After Zhang Guan played in front of the net, Nalbandian lost his serve.

Nalbandian felt a little depressed, he took a sip of water, quickly calmed down, and began to think about countermeasures.

"Although the online style of play is very threatening, the probability of mistakes is also much greater, so I have to play more actively, more pressing, and force Zhang Guan to make mistakes. Just like with Karlovich! Nalbandian quickly developed a new tactical strategy.

Karlovic is the tallest player in the ATP history to reach the top 100 at 2.08m, and he is a Croatian with a career high of 14th, although he has only reached the quarter-finals at most in Grand Slam matches, with the vast majority of others being first-rounders. It is worth mentioning that today, when everyone is using the bottom-line style of play, Karlovic still insists on using the front of the net play, and he can be regarded as the heir of the front of the net.

Nalbandian turned professional tennis in 2000, and by the time he was able to step onto the stage, top tennis players such as Sampilas and Ivanisevic had retired, so the strongest tennis player Nalbandian has ever faced is Karlovic.

Also as a player in front of the net, the gap between Karlovic and the ball king Sampras is really a world of difference, Kalovic is only a Grand Slam first-round player, while Sampras is the king of fourteen Grand Slams, the two can be said to be completely incomparable.

As the world's No. 1 flyer, Zhang Guan's movement ability is originally better than Sampras, and Zhang Guan has learned Sampras's experience book, so it can be said that the current Zhang Guan is a Sampras who moves a little faster. Nalbandian used his experience against Karlovic to deal with Zhang Guan, and the results can be imagined.

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"Zhang Guan went online, a beautiful volley in front of the net!"

"Catch the ball in front of the net, play the opposite corner, Nalbandian's goal is back! High pressure balls. Pretty! Zhang Guan's ball is so beautiful! ”

Zhang Guanfa ...... Go straight to the Internet! Inside! The ball is not out of bounds! It's just pressed on the line. There is no problem with the referee's decision! ”

Surfing, surfing, and surfing the Internet, this has become the main theme of this game.

Zhang Guan almost every ball must be on the net, although not every ball can be successful, but in terms of the overall success rate, it is still good, which is also reflected in the score, the final score of the first set is 6-3, Nalbandian is obviously extremely unsuitable for Zhang Guan's net play, in addition to the success of the first game, the other two games are won by relying on Zhang Guan's net hitting mistakes.

Nalbandian sat in a chair on the sidelines. Silently calculated the success rate of Zhang Guan's netting, in Zhang Guan's service game, his serve net almost rarely failed, and the occasional failure or two failures will not affect the final result. In Nalbandian's service game, Zhang Guan's net success rate can reach about 50%, and if you count the chance of Nalbandian's own unforced errors, Zhang Guan's chance of completing the break is definitely greater than 50%.

"How can there be such a high success rate in this world! This is not scientific and unreasonable. Sampras, the football king of the year, thinks it's nothing more than that! It must be that the oppression I gave Zhang Guan was not enough. Therefore, Zhang Guan can have a relatively high success rate of surfing the Internet. So I have to continue to put pressure on Zhang Guan, and the ball has to spin more so that I can force him to make mistakes. "Nalbandian has a strategy in mind for the next set.

In theory, Nalbandian's strategy was completely correct. The power of playing in front of the net is that it occupies the initiative on the court and can give the enemy a fatal blow, and the disadvantage of playing in front of the net is also obvious, that is, the probability of mistakes is too high.

Twenty years ago. It was also the era of Sampras, the king of the ball, and the style of play in front of the net was very popular, and the style of play in front of the net in that era was not only about serving the ball to the net. It's about going to the net no matter what the ball is. The first send should be online, and the second issue should also be online; The grass should be online, the hard ground should be online, and even the red land that is not suitable for playing in front of the net should also be online. Because of this, Sampras is the only one who has no French Open champion in his 14 Grand Slams, because the French Open is a red land, which is not suitable for playing in front of the net at all.

Now, the way of playing in front of the net has been gradually eliminated, a small part of the reason is because of the development of tennis equipment and courts driven by technology, and more importantly, the players led by Federer began to pursue spin, whether it is Federer's baseline offensive play, or Nadal's bottom-line defensive play, all of them are high rotation and high pressure play, which makes the players greatly increase the probability of mistakes when surfing the net, and the players gradually find that the bottom line is more stable and easier to master. In the end, everyone's playing style evolved into a variety of draws on the bottom line.

The high-speed spinning ball is indeed very restrained from the opponent's net, just like Zhang Guan's last game against Grosjean, the "Nadal turn" directly blinded Grosjan, making Grosjean's serve useless. And in today's game, Nalbandian made the same choice.

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The second set began, and Nalbandian strengthened the spin of the ball, playing more aggressively, and sometimes he even gave up his best two-handed backhand and returned the ball with a forehand to give the tennis ball a stronger spin.

But the effect achieved by Nalbandian is very average, Nalbandian's style of play is originally steady, and what he is best at is the accuracy of the hitting point, whether it is a forehand or a backhand, Nalbandian can be said to refer to where to play, this style of play is originally by mobilizing the opponent to run back and forth to score. As for spinning, it's clearly not what Nalbandian is good at.

Dozens of minutes later, Nalbandian gasped and looked at the scoreboard, and the score of 6-2 was worse than the first set.

"I underestimate Zhang Guan too much, his skills in front of the net are absolutely the best in the world! Every volley in front of the net is to hit my dead end, the force is very accurate, and the landing point is just a position that I can't catch! There is also the timing of surfing, which in my opinion is a very bad timing to surf the Internet, but he will still choose to surf the Internet very decisively! In addition, the handling of the ball, the experience is extremely sophisticated, compared with Zhang Guan, Karlovich's forward style of play is simply too pediatric! ”

"What a damn way of playing in front of the net! Now athletes all over the world are using the baseline style of play, why did a Zhang Guan who used the front of the net style of play suddenly appear, and he was encountered by me, this style of play is too restrained my backhand. I can't play Nadal's kind of spin, how can I deal with Zhang Guan's play in front of the net? ”

Nalbandi couldn't help but feel anxious, and at the same time, he felt a faint pain in his hip.

"It's a little painful, is it an old injury?" There was a hint of worry in Nalbandian's eyes.

In the semi-finals of last year's French Open, Nalbandian withdrew from the tournament with a sudden injury while leading Federer, and since then, a hip injury has accompanied Nalbandian's career, and it is because of the injury that Nalbandian's form has been sluggish in the second half of the 2006 season, and then had to undergo surgery in 2009.

The biggest fear of professional athletes is injury, and sometimes injuries bring to athletes not only physically, but also psychologically.

At this time, Nalbandian had been worried about whether his old injury would return, and as a result, he was out of form in the third set, and finally lost the third set again with a score of 6-2, and also lost this match.

In the third round of the Australian Open, Zhang Guan defeated the tournament's No. 8 seed David Nalbandian 3-0. (To be continued.) )

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