Chapter 337: Counted
"The opponent in the next game is Davydenko, and he won the quarter-finals." Zhang Guan looked at the table and then said, "The game time is on June 3 at Philip Stadium."
Zhang Guan was in the upper half of 2/4. After watching his matchup, Zhang Guan turned his attention to the lower half of 2/4.
There is only one player left in the second half. The No. 5 seed Gonzalez was eliminated in the first round. The 11th good seed Gasquet and the 27th seed Melzer both stopped in the second round. The two players who advanced to the top 16 in the second half were No. 19 seed Canas and non-seed player Monaco, both of whom are Argentines.
"Don't look at the second half first. Your next opponent is Davydenko, which is not so easy to deal with." Coach Zhang said.
Zhang Guan showed a very confident expression, "I won against Davydenko at the Australian Open, and I feel that his strength is not very strong. Although "model" Davydenko participated in many games, his ATP points rank in the fourth position, but his real strength is not comparable to his fame."
"What did Joyce tell you?" Coach Zhang shook his head slightly, obviously disagreeing with Coach Joyce's statement. He said, "Davydenko's red clay strength cannot be underestimated. So far, Davydenko five of the 10 ATP titles were won on clay. The Estoril Tour in 2003, the Munich Tour in 2004, the St. Polten Tour in 2005, and the Brahms Tour, 2006 The Subo Tour are clay courts. Also, the three runner-ups he has won are obtained on the clay court. It can be said that the clay court is the most popular field for Davydenko."
Coach Zhang threw Davydenko's transcript to Zhang Guan, and then said, "Although Davydenko has no obvious strengths, he also has no obvious weaknesses, and he is a very stable and patient player, which makes it's easy for him to get results in clay-court matches."
Zhang Guan nodded with a straight face, and then asked, "So what should I pay attention to in the game?"
"Meticulous and patient. Every ball, you can't be careless, you need to be careful, to achieve this, even if you have won half of the victory, and for the other half of the victory, you need to rely on patience to get points on the clay court, Davydenko will play very patiently, you have to be at least as patient as him." Coach Zhang said.
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In the game on June 2, Sharapova defeated Kudriavzevii 2-0 and advanced to the fourth round of the women's singles. On this day, Japanese veteran Sugiyama fell in love with Chakvetadze and missed the top 16. At this point, the Asian women's singles players have been annihilated, and out of the singles players throughout Asia, only Zhang Guan is left.
On the same day, Nadal celebrated his 21st birthday. On his birthday, he swept 3-0 to Montanes and advanced to the men's singles round of 16. In this game, Nadal gradually found his best state. It can be seen that Nadal at this time has been completely different from a week ago. Even the media said that when Nadal entered the French Open, he was in championship mode.
On June 3, Zhang Guan and Sharapova started their fourth round of the journey. Zhang Guan will face No. 4 seed Davydenko at Philip Stadium and Sharapova will face Schneider's at Susan Stadium. The challenge, coincidentally, is that the match between the two was scheduled for the fourth game, so the start time of the game was almost the same.
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"Audience friends, the next is the men's singles No. 4 seed Davidovenko against the men's singles No. 15 seed Zhang Guan. The two had once played against each other. It was at this year's Australian Open that Zhang Guan won 3 -0 over Davydenko. So today's game is a battle of revenge for Davydenko!"
The camera aimed at Davydenko, hoping to capture something, and Davydenko showed a gentleman-like smile, showing a relaxed state.
For a player who can participate in more than 30 games a year, Davydenko has indeed forgotten the feeling of tension.
After a few shots of warm-up, the two sides started a formal match.
In the first four games, the two sides reached a 2-2 draw, and no one was able to complete the break. In the next few games, although Zhang Guan strengthened his offensive, he still did not find a chance to break Davydenko's serve. Both sides came and go, in a flash, they finished 10 games, and the score became 5-5.
"Davydenko played so steadily today." Zhang Guan has already noticed that the tactics used by Davydenko today are one word-steady!
Whether it is serving or receiving, Davydenko's performance is extremely stable. Among the five serving games in the first set, Davydenko did not issue an ACE ball. It was not Davydenko who didn't have the ability to issue ACE. It's because he didn't intend to serve ACE at all. In Davydenko's serve, his serve is not for direct scoring, but the initiative of suppression for Zhang Guan.
During the match, Davydenko also put stability in the first place. In some places where Zhang Guan seemed to be able to attack boldly, Davydenko chose to give up, even if it was an attack, it was not a desperate attack. Once the attack was intense, he immediately stopped and continued to hold on to stability.
Although this method cannot break Zhang Guan's "running attack", the stability of serving and receiving has made Zhang Guan unable to find a suitable attacking time. Even if Zhang Guan constantly changes the offensive and defensive rhythm, Davydenko is as stable as Tarzan, with few flaws.
If it is a hard court or a grass field, Zhang Guan will be able to use the offensive and suppression to create more opportunities, but this is the clay court, the rhythm is a bit slower. There was about twenty-something stalemate.
After the twelve games, the two sides were still tied, and then entered the first tie-break of the two sides.
"Finally, it's the tie-break!" Davydenko showed a relieved smile on his face. His stable play had a huge advantage in the tie-break. A tie-break is not easy to make a mistake, so the more stable the style of the game, the more advantageous it is to play a tie-break.
"Although Zhang Guan still issued a few ACE shots, compared with the Australian Open, the French Open clay-court has greatly reduced his serving power, lacking this important weapon, Zhang Guan's advantage in the tiebreaker again was weakened once again. So when Zhang Guan served, it may be my chance." Davydenko started serving while thinking.
It was a long shot of 28 shots, and Davydenko finally saved the ball.
Immediately after Zhang Guan served, what Davydenko didn't expect was that Zhang Guan also used a relatively conservative way of serving.
Another long round of twenty-one shots, Zhang Guan scored a point.
In the next ball, there was a long 25-beat round again. This is followed by 18 beats, 22 beats, and 19 beats. In the seventh point of both sides, the two sides played 32 shots, followed by the eighth point, the two sides made an amazing 39 shots!
Although it is a clay court, and the ball is slower. However, in modern tennis, there are very few situations where 20 shots can be made. The extra-long round of 39 shots has set the record for the longest number of shots in the French Open.
The score at this time was 4-4, and the two sides were tied in the tiebreak.
The audience applauded and the TV screen also showed that this is the longest shot in a match of the French Open.
However, in the next ninth ball, the number of shots held by both parties exceeded this number, reaching an astonishing forty shots.
This long round of contests made the audience yell and the viewers in front of the TV could not wait to rewind the program and watch the 40-shot contest again.
However, Davydenko rubbed his slightly sore biceps on the field, constantly moving his wrists, and a complex expression appeared on his face.
"It feels a bit wrong, I seem to have fallen for a trick!" Davydenko thought silently.
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