Chapter 464: Small fluctuations

Match point, first serve, goes into the net.

Wow! The whole audience burst into applause, cheers, shouts, and whistles. The audience couldn't wait to celebrate Gao Wen's first error.

Roar, roar, roar! Ahhhh! The overwhelming sound completely swallowed up the referee's repeated requests for "quiet", and the entire Arthur Ashe Stadium fell into a frenzy.

Gao Wen had to stand up straight again in preparation for serving, showing a bit of helplessness, then pursed his lips and started to juggle the ball with his left hand, like a juggler, waiting for the noise to die down. This action also made the American audience, who had a deep sense of entertainment, laugh.

Finally the noise stopped, and Gao Wen had to hit the ball again and readjust to complete the second serve.

Toss the ball! Push off the ground! Turn! Swing! Facing match point, Gawain chose an outside corner, aiming at Djokovic's forehand, and consciously increased the rotation to create an outspin effect.

but!

Djokovic successfully predicted the ball in advance, and threw his body out with a step and a push off the ground. He completed a quick whip-like forehand and used the strength of his arms and wrists to quickly push the tennis ball back.

Fast and heavy, thin and biased.

Djokovic directly sent back a small diagonal effect. Gao Wen only had time to move a small step to the right before he realized it was too late.

Return serve ACE!

"40:30".

Ahhh! The whole place was thundering!

The overwhelming cheers released energy like a volcanic eruption, and the golden sunlight in the entire venue exploded and rushed towards Gawain with its fangs and claws bared.

Gawain shook his head slightly. His second serve was still a little conservative, and the outside corner was not completely opened, and then Djokovic caught it. At the match point in the Grand Slam semi-final, his mentality inevitably fluctuated a little, but in fact, compared with the joy of advancing to the next round, it was more the thought of defeating Djokovic that shook his nerves.

Calm down. Calm down. Calm down.

Turning around, with his back to Djokovic, Gawain took a deep breath and calmed himself down. The closer he got to match point, the more he needed to keep calm. Otherwise, any slight deviation could lead to an imbalance in his mentality, and then the game would be completely overturned and become another one.

Especially against a top player like Djokovic——

Don't be conservative. Don't be nervous. Don't be conservative. Don't be nervous.

Gao Wen secretly reminded himself that he had relied on his own active efforts to win the entire game today, so he should also be able to complete the final moment.

He needs to take the game into his own hands! Then, he turns around, walks to the baseline, and prepares to serve.

One shot, it was too long and out of bounds.

Wow! Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Arthur Ashe Stadium has gone crazy. The bubbling and boiling magma is gushing out continuously. The game has truly come to a life-and-death moment.

"Obviously, Gao Wen is also feeling the pressure."

"It was the second time in a row that I missed a first serve, and the second serve just now was directly won by Djokovic. This kind of pressure is really unimaginable, but Gao Wen needs to stay calm now. He can't think about winning for the time being, but needs to focus on this point."

Hu Litao couldn't help but swallow his saliva. He said that Gao Wen needed to stay calm, but he himself was so nervous that he could hardly breathe.

Match point is like this. If you seize it, everything is over. But if you miss it, you will start to panic. If you miss it more and more times, you will slowly start to doubt yourself, to the point that you don’t know how to play at all. Many games are reversed like this.

Hu Litao couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his palms on his thighs.

The audience must have thought the same. In the previous point, Djokovic caught a second serve ace. This time, Gao Wen must be under greater pressure. Maybe Djokovic would just copy and paste? Snap. Snap. Snap.

The overwhelming shouts from the audience finally stopped, and then fell into a dead silence, as if all 25,000 spectators in the venue were holding their breath, with only the sound of Gawain hitting the ball echoing.

Snap. Snap. Snap.

Gawain bounced the ball a little too long, as if he had been infected by Djokovic, so that the suffocatingly tense atmosphere spread across his skin, and goose bumps began to appear.

Then, Gawain finally stopped bouncing the ball—

Throw the ball! Push off the ground! Turn! Swing the racket! Hit the ball!

boom.

The tennis ball flew up, not only without any deceleration or insurance, but also riskily copied a first serve -

What? Gao Wen used this ball as a first serve. On the second match point, he risked two serve errors and double faults to fight for a second serve! This, this is too bold! All the spectators held their breath at the same time, and even swallowed their exclamations, shocked by the unexpected thing in front of them.

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Ding! The speedometer in the corner of the court showed that the speed of Gawain's serve was 120 miles per hour (194 kilometers per hour), which was even faster than the average speed of the third and fourth sets. It was obvious at a glance that Gawain had fought hard to hit a flat serve at such a critical moment! Crazy.

So, what about the angle?

Close range and forehand pressure.

It was obvious that Djokovic had just returned a winning point with his forehand in the previous point, but now Gawain actually challenged Djokovic's forehand for the second time in a row, only making a slight change. Such a choice, such a strategy, and such tactics made all the spectators who were watching the game at this moment stunned.

I never expected it.

Djokovic also did not expect that this should be a second serve with reduced force and speed, but as soon as Gawain finished serving, the tennis ball had already jumped in front of his nose. The whole speed and rhythm broke his expectations, and even Djokovic was caught off guard.

Leaning back, the upper body reacts reflexively to make room. It is too late to swing the racket for the forehand, so the only way to generate power is by swinging the forearm quickly.

Bang! The tennis ball hit the racket.

Not to mention the third and fourth sets, in fact, throughout the game, Gawain's serve speed was mostly maintained in the range of 111 miles (180 kilometers) to 118 miles (190 kilometers), mainly relying on control. The sudden speed increase at this moment made Djokovic's response seem a little flustered and unfamiliar.

But Djokovic is still Djokovic. In a flash, he used the strength of his wrist and arm to push the tennis ball back easily.

However, Djokovic did not act hastily and launch a counterattack immediately. Instead, he pushed the tennis ball to a deep middle area, which to some extent restricted Gawain's next offensive connection. As long as the two sides can form a stalemate, the game can be launched. In the case of being caught off guard, this is already Djokovic's best response method.

Whoosh! The next second, the tennis ball had already drawn a light parabola across the sky. The blue and gold intertwined sky outlined a lazy arc. After crossing the net, it quickly fell and crashed into the deep area of ​​the baseline. The naked eye could still see the violent rotation, like a propeller rushing towards you.

Rush! Jump! Turn! The huge pressure from the entire ball rushed towards Gawain head-on at ten times the speed.

(End of this chapter)