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Chapter 138: Plan and then move to tie-break to win (please subscribe)

Chen Ran's second serve was still aimed at the outside corner.

However, because he changed his position, Chen Ran's shot was aimed at Agassi's backhand.

boom!
Agassi's return ball went out of bounds, and Chen Ran served straight again.

"Oh~~"

The host at the scene exclaimed: "It seems that the young man from China is not willing to surrender. He wants to continue fighting."

In the third set, Chen Ran adjusted his mentality in time and quickly recovered from the loss in the second set.

On the third ball, after smashing Agassi's return ball back, he decisively chose to go to the net.

This time, Agassi's return was unable to break through Chen Ran's interception.

Chen Ran squatted slightly, hit the front with his forehand, and scored another point.

40: 0!

At the beginning of the third set, Chen Ran showed an unstoppable attitude.

Agassi scratched his bald head, trying to focus more.

He has extremely rich game experience and can easily cope with various situations on the court.

Sure enough, Agassi, who once again shifted gears and focused, relied on his strong receiving ability to score three points in a row, chasing the score to 40:40.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Ran scored another point with difficulty, and the score became AD:40.

"Wonderful duel!"

"Agassi didn't give up in this round!"

"Both sides go back and forth without giving in to each other."

Chen Ran's two serves just now were still trying to adopt the strategy of serving and hitting the net, hoping to win with one blow.

However, Agassi's high-quality return of serve extinguished Chen Ran's thoughts.

At this point, the competition between the two sides has reached a fever pitch, with suppression and counter-suppression, calculations and counter-calculations.

Active transitions between two players occur in almost every shot, and even if you are fully focused on the game you still need to deal with the intricacies of the situation.

Serving and hitting the net, as well as his skills at the net, are Chen Ran's technical advantages.

This has often been used flexibly by him in previous games and has become a means of scoring points.

But Agassi has the best receiving and hitting skills at present, especially his precise control of the landing point, which has made Chen Ran return without success several times.

This also caused Chen Ran to no longer be as determined as before when he rushed to the net.

"If you lead 40-0 in the serve game and then get reversed, it will hurt your momentum even more than being broken in the average serve game." Zhan Jun said with some worry.

He was also amazed by Agassi's amazing ability to adjust. After being slightly passive at the beginning, he immediately recovered.

Chen Ran took a deep breath and gently threw the ball up.

Area [-], inner corner!

Agassi, who was highly focused, once again showed his excellent receiving skills.

He controlled the placement of the serve very accurately, and after just a few shots, the two sides entered a multi-shot stalemate.

Soon, Chen Ran started running at both ends of the court again, and the game seemed to be progressing towards the rhythm Agassi liked.

"It can't go on like this!"

"From 40 to 0 to 40 to 40, now we finally get the game point again. If we are tied again, it will be too hurt."

Chen Ran kept making adjustments, and after a few more stalemate shots, he returned a cutting ball with strong rotation, and the landing point was very deep, almost pressing the opponent's bottom line.

Because the ball has strong spin and flies high and far, it stays in the air for a longer time.

This also gave Chen Ran enough time to adjust.

Similarly, Agassi did not dare to take the risk of waiting for the ball to hit the ground and smashed it directly in the air.

Not only because of the strong rotation of the tennis ball, but also because your position is far away from the net, it is easy to cause the spike to go out of bounds.

Chen Ran's stroke of genius seemed to disrupt Agassi's rhythm.

After his right hand finished hitting the ball, the center of gravity of his body was slightly pushed back by the strong rotation of the tennis ball, so that the arc control of the return ball was slightly insufficient.

Not only was the ball not pressed deep enough, but the arc was slightly higher.

Chen Ran made an offensive gesture, took steps, and ran directly to the midfield.

He seemed to be about to spike the ball, which also set Agassi's pace, and then with a flick of his wrist, he released a small ball in the opposite direction.

Because the movement was too subtle, it was difficult to control the body's center of gravity, and Chen Ran actually fell down in a somewhat embarrassed manner.

Fortunately, this small ball also deceived Agassi and formed the winning point.

Chen Ran finally managed to secure serve in the first game.

Agassi looked disappointed, spread his hands, and put the racket on the ground.

The opportunity just now was really good. If we could win that goal, it would put a huge psychological burden on the opponent.

He vaguely felt that this might be the best break opportunity in the third set.

Sure enough, in the subsequent games, Chen Ran's serve became much more stable, and Agassi could not find a chance to break serve.

In Agassi's own service game, although Chen Ran also tried to challenge, he also got some chances to break serve. Fortunately, in the end, there was no danger and the serve was guaranteed.

The two sides entered a brutal and exciting tie-break.In fact, Agassi didn't know that Chen Ran also had his own strategy.

