Chapter 230 Challenge to Nalbandian
"Player Fan Ju still maintained his good form yesterday. Although it was only the first time he participated in the Masters series, his performance was no worse than his Grand Slam."
You are kind or have too high expectations? Fan Ju's performance did not actually make the audience and commentators feel "surprised". Just like yesterday's game, it was steady and steady. The opponent's experience was indeed rich, but Fan Ju used a racket to win the advantage.
In the multi-beat rounds at the bottom line, Fan Ju basically has the advantage. Taking the forehand position basically means the end of the round. Either Fan Ju takes the initiative to score or the opponent makes a mistake in returning the ball.
In short, Fan Ju's game was much smoother and smoother than expected.
"Maybe it's not in good condition." In the post-match interview, Fan Ju did not comment, because he felt that the result of this game was normal.
He played actively, his opponent was conservative, and his forehand was able to suppress the opponent, causing too many mistakes. Winning the game was expected by Fan Ju at the end of the first few games. The only thing that was a bit up and down was the opponent's break in the second set, but Fan Ju had completed it twice before, which had no impact on the result of the game.
He still showed good serving status, and gradually, commentators who paid attention to Fan Ju began to notice that Fan Ju's change in serving was more stable and lethal.
In their opinion, this will be of great help to Fan Ju serve the ball online and perform on the grass, and also add a means to solve the opponent faster on the hard ground.
"Is that okay?" Raschett felt a little tired, perhaps because he had not played for a long time. He was a little uncomfortable when he returned to the rhythm of the game.
Fan Ju nodded. He was in good condition and was in good spirits because he had plenty of time. Therefore, the adjustment during the burnout period was also good, but he was always worried about the next round of the game.
"Today's backhand was targeted by the opponent, especially in the second half of the second set. I felt that the opponent was looking for my backhand, but after being suppressed by me, there was not much opportunity to take the initiative to attack." Fan Ju expressed his concerns. He knew that it would be better to communicate at this time than to think about it himself.
Raschet also saw that Fan Ju rarely had such a kind of attack when he was targeted at a certain technique. In the past, his forward and back-and-back performances were relatively average, and his opponents could not find the focus of the offense.
But now, Fan Ju's forehand is obviously stronger than the backhand. Too many forehand strong attacks have allowed the opponent to capture Fan Ju's backhand more decisively.
"Your backhand is not weak, it is just relative to forehand. It does not have fatal offensive ability. When the opponent hits, he will fight back resolutely. I think this is the best solution at present." Raschett gave his opinion. Of course, the most fundamental thing is to strengthen the backhand attack at the same time.
The pace of the match day was very fast. Fan Ju had just finished a night game, but then had to face an afternoon game. This was because there was no doubles. If the event was compact, there would often be an awkward schedule of double games in one day.
Such a game rhythm may seem to have little impact on the physically energetic opponents. But don’t forget that the game tests not only physical strength, but also concentration and desire for victory or defeat.
If you lose a bad singles in the morning, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get up in the afternoon game, unless you give up singles voluntarily, but you will leave too much spiritual burden on doubles.
The tests for players are often multifaceted. Fan Ju had already received news of Nalbandian's promotion before the game yesterday, which was expected but not the result he wanted.
Fan Ju has been thinking about how to deal with such an opponent who can target his weaknesses, but the result disappointed him. In addition to covering up his weaknesses, those so-called imaginative strategies such as using weaknesses as bait cannot work in the real arena.
"I can only watch the fight..." Fan Ju had already arrived at the stadium, but he was probably helpless.
The first time Nalbandian gave Fan Ju the feeling that he was not strong, but a feeling of thinking. Maybe you can't see anything from his expression, but his eyes were firm, unlike those athletes who had no ideas, who had their own way of dealing with the competition.
Fan Ju was not wrong, and of course Nalbandian would think, and he was one of the few masters of tactical tennis in the tennis world. When Fan Ju observed his opponent, Nalbandian was no longer watching Fan Ju.
180 cm is not high, and it is a bit shorter than Fan Ju. However, his strong forearms and leg muscles in his physical competition give him extremely strong explosive power on the court.
"The calf muscles are very obvious, and the proportion of prominent muscles is extremely high. As expected, as shown in the data, the explosive power is extremely strong, the arms are thick, the left and right arms are similar. The balance of physical exercise is maintained very well. There must be a professional team helping him adjust his training plan."
