Chapter 112 is unstoppable
"University of Virginia vs. University of California, Los Angeles".
This is not only a replay of last year's U.S. Championship finals, but also a battle between the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the U.S. this season, as well as a head-to-head confrontation between the last two undefeated teams. After this battle, only one player can continue his undefeated streak.
There is no doubt that the collision of various factors makes this game full of highlights.
This is also true.
At the beginning of the game, the Brown Bears, who went to challenge a strong opponent away from home, took the lead in the doubles arena where they had repeatedly failed this season. All three doubles matches went to tiebreaks. In the end, the Brown Bears defeated their opponents and won the first two games, taking the doubles points into their pockets.
Originally, doubles was the strong point of the University of Virginia Cavaliers. Last year, they won the doubles championship of the NCAA National Championship. This year, they also made many achievements. However, in the strong confrontation at home, the doubles points were snatched away by the Bruins, and the situation immediately became bad.
Afterwards, Gillon took the court as the Bruins’ top singles player, facing the Cavaliers’ first singles player, Mitchell Frank, in a matchup between the fifth and fourth players in the United States.
As the ranking suggests, the match between the two sides was very stalemate. It lasted for three sets, and all three sets went into tiebreaks. In the end, Giron withstood the pressure at the critical moment, lost the first set, and then won the second and third sets, reversing and defeating Frank, winning another victory for the away Brown Bears.
Then, McDonald came on the court as the fourth singles player, and the scores were also close, "7:5", "6:4", and he successfully defeated the outstanding Ryan-Shane, directly pushing the University of Virginia to the edge of the cliff and taking the lead in grabbing the match point.
A sweeping "4:0" victory was about to be achieved, but the Cavaliers still showed their deep foundation, and Polland's deployment of troops gradually showed its effectiveness.
First, the fifth singles player Justin-Shane narrowly defeated Bremer in three sets. Although he lost the first set 1:6, he won two consecutive tiebreaks. His big heart at the critical moment pulled the University of Virginia back from the brink of defeat. The atmosphere at the Cavaliers' home court reached a new climax.
Objectively speaking, Bremer's performance was not bad, and he was even only one point away from victory at one point. But that's how tennis matches are. Sean, standing on the edge of the cliff, was more daring to attack and to exert more force, breaking Bremer's steady conservatism and balance and rushing across the finish line first.
This victory not only allowed the University of Virginia to continue fighting on the court, but also became a turning point and sounded the clarion call for the Cavaliers' counterattack.
Then, Mac-Styslinger, the third singles player, defeated Thompson, who was ranked first in the United States, in three sets, with the cheers of the fans. The final scores were "6:4", "4:6", and "7:6", which were very close. The final score in the tie-break of the final set was not decided until "7:5".
The home court was boiling with excitement! Not only because they won two games in a row by defeating the strong with the weak, but also because they won two games in a row by escaping death after saving match points. Such a close and intense game pushed the emotions of the home audience to the peak, and even the sound of their hearts bursting could be heard.
At this moment, the Cavaliers were like a chicken with blood, bursting out with an unstoppable counterattack momentum. If they won one more point to tie the game, the atmosphere of the decisive game would be even more unstoppable, and I am afraid that the pressure would be overwhelmingly poured on the Bruins.
At this juncture when the whole stadium was boiling, the second singles match between the two sides began, with Gawain facing Alex-Domijan.
Judging from the rankings, Gawain is 77th and Domyan is 92nd. Neither player is among the top 20 players, but the quality of their matches is extraordinary.
Judging from the results of the previous life, at the end of the season, Domyan's ranking soared to seventh in the United States. He is a top player whose strength is almost the same as Frank. It's just that the Cavaliers' lineup and tactics are always changing and adjusting, which makes his ranking not visible.
With a height of 200 cm, Domyan looked like a giant standing in front of the net. For the first time, Gawain felt that he was not that tall.
This was a close-fought match. Domyan's technique was a little rough, but his serve was very, very good. This should be the strongest server player Gao Wen has faced so far. Even if he found some opportunities in Domyan's serve, they would immediately be overwhelmed by Domyan's rain of aces.
Similarly, Domyan couldn't find any opportunities in Gawain's serve. Gawain's changeable return methods and hitting rhythm made him unable to find the feeling, and he would often drop the ball within two or three shots - ending the point with Domyan's mistake, which made the round impossible to maintain. It was a game of two extremes compared to the previous game against Sacramento.
Gawain cannot break Domyan, and Domyan cannot break Gawain.
The entire competition process was like one of Bruce Lee's martial arts movies, with loud noises and a lot of excitement. There were no rounds of entanglement and everything happened very quickly.
The first set lasted only 26 minutes before going straight into a tiebreak; the same was true for the second set. Judging from the score, the two sides were once again entangled in a tiebreak, but the entire game ended in less than an hour, even shorter than the "Gawain vs. Sacramento" match.
However, the score was two tie-breaks.
In the tie-break, one was "10:8" and the other was "7:4", and Gawain won the game! Just like when Sean defeated Blymer, this time Gawain was the bolder, more courageous and smarter one.
In the tie-break, Gao Wen slightly adjusted his tactics. Facing Domjan's powerful serve, he used more cutting and pushing methods to complete his serve reception. Regardless of the quality of the serve reception, he first ensured that his return ball could enter the court and let Domjan hit as many shots as possible.
Normally, in Domyan's serve, Gao Wen needs to grab four points or more before he can break Domyan's serve. This also means that Domyan has more room for error. Even if he loses one or two points, he can still quickly gain a foothold and catch up again.
However, the tie-break is different.
In the tie-break, there is also an order for serving. Suppose Gao Wen served in the last game before the tie-break, and Domjan should have served in the next game, then in the tie-break, Domjan will serve first.
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After Domyan's serve, Gao Wen's two serve points come next, and then Domyan's two serve points again, and the game rotates in this order; when the total of the small points reaches six points or a multiple of six, the two sides need to exchange venues, and this continues until the winner of the tie-break is decided.
In other words, every point is crucial. Once you miss a serve point, you may miss the entire game, and there is very little room for error.
Gao Wen's return tactics, on the one hand, are to continue the round of balls, and on the other hand, to weaken Domjan's psychological advantage in the serve phase.
Little by little, slowly eroding Domyan's advantage, and then, seizing the opportunity, launching a fatal blow.
So, in the first set, we won by tie-break, and in the second set, we won by tie-break again.
Twelfth update.
(End of this chapter)