Almighty Athlete Chapter 78: Hidden strength?
Federer finally realized that the speed of Zhang Guan became faster, which made Federer feel shocked. He had never seen a tennis player move so fast, even with the powerful Nadal, he couldn’t do it. a little.
"Almost forgot, Zhang Guan is the fastest person in the world. However, tennis is not the same as sprint. Tennis needs countless emergency stops. Running so fast, can his knees bear it?" Federer thought. At the same time, watching Zhang Guan backhand pick the ball across the net.
"Pick the ball? This is a chance for me to smash! But this ball, Zhang Guan can only receive this way. Although you received this ball, but you still have to lose this game." Federer several A small broken step blocked the ball, followed by a strong smash.
The tennis ball landed and then bounced high, the next landing point will be out of bounds.
"It's so high, Zhang Guan must not be able to catch it!" Federer looked up at the ball, then looked at Zhang Guan, but found that Zhang Guan was running towards the ball's landing point.
"Does Zhang Guan still need to catch this kind of ball? Even if this kind of ball is successfully caught, it will be completely passive, not to mention such a long distance, it is difficult to control the landing point." Federer thought to himself.
As the main stadium of the Australian Open, Rod Laver Stadium is definitely the largest in Melbourne, and there are large gaps left, right, left, and right. A standard tennis court will leave a 6.4 meter gap outside the front and rear sidelines. Area, and the gap area left and right behind Rod Laval Stadium is more than 10 meters, because the position of the edge of the stadium also needs to sit the line referee and the ball picking caddie, in addition to the magnifying camera, these All need more space. Moreover, in the world's top contests, the 6.4-meter gap is not enough for players to exert their strength, so this top-level stadium has margins that are larger than standard tennis courts.
At this time, Zhang Guan has moved to the edge of the court, and behind him is the line referee, and this is also where it falls.
I saw Zhang Guan swinging the racket, hitting the volley, and hitting the falling tennis ball, then the tennis ball turned into a long arc, leapt to the net and landed in Federer's half.
"Wow!" the audience was all surprised.
Tennis falls almost vertically. This kind of volley hits the falling tennis ball is already very difficult. If the timing is not good, it will hit the ball. And the Zhang Guan hitting position has reached the edge of the court, close to 10 meters from the sideline, the distance from the sideline to the net is 11.885 meters, plus the distance of the other half, the actual distance of the Zhang Guan shot exceeds 25 meters. For the average audience, it is very difficult to catch this ball and successfully fall in the circle. Women with fresh clothes angry horse
Federer was also taken aback. At normal rhythm, athletes who catch this high-altitude ball out of bounds will definitely use challenge, because the difficulty of challenge is low and the success rate is high, but there will be a challenge The big disadvantage is that the ball will bounce higher, which will give the opponent a chance of continuous high-pressure ball.
The Zhang Guan did not use a challenge, he accurately grasped the moment the ball fell, and then hit the ball in the sky, so that the ball will be a relatively flat arc, Federer can not continuously use the high-pressure ball buckle kill. However, this technique is extremely difficult and requires excellent ball control skills.
"This ball is beautiful!" Federer also has a feeling of being surprised, but he has no mercy on his hand. The strong topspin of the forehand continues to launch the offensive. This time Federer chose to be in the frontcourt. Landing point.
Zhang Guan's movement is still rapid, he has already started to move to the sideline of the court after finishing the super long range rush, and then the one-handed forehand received the ball more difficult. Then Federer attacked the diagonal backcourt again, Zhang Guan ran to the position again and finished receiving the ball.
At this time, Zhang Guan was mobilized by Federer and seemed to be completely passive, but in fact it has reversed a lot of the situation. This was originally a must-have ball and was slammed by Zhang Guan. come back.
After three more shots, Zhang Guan finally got a chance to catch the ball by running.
"It's now!" Zhang Guan clasped the hands with both hands and hit with a forehand.
"The speed of this ball is quite fast, so there should not be a very strong spin." Federer looked at the flying tennis ball, ready to catch the ball.
However, when Federer received the ball, a feeling of uncontrollability came from the racket.
"Good rotation! This rotation is almost the same as Nadal! How can such a fast ball rotate at such a high speed?" Tianbao Merry
In the process of tennis ball hitting, the strength of the athlete determines the speed of the ball, and the degree of friction between the racket and the ball determines the rotation of the ball. But fish and bear's paw can't have both. A high-speed ball cannot have a strong rotation; in the same way, a ball with a strong rotation cannot have a high speed. In fact, this is best reflected in table tennis. For example, the table tennis team cuts the ball. The cut ball has a strong rotation, but the speed of cutting the ball will be relatively slow.
Among the professional tennis players, Nadal is the player who is most in pursuit of rotation. He even sacrifices some speed for the rotation of the ball. Due to the excessive pursuit of rotation, early Nadal’s serve was even considered a big short. board.
The Zhang Guan's return now is comparable to Nadal in terms of rotation, but it has a faster ball speed than Nadal. This is a situation that Federer has never encountered.
"What's the matter? The speed is so fast, and the rotation is still so strong. In the first two sets of games, Zhang Guan did not play this quality of return... Wait a minute, is Zhang Guan always hiding its strength?"
The idea emerged from Federer's mind ~ IndoMTL.com ~ could not be dissipated for a long time.
"Impossible! Zhang Guan is already strong enough in the first two sets. If he is still hiding his strength, how far will he be!"
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"40-15!" The referee called out the score and Zhang Guan successfully pulled back a goal.
"Wow, wow..."
"Wow..."
Applause and cheers instantly swallowed the entire stadium.
This ball, from the moment Federer completed the smash, Zhang Guan was originally a losing situation, but he pulled back a little bit through a ball on the edge of the court, then forehandly suppressed Federer, and finally Actually completed the reversal and won this goal. In the contest of more than ten consecutive shots, both sides played a very high level, and the audience was even more fascinated.
Sharapova looked at Zhang Guan with admiration and muttered, "How do I feel that Zhang Guan is suddenly stronger in this set!" (.)