Match point

Chapter 1654 Fist is afraid of young strong

Murray's serve in the second game of the deciding set.

"AD: 40".

"40:40".

"40: AD".

"40:40".

—— Stalemate, the whole situation is very stalemate, you come and I are completely entangled, every point is a bayonet, every point is a hand-to-hand combat, whether it is Gao Wen or Murray, if you want to win At the same time, they all have to game, layout, and confrontation, which is definitely not easy.

Seeing this scene, some people might say that it really is that boxing is afraid of being young. Gao Wen is nine years younger than Murray, and the physical advantage is reflected at this time.

Of course, this is indeed part of the reason that cannot be ignored; but tennis games, or competitive sports confrontations, are far from that simple.

In fact, what Gao Wen and Murray are competing for is this serve, which is also a "momentum".

At the end of the last set, Murray had already felt the crisis.

He knew that once Gao Wen was able to win the fourth set, the imposing Gao Wen would definitely launch an all-out attack in the opening stage of the final set. The advantage of serving first continued to exert pressure.

In fact, it is true.

For now, Gao Wen is at a small peak, and Murray is at a small trough—two consecutive match point saves and misses form a dislocation, and the eighth and ninth points of the tie-break are full of magic. A little bit of luck creates a gap that breaks the balance of confrontation.

As a result, Gao Wen also entered a stage where his momentum was like a rainbow.

Although the impact of physical fitness exists objectively, the feelings brought about by fluctuations in mentality and changes in the situation cannot be ignored.

But Murray is experienced enough and seasoned enough. He knows that such a situation is only relative, and the "peak" and "trough" are just illusions. The balance is still not broken, and the outcome of the final set is yet to be known.

"Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted".

Murray believes that as long as he can resist Gao Wen's offensive, survive this dangerous situation, and persist, he will be able to turn around.

Logically speaking, Murray should have launched an attack in Gawain's first serve to create interference in the opponent's position and curb Gawain's momentum; but physical fluctuations do exist objectively, and Gawain continued for the fourth set The excellent serve feel at the end did not leave too many opportunities.

After thinking about it for a while, Murray didn't force it, but reserved his physical strength, and prepared to take a posture to resist Gao Wen's impact in his serve——

Because of this, Gao Wen went straight to four points in the first serve, which was very easy.

It was precisely because of this that even though Gao Wen was in a state of great momentum, in Murray's serve, they still clung to the situation.

On the one hand, Gao Wen was about to open the gap with all his might.

On the one hand, Murray showed a tenacious and unyielding posture.

In fact, from the perspective of a bystander, some changes in this serve can be seen, and Xu Yang saw through this point.

"In this inning, Murray's posture is different. Obviously, he puts more energy on the defensive end."

Note that this does not mean that Murray will not attack.

Murray knew that Gao Wen was currently in excellent form, with top-notch offensive and defensive performances, and his continuous offense played lawn tennis with momentum.

Therefore, starting from Murray's personality, he thought that instead of taking the risk of taking the initiative to make mistakes, it is better to hand over the offense to Gawain, while he himself enters the defensive counterattack mode, focusing more on defense and resisting Gawain's attack. After the impact, look for opportunities to counterattack.

This is also the technique and tactics that Murray is famous for, that is to say, Murray is more comfortable when he puts himself in a passive defensive position.

Moreover, offense consumes more energy than defense, and defense can wait for opportunities.

Gao Wen is being aggressive, but Murray did not give up the game - to be precise, it is not "not giving up", but looking for a solution in Murray's way. Murray, like Gao Wen, is also eager to win, but the two players The final set is laid out and unfolded differently.

So, the situation became stalemate again.

In this box, Gao Wen got three break points successively and missed all of them.

On that side, Murray also got two game points, but also missed.

Back and forth, this round is still entangled.

--"what!"

Murray roared depressingly, but it was still not enough to relieve his anger.

"what!"

He roared again, complained, muttered, and finally couldn't hold back, and yelled at his player's box.

"What the hell is that hitting spot?"

In this shot just now, Murray's defensive counterattack has successfully found an opportunity for himself. The forehand diagonal line that reversed the situation and pursued the winning point in the last shot seemed to be looking for a gap to cash in the game point, but the hit point was a little late. A little bit, causing the parabola to be too high and hitting the ball out of bounds.

Murray, who missed the third game point, by mistake.

It can be seen that Murray is very, very dissatisfied with himself, such a mistake should not have happened, and the whole person looks downcast, because he knows how important this point is.

Everything, deja vu, dreaming back to Melbourne Park——

Are we going to make the same mistakes again?
In this regard, Murray refused.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to wipe his sweat, Murray regained his composure. Although his mouth was still swearing, his brain had already started to function, planning for the next point.

The sixth time the game was evenly divided, the duration of this game also officially exceeded 8 minutes, and it was still going on. The two players returned to the first zone again.

Take a deep breath, and then, Murray serves.

District one, chase after him.

The tennis ball, with a strong side spin after landing, came towards Gao Wen's body. Although the speed of the ball was not fast, the landing point and rotation were very precise.

One can tell at a glance that this is Murray's calculation.

Gao Wen was squeezed, and he barely got out of the way and gave a forehand shot, but this time his footsteps were not completely out of the way, and he couldn't swing the racket or turn his body. After catching the ball, he staggered back twice, almost unable to stand still.

It has to be said that Murray's serve was very, very good. In the case of declining physical strength and lack of a strong flat serve, the Scot still found a way to create a threat by serving.

opportunity!

Murray's footsteps immediately followed, cut to the bottom line, and continued to move forward——

This time, it was not Murray who took the initiative to go online, but Gao Wen's return of the ball was shallow. The opportunity was in front of him, so Murray took advantage of the opportunity to go online and rushed forward.

The footsteps were two steps away from the bottom line, and near the midfield, Murray was relentless. With a forehand sweep, the quick offensive connection was already keeping up; and after the shot was completed, he continued to move forward without any pause. Get closer to the front of the net and cover the front of the net like Spiderman.

On the other side of the net, Gao Wen's prediction was correct, and he stayed in the forehand position until Murray's thousand and first forehand shot; but the position, angle, hitting point and The timing of the shots was very passive. Murray's offensive connection tore apart the angles and directly pushed Gao Wen to a passive defensive position.

Moreover, the messy footsteps did not have time to adjust the center of gravity, leaving little room for Gao Wen to deal with.

He has no choice.

Forehand, pulling, swinging the racket around the head, strong topspin, the entire friction and rotation have been fully attached, and the parabola of the tennis ball is completely pulled up directly——

Flak, lobs.

(End of this chapter)