Chapter 1120: Tied to the Hands
At a time when professional tennis is becoming more and more complete and comprehensive, due to commercial sponsorship, there are often objective differences in the competition environment.
This is a fact and the current situation. At the same time, it also means that players need to adapt to more things when they move between different competitions.
but!
From Indian Wells to Miami, two consecutive Masters tournaments, the venues, balls, environments, and conditions have all undergone obvious changes, which is outrageous. Especially the difference in the match balls is further magnified on the venues of different materials, and the whole hitting feeling is different.
It is precisely because of this that the difficulty of reaching the top of the "Sunshine Double Crown" is further magnified, and adjustments are needed from adapting to the venue to on-the-spot performance to game tactics.
Not to mention ordinary players, even the Big Four are no exception.
Look at Nadal. Although he won the Indian Wells championship three times, he lost all five times in the Miami finals. He has not yet been able to collect his own "Sunshine Double". You can imagine how difficult it is.
This is especially true for young players like Rublev.
Young players often lack game experience, and it is more difficult for them to adjust their status. Like Rublev, they just rush forward with their heads down, roll up their sleeves and pat their strength, and then suddenly find out when they enter the real game -
The shots that worked in Indian Wells often went out of bounds in Miami; or the texture of the incoming balls in Miami was so different from those in Indian Wells that adjustments had to be made to both the hitting point and the movement of the balls.
What happened?
During the game, Rublev could often be seen with a look of doubt in his eyes. He looked at the racket, at his thighs, and at Gawaddin across the court. His head was full of question marks, and he felt helpless and innocent.
Obviously, this game was very difficult for Rublev, very, very, very difficult.
In fact, for both Rublev and Gawain, this was the first time they had experienced such a situation, and things were obviously somewhat different from what they had expected.
However, there are some differences between the two players.
Rublev is a stubborn person. Rather than using his brain, he needs to experience it himself to truly feel it, and then make adjustments. But now, he lacks sufficient game experience to interpret, analyze, adjust and adapt. The impact brought by the whole game is obviously an information overload.
He had no choice but to charge forward, just like banging his head against a wall, and go ahead with it.
Gao Wen is different. For any game and any opponent, he is used to analyzing and trying different arrangements and combinations to find the best solution, change and adjust. This is the core of Gao Wen's game, so he has been mentally prepared for the changes in Miami in advance.
Moreover, Gao Wen was facing Rublev, a player who was not good at changes or layout, and he just played with strength. This also left Gao Wen with more room for trial and error. He already had some experience facing this type of player when he was in the NCAA.
It can be said that meeting Rublev in the first game in Miami was a kind of luck for Gao Wen.
As the score went back and forth, and between addition and subtraction, Gao Wen's advantage not only did not shrink, but widened further.
All kinds, all kinds.
When facing Gao Wen, Rublev felt even more restrained. He couldn't stretch himself throughout the game and never found his own rhythm.
Very dull.
The gap was widened in the blink of an eye.
The match point was very representative.
Rublev serves.
One shot.
Inner angle.
203 kilometers per hour.
The line and the landing point were both very beautiful, fully leveraging the advantage of the serving side and exerting huge pressure on Gao Wen.
Gawain, very passive.
With his body losing its center of gravity, he barely blocked the ball with his forehand. There was no control at all and he just managed to push the tennis ball back.
The parabola is a little high and the landing point is not deep, with at least two big steps away from the bottom line.
The only thing that is certain is the line, which is controlled in the middle and the angle is not torn apart. This also means that if Rublev wants to tear apart the angle, he will have to take greater risks.
Rublev's response was swift.
He stayed focused and faced the break point and match point with active steps, observing Gao Wen's return line while adjusting with quick small steps.
He entered the baseline immediately, stepped forward to the midfield, followed up with the attack, turned sideways and used his forehand to forcibly tear open the angle, and attacked diagonally -
Aim for the sideline on Gao Wen's backhand.
When serving, he suppresses the forehand; when attacking, he suppresses the backhand. From this we can see that Rublev has clear ideas and a complete plan for his attack.
Gao Wen, not surprisingly, stopped and turned suddenly, quickly returned to his position, and used both hands to backhand and sweep across the field. The control of this shot was excellent:
In a passive defensive situation, he used a transition ball without completely breaking up the angle and line, but just used the force of the opponent's opponent to hit the ball, but the landing point was pushed deep enough; at the same time, the parabola was not completely pulled up, and Rublev was forced back to the baseline with a flat backspin ball to relieve the pressure.
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If it was Federer, he would have forced the ball to the net unconditionally. Then, facing the underspin ball, he would have been able to control it with his delicate touch, launch a counterattack while defending, and resolve Gawain's tactical layout, regaining the initiative in offense and defense. Then Gawain would have to rearrange his layout.
But Rublev does not have such ability at the net, nor does he have such awareness.
He had no choice.
Seeing the incoming ball, Rubilev quickly returned to the baseline, and used both hands to backhand the tennis ball firmly and steadily, and then hit it diagonally again.
Rublev's backhand is stable and durable, and of course, he can also exert power, but it is relatively rigid overall, lacking changes in rotation and power; and because his swing action is rigid, changing to a straight line can easily expose his tactical intentions, so he often chooses a diagonal line to compress his swing time.
In other words, when Gawain saw Rublev's footsteps returning to the baseline, his tactical layout was completed, and he only needed to wait patiently in the backhand position.
"Backhand vs. backhand".
Round one, round two, round three.
The two players were in a tug of war in the backhand position. Rublev relied on his strength to suppress the opponent, while Gao Wen always used the force to control the landing point. The situation was deadlocked for a while.
Gawain did not change line, and neither did Rublev.
But the speed, power and rhythm of the return ball are always changing. Gawain is trying to control and Rublev is trying to speed up. The two players are competing with each other.
Next, it will depend on who dares to change first, or who can't withstand the pressure and loses the ball first.
Bang! Gao Wen's backhand shot did not fully open the angle, but came back a little bit.
Rublev immediately saw the opportunity, took a series of small steps and turned sideways, switching from backhand to forehand, exerting force and swinging his forehand quickly.
Bang! The tennis ball rushed out like a cannonball, with all the power, angle and speed. It was obvious that Rublev was going to score the winning point.
but!
Gawain was not panicked or embarrassed, and his eyes were focused. To be precise, the shot just now -
It's a trap.
(End of this chapter)