Chapter 361 Brain Game
The second set was a fresh start for Gawain. Kyrgios could continue his performance, but he would complete the layout quietly.
"40:40".
After saving a break point, Gao Wen changed the rhythm of the game again.
In the first point, Gawain chose a close forehand serve with an average speed. Sure enough, Kyrgios started with an unreasonable shot. Gawain had been prepared in advance. He took a step to his backhand position and used both hands to hit the rising point with a diagonal backhand shot.
The return ball pushed all of Kyrgios's strength back, and as a result, Kyrgios was unable to react in time and could only watch the tennis ball break through his forehand position and fly out.
Speed and calculation are the main magic weapons. In the previous point, the two players were cutting back and forth slowly, but now suddenly the speed and rhythm of the ball increased, and Gawain also grabbed a rising point, which Kyrgios was obviously caught off guard.
In the second point, Gawain very boldly attacked an inside corner, aiming at Kyrgios' forehand, and served with a very fast flat serve.
Kyrgios was so focused on his backhand that he completely misjudged the direction and was unable to touch the tennis ball.
ACE.
Gao Wen saved his first serve in the second set with his first ace of the match.
He was facing a break point crisis the moment before, but the next second he had already taken the lead, "1:0".
The development and changes of the whole situation were quite rapid, and the audience was a little confused and didn't understand what was going on.
On the court, Kyrgios tilted his head and thought about it, but couldn't notice anything unusual. He just missed a break point and his opponent held his serve.
But Kyrgios still doesn't like it, especially when playing against Gawain. He wants to see Gawain fail after struggling hard, just like turning a turtle over. Watching the turtle lying on its back, struggling desperately but to no avail, that is a pleasant thing.
So, in the next game, Kyrgios felt he needed to take a stand.
Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang.
Four aces, four consecutive points, "love-game", Kyrgios saved his serve in a blink of an eye, and then spread his arms near the baseline to imitate the shape of a gliding bomber, as if he had endless power to vent.
However, a tennis match is a competitive game, not a single-player game. The performances of both players are mutually restrained and influence each other, and it is not decided by one person.
Next, Gao Wen was not affected at all and easily held his serve.
Then, Kyrgios held serve and Gao Wen held serve.
Then, Kyrgios held serve and Gao Wen held serve.
In a blink of an eye, in just over twenty-five minutes, the score was already "4:3". The whole game progressed very quickly. Neither player saw break points again. They held serve against each other and progressed smoothly all the way. In particular, Gao Wen's serve holding had become more and more solid, and his control over his own serve was slowly becoming apparent.
But as the match entered the second half of the second set, the atmosphere changed slightly.
Kyrgios found the pace of the match a bit strange.
When he was exerting force, Gao Wen would change the rhythm by cutting one beat without warning; when he was cutting himself, Gao Wen would suddenly exert force and speed up.
Sometimes it was Kyrgios who made the first change, sometimes it was Gawain, and sometimes both players continued to change to disrupt the rhythm. The back-and-forth rounds of balls were rarely able to unfold solidly, and one player could always be seen making the first change.
Kyrgios felt that Gawain was deliberately trying to provoke him, so in the previous game, Kyrgios continued to speed up the game, using strength and speed to speed up the match, but he didn't expect that Gawain would directly use small balls in front of the net and high balls over the top to slow down the pace of the game again.
confusion.
That's the only adjective.
Originally, in most tennis matches, one side tends to attack while the other side tends to defend, which may be active or passive, and then the rhythm of the game can be felt between the transitions between offense and defense. But now it can't be felt at all, so the progress of the serve has become strange, and no one can break the deadlock.
In other words, both players were trying to break the other's deadlock, but this only led the game into another deadlock.
Kyrgios felt sick, but he didn’t know why, and he didn’t care.
He doesn't like to think about the game.
Tennis is so easy, you can win by just playing casually, why do you need to think about it?
Then, slowly, slowly, Kyrgios's focus began to wander.
When the score was "4:3", the first two points of Kyrgios' serve ended with inexplicable mistakes. Kyrgios didn't know why he missed the ball and was trapped in a "0:30" dilemma in a blink of an eye. However, at the critical moment, his serve was always able to save the situation and he recovered a point with an ACE.
"15:30".
Area 2, inner corner.
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Gawain made an accurate prediction and moved quickly sideways to the right, but Kyrgios' serve was heavy and fast, and Gawain only had time to push it for one shot. He had no control at all and didn't know whether he could get into Kyrgios' half of the court.
Gawain stumbled to adjust his steps and regain his defensive position, and then he found that Kyrgios had already jumped into the court on stilts, as if he had springs under his feet.
Gao Wen's return serve was basically a bad ball, with no rotation and no power.
Kyrgios moved forward quickly. He could have easily hit a half-court ball with his forehand, but he found that the ball bounced a little too high, so he simply jumped up on the spot and hit the ball from under his crotch.
This is obviously not the first time in this game, and it will definitely not be the last.
The tennis ball was pushed straight towards the deep baseline. It must be said that Kyrgios's touch was really excellent. With such a special batting posture, the tennis ball was still firmly pressed on the baseline and landed in the middle to the left.
Backhand.
Gawain took a look at Kyrgios's position and found that Kyrgios was already standing in front of the net with ease, leaving him with little space to break the net. So he slightly changed the angle of the racket face with both hands at the moment of racket release and made a light pull.
Overhead high ball.
Now Kyrgios was no longer surprised. He stepped on his Hot Wheels and rushed forward two steps quickly, successfully catching up with the tennis ball near the baseline. However, he had no time and space to turn around, so he simply turned his back to the court and gently hit the tennis ball under his crotch like performing a juggling act, trying to raise the arc as high as possible.
But the handling of this ball was obviously a bit sloppy. When Kyrgios turned around, you could see that Gawain had already reached the baseline and went to the net in the first place.
At this time, Gao Wen was already standing in front of the net, adjusting his position in small steps, watching the incoming ball, and preparing to complete a high pressure shot.
Kyrgios' return was high but not far, and the landing point should be within one step of the net. Gawain has taken complete initiative.
Without warning, Kyrgios shouted in the direction of Gawain's position, "Out of bounds!"
(End of this chapter)