tennis giant

Chapter 367 Unstoppable!

This year's Wimbledon, An Sheng is destined to scare many people!

And sweeping Nadal with a score of 3-0 is the beginning of his amazing journey.

Of course, An Sheng was able to beat Nadal so smoothly, but this does not mean that his strength is already stronger than Nadal. There are still many reasons for this, both subjective and objective.

For example, objectively speaking, on the grass court, Nadal's strength is indeed incomparable with the clay court.

Even, An Sheng guessed that Nadal, who has a strength of more than 90 on clay, has probably fallen to 80 on grass.

In addition, his age, coupled with the previous intensive clay court events, led to Nadal's physical reserves and his game state, which were inevitably affected.

All in all, the current Nadal is not in his best state, and An Sheng was swept out. Although it will make people feel surprised, it is understandable when you think about it carefully.

And in the next game, there are not so many excuses, because the opponent An Sheng encountered is very suitable for grass courts, and the current performance is very good. favorite to win the championship.

He is the head player of Croatia, Marin Cilic.

This Wimbledon, Cilic's performance can be said to be very strong. In the first round, he swept Cole 3-0. In the second round, he swept Seychelles 3-0. In the third round, he swept Johnson again, and in the fourth round, he even swept Agut.

You know, in the last round of competition, Agut defeated the Japanese star Kei Nishikori, who is ranked No. 9 in the world, which shows that his state and ability are very strong.

But facing Cilic, Agut still didn't have much ability to resist.

It can be seen that Cilic's road to promotion can be described as sweeping all the way, looking down on everyone!
From this, it can be roughly judged how powerful Cilic is on this grass court and how excellent his current competitive state is.

Of course, Anson, who just swept Nadal, is also in the limelight at this time. Therefore, the match between him and Cilic can be described as a needlepoint, and it must be a tough battle.

And most of the audience also thought so. They came to watch the duel between An Sheng and Cilic with this idea, expecting them to be tough.

But when the match really started, people discovered that they were indeed hard steel, but it was very different from the exciting duel they had imagined before.

"Oh!"

In the first game of the first set, Cilic took the lead to serve.

What must be doubted is that Cilic is definitely one of the players with the strongest serving ability on this planet, and he is no worse than those so-called "cannon-type" players.

And his first serve did not disappoint. He directly blasted a super fast serve with a speed of over 215 kilometers per hour.

Although its line is somewhat positive, which slightly reduces some of its threats, but with such strength and such a ball speed, it is already strong enough.

Sure enough, this caused An Sheng to make a mistake in receiving and returning the serve, and directly sent the ball flying.

And the next few balls were basically like this. Even if An Sheng was able to complete the return, the quality of his return was difficult to guarantee.

What's more, Cilic is playing very fiercely now. Apart from serving, his regular offense is also extremely difficult to deal with, especially when he has the advantage of serving. Chance to fight back.

The only exception was the third ball in this round, because Cilic made a mistake in his first serve, and facing his second serve, An Sheng seized the opportunity and completed a powerful return attack, As a result, the offense and defense changed hands and scored this point.

But this does not affect the overall situation, at least not now. After all, Cilic's current first-serve success rate and his first-serve scoring rate are still very high.

When the game came to An Sheng's serve, the situation was basically the same, except that the players on both sides had adjusted each of them, and An Sheng, who had the right to serve, had an absolute advantage.

To be more specific, Cilic is also difficult to deal with An Sheng's serve.

Although, compared to Cilic, An Sheng's serve speed is slightly slower, but his serve has better control, and the line, landing point, and angle are all obviously better.

In this way, the serving of the two sides is basically the same, including the receiving ability of the two sides. In fact, there is not much difference between the two sides. Coupled with the characteristics of the grass court, this situation on the court is caused.

In the end, An Sheng also relied on serving, scored four points in a row, and easily completed the first serve.

After that, the game became a "serve battle", the two sides refused to give in to each other, and the score also climbed up to each other. It was not until the final tie-break that the winner could be determined.

As for the winner, it was An Sheng, because in the tie-break, Cilic made a one-serve error, and An Sheng seized the opportunity to break serve.

But when the game came to the second set, the situation changed a lot.

"Oh!"

In the second game of the second set, Cilic served.

There is no doubt that Cilic is very confident about his serve, especially since the two sides have already fought a set, which basically verified the strength of both sides.

Therefore, Cilic believed that as long as his first shot was successful, An Sheng would have no way to deal with it.

Even, the fact that the tie-break failed because of a mistake in the previous serve made Cilic start to pay more attention to the success rate of his first serve, thus slightly weakening his force.

But immediately, he realized that something was wrong.

I saw that, facing his serve, An Sheng actually completed the return, and, from his movements, it could be easily seen that he had put more effort into it.

In other words, this is a strong return attack, and An Sheng's hit is done!
This was really beyond Cilic's expectation, and his reaction was a little slower, he failed to catch up, and lost the point.

"Oh!"

On the next ball, Cilic's serve was still very good, but to his surprise and even dismay, An Sheng actually completed the return.

Although the quality of An Sheng's return was slightly worse than the previous one, and he didn't play offensively, it was at least a qualified return.

It destroyed Cilic's batting rhythm and did not leave him a good chance to attack.

In the end, Cilic won the ball, but at this moment, he was very irritable.

If it only appeared once, then Cilic can take it as an accident and don't care about it, but if it appears twice in a row, it will not be an accident.

Under such circumstances, Cilic is somewhat at a loss as to how to choose.

If he continues to maintain the current strength of serving, then An Sheng's return success rate will be greatly improved, and then pose a threat to him.

But if he wants to change back to his previous serving strength, then, although he can suppress An Sheng, the result of the previous game has already proved that his first serve power is not as good as An Sheng.

This will also lead to him being passive in the final tie-break.

No matter how he chooses, it will be difficult for him to gain an advantage, which is why he feels very irritable now, but the game is still going on, and he doesn't have much time to think.

In fact, Cilic chose to strengthen the strength of his serve to repress Ansheng.

However, his suppression is very unstable. Firstly, it is because the pressure on him has suddenly become very large. Secondly, An Sheng's strength has indeed improved a lot. Cilic is stronger.

Also in the sixth game, Cilic made a one-serve error. An Sheng seized the opportunity and scored a point. After that, An Sheng forcibly played a return attack and scored another point.

And after 30 to 0, the pressure on Cilic had reached its limit. An Sheng just grasped this point and suddenly changed his style from the previous tough to soft.

This time, it really had a very good effect. For a moment, Cilic was a little uncomfortable. When he got the advantage, he made an unforced error.

In this way, An Sheng finally completed a break of serve, which was also the first break of serve in this game.

What was even more unexpected was that the break of serve this time seemed to be the last straw that crushed Cilic, changing the situation on the field in an instant.

It seems that all of a sudden, Cilic's previous good state disappeared, and he made frequent mistakes. Whether it was serving and receiving, or the subsequent offense, it became very unstable.

In this way, there was no suspense. An Sheng pursued the victory and won the second set.

Then, in the opening stage of the third set, An Sheng won two consecutive breaks, securing the victory in one fell swoop.

In the end, Anson defeated Cilic again with a score of 3 to 0. Although it cannot be said to be a sweep, such a score is enough to explain the problem!
An Sheng at this time is unstoppable!

(End of this chapter)