Chapter 1313: Comprehensive Attention

Balanced, average, stable, this is the intuitive feeling of the 2015 French Open men's singles draw.

First, the highlight players are evenly distributed across the four divisions.

Secondly, the advancement routes of the top eight seeded players in the first four rounds are relatively balanced. No player has an especially easy time, but no player has an especially difficult time either.

Thanks to this, the draw distribution in the first three rounds appears to be particularly balanced. Apart from the top eight seeds, there are many matchups worth paying attention to: that is to say, blue-collar players or rising stars of similar strength may meet first, and after winning, they will be able to win the opportunity to challenge the top eight seeds in the fourth round, which largely avoids shocking upsets and ensures the excitement of the first three rounds.

To be precise, there were many focus matchups in the first round alone.

"Corić VS Querrey", "Pospisil VS Sousa", "Istomin VS Kyrgios", "Goffin VS Krajinovic".

"Sepi vs Isner", "Johnson vs Ga-Lopez", "Karlovic vs Baghdatis".

And so on and so forth.

All of these matches will be staged in the first round and will be evenly distributed in different positions in the four divisions, which will definitely be exciting.

In addition, "Dimitrov VS Sock" is also a focus duel.

For Dimitrov, this year's draw is not good, it is very, very difficult. He will face Sock in the first round, which is a tough nemesis. They met in the Monte Carlo doubles final not long ago, and Dimitrov won at that time. But when they came to Roland Garros, they met again in singles, and everything was new.

If he can win, Dimitrov will most likely face the young Spanish player Busta in the second round, and continue to face the impact of the new generation of players.

At the beginning of the year, Gao Wen encountered a youth storm in Melbourne; this time in Paris, it was Dimitrov's turn, and every game was a tough battle.

However, the most noteworthy focus of the first round is a French civil war: "Pouille VS Mahut".

It is still a contest between the new generation and the mesozoic generation. Judging from this year's clay court season, the mesozoic generation has risen across the board, while the rising momentum of the new generation has hit a wall. However, it is unknown whether the new generation can turn the situation around and return to the main theme of the season when they come to the ultimate stage of the clay court Grand Slam.

In comparison, the first-round picks of the Big Four and Gao Wen were lucky and had almost no challenges.

Both Federer and Murray will play against lucky losers.

Both Nadal and Gawain will face wildcard players.

Djokovic will face Finnish veteran Nieminen.

Although Nieminen had written countless histories for Finnish tennis when he was young and his highest world ranking was 13th, the veteran's career has come to an end. Earlier, he announced that he would retire after the US Open. It is probably difficult for him to pose a threat to the world's number one at the French Open this time.

Obviously, the four giants and Gao Wen have good luck in the draw and may not encounter too many challenges when entering the first round of the Grand Slam.

In fact, it’s not just them—

Kei Nishikori and Berdych will face qualifiers in the first round, while Ferrer will face a low-ranked player who has only won one match at the French Open in his career.

In other words, the top eight seeded players all had good luck in the draw, which has not been seen at the French Open for many years, once again proving the balance of this year's draw.

The real challenge should start from the second and third rounds.

For example, Gawain.

On the other side, Dimitrov is surrounded by the storm of youth and is continuously impacted by potential players born in the 1990s. It remains to be seen how he will perform.

Here, Gawain and Thiem have another chance to continue their careers against each other after Monte Carlo:

Second round.

If both Gawain and Thiem can win in the first round, the two good friends will compete in the second round, just like in Monte Carlo.

Last time, Thiem was in mediocre form and was eliminated in the first round. Unfortunately, he missed the opportunity to face off against Gawain on the court. It was very regrettable.

This time, Thiem naturally hopes to seize the opportunity very much; moreover, this is the French Open, the ultimate stage that Thiem has dreamed of since he was a child.

Entering the clay court season, Thiem, who is best at clay court, has been unable to find his form. His performances in the warm-up matches were generally sluggish. He also realized the difficulty of the situation, so he has been training through matches. He did not rest this week and went to Nice on the Cote d'Azur in southern France to continue his competition.

There is no doubt that Thiem was looking forward to a top performance at Roland Garros, so he gave up the opportunity to adapt to the venue and continued to fight in Nice.

At present, Thiem has reached the semi-finals and seems to have finally returned to the right track.

This is true for Thiem and Gao Wen, who are both looking forward to meeting their good friends on clay. In addition, there are thousands of professionals and tennis fans who are also looking forward to this potential second-round showdown and can't wait for this clash to take place.

Overall, the intensity of the matches continued to increase round by round, which is completely in line with the spiral staircase pattern of Grand Slam status adjustment.

Judging from the draw alone, people have every reason to expect a wonderful tournament and once again look forward to the writing of history.

Among them are Chinese fans.

The latest novel is published first on Liu9shuba!

"oh……"

On the TV screen, when Sharapova personally pushed Nadal to the 4/4 zone, Qiao Wangsheng wailed in disbelief and covered his forehead with his hands.

Not only him, the whole bar was wailing.

Even though it was already 11 o'clock in the evening in the East 8th District, the bar was still crowded with a large number of fans, and the noisy scene was comparable to the World Cup.

It's a bit incredible, this isn't even a formal competition, it's just a draw ceremony -

People enjoy competitive sports and may gather to watch a game, but a lottery ceremony? Seriously?

Among the four Grand Slams, only the draw ceremonies of the Australian Open and the French Open are broadcast live around the world and held under the attention of the public; but to be honest, how many people watch it?

I'm afraid that even for the Champions League and World Cup draws, fans will only watch the live broadcast at home and will not go to bars to watch them.

When Qiao Wangsheng posted on the forum calling on fans to go to the bar for a party, he had no expectations at all. After all, the fan base of tennis is still too small, and the draw ceremony is even less attractive. But he never expected that more than 50 people would flock to the bar at once.

It's very lively.

This completely broke expectations, which not only proved Gao Wen's appeal in China at this time, but also proved the expectations and attention of the majority of fans for Gao Wen.

Even though this was clay court, even though clay court and hard court are two completely different things, even though Gawain's performance in the warm-up match had obviously declined, it still couldn't stop the enthusiasm of the fans, who flocked to the bar one after another, chattering about the upcoming French Open, and the bar was filled with heat.

Everyone is talking about, "Just avoid Nadal", "Just don't be in the same division with Nadal" - the deterrent power of the King of Clay is still strong enough.

However, the good ones don't work, but the bad ones do.

For a moment, Qiao Wangsheng's heart stopped beating.

(End of this chapter)