Chapter 147: Falling Flowers and Flowing
Water Tennis matches are ever-changing, and switching between offense and defense often only requires one shot to return the ball.
Kerbert's three consecutive forehand attacks failed to break through Gawain's defense, and then Gawain turned the situation around with a moon shot.
There is no need to move, just wait in place, get ready early, bend your knees, push off the ground, turn your body, and swing the racket, the whole movement is done in one go.
The forehand is as free and easy as a sword being unsheathed. You can even see the hot sweat exploding and blooming brilliantly under the golden sunlight. Then all the strength of the body is concentrated on the arm to complete the shot solidly.
Bang! The tennis ball turned from a diagonal line to a straight line, hitting Kerbert's court hard and heavily, and then jumped to the billboard at the baseline.
Bang.
The second muffled sound of the impact on the billboard exploded.
huff huff.
Culbert no longer had the strength to move sideways quickly again. The energy consumed by continuous attack and large-scale defense exposed his lack of continuous defensive ability. He had no prediction or tactics at all and could only rely on his legs to run in vain. He knew from a distance that he could not catch up.
Then, my steps stopped, and my mind was full of big question marks——
I was clearly the one who had the initiative in attacking, but how did I lose all the advantages in the blink of an eye? What went wrong with my attack?
He couldn't figure it out.
Even though he had gone through the whole process, he still couldn't figure out what was going on. Why couldn't he score on offense? Why couldn't he turn the situation around? "30:40".
Inexplicably, Kerber had to face the bad situation of break point again.
Although both Gawain's serve and Kerbert's serve ended in a 30:30 tie, the final results were the same, with Gawain winning the next point, then Kerbert getting into trouble, and then...the game was lost.
On the break point, Kerbert's pace still did not slow down. He seemed very impatient and could not wait to score the winning point in one shot.
However, when Gawain cut the ball back with a backspin, Kerbert failed to lower his center of gravity and hit the ball directly into the net, losing his serve again in a blink of an eye.
Damn! Damn! Damn! Kilbert could no longer hold back and smashed his racket to the ground, once! Twice! Three times! It was not until the racket was twisted and broken that the anger in Kilbert's chest subsided a little. With red eyes and heavy breath, he walked towards the sidelines to change the racket. He glanced out of the corner of his eye and found -
Gawain is watching a play.
He! Actually! Is! Watching a show!
It was difficult to see his expression clearly across the entire stadium, but Cobert always felt that Gawain should be laughing, mocking his embarrassment and stupidity.
Such thoughts almost made Kerbert's chest explode.
Culbert clenched his fists and could clearly hear the sound of bones crackling, as if Gawain was in his palms and he wanted to crush him directly.
However, the game was out of Kerbert's control.
Culbert is a typical player with good strength, tough style and high morale, but he is often stubborn and easily gets carried away and keeps rushing forward. Even if he hits a wall, he doesn't know how to change his tactics and keeps rushing forward, trying to break through the wall with brute force.
Sometimes, he can really succeed. Once he opens up the situation through strength, the game will enter his rhythm. He can kill gods and Buddhas. This also makes him more determined in his style of play. Even if it is a "wall", he can directly crash a hole in it, and he can do it while running.
But sometimes, he failed. His brute force style of play lacked tactical planning and was monotonous and boring. After his three-pronged attack was blocked, he was at a loss and gradually fell into the quagmire of mistakes. His game state became a mess and he easily lost points.
It can also be said that Kerbert is good at playing with the wind but not against it. His personality is one reason, but the more important reason is his lack of technical and tactical skills.
After losing two consecutive serve games at the beginning, Kerbert fell into a crisis of "0:3" and was in a very passive situation.
At this point, you either need to calm down completely and start from scratch with your feet on the ground. Even if you cannot make a comeback in the first set, you should prepare for the second set. Or your brain will become a mess, you will completely lose your rhythm, your touch and condition will plummet, and then... collapse.
Kerbert belongs to the latter.
Facing the dilemma of being far behind, Kerbert became obviously more impatient and more eager. He still hoped that he could suppress Gawain with his absolute strength, just like in a boxing match, knocking down his opponent with his iron fist. Therefore, he exerted more fiercely and attacked more eagerly.
During the game, Kobert continued to cheer himself up, vent his anger, and celebrate every offensive score with his fists, reminding himself over and over again, "That's the brown bear, that's the brown bear, that's the brown bear," constantly igniting his fighting spirit, hoping to turn the situation of the game around.
But a tennis match is a game of two sides, calculation and counter-calculation, control and counter-control. Every point and every shot is a confrontation between the two ends of the court.
Facing the fierce attack of Kerbert, Gawain was always able to accurately predict the hitting line and use high-quality defense to resolve Kerbert's impact, and then a defensive counterattack at an opportunity would make Kerbert's overwhelming attack become a useless effort.
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Although Cobert still played some good shots and the points from violent offense won applause from the audience, it was a pity that these good shots were not sustained. On the contrary, there were more and more mistakes. Because of his anxious mentality and the urgency to score points, the details of the entire offense lacked some support.
Often, a brilliant winning point is followed by three or four consecutive mistakes, and such a game falls into an endless vicious cycle.
A second ago, we were still trailing 0:3.
The next second, they lost the first set at 0:6.
The entire game went so fast that it seemed as if Gao Wen had just taken a breath when he showed his decisiveness and strength without mercy. He cleared the game in one go and won the first set in just 24 minutes.
What? Wait, what? Not only Kerbert, but even the audience didn't react.
We were waiting for a tit-for-tat fight, and this is the end? The end of our eager anticipation, is this?
Before they could even catch their breath, the first set was already cleared? Although the audience really wanted to curse, the problem was that the strong impact brought by such a one-sided score began to distract the audience's attention.
What they hoped to see was a fair fight, not a one-sided crushing massacre, which was too boring and uninteresting. They might as well bury their heads in their phones. Halfway through the game, the audience had already started to lose focus, and by the time the first set was over, they had no mood to get angry.
Perhaps the only exception is the fans of the Bruins.
Second update.
(End of this chapter)