Chapter 1334 Two Fried Dough
Sticks The sun was a bit dazzling, and the hot sweat slowly flowed down. My cheeks felt itchy, but I no longer had the energy to wipe it off.
There are no night games at the French Open, all games are played during the day; and, considering that clay court games generally take a long time, the start time is advanced.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, all matches, including the center court, start at the same time, and the players have to play under the scorching sun; plus the sunset time in Paris is very late, it usually gets dark around 10 o'clock in the evening, so it is common for the game to last until after 9 o'clock.
Today, the match between Gao Wen and Tiafoe was scheduled after Suzanne Lenglen's second match. In the previous women's singles match, Makarova won in straight sets, which did not take long. So, when Gao Wen and the others came on the court, it was almost noon, and the hottest time of the day began.
There is no doubt that the French Open is difficult, from the weather to the environment to the venue, and it is no wonder that everyone thinks it is the most difficult Grand Slam.
At this time, both Gawain and Tiafoe were sweating profusely, as if they had just been fished out of the water. Even though they had just wiped the sweat off their foreheads, in the blink of an eye, their foreheads were covered with sweat again. The strong sunlight made it impossible to open their eyes, so Gawain had to put on his baseball cap.
After a whole clay court season, as expected, Gao Wen's attributes have increased again.
Among them, the improvement in physical fitness is obvious.
On the one hand, Gao Wen's judgment was correct. He had reached a bottleneck on hard courts, but the improvement brought by continuous hard court competitions was very, very weak. So he came to clay, changed his training and competition methods, and his growth potential value rose again.
On the other hand, even without Gao Wen's own system points, the physical training and will-toughening of clay court events are objectively real. Relying on his own training and competitions, he has also seen the different levels of attribute improvement, which makes people see the training value of clay court very intuitively.
When I came to Roland Garros, various attributes saw changes again, including natural improvements and the values after superposition, which were very gratifying.
Physical attributes: 92 Technical attributes: 91 Mental attributes: 95 Compared with before the start of the clay court season, physical attributes have increased by two points, while technical attributes and mental attributes have increased by one point each.
If I remember correctly, this should be the first time that Gao Wen's physical attributes surpassed his technical attributes, leading by half a body length. Physical attributes, which used to be a shortcoming, are now slowly becoming a strong point through unremitting efforts and training, and are playing an important role in the clay court season.
in addition.
Hidden Attributes: 78 (4/5)
Although the value is still 78 and has not increased, Gawain still added two attribute points, and he is only one step away from improving the hidden attribute.
Overall, the growth rate has indeed slowed down significantly, but compared with the stagnation in the spring season, such a change is already very gratifying.
Moreover, Gao Wen has different expectations for the clay court season and the grass court season. He does not expect himself to show the style of a world-class player, but to return to the position of a challenger with a baby-learning mentality, slowly learning, slowly growing, and slowly impacting.
The most intuitive one is Nadal.
In 2005, Nadal won the French Open in his first appearance, with great expectations, but when he turned to Wimbledon, he lost in the second round.
In fact, Wimbledon has always been Nadal's most unstable Grand Slam. Except for 2005, he was eliminated in the second round in 2012 and the first round in 2013. In Nadal's career, the only time he was eliminated in the first round of a Grand Slam was at Wimbledon.
For a long time, people complained that Nadal was not good at grass and might not achieve anything here, but later Nadal proved himself.
Not only Nadal, but also Federer, Djokovic and others have faced the same situation. Now it is Gao Wen who is no exception.
From hard court to clay, it takes time to learn.
Therefore, adjusting one's mentality is crucial, and Gao Wen did not act too hastily.
This year's first clay court season is all about learning, and the improvement of attribute points is an extra surprise, witnessing my growth and progress bit by bit.
It is for this reason that when Gawain stepped onto the Suzanne Lenglen Stadium at Roland Garros, he was not nervous and got into the game very quickly.
Once you actually enter the game, you will notice that the difference in the clay court is indeed greater -
The venue of Roland Garros is different from that of Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid and Rome. Even though people always emphasize Monte Carlo, which is the closest, one can still feel some differences between the two cities and two venues.
Here, the whole ball is slightly heavier and richer, which is often referred to as "able to absorb power and rotation."
Although clay absorbs power and speed, weakens the hitting effect of power players, and converts it into rotation; there is a misunderstanding here. If someone thinks that clay balls are not heavy enough, then that is absolutely wrong. The reduction in ball speed does not affect the transfer of power, and the tail force of the ball is the best proof of this.
In fact, the ball quality on clay courts is the heaviest among all courts, especially when the humidity is high and the temperature is low, the ball quality will be particularly heavy.
The difference is that when hitting the ball on clay, you cannot use brute force. Before exerting full force, you must fully understand the rotation and adjust your hitting technique along the context of the rotation.
These controls are very, very subtle, so subtle that they are difficult to detect; but the reality is that these details are precisely the key to "reading and understanding" clay:
The dividing line between ordinary masters, top masters, and peerless masters is drawn with the help of these subtle, imperceptible details.
To Gawain, this was very interesting.
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Because he is a player who likes to understand, think and plan. Changes from opponents to venues to game situations can all become the key to changing the game. Although clay is unfamiliar to him, the learning process is similar and the whole process is full of fun.
so--
The first match at Roland Garros went much more smoothly than expected.
“6:1”, “6:1”.
Gao Wen, put down two plates first, and delivered two fried dough sticks with unstoppable force, which was equivalent to a pair of chopsticks.
On the one hand, Gao Wen has indeed shown his growth throughout the clay court season.
He knows that the first two rounds of a Grand Slam are difficult to play, and there may often be many unexpected events. Moreover, his adjustments should not reach the peak right at the beginning, otherwise the second week of the competition may experience a decline. Therefore, he needs to be more cautious in responding and handling the first round of the game.
Judging from the game, Gao Wen's concentration is good. Although his condition is still slowly adjusting and adapting, his control is very good.
Tiafoe, on the other hand, exposed his lack of experience.
Whether it was the experience in professional competitions or the experience in clay court events, the shortcomings were fully exposed and they were deeply stuck in the quagmire from the very beginning.
Tiafoe: It’s really hard for me.
(End of this chapter)