All-round Athlete

Chapter 255 Serving and Going to the Net (Part 1)

Although the two-handed backhand is very offensive, and may even turn defense into an attack, it is a backhand after all, and it is definitely not as powerful as a forehand. Because of this, the two-handed backhand will give the opponent a hard time. Going online leaves more opportunities. It can be said that the online style of play is more restrained with two-handed backhand.

In this game in history, it was Grosjean who was promoted. Grosjean's serve and net caused a lot of trouble for Nalbandian. Nalbandian defeated Grosjean after fighting hard for five games. .

Before the game, Coach Joyce once suggested that it is a better way to use the pre-net play to actively go online in order to target Nalbandian's double reverse. However, active net play is a very difficult technique in tennis. It requires players to have precise judgments and be able to predict where the ball will come from in advance; it requires players to have delicate techniques to hit the ball to the opponent in the future Neutral position; players need to have a quick response, can quickly choose the timing of the Internet according to the changes in the game process, and more importantly, they need to have rich game experience, so that they can control the overall situation.

The vast majority of front-of-net players are serving and surfing players. They first gain an advantage by serving and then create opportunities to surf the Internet. However, there is one person who is not like this. Whether it is in his own serve or in the opponent's serve, It is difficult to suppress the desire to take the initiative to go online, but in fact he must go online for almost every ball in the game. He is the king of the generation, Pete Sampras.

Pete Sampras was the world champion before Federer. He has been ranked No. 1 in the world for six consecutive years. He has won 14 Grand Slam titles in his career, which is second only to Federer.

Sampras's forehand is very powerful, but his backhand is relatively average. However, Sampras' opponents don't like to play backhands with him. The reason is that Sampras's technique in front of the net It is the first in the world. For example, if a player with a strong backhand wants to face Sampras with a backhand, he will definitely use his own backhand to attack Sampras' backhand. However, Sampras' style of play is to take the initiative directly Online attack, and the success rate of Sampras' online attack is surprisingly high.

When choosing experience books before, Zhang Guan hesitated whether to choose Federer's experience books or Sampras' experience books, and finally Zhang Guan chose Federer. However, facing Nalbandian today is a "cow killer". With Federer's game experience stored in Zhang Guan's mind, he can still defeat Nalbandian, but it takes a lot of effort. A tie-break is possible, and a full five set is even more likely.

So Zhang Guan decided to make a quick decision. He directly bought Sampras's experience book, obtained Sampras's experience on the Internet, and even integrated the experience of the two world champions into one.

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In the second game between the two sides, Zhang Guan's serve.

Nalbandian remembered the coach's deployment before the game to force Zhang Guan to make more first-serve mistakes, so he deliberately adjusted his position.

Positioning is very important in tennis receiving and serving, because in many cases, whether you can catch the ball is actually a small step difference. Sometimes the position is a small step closer, and you may be able to receive a ball. One small step and the ball is lost.

The server also needs to adjust the landing point of his serve according to the opponent's position, and will try his best to choose a position where the opponent is difficult to receive.

In the previous match between Zhang Guan and Grosjean, Grosjean knew that his backhand was not good, so when receiving the serve, he would deliberately lean towards the backhand position, so that if Zhang Guan attacked Grosjean’s backhand, Grosjean would It will be easier to catch the ball. Today, Nalbandian obviously does not have this problem, so his stance tends to be more in the middle. This kind of stance is obviously prepared to take into account both the left and the right, and it is also forcing Zhang Guan to choose a more extreme serve point.

"Seeing my position, you should choose a more extreme serve! This will greatly increase your turnover rate." Nalbandian was thinking, while getting ready to catch the ball.

Seeing Nalbandian's position, Zhang Guan immediately understood Nalbandian's intention.

"Does he really want me to serve some extreme shots? If it was me a few minutes ago, maybe I would really do that, but now it is no longer necessary. Let you see the world's number one serve and hit the net! "

I saw Zhang Guan hit a ball and ran directly to Nalbandian's backhand.

"The speed of the ball is so fast! But this is also within my expectation. Zhang Guan can often serve at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. Before the game, I have conducted special training for this kind of fast serve. The backhand is exactly what I want, my backhand is not as weak as Grosjean, I am the strongest backhand in the world! Huh? This placement doesn't seem to be too extreme..."

At this time, the tennis ball has landed, and the choice of landing point is not as Nalbandian imagined. This is not a very extreme serve, and it can even be said to be a bit too standard.

"This serve seems a bit conservative! If you serve this kind of ball, as long as the backhand is not bad, you should be able to catch it! Isn't Zhang Guan very good at aces or serve points? It's just this difficult Serving, it is absolutely impossible to score directly from the serve, let alone an ace! Why did Zhang Guan do this? Did he miss the serve?"

While Nalbandian was thinking rapidly in his mind, his body was not idle. A player of his level didn't need to think at all, and could make all kinds of difficult technical moves just by relying on the conditioned reflex of his body.

"Boom!" Nalbandian's signature double-handed back-and-forth action is as beautiful as a textbook.

"It's better to attack your backhand, I can break the serve!" Nalbandian returned Zhang Guan's backhand at the same time, but saw Zhang Guan pressing towards the front of the net.

"Zhang Guan went to the net! It's a serve to the net!" Nalbandian was shocked. Zhang Guan's tactical choice greatly exceeded Nalbandian's expectations. At this time, Nalbandian finally understood. , Why did Zhang Guan choose a seemingly conservative serve? Zhang Guan's ultimate move was not a serve, but a subsequent serve to the net.

"Why didn't I think of it? Zhang Guan just served so conservatively. He didn't intend to kill with one hit. His purpose was to hit the net afterwards! Is this intentionally targeting my backhand? Oops, the ball is out of reach... "

Nalbandian tried to catch the ball, but Zhang Guan had already successfully intercepted it, so how could he give Nalbandian a chance. I saw Zhang Guan hit the tennis ball with one blow, and the tennis ball flew directly to Nalbandian's neutral position.

"15-0!" The referee immediately announced the score.

Nalbandian took a deep breath: "Zhang Guan's mobility is so strong, he is really suitable for serving and hitting the net. It seems that if he wants to break serve in this round, he can only hope that Zhang Guan makes a mistake!"

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