Match point

Chapter 588 Step by step
"Oh."

When Tobias told Gao Wen that Koginakis was eliminated, this was Gao Wen's only reaction, and then he beckoned Tim to continue training.

Originally, Tobias was also worried that the disputes outside the court might distract Gao Wen. After all, Gao Wen's state is indeed average in the latest period, and it is more difficult to concentrate than before.

As an agent, he had to deal with the public relations crisis as soon as possible and take care of the relationship with the ATP; but at this time, seeing that Gao Wen's attention was completely on the singles field, it seemed that he was finally returning to the right track bit by bit, which also made him His heart suspended in the air slowly returned to his chest cavity.

Things, just as Tobias judged, Gao Wen is recovering his rhythm and state, step by step, it can be seen from the first round of competition.

As the No.13 seed, Gao Wen's opponent in the first round is Spain's Pablo-Andujar (Pablo-Andujar), who is currently ranked No.40 in the world.

In fact, the lottery is a bit hard, and Anduar's world ranking is even two places higher than Tim.

For a long time, Spain's comprehensive tennis strength has been very good, with Moya in the front and Nadal in the back. In addition, there are a large number of outstanding players in the top [-] in the world. In the Davis Cup, Spain has always been a strong country——

In the era of the Open, Spain ranked second only to the United States in the number of championships, with a total of seven championships, and all of them came from after 2000. After the millennium, it is a well-deserved number one champion country.

The Davis Cup, like the NCAA, tests the overall strength of the team. Both singles and doubles matches are played, showing the national heritage of the entire project.

However, among the famous players in Spain, Anduar is not outstanding. Since he turned to the professional arena in 2007, the best result in the Grand Slam is only the second round; It is the second round of the Australian Open and the US Open, and both the French Open and Wimbledon are eliminated in the first round.

Looking at Anduar's entire career, in the second round of the 2021 Geneva Open in the distant future, he defeated Federer in three sets; , these two matches were major milestone victories that caused a seismic response around the world.

Even Anduar himself said, "I will tell my children that Dad once beat Federer. This is the proudest moment of my entire career."

It can be seen from the side that Anduar's career has indeed lacked bright moments.

However, it would be a mistake to underestimate Anduar because of this. In his career, he has defeated a series of masters, Isner, Dimitrov, Berdych, Ferrer, Kei Nishikori, Robredo, Simon, Verdasco, etc., no one can underestimate him.

Last year, Anduar held a wild card, but made it all the way to the semi-finals in the Madrid Masters; this year, Anduar won his third championship trophy in Switzerland.

It can be seen that Anduar is also in the best period of his career, and showing a slow upward trend. For the first round of competition, he is an opponent who needs to be vigilant.

In the first round against Anduar, Gao Wen was also fully prepared.

Anduar is a typical clay court player. The defense is very solid, and the offense is mainly based on rotation and landing. Although he lacks a little explosive power, he is full of tenacity.

Against Anduar on a fast and hard court like the Shanghai Masters, first of all, you must be patient, and secondly, you must attack decisively, and you must play out the rhythm.

Gao Wen did so.

In the opening stage of the game, Gao Wen's entire offensive rhythm was very closely linked and very agile. The tactical intention of adapting to the field and adjusting the state through the doubles game was well implemented, so Gao Wen entered the state very quickly.

On the one hand, Gao Wen connected his offense by grabbing rising points, interspersed between regular shots, and disrupted the rhythm of the attack.

On the other hand, Gao Wen consciously controls the length and rotation of the landing point to change the rhythm of the ball. This is the experience he learned from the game against Nadal. It is not necessary to hit the tennis ball to the deep zone every time. , but through the change of the depth of the landing point combined with the change of the rotation to disrupt the opponent's hitting feeling.

Especially when Gao Wen is still slowly looking for the feeling of hitting the ball, he does not need to take risks to challenge the edges and corners, but controls the situation through the layout. This way of hitting the ball can often accumulate more advantages and reduce Gao Wen Shot risk for the final shot.

The most direct and obvious data is the significant drop in unforced errors.

Last week at the Imperial Capital Open, Gao Wen's own active mistakes remained high, which is also the most direct manifestation of the poor state of the game; but this week has been effectively controlled, it can still be seen that the systematic training on the weekend played a role .

Of course, time is still short, and the state and feel will not magically return overnight, so Gao Wen still needs to be patient when facing Anduar.

In the opening stage, he broke serve first before Anduar could gain a foothold, and then made persistent efforts to break Anduar's serve for the second time in the mid-set stage. Finally, the score of the first set was fixed at "6:2".

Judging from the score, the disparity is very large, but the game time took a total of 43 minutes. On the fast hard court, this can be regarded as a fierce battle. From the side, it can still be seen that the competition between the two sides is very fierce.

The trend of the second set also proved this point.

In the opening stage, Anduar took advantage of the trough of Gao Wen's physical decline, broke serve first, and maintained his advantage in his own serve. He did not send any break point in the first three serve games, and his advantage was very obvious. Seeing that the situation is developing towards the final set.

But at the end of the game, after Gao Wen gritted his teeth and passed the slump in physical strength, he also caught Anduar's mentality fluctuations and launched a fierce attack.

First broke Anduar's fourth serve, and then made a strong hold to stabilize the situation, allowing the two sides to return to the same starting line.

Then the two sides entered into a stable situation where they kept each other's serve again. Seeing that the second set was heading towards a tie-break, Gao Wen keenly grasped Anduard's slightly conservative mentality, and instantly speeded up. After saving two game points, On the third break point, relying on the iconic backhand straight line, he broke serve twice.

This once again demonstrated Gao Wen's keen interpretation of the game.

In the closing stage, Gao Wen withstood the test of two non-consecutive break points, extinguished Andujar's final counterattack, and seized the second match point opportunity to successfully cash in the victory.

At the end of the game, the final score is "6:2", "7:5".

Although there were some ups and downs in the process, the whole game lasted for a full [-] minutes, and the naked eye could see the intensity; but Gao Wen got back on the right track bit by bit, steadily added another victory, and advanced to the second round.

At the same time, Tim defeated Rosol in straight sets with a score of "6:3" and "6:4" on the fourth court, passed the first round, and won the first challenge of Djokovic in his career. odd chance.

Gawain and Tim, the doubles partner, fought on two fronts and hit the ground running!

(End of this chapter)