Almighty Athlete Chapter 144: Top 8 tournaments
Zhang Guan's third round opponent American John Isner is one year older than Zhang Guan. Isner, like Zhang Guan, also transferred to career in 2007. However, Isner is not a rookie with no game experience. He used to be the NCAA tennis champion of the American College Sports Association, and he entered the All-American star team every year.
Isner was 2.08 meters tall. He used to be a basketball player in middle school, but the white basketball player in the United States was not so easy to mix, so Isner changed to playing tennis and made Very good results.
In the game, Isner caused some trouble to Zhang Guan. Isner’s height made him serve very well, and Isner was also very good at serving the Internet. This made Isner on the key ball. He can make a smooth start. At the same time, Isner, who has a long arm and a long arm, also has a great hitting power, which is very helpful for the cement field. At the same time, Isner, like most American mobilizers, is relatively energetic.
In the first set match between Zhang Guan and Isner, the two sides reached a tiebreaker. Isner’s serve time was very good. Zhang Guan did not get a break after many attempts, but at this time Zhang Guan also Slowly became familiar with Isner's rhythm and dispatch, and finally won the tie-break, leading 1-0.
In the second and third sets that followed, Zhang Guan's changeable style of play and quick offensive and defensive transitions made Isner lose rhythm. To make matters worse, Isner had several serving errors and failed Internet access. , Which also led to Isner's subsequent weakness, he lost the next two games 4-6/3-6.
Zhang Guan advanced into the fourth round of the US Open with no surprises, and the opponent in the fourth round is still not a seed player.
Zhang Guan originally thought that he would meet the 13th seed Frenchman Gasquet or the 21st seed Spanish Ferrero in the third round, but both seed players were eliminated in the first two rounds. On the contrary, another Spanish player Fi Lopez successfully advanced to the fourth round, he will be the opponent of Zhang Guan next game.
Philip Lopez is 1.87 meters tall and has a very good image. He has a star face and was once known as a "girl killer".
Lopez is also a strong serve player, and his serve is also hard enough, so he can often issue ACE balls, and this feature of his is accompanied by more mistakes. On average, Lopez Every successful ACE shot twice, there will be a double-mission error.
In the game, Lopez has more unforced errors. Under the Zhang Guan offensive force, Lopez had up to twelve unforced errors in the first set. Faced with opponents of this level of Zhang Guan, there are three or four mistakes in a set and there are dozens of hits, and more than ten unforced mistakes in a set are basically moving closer to the rhythm of the set.
Lopez caused less trouble to Zhang Guan than Isner. In the end, Zhang Guan successfully advanced to the quarterfinals with a score of 6-4/6-4/6/2, and the opponent of Zhang Guan in the next game is the fifth The seed Native American Roddick.
Roddick was the 2003 US Open champion. Last year’s US Open also reached the finals, eventually losing to Federer and finishing second. And this year, Roddick’s luck was also very good. He met in the second round. Argentine player Acasuso, but in the match Acasuso retired due to injury. In the fourth round, Roddick faced the No. 9 seed Czech player Bertic, who also suffered injury after the start of the game. After retiring, Roddick successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.
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September 5, the tenth day of the 2007 US Open. The most focused game of the day was the fifth seed Roddick challenged top seed Zhang Guan.
The match reached the quarter-finals. Roddick was the only remaining native player in the United States. The American audience also had high hopes for Roddick, so this game also attracted many viewers to come to watch, and many Americans expected Roddick can beat Zhang Guan and advance to the semifinals.
Zhang Guan also has a lot of supporters, because near the site of the US Open is the famous Chinese community in New York. The Chinese audience will of course support Zhang Guan. The momentum in the stadium is not weaker than that of Roddick’s supporters.
The first game of the two sides started. Since the two played for the first time and reached the quarter-finals, the two sides were more cautious in the first four rounds. First, they tried each other, and second. warm up.
Roddick’s serve was indeed great. He served four ACE shots in his first two servings, and Zhang Guan did not let him also make four ACE shots in his first two servings.
After four games, the score of both sides was 2-2.
In the fifth inning, Roddick's serve set, he began to strengthen the offensive, the service landing became more extreme, you know that Roddick was called "the world's first serve", this fast in the US Open On the court, Roddick's super-fast serve can score as long as it has a good landing point.
Roddick’s serve can be called a stunt, but his volley before the net is very rough. No matter the timing of the net, the choice of the net, the feel of the volley is more general, and the pre-judgment of the passing ball On the top, it is even worse. Many times Zhang Guan hits some cross balls. Roddick often judges the wrong direction and runs in the opposite direction. Sometimes, even if the judgment is correct, Roddick's control of the racket, the strength of the control and the grasp of the angle are not good at home.
With Roddick’s failed front-line volley, Zhang Guan took the lead in getting the break point instead. Then Roddick once again frantically cut the ball and directly attacked the backhand position of Zhang Guan, but he did not expect Zhang Guan to have been waiting for the spot already. With the tennis ball coming, Zhang Guan adjusted its footsteps and won by one blow.
"Although Roddick serves very hard, the ball dealer is really average! There is also a problem in judging the ball's landing point. No wonder he has never been able to beat Federer. With Federer's elegant attack, Roddick does May be won." Zhang Guan got a break, he felt that he should have won the game steadily.
The score alternately rose. In the end, Zhang Guan won the first set with a score of 6-4 with a break.
Roddick is after all a very experienced player. During the break between the two sets, he adjusted his tactics. He feels that he still has to play his best and avoid shortcomings. .
The second set started with Roddick's serve.
Between Roddick throwing the ball and swinging, the tennis ball suddenly appeared in the half of Zhang Guan. The afterglow of Zhang Guan caught the position of the ball, but then he gave up receiving the ball. The speed of the ball made Zhang Guan not allowed at all. on.
The ball speed display on the sidelines showed a speed of 233 kilometers per hour. At this speed, the ball cannot be received by the receiver unless it is rushed head-on.
This 233-kilometer-speed serve instantly detonated the audience~IndoMTL.com~ 233-kilometer-speed serve, it is indeed Roddick! The Roddick in our impression is back! "
The next ball, Roddick made the same blow, and a 227-kilometer serve made another point.
Immediately after Roddick made a mistake, the serve of the second serve was hit by Zhang Guan and scored a point. However, Roddick relied on a quick serve to change the score to 40-15.
"Good thing, Roddick! It’s time to play like this, play to your strengths, don’t need to pursue too tricky serve angle, as long as the ball speed is fast enough, the opponent is just as difficult to cope with!"
Fifth ball, Roddick is a more conservative serve, but the speed of the ball is extremely fast, and he also won his own serve with this ball.
"241 kilometers! My goodness, the serve at 241 kilometers per hour is very close to the 245 kilometers per hour service that Roddick himself maintains! This is the strongest serve Roddick I remember!" The narrator sighed in surprise.
And Roddick looked up to the sky and let out the depression in the first set.
"It looks like Roddick is playing, and the next match Zhang Guan will be harder to play."
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