated Federer in the semifinals and defeated Argentine player Mariano Puerta in the final, winning the first Grand Slam in his life. At that time, Nadal was known as the "son of the French Open". It can be said that this stadium is where Nadal became famous.

But now, Nadal holds two French Open champions and has come to this arena again. The son of the former French Open and today's king of clay came to the place where he was crowned, and it seems natural to achieve the "three consecutive" French Open .

Romantic French fans shouted passionately, igniting the entire stadium, and the heat in the stadium continued to heat up. The air was filled with a sense of suffocation before the big game, and just when the audience was about to reach the limit of their endurance, the game Finally started.

"Almost all the audience cheered and cheered for Nadal. Today's Phillips Stadium has become Nadal's home stadium. I don't know if this will cause psychological problems for Zhang Guan, who is participating in the French Open final for the first time. Pressure. But Zhang Guan has a lot of experience in major competitions, I think his psychological quality should be very strong! Okay, Zhang Guan will serve first!" The voice of the commentator suddenly stopped, and two seconds later, Zhang Guan Started the first serve of the game.

The tennis ball flew over the net and was touched out of bounds by Nadal.

"Score with the serve! It seems that my previous worries were unnecessary. Zhang Guan was not affected by the atmosphere on the field!" the commentator said.

Next, Zhang Guan continued to serve. After a three-shot stalemate, Zhang Guan made a wide-range shift of his forehand and scored another point.

But this ball, Nadal obviously didn't rush to chase it, but ran two symbolic steps before stopping.

After all, this is the first round of the match between the two sides. Facing an opponent of Zhang Guan's level, Nadal, as the receiver, had no intention of breaking serve in the first round. He still focused on warming up, so there is no need to chase every ball. . After all, tennis requires a lot of running, and a lot of large-scale movements are required in the game. If the warm-up is insufficient, it is still easy to get injured.

Zhang Guan also needs to warm up, although as a track and field athlete, especially the king of sprint events, his body will not warm up slowly, so the time for warming up is much less, and he can enter the competition state faster.

In the first game, when the score reached 40-0, Nadal gradually began to find his form. After he pulled the score to 40-15, he finally lost a goal and Zhang Guan took a 1-0 lead temporarily.

In the second round of the two sides, Nadal's state continued to recover. Although he did not serve an ACE ball, nor did he serve directly to score, but the perfect forehand combined with the active attack, he still won his own serve relatively easily. The two sides battled successfully. 1-1 draw.

After the two rounds, although the score was 1-1, both sides knew that the real game had just begun. The first two rounds were a warm-up process for both players, or a mutual The process of probing, and then, the real fierce confrontation officially began.

At the beginning of the third game, Zhang Guan took the lead and scored the first point with an ACE ball, but then with the second ball, Zhang Guan encountered strong resistance from Nadal.

Nadal did not choose a landing point that was very close to the edge. His direction of hitting the ball was still very stable, but Nadal strengthened the spin of the ball. With a strong top spin, the tennis ball will always bounce high after landing. While Zhang Guan was hitting back with a forehand, he felt that it was so uncomfortable to catch the ball.

"This ball is so difficult to control!" Zhang Guan still underestimated Nadal's forehand spin, and the return of the ball was a little short, and Nadal seized the opportunity to counterattack.

This is Nadal's forehand, which always makes the opponent uncomfortable. Even if the speed is not fast, even if there is no tricky landing, it will definitely have the strongest spin in the world.

I saw Nadal swinging his racket with his forehand, and the tennis ball flew directly to Zhang Guan's backhand. The quality of Nadal's shot is very good. For Nadal, who is left-handed, it is very comfortable to use his forehand to attack Zhang Guan's backhand.

"The rotation is still very strong!" Zhang Guan already felt this. For this ball, Nadal hit the ball with a two-handed forehand, while Zhang Guan hit the ball with a one-handed backhand. It must be at a disadvantage in terms of strength. If you choose the conventional method of catching the ball, it is easy to make mistakes, so Zhang Guan He simply came to take advantage of his strength, a backhand sliced ​​the ball, and hit the ball back over the net.

"Backhand slice! Zhang Guan really used a backhand slice. His choice is the same as Federer's." Nadal was delighted, this is the result he most wanted to face.

When Nadal and Federer played against each other before, when Nadal attacked Federer's backhand with a forehand, Federer would make the same choice and use a backhand slice, which seemed to be a very reasonable response. But on the clay court, in the face of Federer's backhand slice, Nadal can always find a strong forehand to create more offensive opportunities.

So at this time, Nadal was very familiar with this backhand slicing. He directly chose to press forward continuously, won the ball, and tied the score in the third game to 15-15.

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"My backhand is right against Nadal's forehand. It's too bad to play like this!" Zhang Guan thought for a while and decided to rely on the forehand to deal with Nadal.

This time, Zhang Guan chose to hit back with a forehand after serving, and the attack was also Nadal's backhand.

Nadal held the racket with both hands, and returned the ball to Zhang Guan. The speed of this ball was not fast, and the landing point was not deep, but from these two points, it was an easy ball to catch.

However, Zhang Guan remembered the coach's warning. Nadal's backhand still had a strong spin, so even if the ball wasn't deep enough and seemed easy to catch, Zhang Guan treated it cautiously.

Sure enough, Nadal's backhand still had a strong spin, and when the ball landed, the height of the bounce made Zhang Guan confirm this point.

"Don't think that you are the only one who can hit the ball with high spin!" Zhang Guan lashed vigorously. This time, he also planned to use topspin to deal with Nadal.

The tennis ball flies across the net, and Nadal moves nimbly to catch it.

The next moment, the tennis ball bounced high and rushed directly to the position above Nadal's head.

"Topspin, such a strong topspin!" Nadal exclaimed in his heart.

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