Earlier at the US Open, before the match against Djokovic, Gao Wen asked Dimitrov about his feelings about the game, but competitive sports is like this:

"What is done on paper will eventually become shallow, and I will never know that this matter must be practiced."

Opinions, after all, are just references. Everyone's feelings, everyone's understanding and feelings, and everyone's responses and reactions are all different.

More importantly, every game is different, stadium, audience, weather, temperature, humidity and personal status are all included.

The most intuitive thing is that Djokovic's state has improved significantly compared to the US Open. Last week at the Imperial Open, he swept Berdych in the final and won the championship, showing an excellent competitive state. Obviously, three weeks after losing the US Open semi-finals, Djokovic is ready to compete for the year-end world number one after recuperating and adjusting his state.

This time in Shanghai, Gao Wen and Tim talked about Djokovic's shots many times during their daily training, which prepared Tim mentally.

However, objectively speaking, the current Tim is still too young and immature, far from mature, and the entire batting tactical system has not yet formed. There are too many rounds of blind hitting and blind hitting, and lack of a clear tactical idea. , There is still room for growth both technically and spiritually.

Moreover, the 23-year-old Tim still plays in a typical clay court style, without making adjustments based on hard courts. His performance is also the result of a combination of signing luck and status, and it does not mean that he is good at hard courts.

On a fast and hard court, facing Djokovic who maintains a balanced offense and defense, it is really difficult for Tim to open the situation—

In fact, it wasn't until the French Open in 2017 that Tim defeated Djokovic for the first time in his career on his best clay court, ending a five-game losing streak.

It was a very interesting victory, and Gawain was very impressed because Djokovic and Thiem met in the semi-finals at the Rome Masters two weeks before the Roland Garros opened that year.

As a result, Tim, who had already made his mark on clay, won only one round in the game and was swept by Djokovic, "6:1", "6:0", and almost swallowed double egg yolks. Everyone's jaw dropped.

Two weeks later at the French Open, Djokovic and Thiem met in the quarter-finals. In view of the match not long ago, almost everyone believed that Djokovic could win without bloodshed, but the result was surprising again :

"7:6(5, "6:3", "6:0".

This time it was Tim who had the last laugh, and he succeeded in delivering the egg in the third set. Not only did he avenge Rome's defeat perfectly, but he also defeated Djokovic for the first time in his career, and broke into the Grand Slam four for the first time in his career. powerful.

That game was an important turning point for Tim—

Since then, Tim and Djokovic have met six times in total, with Tim leading four wins and two losses, and two of the victories came on hard courts.

Sight, return to the game in front of you.

Gao Wen didn't leave immediately, but stood still and joined the ranks of other players. Watching the top players' games is also an important learning.

First of all, it must be admitted that Tim in 2014 is still immature in terms of strength and technology, and there is still room for growth, but he is now very impactful.

But in the face of Djokovic, the impact is only one of the elements for victory. Unless it is like Wawrinka or Kyrgios, who uses unreasonable attacks to continuously bombard the audience, otherwise the general Impact is hard to beat—

Line layout and tactical combination, this is the most important key.

Djokovic's anticipation ability, layout ability and ability to wrap different shots are unique in the world. If the shot line cannot break the inertial thinking, it is easy to fall into the encirclement of Djokovic covering the whole court Among them, and then evolved into a situation of batting quality:

If you don't pay attention a little bit, going out of bounds or getting off the net is commonplace, and the whole offense becomes a situation of "more powerful but weaker"; if you don't pay attention a little bit more, Djokovic's defensive counterattack will be unsheathed. He and Murray The two players are the top masters of offensive and defensive transition, which is hard to guard against.

Tim is still too honest, all the batting lines are well-behaved, he is an honest and honest boy.

As a result, the game was completely in Djokovic's control.

After watching only two rounds, Gao Wen hurried back to the locker room to prepare for the next doubles match. If there were no accidents, Tim still couldn't break through Djokovic's iron wall for the time being.

In fact, the same is true.

"6:3", "6:4".

Djokovic beat Tim in straight sets, and one of the statistics is worth noting:

Throughout the game, Tim faced eight break point tests. Although Tim recovered six of them, he was broken once in each set and lost the game.

If it's just that, then Tim and Johansen are similar, and there is no difference in the score gap, and a horizontal comparison is needed.

Djokovic only sent two break points and recovered all of them. It can be clearly seen that at least Johansen still made a difference in Gawain's serve; while Djokovic firmly controlled the situation of the game , hardly gave Tim any chance in his serve.

As an auxiliary reference, Djokovic's first serve scoring rate is as high as 81%, which is a very, very good statistic, which further proves his strength in his own serve.

Obviously, Tim felt this deeply too:

Although he didn’t read the post-match statistics, Tim’s own feelings are intuitive and real. The difficulty he felt in his serving game and the restraint he felt in Djokovic’s serving game, layers of pressure hit his face Come, lose the victory in a daze.

In fact, facing all the games of the Big Four and imagining it as a game of paying tuition fees, the whole feeling will be different.

"Wow. Whoa..."

Returning to the locker room~lightnovelpub.net~ Tim didn’t have time to lament the loss. After a hasty shower, he and Gao Wen had a round in the gym to recover, adjust his physical condition, and prepare for the upcoming doubles match. Seeing Gao Wen, exclamation and surprise erupted uncontrollably.

It's not sadness or anger, but a kind of excitement, mixed with frustration, annoyance, irritability, and excitement.

"What happened to Novak's serve? It's obviously nothing special, but he just couldn't find a chance."

"His serve is actually very good. He is different from Rafa. He often doesn't attack immediately after serving the first shot, but develops the layout, so the serve and the first shot are coordinated. If If you don't make a difference in your return, it means you're in his trap."

"...Is that so? So how did you respond? Novak's first serve didn't leave much room for attack."

"Domi, don't try to end the fight with one or two shots, that's Djokovic."

Chattering, babbling... Gao Wen and Tim became more excited and happier as they talked.