Chapter 942: The battle of momentum
“40:40”.
Area 1.
One shot, inside corner.
Gao Wen, chose to suppress Djokovic's backhand.
However, a first serve at 192 kilometers per hour was not a difficult task for Djokovic, who could accurately predict the serving line. He hit a backhand diagonal shot from deep into the court, which suppressed Gawain and disrupted his pace before he could recover after serving, thus suppressing him from the forehand position.
Gao Wen was in a very sorry state.
Djokovic, aggressive——
Backhand, diagonal flat shot.
Backhand, straight blind spot.
For three consecutive shots, Djokovic showed incredible control and attack power in the backhand position, pressing step by step, his footsteps have directly entered the baseline, compressing the rhythm to grab the rising point to complete the shot, launching a torrential attack, one shot faster than the other, suddenly speeding up! This is Djokovic's ability.
Gao Wen, running all over the field.
However, in an extremely passive situation, Gao Wen also showed that his defensive state was fully recovering, and he controlled the ball for three consecutive returns.
A top! A stretch! Gao Wen even seized the opportunity and hit the ball with his forehand in the limited hitting space, using a straight line against a straight line, and sent the tennis ball back to Djokovic's backhand again.
Backhand, diagonal.
Djokovic launched a heavy attack, aiming at the gap in Gao Wen's backhand, and was ready to win the point directly.
but!
Gao Wen rode his horse to the scene.
Although it was a bit reluctant, the lightning-fast footsteps were still trying to catch up. Seeing that he was almost catching up, the hearts of the audience were rising high and almost about to explode.
Right at this moment.
Gao Wen raised his right hand high, still running, but he had already given up the shot and signaled to the referee:
"Hawkeye Challenge."
After making the gesture, Gao Wen turned to look at the linesman, with a hint of surprise in his eyes, as if saying.
Why was there no call for such an obvious out-of-bounds situation? The linesman stood there expressionlessly and very seriously, refusing to respond, his hands still clasped together, indicating that it was in-bounds.
Huh! exclaimed.
Ah! Cheers.
The audience in the stands didn't react in time. Some fans thought Djokovic had already scored and cheered impatiently. The extremely tense atmosphere began to boil.
"High, Hawkeye challenge, left sideline on the right side of the field."
The referee has accepted the request and made the announcement, asking the officials to broadcast the results of the Hawkeye challenge.
In the live broadcast room, Zhang Sheng and Wu Wensheng were both a little surprised.
"Gawain thought the ball was out of bounds and gave up on the shot. If the Hawkeye challenge fails, the point will be awarded directly to Djokovic."
"From the slow-motion replay, the camera angle was slightly blocked by Gawain's movement, so it was not clear. It was indeed a shot that seemed to be out of bounds, but we are not sure whether Gawain's position can be seen more clearly."
"For players, if they are not sure that the ball is out of bounds, they will not give up the opportunity to hit the ball. Gao Wen's eyes were very firm. He believed that it was indeed out of bounds."
“But it is undoubtedly a very risky challenge.”
There was some chaos at Rod Laver Arena.
But it lasted very shortly, and soon someone shouted "Novak" and then began to clap and high-five in unison to cheer for Djokovic.
Clap, clap, clap.
Bang, bang, bang! The cheers gradually rose and exploded, and the whole stadium roared, as if the player facing difficulties and danger at this moment was Djokovic.
The air started burning again.
At the scene, the Hawkeye system seemed to have a slight malfunction, and the buffering time was a bit long. After waiting for about ten seconds, just when the audience's patience was about to be exhausted, the big screen at the scene finally showed the result -
Slowly, slowly, replay in slow motion.
The entire audience was silent, staring with bated breath.
The tennis ball went off the sideline.
Out of bounds!
Strictly speaking, it was not a difference of a millimeter, but it was about half a ball out of bounds, which was quite obviously out of bounds. No wonder Gao Wen was so determined.
This also means that Gao Wen's challenge was successful, so this point belongs to Gao Wen.
"AD:40".
"oh……"
The Australian and Serbian audiences could hardly believe their eyes and all held their heads.
"incredible!"
“It’s unbelievable!”
"Gao Wen, in a passive situation of '0:40', gritted his teeth and rushed back four points, with an unparalleled performance, to get the game point of this round."
"It's not easy. It's really not easy."
In the live broadcast room, Zhang Sheng and Wu Wensheng were almost out of breath.
"Come on, Novak! Win this round!"
"Novak, go!"
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"Roar, roar, Novak."
The fans at the scene once again cheered for Djokovic, and the bustling shouts surged in different corners of Rod Laver Arena.
Because the audience couldn't wait to see Djokovic beat Corvin, because the audience realized that this game might be very important and Corvin's counterattack must be curbed, and because the audience simply didn't want to see Corvin recover and turn the game around again -
They can't bear it.
It took more than thirty seconds.
Looking around, fans can be seen shouting and yelling in every corner of the stadium, and the atmosphere is becoming more and more intense.
Gao Wen was a little helpless, but he didn't say much. This was not the first time that such a situation happened in Melbourne Park this year. He turned to the side, picked up a towel, wiped the sweat, calmed himself down a little, stayed focused, and tried to avoid being affected as much as possible.
No one expected that this move would actually cause the Australian audience to collectively climax——
It was as if he disliked Gawain for deliberately delaying the game.
"Siuuuu..."
Boos were heard everywhere.
Gao Wen's head was full of question marks.
Then, a shout came out from the audience again, "Cheater!"
This was a condemnation of Gawain's Eagle Eye Challenge just now.
They seemed to stubbornly believe that Gawain simply saw that he was about to fail to catch the ball, so he chose to challenge Hawkeye and try his luck. This was an unsportsmanlike behavior and must be condemned.
Before one wave subsides, another wave rises.
Then, someone in the audience pointed the finger at the referee, "Get out! If you can't officiate a match, don't sit here."
Then, "Cheater!" Someone in the audience also yelled at the referee.
reason?
The referee for tonight's final is the gold medal referee from the United States, Jake Garner, a senior gold medal referee with rich experience and an impressive resume.
He can be seen in everything from the Davis Cup to the Olympic finals to the Grand Slam finals, and this year's Australian Open is his fifteenth time as the referee of a Grand Slam final.
Interestingly, this is also the second time in a row that he has officiated at a Grand Slam final.
Yes, he also officiated the US Open final last year.
So? When the audience had opinions about the penalty, they naturally wondered if Ghana was biased towards Gawain? Of course, this was absolutely impossible. Apart from the ATP, no one knew who would be the referee for the final, and the referee selection for every Grand Slam final was very cautious and strict.
The ATP has a strict scoring mechanism and supervisory committee, which measures each referee's performance in all the matches he/she officiates in this Grand Slam event, and finally announces the referees on the day of the final. This also means that every referee who can officiate the final must be the referee with the best performance in this year's Grand Slam.
Behind-the-scenes operation?
Absolutely not possible.
However, in competitive sports, impulse destroys reason and emotions overwhelm order, then everything is possible, just like a fire that ignites a gas station.
That sentence immediately received a lot of responses, and the Australian audience's overwhelming boos and roars came down like a torrential rain.
The situation was somewhat out of control.
(End of this chapter)