Match point

Chapter 1313 All-round attention
Balanced, average, stable, this is the intuitive feeling of the 2015 French Open men's singles draw.

First, the distribution of highlight players in the four divisions is balanced.

Secondly, the promotion routes of the top eighth seed players in the first four rounds are relatively balanced. No player is particularly easy, but no player is particularly difficult.

Thanks to this, the distribution of the draws in the first three rounds is particularly balanced. Leaving aside the top eight seeds, there are many matchups worthy of attention:
In other words, blue-collar players or rising stars with similar strengths may meet first, and after winning, they will be able to win the opportunity to challenge the top eight seeds in the fourth round, which largely avoids shocking upsets and ensures the first three rounds. Wonderful game.

To be precise, there were many focus matches in the first round alone.

"Coric VS Querrey", "Pospisil VS Sosa", "Istomin VS Kyrgios", "Goffin VS Krajinovic".

"Sepi VS Isner", "Johnson VS Gar-Lopez", "Karlovic VS Baghdatis".

Etc., etc.

These games, all of which will be staged in the first round, and evenly distributed in different positions in the four divisions, are definitely exciting.

In addition, "Dimitrov VS Sock", this is also a focus duel.

For Dimitrov, this year's signing was not good, and it was very, very tough. They met Sock in the first round, which was a tough one. Not long ago, they met in the doubles final in Monte Carlo. But at Roland Garros, the singles meet again and everything is new.

If he can win, Dimitrov is very likely to encounter the young Spanish player Busta in the second round, and will continue to encounter the impact of the new generation of players.

At the beginning of the year, Gao Wen encountered a youth storm in Melbourne; this time when he came to Paris, it was Dimitrov's turn, and every game was tough.

However, the most noteworthy focus of the first round is the French Civil War:
"Puy VS Mahu".

It is still the confrontation between the Cenozoic and the Mesozoic. Judging from this year's clay court season, the Mesozoic has risen in an all-round way, and the rising momentum of the Cenozoic has hit a wall. But I don't know if the Cenozoic can turn the situation around on the ultimate stage of the clay court grand slam. Back to the main theme of the season.

In comparison, the Big Four and Gao Wen's first-round picks are considered lucky, and there are almost no challenges——

Both Federer and Murray will play the lucky loser.

Both Nadal and Gawain will face wild cards.

Djokovic will face Finnish veteran Nieminen.

Nieminen, although he wrote countless history for Finnish tennis when he was young, and the highest world ranking reached thirteenth, but the veteran's career has come to an end. Earlier, he announced that he would retire after the US Open , this time at the French Open, I am afraid it will be difficult to create a threat to the world's number one.

It is obvious that the four giants and Gao Wen have good luck in signing, and entering the first round of the Grand Slam may not encounter too many challenges.

In fact, it’s not just them—

Kei Nishikori and Berdych will play against qualifying players in the first round, while Ferrer will face a low-ranked player who has won only one game in the French Open in his career.

In other words, the top eighth seed players have good luck in signing. This scene has not been seen in the French Open for many years, which once again proves the balance of this year's signing.

The real challenge should start from the second round and the third round one after another——

For example, Gao Wen.

On that side, Dimitrov was trapped in the encirclement of the youth storm, and was continuously impacted by the "post-90s" potential players. How he performed was a question mark.

Here, after Monte Carlo, Gao Wen and Tim once again have the opportunity to continue to face each other in their careers:

second round.

If both Gao Wen and Tim can successfully win the first round, then the two good friends will soon compete in the second round, just like Monte Carlo.

Last time, Tim was in mediocre form and was upset in the first round. It is a pity that he missed the opportunity to face Gao Wen head-to-head on the field. It is very, very regrettable.

This time, Tim naturally hopes to seize the opportunity; moreover, this is the French Open, the ultimate stage that Tim has dreamed of since he was a child.

Entering the clay court season, Tim, who was originally the best at clay court, has not been able to find his form for a long time. His performance in the warm-up match is generally sluggish. He also realizes the difficulty of the situation, so he has been training with games, and he has no rest this week. He went to France Nice on the southern Côte d'Azur continues to compete.

There is no doubt that Thiem was looking forward to performing at the top of Roland Garros, so he gave up the opportunity to adapt to the venue and continued to fight in Nice.

At present, Tim has broken into the semi-finals and seems to be finally back on track a little bit.

Tim is the same, and so is Gao Wen, looking forward to meeting with friends on clay to start a showdown; in addition, there are thousands of professionals and tennis fans who are also looking forward to this potential showdown in the second round , can't wait for this collision to play out.

On the whole, the intensity of the round-by-round competition continues to rise, fully in line with the spiral ladder mode of the Grand Slam state adjustment.

From the point of view of the draw alone, people have every reason to look forward to a wonderful event, and once again look forward to the writing of history——

Among them, Huaxia fans are included.

"Oh……"

On the TV screen, when Sharapova drew Nadal to the 4/4 area with her own hands, Qiao Wangsheng wailed in disbelief and covered his forehead with his hands.

Not only him, but the whole bar was howling.

Even though it was eleven o'clock at night in the East Eighth District, there were still a large number of fans gathering in the bar, and the noise was comparable to the World Cup.

It is unbelievable to say that this is not even an official competition, it is just a lottery ceremony——

People enjoy competitive sports and may gather to watch games, but the draw?
Are you serious?

Among the four Grand Slams, only the draws of the Australian Open and the French Open are live broadcasted globally, under the eyes of all eyes; but honestly, how many people watch it?

I am afraid that even for the UEFA Champions League and World Cup draws, fans will only follow the live broadcast at home, and will not make a special trip to the bar party to watch.

When Qiao Wangsheng posted on the post bar calling on fans to go to the bar for a party, he didn't have any expectations at all. After all, the mass base of tennis fans was still too small, and the draw ceremony was even less attractive; More than 50 people.

Crowded.

Completely breaking expectations not only proves Gao Wen's appeal in China at this time, but also proves the expectations and attention of the fans for Gao Wen.

Even though this is clay court, although clay court and hard court are fundamentally different things, even though Gao Wen's performance in the warm-up match dropped significantly, it still couldn't stop the enthusiasm of the fans. One or two flocked to discuss the upcoming French Open. In the bar A scorching heat wave.

Everyone is discussing, "Just avoid Nadal" and "Just don't share a division with Nadal"-the deterrence of the king of clay is still strong enough.

However, it happens that a good spirit does not have a bad spirit——

For a moment, Qiao Wangsheng's heart stopped beating like this.

(End of this chapter)