Chapter 1640 Air condensation

Rain, disrupting the situation.

Unexpected, but not surprising. After all, this is Wimbledon. Gawain avoided the first rain disruption, but he couldn't avoid the second one.

After returning from the rain interruption, Murray immediately adjusted his tactics and state, and launched an attack on Gao Wen with full firepower. The whole playing style was very aggressive. From the rhythm to the line to the layout, every aspect showed the 2013 champion's understanding of the characteristics of grass.

Of course, Gao Wen is not a pushover either.

Being able to respond on the spot and seize opportunities are also Gawain's strengths. Although he was not able to adapt to the venue immediately, he still found a way.

In the first service game after the match resumed, Gao Wen withstood Murray's attack, saved a break point, and held his serve.

However! Murray immediately showed his ability as a giant, continuously speeding up and exerting pressure, firmly grasping the brief window when Gao Wen was unable to fully adapt to the drastic changes in the environment and rhythm, and cleverly using the gap in game experience to break the balance of the confrontation between the two sides, and achieved results.

He first saved his own serve, and then forced break points in Gao Wen's second serve. Although Gao Wen saved two with his outstanding performance, he was ultimately unable to save the third. He gave up his serve with a forehand pull that hit the baseline out of bounds, and fell into a difficult situation of falling behind.

——“6:4”.

With this break advantage, Murray won the first set.

A typical grass court game.

Everything happens too fast; moreover, the serve advantage is magnified, and a break will often decide the outcome of a set, especially in top-level duels.

Objectively speaking, Gawain's performance in the first set was not bad. After many games, he gradually found the feel of grass court games. His confrontation with Murray was even more back-and-forth. The two baseline masters showed many exciting rounds of offense and defense transitions, and were welcomed with waves of applause.

However, the lack of experience will eventually come at a price. Even if you are already a Grand Slam champion, you still have to start from scratch in grass court tournaments.

As the game progressed, both players got into the game, and the fierce head-on confrontation produced intense sparks.

Second set, seventh game, Murray serves.

Murray's physical strength fluctuated and he missed his first serve for a while. Gawain seized the opportunity and launched an attack when Murray's second serve came up, and the two sides started a fierce fight.

This game was extremely stalemate. Murray missed three game points but also saved three break points. Finally, on the fourth break point, Gawain hit a stunning backhand diagonal return shot, forcing Murray to slip and fail to complete the touch and break, ending the game that took eleven minutes.

Finally, also with this break, Gao Wen won the second set, "6:4", and tied the overall score.

The third set, the third game, Gao Wen serves.

In fact, both Gawain and Murray faced physical challenges, and the quality of both players' shots declined significantly, but this game was more difficult for Gawain.

After all, as the serving party, if the quality of the serve decreases due to physical problems, it means that the receiving party can start a fierce fight.

At this point, the difference in understanding of grassland characteristics is also reflected -

The skills and tactics are still those in the arsenal, but the key is to choose what weapon at what time and what method in what situation.

In the narrow head-to-head confrontation, Murray had a slight advantage. Although Gawain saved four break points, he still couldn't escape the fifth break point.

Murray showed flexible and varied ball return handling in passive defense, constantly hiding traps and creating difficulties, firmly restricting Gao Wen's attack, and finding a gap. He turned from defense to offense with one shot, relying on a forehand straight line to score the winning point, and finally cashed in the break point again.

At this point, Gawain could indeed feel that his understanding of the grass was still insufficient.

After entering the offensive mode, they fell into a blind spot vortex. Their offensive techniques, lines, landing points, rhythm and tactical combinations failed to bring out the characteristics of grass. When their physical strength declined and they were in crisis, they subconsciously returned to the hard court offensive routines and lacked changes in details.

On the contrary, Murray's passive defense showed his deep understanding of the court, and he relied on excellent defensive quality to limit the opponent.

In this point and this game, Murray really gave Gao Wen a good lesson on grass.

Gawain was not frustrated, because the game was not over, was it? However, Murray did not show any flaws. After facing the extreme physical difficulties, it was unbelievable that Murray's control over the game was even better.

The reason is very simple, it’s still the understanding of grass.

In the difficult situation of being at the extreme end of his physical strength, unable to rely purely on strength or speed to create confrontation, Murray was able to find more effective ways to handle the ball; Gawain's handling lacked novelty, and most of the time he subconsciously used hard court or clay methods to handle the ball, which was not the right medicine for the disease.

Of course, Gawain's method can also work and prevent the gap from widening, but Murray's method is more effective, so -

"6:4".

Murray won another set and took the lead again, 2:1.

In the first three sets, each match was decided by a break, and the two players' back-and-forth contest was still very close and tense.

It was completely in line with expectations, and it was indeed the match that people were most looking forward to and optimistic about after the draw was released.

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It is precisely because of this that after entering the fourth set, both players focused more on their own serving games to ensure that the game was not lost; but at the same time, with the decline in physical strength, mistakes inevitably increased, and they also faced more crises in their own serving games, making the situation even more tense.

Murray, who served first in the fourth set, made full use of the rules of the game and maintained his lead in the score, continuously putting pressure on Gao Wen again and again; but both players gritted their teeth and saved multiple break points respectively to hold their serve, and the game was stalemate all the way.

There were no breaks in the first ten games; and Murray, who had been leading the score, did not see a match point for the time being, and the situation was closer than in the previous three sets.

In the eleventh game, Murray saved a break point and held his serve, again extending the score to "6:5".

Next, Gawain had to face his second serve, which he had to defend. Once he was broken, the game would be over. In the last crisis, Gawain performed very calmly and excellently. He did not face any break points - that is, match points. He successfully defended his serve and kept close in the game.

Judging from all the signs, the fourth set will most likely go into a tiebreak.

However.

Murray, speed up.

Sudden enough and unexpected enough.

From any perspective, Murray should have speeded up in the front, which would have been very appropriate when the score was "4:3" or "5:4".

But Murray didn't, and his attention was always on his serve; now the score was 6:5, everyone thought that Murray would not launch an attack, but would save his energy and energy for the tiebreak, waiting for the tiebreak to end the game, but Murray launched an attack without warning.

then--

"15:30".

In Gawain's serve game, where he had no way out, Murray took the lead.

(End of this chapter)