This is not an analysis like Fan Ju who can watch the game information, but more than those who read the background information. Narbandian looked at Fan Ju. At this time, he was analyzing in detail the difference between the information he obtained and the actual strength of his opponent.
Fan Ju probably wouldn't have expected that his opponent would analyze himself so carefully, or that he would have imagined that there would have been a tennis player who would have analyzed each of his opponents so carefully.
Of course, compared to these external conditions, Nalbandian cared more about Fan Ju's terrible concentration. This was the only possibility for the opponent to break his layout, and it was also the biggest difficulty that caused him to not win Fan Ju in his calculations.
Top players have their own specialties, and often rely on these techniques and advantages to reverse the ball game on the court.
Even Fan Ju had to admit that when he met those top players, some targeted restraint styles were difficult to work.
Because the opponent's technical strength is enough to forcibly reverse this disadvantage, forehand or backhand may be a super predictive ability like Federer, which can compete with his rampage state.
Currently, Fan Ju has only double speed, and his physical strength can be considered as Fan Ju's strength. The increase in strength is obvious to the enhancement of forehand, but this is only for the ordinary state, but it is still not much different when it reaches the double speed state. It is barely enough to restrain or even fight those top weapons.
Perhaps only the triple speed that Fan Ju has put down for a long time can break through this limit, but in high-level competitions, using triple speed is equivalent to overdrawing twice the speed. One point is also obtained, but the consumption is unbearable for Fan Ju.
"The competition begins"
David Nalbandian was waiting for Fan Ju to serve. He knew very well how many points Fan Ju scored with his improved serve in the first two rounds, especially the accelerated inner corner serve, which was both fast and heavy, and was mixed with some extremely troublesome upper-spin serves. When mixed, it could cause him great trouble.
"Stand well inside, serve inside corner..." Fan Ju picked up the ball and slapped the ball again. It was elastic, which made him very confident that he could make a beautiful opening serve.
The slap came in one shot, and the impact brought by the power of the serve was quite strong, but Fan Ju did not lose his balance. On the contrary, he cleverly used the impact and rushed directly to the net.
Nalbandien received the ball with his back, which was the most irregular and helpless movement in the receiving action. He barely hooked the ball with one hand, and the touch point was obviously higher.
Before seeing Fan Ju rushing to the net, there was no doubt that the ball had no result. Without Fan's move, the ball went straight to the bottom of the net belt.
The beautiful opening serve, the position, strength and speed are very accurate, making the serve a weapon, which is Fan Ju's wisest decision.
However, Nalbandian was unwavering. Fan Ju made an inner corner to target his position, which would not affect his next goal.
Another serving in the inner corner, Fan Ju wanted to hit his opponent twice in a row, but good things could not be doubled. After rubbing the net, the ball directly deviated from the outside.
"You're lucky." Fan Ju's tactics are very clear today, so he rarely plays against his opponents.
Especially in the face of opponents with world-class backhands, combined with the technical performance of comprehensive and no obvious loopholes, Fan Ju's pre-developed tactics today are very conservative.
Fan Ju doesn't want to lose, after all, this is not a Grand Slam competition. He uses the double speed effectively and completely gives him the strength that is comparable to the top players.
As long as he cleverly seizes the opportunity to win two sets, he still has a chance to defeat these players standing on the top in the three sets and two wins.
The second-shot Fan Ju no longer went to the inner corner, and his speed decreased. It was obviously not wise to take another route to serve again.
However, Nalbandian was not confused by a low-speed serve. He saw Fan Ju's movements and stood firmly from the position after the opening.
However, the moment Fan Ju serves the ball, he presses directly on the bottom line from one step away from the bottom line, and obviously has grabbed the landing point of the ball.
Fan Ju could hear the powerful and powerful back-shot sound of his opponent's racket and his serve colliding.
However, since Fan Ju dared to serve this ball, he had already predicted his judgment of the ball path. Nalbandian's return was very powerful, but Fan Ju's movement speed was even faster.
A straight line lift with one-handed forward shot pulled Nalbandian directly from the right side of the court to the left to return the ball.
However, the ability of the top players was fully demonstrated at this time. The beautiful jump while moving grabbed the jump height of the top spun ball and also fought back with forehand.
"Double speed two..."
Fan Ju was helpless. The moment the opponent received the serve, he had already doubled his speed, telling the fierce confrontation that it was completely shot at the speed.
Chapter completed!