Match point

Chapter 1189 Different Understandings
"yeah!"

Gao Wen raised his hands high and cheered, with a bright smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he won the French Open championship with the point just now.

Pure and sincere, can deeply feel the joy and happiness from the heart.

Even so, Nadal on the opposite side of the court also showed a smile, gave Gao Wen a thumbs up, and expressed his praise again. This point is indeed wonderful.

On the sidelines of the court, Uncle Tony and Roig exchanged glances, mixed with surprise, and then both of them gave Gao Wen applause.

With two consecutive points, Gao Wen really played his own style, changing in the strong confrontation, cleverly using the characteristics of the clay court to create opportunities.

On the whole, Gao Wen is still in a transitional period. He has not been able to completely get rid of the habit of hard courts, nor has he been able to fully adapt to the characteristics of clay courts. It is not only basic skills such as movement and hitting, but also tactical layout and shot selection. You can also see the brand of "hard court player".

At this moment, one can see Gao Wen's youthfulness and lack of competition experience——

On the clay court, it still looks unfamiliar and unaccustomed, especially because there is no experience of switching mid-season before, everything seems to be in a mess.

He needs more time, switching from hard court mode to clay court mode, and rebuilding his game, even the way of thinking needs to be adjusted.

Until today, they were finally able to be [-]% sure that Gao Wen was indeed a freshman in the professional circuit, and all of this could not be faked.

But just under such circumstances, I have to admit that Gao Wen once again showed his tennis wisdom, fully found the most suitable and appropriate way in his current situation and arsenal, improved his competitiveness, continued the confrontation, and Try to find a way to turn things around.

rare!

Really rare!
Why did Courier and Agassi, two players from the North American training system, break through the shackles and reach the top of the French Open?
Is it because their style of play is suitable for clay?
of course not.

But because of tennis intelligence, they are players who are good at thinking and good at adjusting, finding ways to play their strengths on surfaces that they are not good at.

From ancient times to the present, it has never been an easy task to be able to contribute wonderful performances on different venues, from hard courts to clay courts to grass courts.

It is precisely because of this that Rod Laver completed the feat of the annual Grand Slam in 1969, but it was considered a feat that was difficult to replicate-in those days, all the four Grand Slam events were grass events, which also means , the annual Grand Slam does not need to switch venues, just need to ensure the status.

At the same time, Agassi and later Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic received countless praises when they completed the grand slam feat. The early days of the tournament were very different.

In 2017, someone once made a statistics:
Among the active players, who are the players who can reach the top and win the championship across three different venues: hard court, clay court and grass court?
Here, there is no limit to the scale of the event, as long as it is an ATP-level event, it can be included in the statistics, but the statistical results show that the number is far lower than imagined.

The Big Four, of course, are all included.

In addition, plus Fei - Lopez, Kohlschreiber, Seppi, Isner, Gasquet, Querrey, Agut, Cilic, Dimitrov, Tee Mu, Pui, that's all.

15 people in total.

In other words, even including the ATP 250-point event champion, but only the above-mentioned 15 active players can do this.

The new generation of French "post-90s" player Lucas Puy is the last player to accomplish such a feat.

It stands to reason that the differences between different venues are narrowing. At the same time, the playing styles of players on different venues are becoming more and more similar. In addition, after 2017, the "post-95s" have risen in an all-round way, spanning three venues The feat of winning the championship should be gradually reduced in difficulty.

however……

not at all.

From 2017 to 2022, for a full five years, this list still stays at the "15 people" position without any changes.

It wasn't until the Mallorca Open in June 2022 that Sisipas won the championship and completed the last piece of the grass championship. He became the only player to win the championship on different venues in five years.

Among other young players, Zverev Jr., Rublev, Monfils, Kei Nishikori, Schwarzman, Busta, etc., all lack grass champions; Medvedev, Fritz, etc. etc. lack clay champions; Coric, Berrettini, etc. lack hard court champions.

As for other young players not mentioned, there may be more than one venue type champion missing.

This seemed meaningful.

Professionals keep emphasizing that the new generation has not been able to rise, mainly because the Big Four are too strong, even if the pattern changes later——

First, Murray almost retired due to injury, so that the "Big Four" became the "Big Three", and then both Federer and Nadal were often on and off due to injuries, so that the ATP became a group of heroes to siege Djokovic It is a strange situation, but a giant is a giant, and deterrence still exists objectively.

However, is this really the case?

In fact, with the advancement of time, including Djokovic, the number of entries has decreased rapidly, the schedule has been streamlined, and the Grand Slam has been developed. Even the Masters will occasionally be absent. The competitive landscape of the points race is completely open.

Despite this, the younger generation of players still has not been able to grow up quickly to establish their own dominance.

From the "post-90s" to the "post-95s", there are only four players who can win championships on different venues, Dimitrov, Tim, Puy and Tsitsipas.

This phenomenon deserves careful consideration.

His eyes returned to Gao Wen.

Objectively speaking, the grass court season has not yet started, and the clay court season has just arrived. Gao Wen has not played an official match, but only a training match. Therefore, whether Gao Wen can continue his strong performance across the three different venues, and even reach the top Winning the championship is still an unknown.

However, unlike those "brainless bragging" media, they have now seen Gao Wen's training match, and saw Gao Wen's tennis wisdom——

In less than four days, it can be seen from the movement of Gao Wen's footsteps that Gao Wen is still very jerky and still has a lot to learn; however, on the tactical level, Gao Wen has gradually figured out his own clay style. Little by little adjustments from the hard-court tactical framework.

For this, Roeg appreciates it deeply.

So far, there are countless praises surrounding Gao Wen, and there are many types. Gao Wen's tactical layout and game wisdom have also received countless recognitions.

However, switching venues is another matter. Even Murray, the "tactical master", has no obvious difference in playing styles on different venues, but Federer and Nadal, two "retro-style" players, often Make adjustments to your style of play and tactics according to different venues.

Gao Wen was more like the latter, and this was the fundamental reason why Roig looked at Gao Wen with new admiration again.

(End of this chapter)