Chapter 1494 Growing Pains

Perhaps, the youth storm has indeed risen in an all-round way, not only the post-90s, but also the post-95s have begun to emerge one after another.

Perhaps, the tit-for-tat confrontation of "Big Four VS Challengers" is indeed getting more and more exciting, and even the Mesozoic generation is encouraged to complete their own transformation one after another.

However, behind the hustle and bustle of a hundred schools of thought contending and a hundred flowers blooming, both the younger generation and the Challenger League must face "growing pains".

Including injuries, including mentality, including state adjustment, including maintaining stability during the long tour, including facing the siege of social networks and media reporters, including the troubles and struggles of living under the spotlight, etc., competitive sports Very pure, but in the era of commercial social networks, it is not so pure.

Back then, the Big Four had all gone through such a stage, and now it is the turn of the players from the "Youth Storm" and "Challenger League".

Predicament is a challenge, but also an opportunity—

If it can break through, it will break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly; but if it cannot, it will be the beginning of disaster.

A change in the world ranking list can indeed reveal many things, and the difficulties encountered by Youth Storm are only part of it.

There is a comparison between Raonic and Dimitrov before, and a comparison between Cilic and Wawrinka after—

Second, Wawrinka has fully recovered.

Wawrinka was eliminated in the first round last year and became the champion this year. Wawrinka successfully copied the magical journey of the Spaniard Albert-Costa (Albert-Costa) in the French Open in 2001 when he was eliminated in the first round in 2002. The level ushered in a full-scale explosion, which also brought his world ranking back to the top five.

Cilic, after reaching the final of the US Open last year, his career has fallen into an abyss. In addition to injuries, his mentality and state have never been able to adjust, and he has been declining all the way. He does not even need to wait until the North American summer hard court season. The ranking has dropped out of the top ten.

Wawrinka also experienced a period of struggle and adjustment after reaching the top of the Australian Open, and finally returned perfectly this season. Although he is still a little unstable, he can output the best performance when he comes to the Grand Slam. Facing the predicament, the late blooming "four eggs" have completed their transformation.

Not only the youth storm generation, players like Cilic and Wawrinka who have completed their transformation belatedly also need to face growing pains. Those problems, setbacks, and obstacles always exist. It is necessary to transform from an ordinary player to a top player. Threshold, no one can be an exception.

Third, Murray has completely gotten rid of injury problems after undergoing offseason adjustments—

First, it hired France's two-time Grand Slam women's singles champion Amelie-Mauresmo (Amelie-Mauresmo) as its head coach, becoming the first top 100 in the world to choose to hire a female player as a coach A male player; then in April, he ended his ten-year long-distance love run with his girlfriend and entered the marriage hall, regaining his focus on the field.

Although Murray is still some distance away from Federer's world ranking points, he has fully established himself in the top five positions.

Here, it is worth mentioning that:

In the championship standings, Murray and Wawrinka have both returned to the top, and are currently only behind Gawain and Djokovic, ranking third and fourth respectively.

Third, Murray, 4480.

Fourth, Wawrinka, 4230.

It can be seen from the numbers that Murray and Wawrinka, who broke into the semi-finals in both the Australian Open and the French Open, performed equally well in the hard court season and the clay court season. The score gap is very small, and the competition in the second half of the season is still. When the bayonet saw red, the intensity of the attack could be foreseen now.

In addition to the "world first battle", the world's third battle is equally eye-catching.

Or to put it another way, it is not the competition for the third place in the world, but the competition for the "giants". Gao Wen and Wawrinka are launching a powerful impact.

From the four giants to the five poles to the six dragons for hegemony, there are indeed too many stories waiting to be discovered in the turbulent year and a half of ATP.

However, the championship points of Murray and Wawrinka are still far behind the top two. It is more than 2,000 points, and it is still difficult to overtake in a short period of time; Points, seemingly huge, are actually not that exaggerated.

Moreover, behind them, on the championship points list, the points of Berdych, Ferrer, Federer, and Nadal are very, very close. The performance of one tournament may lead to changes in the championship points ranking, and then one step One step is reflected in the ranking in the world ranking.

Perhaps, without waiting for the North American summer hard court season, the grass court season will be able to glimpse some catching up with each other, which is not inferior to the clay court season.

Finally, a new low for Nadal.

After a terrible clay court season and failed to defend his title at Roland Garros, the ranking points ushered in a cliff-like decline. After losing more than 2,000 points, Nadal's world ranking has slipped to tenth, even in the tenth position. at stake—

Since the third week of April 2005, when his career first entered the top ten in the world, Nadal has never fallen out of the ranks of the top ten clubs, and it has been a full decade; however, he hit an iceberg this season , ushered in the lowest point of his career.

At this time, countless professionals believe that Nadal's career may be gone forever. After all, Nadal, who relies on his body to fight, needs a strong body and a healthy body to support him, otherwise he will stand on the field. competitiveness will be greatly reduced.

Just look at this year's French Open. In the match against Gawain, Nadal was very, very rarely physically exhausted in the fourth set. It was not a normal extreme physical strength, but a problem with his physical reserves that made him unsustainable. dilemma, which has not been possible in the past ten years.

"Maybe... this is the end?"

More than one or two professionals questioned~lightnovelpub.net~The career of the Spanish **** of war is indeed facing a new test, which is also the test that thousands of professional players must face. Human being reborn from Nirvana writes miracles again——

In the final analysis, the essence of competitive sports is to challenge the limit, challenge oneself, and challenge the impossible. This is also the true meaning of human beings to pursue life and explore the unknown.

Nadal's fate is in his own hands.

In the Spanish bull's career, not once, not twice, but countless times, he was always able to overcome injuries and blow the horn of counterattack. From the beginning to the end, he was fighting and struggling, This time is no exception, it will be up to him next time, everything is possible.

This time, what Nadal needs to face is not surgery or a major injury that missed the game, but his scarred and exhausted body despite being able to play in the game. He needs to fight with his body, he needs to use his own Will and spirit to fight, he needs to get back to fighting state.

but…

For Nadal, the situation is not good, because the next season is the grass season that he is the least good at.

(end of this chapter)