Although Agassi's physical age is almost twice as old as Chen Ran, in fact, his mental age is not as good as Chen Ran.

In terms of sophistication, there’s no telling who is better!

In fact, Chen Ran seemed to have a chance to break serve in several of Agassi's service games, but he also knew that unless Agassi made an unforced error, it would be very difficult to achieve the break goal.

Chen Ran would suddenly shift gears to exert force at a certain period of time, and then with appropriate reservations, he would then complete his serve in the next service game.

While Agassi was still thinking about how not to drag the game into a tiebreaker, Chen Ran had actually started preparing for the tiebreak in advance.

Because in the tie-break, you only need to win one of your opponent's service points, and it is a valuable point, which is called a "mysterious break".

Chen Ran has tried it. When he is highly concentrated and fully committed, he can score several points in Agassi's serve, but it is a bit difficult to win four points or more.

But the difficulty of "mini break" will be greatly reduced.

In many tennis matches, some players try their best to break serve, but due to serious physical loss, they fail to hold serve in the next service game.

For example, in the match between Chen Ran and Roddick, in one set the two sides broke each other twice.

Tennis matches are a battle of wits and courage, and you must formulate a reasonable and reasonable battle plan instead of blindly hitting the racket vigorously.

After entering the tie-break, the mentality of both sides obviously changed subtly.

Agassi was a little impatient and annoyed because several opportunities to break serve passed through his hands, but Chen Ran was already ready for the "tiebreak".

The mentality of the two people is completely different, which is also reflected in this "tiebreak".

Chen Ran won the first service point first, and then completed a "mini break" in Agassi's two serves.

Chen Ran leads 2-1!

Next, Chen Ran successfully secured his serve twice more.

The score suddenly became 4 to 1, and it seemed that Chen Ran's advantage had widened.

In a tiebreak, every time you break your opponent's serve is of great significance.

In the opponent's service game, even if you can score several points in the opponent's service game, as long as you don't complete the break, it cannot be said that it is meaningless, but it will not be of much value after all.

"Andre calm down, save the next two service points!" Graf tried to shout loudly to remind her husband.

She also found that after entering the tie-break, Chen Ran seemed to have made sufficient preparations, as if he was coming for the tie-break.

As for her husband, he seems to be still annoyed that he failed to seize the several opportunities to break serve.

Soon, Chen Ran relied on his beautiful movement to complete a half-volley in the deep area of ​​his own side, completing another mini-break.

The so-called deep area is the part near the bottom line of the service area, while the shallow area is the part of the service area close to the net.

As for the difference between a volley and a half-volley, the former refers to hitting the ball back directly when the tennis ball is about to hit the ground but has not yet had time to touch the ground; while the latter refers to hitting the ball back when the ball hits the ground but before it bounces to the highest point, during the rising period. It hits back.

After 5-1, the two sides exchanged venues.

Then Agassi made a mistake on the first serve, and the quality of the second serve was greatly reduced. Chen Ran completed two consecutive mini-breaks.

"FUCK!"

Agassi, who was trailing 1:6, had a bit of a mental breakdown.

Under the attention of the entire audience, he did not throw the racket this time, but directly smashed it.

Chen Ran actually took away 3 of his serving points.

Agassi actually doesn't have a good temper. Although he doesn't like to smash the racket as much as Safin, there are some examples of smashing the racket.

Although he also knew that it was rude to smash the racket in front of such a young dark horse, but this time, he really couldn't restrain himself.

When that impulse comes up, if you don't vent it out, it will be very uncomfortable and it will also affect your subsequent game state.

Chen Ran looked at all this calmly, but his face was expressionless.

In his opinion, as long as the tie-break does not reach seven points, there can be no carelessness.

Although the number is very small, in professional tennis, there are indeed some guys who are mentally relaxed because they are leading 6-1 in the tie-break, and the opponent completes the reversal.

Chen Ran's nerves were still tense and his concentration was highly concentrated.

Throw the ball, kick the ground, turn, and swing!
A nice ACE ball!
7:1, Chen Ran won the tiebreaker with a huge advantage!
The total score is 2 to 1!

Chen Ran once again gained the lead.

In theory, he only needed one more set to win the match.

"One set less, but maybe two more."

Chen Ran was ready for a five-set battle.

At this moment, Aga was expressionless, because the emotions that needed to be vented had already been vented when he smashed the racket just now.

Trailing 6-1, Agassi already knew that the possibility of winning the third set was slim.

Those Australian fans were a little excited. Since Hewitt was eliminated, they also hoped that Agassi could also be eliminated as soon as possible.

They gave Chen Ran rare cheers and praises.

"Referee, I need to go to the bathroom!"

At this time, Agassi knew that he needed to calm down and decisively launched the "toilet plan".

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(End of this chapter)