Chapter 355: Unreasonable
Question: How long does it take to truly experience Kyrgios's talent for tennis impact?
Answer: One game.
At the end of last year, when Gao Wen faced Kyrgios, he scored five points in a row and shut out Kyrgios. This was largely due to Kyrgios's underestimation of his opponent. After losing points in succession, he tried to concentrate again, but Kyrgios's hot temper became an obstacle and he lost points in a hurry.
When they met again, all the old and new hatreds came to mind. Not only was Kyrgios' revenge, but also his good friend Kokkinakis's humiliation last month. Obviously, Kyrgios was waiting for this opportunity.
After Gawain defeated Isner in the first round, Kyrgios realized that they might meet in the third round, and he began to look forward to this encounter eagerly. So in the last round against Seppi, Kyrgios played more and more vigorously, killing with red eyes, just to meet Gawain in the third round.
The opportunity he had been waiting for finally came. Kyrgios quickly got into the game from the start and was very enthusiastic.
In the first game, Kyrgios serves.
First of all, Kyrgios is a master of serving. His serving action is concise, powerful, and most importantly, full of instantaneous explosive power.
The slightly different thing about Kyrgios from Isner is that in terms of absolute strength and stability, Kyrgios is slightly inferior, so Isner is more inclined to suppress his opponent with the absolute advantage of strength and speed, while Kyrgios enjoys the playful feeling of "cat playing with mouse" more, with more changes in serve angles and rotations, and dares to increase the angle.
Moreover, Kyrgios's second serve is also very fierce, even heavier and with more spin than most players' first serve. If he wants to make a breakthrough from the second serve, he may need to think about it carefully.
This is also the reason why Kyrgios chose to serve first without hesitation after the coin toss. He hoped to suppress Gawain's momentum with his serve and attack.
Secondly, Kyrgios' forehand is a bent-arm topspin, which means that he uses force to pull the topspin ball while bending his arms. It is very similar to Nadal, Roddick and others. His return ball is very spinning and aggressive, and he is very good at creating angles.
In addition, his forehand has an explosive shot, which has no rotation but is a pure flat shot. It is very sudden and impactful. Like Del Potro, he has the ability to absolutely suppress. On the grass court, he can further weaken the rotation, making the return ball low and flat.
This forehand shot was enough to give him the upper hand against the Big Four, so his first appearance was when he unexpectedly defeated Nadal on the grass at Wimbledon.
Obviously, Kyrgios wanted to give Gawain a warning, firstly to wash away the injustice of being shut out, and secondly to set the tone for the game.
Therefore, in the first game, Kyrgios was already firing on all cylinders. Facing the Saint Seiya version of Kyrgios with "small universe exploding", Gawain was a little uncomfortable with it.
In the first three points, Kyrgios' serve was very strong, with an ace, a direct serve, and a serve that caused Gawain to return a high ball and Kyrgios immediately followed up with a volley to score the winning point. Gawain only touched the ball twice in total, and the score was already "40:0".
It was not until the fourth point that Gawain finally hit a two-handed backhand backhand, and the return ball landed quite deep, suppressing Kyrgios's position, but how did Kyrgios deal with it?
There was no big swinging movement, and the whole standing posture was particularly awkward. The upper arms were not placed beside the body, and the forearms were twisted in front of the body to hit the ball. He relied entirely on the instantaneous increase and explosive power of the forearm and wrist to hit the tennis ball back unreasonably.
He attacked even though there was no opportunity.
Diagonal line, diagonal.
Gawain had already guessed the return line and stood on his forehand position. However, Kyrgios's explosive shot showed his speed and power to the fullest, and it shot out like a flash of lightning. Gawain just made a swing but failed to touch the tennis ball at all, and the swing was in vain.
Speed, absolute suppression of absolute advantage.
Moreover, Kyrgios was in such an awkward and passive waiting situation. If it were other players, they would often just barely bounce the ball back, and even if they tried to attack from a rising point, they would not be able to complete the force, and would mostly rely on the opponent's force; but Kyrgios completed the force attack.
When the speed of the winning point was displayed, there was an exclamation in the commentary booth in the media center.
127 miles (205 km).
This is already as fast as a shot. No wonder Gao Wen guessed the direction correctly but still swung the shot in the air.
Such an unreasonable and domineering forehand is Kyrgios's talent, even when his body cannot balance the force.
"roar!"
Kyrgios bared his teeth and growled at Gawain, then grinned again.
"hey-hey."
As if laughing at Gawain's embarrassment——
At that time, Gawain gave Kyrgios a "5:0", and now Kyrgios returned a "love-game", which can be regarded as a small venting of anger, and once again proved that the charity exhibition match was just an accident. If Kyrgios really took it seriously, he really had never been afraid of any player.
Then?
Then Kyrgios skipped back to the baseline with a brisk pace, as if he had already touched victory... No, no, no, that's not quite accurate, because humiliating Gawain is more important than winning, and that's the case at this moment. Every movement of his body seemed to be provoking and mocking Gawain's bottom line.
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But Gao Wen was not surprised at all.
This is Kyrgios' ability. His talent has been said over and over again by countless experts and countless players. "If he can focus on tennis wholeheartedly and regain his attention and concentration, he can achieve incredible achievements", but the premise is "if" is true.
As long as Kyrgios wants to, he can hit the ball unreasonably and he can easily change the situation.
This was just a normal operation for Kyrgios. Gawain was not surprised at all, nor was he afraid or panicked. He turned around and calmed down.
So, how should Gawain's own serve proceed? However, it was clear that Kyrgios's "raging anger" had not yet been vented. He was determined to humiliate Gawain severely in the early stages of the match to wash away his experience in the charity exhibition match, so he was particularly active from the first point, leaving Gawain no room to breathe.
The unreasonable force, the unbridled hitting, the overwhelming power, the lightning-fast speed, the quality of the entire hitting was like a raging wave, which came at you layer by layer, leaving Gawain no breathing time or room to maneuver, and he controlled the opening with absolute strength.
This should be the most embarrassing game for Gao Wen since he faced the all-out fight of Webber in the U.S. Championship.
But the problem is that the return ball that Webber needs to fight for is as easy as drinking water and eating for Kyrgios. He can also hit more return balls to tease Gawain. His easeful performance turned the Arthur Ashe Stadium into his own performance stage.
“3:0”.
In less than six minutes, Kyrgios was already well ahead in the first set.
(End of this chapter)