Tommy Xavi took nearly two hours to finish his third round and instead of continuing at the Vodafone Stadium, he quickly returned to his accommodation and began to prepare for the next match. According to the Australian Open match schedule, the match between Xavi and Zhang Guan will be held in the second match the next morning.

Time was tight for Xavi, he only had one day to prepare, so he couldn't wait to find the footage of Zhang Guan's match against Nalbandian and watch it carefully.

"The right hand backslap, just like me! It seems that Zhang Guan's backhand is very strong, and he can almost hold it with Nalbandian's two-handed backhand, if I fight the backhand, I don't seem to have any advantage, so don't fight his backhand.

Xavi continued to look and saw Zhang Guan's serve on the net, and then saw Zhang Guan also choose to go to the net when he received the ball.

"This is the way of playing in front of the net, why do some young players still use the way of playing in front of the net! This style of play was the most popular when I was young, and isn't it basically eliminated now? If it's a player in his thirties, I can understand if he uses the front of the net, but Zhang Guan is not yet twenty-one years old, how can he use this style of play twenty years ago! Could it be that the level of tennis in Asia is still 20 years ago? ”

Harvey shook his head: "Impossible, there are also many excellent tennis players in Asian countries, Japan, Thailand, and South Korea all have players participating in Grand Slams, and China also has several people participating in women's singles and women's doubles, and Zhang Guan's girlfriend is still Sharapova, so it is impossible for Zhang Guan not to know that the playing style in front of the net has already been eliminated." So is Zhang Guan deliberately learning this way of playing in front of the net? ”

Thinking of this, Harvey suddenly laughed: "Interesting, with the most practical bottom-line play now, I don't learn, but I go to learn the net play style that has been eliminated by the times, this game is really impressive!" ”

Twenty years ago, there were many reasons why playing in front of the net was very popular. The first is the tennis equipment. The racket materials of that era were different from those of today, so even Federer or Nadal, who were at their peak, could not have played that kind of high-intensity spin. With the advancement of science and technology, the materials and production processes of rackets and tennis balls have been greatly improved, which has reduced the difficulty of baseline play a lot.

The second is the reason for the site, the plastic materials of the hard ground have made great progress with the development of science and technology, and the elasticity is getting better and better; Grass varieties suitable for tennis have also been cultivated in the grass courts; Even in the laterite field, the application of composite materials makes the construction of the drainage system of the site easier, and the laterite paving is much harder than before.

In addition, coupled with the continuous development and progress of tennis technology, the high requirements of the players themselves in the front of the net, etc., finally made the front of the net play gradually eliminated by the times. The bottom-line rule of play is starting to catch up.

Players of Xavi's age group, they learned tennis when it was the era of Sampras, and the style of play in front of the net was the mainstream, and they also had a certain understanding of how to play in front of the net. So Xavi quickly developed a set of tactics for himself to deal with Zhang Guan's playing style in front of the net.

"Nalbandian's return ball spin is relatively average, so it will be difficult to face opponents who play in front of the net. My backhand is not as strong as Nalbandian's, but my spinning ball is still better than Nalbandian's. In tomorrow's game, you have to strengthen the spin of the ball, and you have to pay attention to the arc of the ball, and don't give him the opportunity to go online easily. ”

"Something else. Young players tend to be more accustomed to playing good games, especially for novice tennis players, who are not playing well enough, and patience and toughness are definitely lacking, so I need to keep the game longer. The longer the game, the better it should be for me. ”

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On the eighth match day of the Australian Open, still at the Vodafone Stadium, Zhang Guan ushered in his opponent in the fourth round. The tournament's No. 12 seed, Germany's Tommy Haas.

The match between Zhang Guan and Haas was scheduled for the second match, and the first match of the day at Vodafone Stadium was the women's singles Chakvitadze vs. Schneider. The game was fast, and it took just over 70 minutes for Chakvetadze to win 2-0 against Schneider.

Next up is the battle between Zhang Guan and Haas, which is also seen as the highlight of today's Vodafone Stadium.

As a wild card player, Zhang Guan was able to successfully reach the fourth round of the men's singles when he participated in a professional tennis tournament for the first time, which can be said to be the biggest dark horse of this Australian Open. People often have two attitudes towards dark horse players, one is that they feel that dark horse players will be eliminated immediately, and the other is that they hope that dark horse players will be black to the end.

Among the fans at Vodafone Stadium today, the latter was clearly more numerous, and when Zhang Guan walked out of the players' tunnel, he received applause and cheers that were no weaker than Haas's.

"My familiar applause and cheers are back! Competitive sports, that's how realistic it is! Zhang Guan sighed with emotion in his heart. Six days ago, when he first appeared on the court as a tennis professional, he was booed and he was a "public enemy of the world", and after six days, Zhang Guan has conquered the crowd with three victories, and he has been able to enjoy the treatment of a seeded player in this court.

After a short warm-up between the two sides, the match began, with Zhang Guan serving first.

Zhang Guan looked at Haas's position and felt that it would be better for this ball to attack Haas's forehand, so he aimed the ball at the position of Haas's forehand sideline.

And Haas is also watching Zhang Guan's serve.

"Will it be a serve? It could also be a strong flat serve! After all, this is the first ball of the game, Zhang Guan can fight it, and it should be more likely to use a flat serve. Haas thought silently

Throwing the ball, swinging the racket, hitting the ball, Zhang Guan directly used the flat serve. The tennis ball flew out with a "whoosh".

"It's so fast!" Although Haas learned that Zhang Guan was a "heavy gunner" in the video of the game, and he had been prepared, he still couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he really met him in the game.

At the same time, Haas was about to catch the ball, but just as he was about to move, Haas realized that the ball was about to fall out of bounds.

"This ball is going to go out of bounds, and sure enough, as I expected, Zhang Guan should be ready to put pressure on me at the beginning, so the choice of the landing point of this ball is more extreme." Haas just shook his body and didn't pick up the ball.

The next moment, the ball bounced on the ground and bounced out, but Haas felt as if the ball was a little bit of a line.

"It seems to be pressed, and it seems that there is no pressing, is there a pressing? The ball was too fast to see. Haas hesitated, and he set his sights on the line referee, waiting for the referee's decision.

“OUT！” The line referee has already shouted.

"Whew!" Haas let out a sigh of relief, and the ball was a throw-in as he had judged.

However, Zhang Guan raised his hand at this time and said to the referee: "I want to challenge!" (To be continued.) )

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