"ah!"
Wawrinka roared out, and the shouts continued to rise.
“Ahhhh!”
He clenched his fists, roared to the sky, his sweaty face turned red due to the surge of boiling blood, and his eyes burst into murderous intent.
He saved four break points and finally cashed in on the third game point. At the most critical and important moment, Wawrinka once again showed his superb form, turning the tide slightly with a forehand diagonal shot that hit the outside of the sideline.
The whole place exploded——
Boom! Everyone in the Philippe Chatrier Stadium stood up. No one could stay in their chairs. No one could hold back their excitement. No one wanted to miss the madness at this moment.
In this game, Gao Wen was completely focused on the game, taking advantage of Wawrinka's consecutive missed first serves and launching an aggressive attack from the moment he received the serve, which really disrupted Wawrinka's rhythm and made him look embarrassed.
However! In the desperate situation where his forehand was suppressed continuously and he could hardly breathe, Wawrinka split his legs to lower his center of gravity, and hit a rebound ball with his forehand in a skateboarding posture, which actually created a powerful and sharp effect of machine gun shooting——
He opened up an angle and swept the ball to the outside corner of the shallow area, breaking through Gao Wen's defense like a fairy from the sky and scoring the winning point.
Crazy!
Amazing!
Wawrinka really played in superb form. It was definitely not because of Gawain's poor performance. It was just that Wawrinka's return was incredible.
Then--
“5:2”.
The score in the fourth set reached a magical number.
After breaking Gao Wen's serve, Wawrinka managed to hold his serve with great difficulty, winning three games in a row, moving towards the finish line of victory step by step.
In fact, when he was broken in the previous game, Gawain had already realized the desperate situation. Similarly, Wawrinka was able to touch the dawn of victory, which caused his mentality to fluctuate. So Gawain immediately seized Wawrinka's swing and launched a counterattack.
However, Wawrinka's performance at the critical moment was indeed impeccable and superior. Even though Gawain had already put pressure on him to the extreme, Wawrinka still found a way out with his high morale and escaped again.
No wonder Wawrinka couldn't control himself anymore and screamed.
On the contrary, Gawain on the other side of the court seemed particularly calm. He showed no regret, anxiety, loss or anger, and his eyes remained focused.
If there were viewers who had just turned on the TV to watch the live broadcast and witnessed this scene, they would not understand why and would think that it was Wawrinka who was behind in the score and in trouble. If they glanced at the score, they would probably be full of question marks. But from the side, they could see the pressure that Gawain brought to Wawrinka.
Although they were clearly in the lead and victory seemed within reach, the overwhelming pressure made the fear and panic grow little by little in their hearts.
Gawain's calmness was not because he had given up the fight, but because he had entered a state of high concentration.
When the game reaches this stage, the role played by technology and tactics is no longer that important. It all depends on the spirit of the fight. Now it is purely a contest of wills, a competition of beliefs and a confrontation of momentum. It seems that the outcome has been decided, but in fact it is completely entangled.
give up?
How is that possible!
For viewers who have such thoughts, this should be their first time watching Gao Wen’s competition, right?
At this moment, Gao Wen was completely immersed in this moment, even more focused and dedicated than in the Australian Open final.
From the Australian Open final to the French Open semi-finals, although it was only five months, Gao Wen's position has risen from "top ten newcomer" to "world number two".
Amidst the overwhelming expectations, attention, and doubts, even though Gawain remained calm, low-key, and focused, his mentality had changed slightly without him noticing. However, the match against a super-god-like Wawrinka once again awakened Gawain's fighting spirit.
Challenge yourself, challenge your limits, challenge the impossible.
Maybe, he will lose this game; maybe, he can win this battle... He is not a prophet, unfortunately, and has no ability to predict the future.
But the real magic lies here. He did not think about winning or losing the game at all. Instead, he was concentrating on the game. What he was thinking about in his mind was not that he was standing on the edge of the cliff, but how to play the next serve. He was unprecedentedly calm and focused.
At least he could be sure of one thing, and he didn't need a prophet to know that the battle was not over yet.
Quiet does not mean silent.
That belief burned so fiercely that it even infected the audience in front of the TV.
Plan crossed his hands and clasped them tightly, with all the muscles in his body completely tensed. It seemed that if he exerted a little more force, his whole body would fall apart like a sand castle. Even when the two players returned to the rest area, he still couldn't relax. He remained tense for a full ninety seconds.
In baseball games, there is a dilemma: "two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning." That is, the last batter to come on the field is the only hope. Once this batter is also struck out, the game is completely over.
At this time, Lu Qian was in the same dilemma.
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In the fourth set, we were trailing 2:5. In the following games, if we were not careful, match point might appear, and every point might mean the end of the whole game.
This situation is even worse than the Australian Open at the beginning of the year.
After all, Djokovic never had a match point at that time. Even in the third set, when Gawain was behind and faced three consecutive break points in his own serve game, it was not a match point after all.
What's more, Wawrinka, who has entered a super god state, is more dangerous than Djokovic, because Djokovic will choose to fight at the baseline, but Wawrinka will not. A single hit will directly destroy all subsequent possibilities.
An idea, like a seed, takes root, sprouts, and grows wildly and recklessly.
Plan couldn't help but shudder. He took a deep breath and shook his head vigorously to get rid of all the thoughts in his mind and refuse to scare himself. But when he came to his senses, his palms were still covered with a layer of hot sweat. His pounding heart thundered on his eardrums and was about to explode.
"Faith, Emily, faith!"
Pulan muttered to himself.
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, she needed to believe in Gawain, she needed to fight with Gawain.
He opened his eyes again, and then Plan could see the entire stadium of Philippe Chatrier standing up, raising their arms and cheering. The deafening shouts gathered into one, pouring down like a summer rainstorm, and in the blink of an eye, it submerged the entire stadium and even the entire Roland Garros.
"Pah! Gawain!"
Listen, that's cheering, and also support——
Indeed, Wawrinka played a wonderful game today, but don't forget that Gawain also gave his best and most outstanding performance. It is precisely because of this that this semi-final, which lasted nearly three hours, was so exciting and beautiful.
Now, the fans and spectators are looking forward to the game continuing, the party continuing, and the carnival continuing. They have not finished enjoying it yet.
So, in a rare incident, the entire audience shouted the same name, forming a mighty storm and exploding with rolling heat waves.
Then, Plan also loosened his hands, raised them high, jumped, clapped, and cheered, becoming a part of this tropical storm.
"Pah! Gawain!"