All-round Athlete

Chapter 257: Playing in front of the net reappears in the arena (third shift)

After Zhang Guan played at the net, Nalbandian lost his serve.

Nalbandian felt a little depressed. He took a sip of water, calmed down quickly, and began to think about countermeasures.

"Although the online style of play is very threatening, the probability of mistakes is also much higher, so I must play more proactively and oppressively, forcing Zhang Guan to make mistakes. It is like dealing with Karlovic That!" Nalbandian quickly formulated a new tactical strategy.

Karlovic is the tallest person among the top 100 players in ATP history, reaching 2.08 meters. He is a Croatian. The highest career ranking is 14th. However, in the Grand Slam, he is only Entered the top eight, most of the others are round trips. It is worth mentioning that today, when everyone is using the baseline style of play, Karlovic still insists on playing at the net. He can be regarded as the heir to the style of playing at the net.

Nalbandian became a professional tennis player in 2000, and when he was able to enter the big stage, top tennis players such as King Sampiras and Ivanisevic had already retired. So the strongest net player Nalbandian has ever faced is Karlovic.

Also as a player at the net, the gap between Karlovic and the world leader Sampras is really huge. Karlovic is only a first-round player in a Grand Slam, while Sampras is a player. With fourteen Grand Slam champions, the two are completely incomparable.

As the world's number one flying man, Zhang Guan is better than Sampras in terms of mobility, and Zhang Guan has learned from Sampras' experience book. It can be said that the current Zhang Guan is a speed slightly faster. Sampras. Nalbandian used his experience in dealing with Karlovic to deal with Zhang Guan, and the result can be imagined.

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"Zhang Guan went to the net, a beautiful volley in front of the net!"

"Catching the ball in front of the net and hitting the opposite corner, Nalbandian's shot is big! High pressure ball, beautiful! Zhang Guan's shot is so beautiful!"

"Zhang Guanfa...directly hit the net! Inbounds! The ball did not go out of bounds! It happened to be on the line. The referee's decision is no problem!"

Online, online, or online, this has become the main theme of this game.

Zhang Guan has to go to the net for almost every ball. Although not every ball can be successful, but in terms of the overall success rate, it is still good. This is also reflected in the score. The final score of the first set was 6- 3. Nalbandian is obviously very uncomfortable with Zhang Guan's netting style. Except for the first game, he won the other two rounds by relying on Zhang Guan's mistakes in hitting the net. .

Nalbandian sat on a chair beside the field and silently calculated Zhang Guan's success rate. In Zhang Guan's serve game, his serve and volley seldom failed, and the occasional one or two failures would not affect to the final result. In Nalbandian's serve game, Zhang Guan's success rate on the net can reach about 50%. If the probability of Nalbandian's own unforced errors is included, Zhang Guan has an absolute chance of breaking serve. It must be greater than 50%.

"How can there be such a high success rate in the world! It's unscientific and unreasonable. Sampras, the champion of the world, was nothing more than that! It must be because I didn't oppress Zhang Guan enough, so Zhang Guan In order to have a relatively high success rate on the net. He, so I have to continue to put pressure on Zhang Guan, the ball has to spin more powerfully, so as to force him to make mistakes." Nalbandian made the next game in his heart strategy.

Theoretically speaking, Nalbandian's strategy is completely correct. The power of playing before the net lies in occupying the initiative on the court, which can give the enemy a fatal blow. The disadvantage of playing before the net is It is also obvious that the probability of error is too high.

Twenty years ago, in the era of Sampras, the net play was very popular. The net play in that era was not just serving the ball to the net, but resolutely hitting the net no matter what the ball was. The first serve needs to go online, the second serve also needs to go online; the grass needs to go online, the hard court needs to go online, and even the red land that is not suitable for pre-net play also needs to go online. It is precisely because of this that among the 14 Grand Slams of the ball king Sampras, there is only no French Open champion, because the French Open is a red land, and it is not suitable for playing in front of the net at all.

Nowadays, the front-net play has been gradually eliminated. A small part of the reason is that technology has driven the development of tennis equipment and courts. The more important thing is that players led by Federer have begun to pursue spin. , or Nadal's bottom-line defensive play, all of which are high-spin and high-pressure play, which greatly increases the chances of players making mistakes when surfing the Internet. It is stable and easier to master. In the end, everyone's style of play has evolved into various bottom line draws.

The high-speed spinning ball is indeed very restrained from the opponent's net, just like Zhang Guan's game against Grosjean, the "Nadal turn" directly blinded Grosjean, making Grosjean's serve useless. In today's game, Nalbandian also made the same choice.

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The second set of the match between the two sides began. Nalbandian strengthened the rotation of the ball and played more proactively. Sometimes he even gave up his best two-handed backhand and used the forehand to return the ball. , the purpose is to give the tennis ball a stronger spin.

However, the effect Nalbandian has achieved is very mediocre. Nalbandian's style of play is inherently stable, and what he is best at is the accuracy of the hitting point. Whether it is a forehand or a backhand, Nalbandian Dean can be said to play where he refers to. This style of play originally relies on mobilizing the opponent to run back and forth to score. As for spin, it's clearly not Nalbandian's forte.

After dozens of minutes, Nalbandian panted heavily and looked at the scoreboard. The score of 6-2 was even worse than the first set.

"I underestimated Zhang Guan. His front-net skills are absolutely top-notch in the world! Every volley in front of the net hit me in a dead corner, and he grasped the strength very accurately, and the landing points were all positions that I just couldn't reach! In my opinion, the opportunity to go online is a very bad time to go online, but he will still choose to go online decisively! In addition, he is very experienced in handling the ball. Compared with Zhang Guan, Karlovic's forward play The law is simply too childish!"

"This damn way of playing at the net! Now athletes all over the world are playing from the bottom line. Why did Zhang Guan, who uses the style of playing at the net, suddenly appear, and he happened to be met by me. This style of play is too restrained." My backhand is off. I can’t play Nadal’s spin, so how should I deal with Zhang Guan’s net play?”

Nalbandian couldn't help feeling anxious, and at the same time, he felt a faint pain in his hip.

"It hurts a little. Is it an old injury?" Nalbandian's eyes showed a trace of worry.

In last year's French Open semi-finals, Nalbandian was suddenly injured while leading Federer, and the hip injury has been accompanied by Nalbandian's career since then. It is precisely because of the injury that Nalbandian has been in a sluggish state in the second half of the 2006 season, and then had to undergo surgery in 2009.

What professional athletes are most afraid of is injuries. Sometimes injuries bring damage to athletes not only physically, but also psychologically.

At this time, Nalbandian was always worried about whether his old injury would recur. As a result, he had no form in the third set, and finally lost the third set again with a score of 6-2. this game.

In the third round of the Australian Open, Zhang Guan defeated No. 8 seed David Nalbandian 3-0.

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