Chapter 1504 Butterfly Wings
In a flash, Gawain's mind was filled with thoughts -
Since the new season, he has been trying to get rid of the fixed impression of his memories of his previous life, because his appearance has changed history. The butterfly effect is producing a series of chain reactions. People and things that were once familiar are changing, and the knocked-down dominoes are also changing the forward trajectory.
If you continue to make judgments based on your familiar impressions, you may be the one who suffers the backlash in the end.
From Melbourne to Indian Wells and Miami, from Monte Carlo to Paris, in just half a season, Gawain has slowly gotten into the state, started learning to live in the present, and accepted the reality that this is a parallel universe, and all the familiar things in the previous life have gone off track.
Not only his own destiny, but the destiny of others has also opened a new chapter. Everything is moving towards an unknown future.
But now, looking at Dimitrov in front of him, Gawain couldn't help but recall the familiar trajectory. Everything seemed to be repeating itself, and it was even worse.
In his previous life, Dimitrov's 2015 season was also a disaster.
After entering the grass court season, she first failed to defend her title at the Queen's Club in the second round, and then was unexpectedly eliminated in the third round of Wimbledon. After losing a huge amount of points, her world ranking plummeted out of the top 30.
After Wimbledon came to an end, Dimitrov first announced his breakup with Sharapova, and then parted ways with his meritorious coach Rashid and ended their cooperation.
It was a disaster, a complete disaster, but if you thought that the disaster ended here, you would be too young and naive. In fact, it was just the beginning.
After Wimbledon, Dimitrov slid further into the abyss of hell, floating in purgatory, and was eliminated early in all major and minor tournaments. He could still win the game, but it was difficult to sustain it.
For a long time, Dimitrov was unable to win more than three consecutive games, and his good form was like a power outage, intermittent.
Moreover, the number of first-round eliminations in different tournaments gradually increased. From the initial "unexpected upset" to the later "commonplace", Dimitrov's genius aura gradually faded, and he slowly withdrew from the top ranks, becoming a mediocre member of the tour, never to see the light again.
From 2015 to 2016, his best results in the Grand Slams were only at the beginning and the end of the two events, the 2015 Australian Open and the 2016 US Open, where he reached the fourth round respectively. All other events were eliminated in the first week. His terrible performance left him with no hope.
The world ranking even fell out of the top 50 at one point.
What's worse is that during this period, Dimitrov seemed to be lost in confusion and lost his judgment. He kept hiring unknown coaches and changed three coaches in two years. Not to mention the coaches' abilities, there was not even enough time for basic running-in.
Thus, we fall into a vicious cycle.
Although Dimitrov is indeed talented, his psychological softness and strict self-requirements have become shackles that restrict his free play.
To some extent, he is exactly the same as Federer in his youth, even his weaknesses are exactly the same.
Later, Federer met Mirka.
Although Mirka is arrogant, picky and difficult to deal with, no one can deny that Mirka is the missing piece of the puzzle for Federer.
Mirka gave up her unsuccessful professional tennis career for Federer and became the woman standing behind Federer. She not only tolerated him, enlightened him and encouraged him, but also became the most important spiritual pillar of Federer's team, helping Federer complete his final transformation.
Federer himself admitted that without Mirka, he would not be who he is today.
Unfortunately, Dimitrov did not have such good luck——
Or in other words, Dimitrov also met his own piece of the puzzle, Sharapova, and Dimitrov also proposed to Sharapova.
However, they were unable to continue supporting each other, and from here on, Dimitrov embarked on another path.
This trough lasted for two years and was not broken until 2017.
In 2017, Dimitrov first made it to the semi-finals at the Australian Open, marking a breakthrough; he then won his first Masters title in Cincinnati; and at the end of the year, he exploded, winning the year-end finals and the most important championship trophy in his career.
The timeline returns to the present moment——
Indeed, when Gawain, the butterfly, flapped its wings, history has slightly deviated from its track, and one miracle after another that had not happened is being staged.
However, it does not seem to be a good thing for Dimitrov.
The grass season has just begun, and Dimitrov has already parted ways with Rashid. Putting aside the importance of Rashid as a meritorious coach, this also means that in the face of great pressure to maintain points in the grass season, Dimitrov will fight alone without a coach.
In Gao Wen's opinion, a tennis coach is a special role.
In addition to collecting information, analyzing situations, and formulating tactics before the game, they also play a supporting role and become a spiritual pillar.
In this way, when players fight on the court, they can clearly know that they are not fighting alone.
But now, Dimitrov has no backup.
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Originally, Gawain was thinking that history had changed, and perhaps Dimitrov would not repeat the same mistakes. Perhaps he, the little butterfly, could bring more positive influence by flapping his wings hard. But why did it seem that things were getting worse and worse now?
Not good!
So, what should we do next? In fact, in Gao Wen's opinion, Dimitrov's ability has always been there. From talent to strength to ability, there is no problem. What is restricting his hands and feet is always the inner demon. As long as he can break through the inner demon, he can break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly. Regardless of whether Dimitrov can achieve Federer's achievements, from the performance of the 2017 year-end finals champion, we know that he has the ability to beat any player.
Including the Big Four.
However, the key point is that competitive sports are like this. While competing against your opponents, the most important thing is to compete against yourself.
If they cannot defeat their inner demons, if they cannot control themselves, if they cannot break through themselves, then they have already lost to themselves before they lose to their opponents.
No one else can help with this matter.
So, what should Gawain do?
It was not difficult for Gawain to just say a few words of comfort and encouragement, but he did not think that these words could provide Dimitrov with any substantial help.
After all, they all understand those principles; but the cruelest thing about life is that even if you are familiar with all the principles, you still cannot answer all the problems.
Many times, what they need is not a reason or an answer, perhaps just a belief, and that is enough.
(End of this chapter)