Chapter 605

Throughout the 1990s, Agassi's serve receiving skills were unrivaled in the world. Even now, compared to the two masters of serve return, Djokovic and Murray, Agassi is still unsurpassed.

Back then, Agassi was able to complete an excellent serve return by standing directly on the baseline with both feet. He relied on talent, outstanding reaction speed and coordinated hand-eye coordination ability to be unrivaled in the world.

Now, players use racket technology to stand farther from the bottom line to relieve the pressure of the ball speed, and they can still hit faster and more rotating returns than Agassi from a position two meters away from the bottom line. Nadal He and Tim are representative players of this type of serve return.

In other words, the innovation of racket and string technology has given the receiving side a wider space, and naturally, the pressure faced by serving and hitting the net has doubled.

From Edberg to Sampras and then to Federer, this is the evolution of the entire era, mainly reflected in the handling of the opponent's return of the serve after serving and on the way to the net:

Edberg used a volley, which is a standard serve and volley.

Sampras used the half volley, which is a modified serve and volley.

Federer used the half-court dribble, which is no longer a serve to the net, but at most it is just an oppression on the net.

That is to say, with the improvement of the quality of receiving and serving, the speed and spin of the ball are accelerated. It is difficult for the serving side to reach the net in one step and complete the volley immediately after the serve. Even if it is barely in place, it is difficult to find a shot above the net. Points to complete oppressive top-down volleys.

The speed, power and spin of the ball returned from the receiving side are already different.

Of course, the only exception in the entire tour is Karlovic.

With a height of 208 cm, Karlovic has a unique serve advantage. His use of the three-dimensional space of the entire court is different from others, which also makes his serve and surfing successful, but overall, he is just a shell. There is no technical connotation and tactical combination, even Karlovic himself admitted:

"I was able to win games with just one technique, I was a genius."

After the British player Tim Henman retired, both traditional and non-traditional pure serve and net players have basically disappeared from the tour.

However, among the active players, there are still many players who skillfully use serve and surf the net to enrich their game tactical system.

The younger Zverev that Gao Wen met in the previous challenge, his older brother Zverev is a serve and net player, and it is conceivable that his results are far inferior to his younger brother.

Among them, the most famous is naturally Federer. However, for Federer, serving and hitting the net is only a part of Curry's comprehensive strategy.

In addition, Fei Lopez can also be regarded as one of them.

"Tears of the Times", when people look back on the past in such a way, it will inevitably appear light and simple, but the actual situation is often more complicated.

In the matter of "serve and net players withdraw from the stage of the times", the popularity of tennis, the promotion of business and the development of technology are intricately intertwined, and finally ended the glory of a playing style.

In fact, throughout the process, Wimbledon also faced a lot of pressure, and they also made choices.

1991 Wimbledon final, Michael-Stich VS Boris Becker; 1998 Wimbledon final, Sampras VS Ivanisevic, both matches considered It was an extremely boring serve game, with only a handful of shots lasting more than four rounds.

It's just a practice match.

To avoid a repeat of this visual catastrophe - and a blow to ratings - the All England Club has been working on improving the quality of its turf, replacing hard-wearing grass and shortening the turf, measures that make Wimbledon's grass even more impressive. It is firmer and the bounce of the return ball is more regular.

The end result is that the Wimbledon court is more like a natural material hard court.

Ratings and pressure from sponsors have also made a concession to Wimbledon, which insists on tradition, which is also a result of the torrent of the times.

As of 2021, Federer is an eight-time Wimbledon champion, while Djokovic is a six-time champion, but people just call Federer the "King of the Grass", not because Federer has more championships, mainly because Because Djokovic basically treats the grass as a hard court.

Today, the "serve-and-volley style of play" is even dubbed "suicide style" by commentators. For young people, this may be a harmless joke; but for players who really experienced the 1980s and 1990s As for the fans, they couldn't laugh.

Jiang Yanyun herself likes the style of serve and net very much. After all, she is also one of the fans in the 1990s.

From the perspective of playing style, Philip Lopez is indeed in the same system as Sampras and Federer, but specifically, they are different.

Faye Lopez likes to attack and surf the net, but at the same time, his excellent hitting ability and moving ability give him a good bottom line stalemate ability. Watching his game is more between Sampras and Federer In the meantime, serve and surf the net to make a technique, the frequency of use is less than that of Sampras but more than that of Federer.

It is precisely because of this that Philip Lopez can be said to be a top doubles player, but as a singles player, he still has not been able to reverse the torrent of the times.

Looking at the performance of Faye Lopez's career, his performance in the Grand Slam has always been mediocre. Wimbledon's three quarter-finals are the best record, and the other three Grand Slam tournaments have entered the second week only three times in total , two US Opens, one Australian Open, far less than expected.

This year is no exception, Wimbledon entered the fourth round, and the other three Grand Slams were all eliminated in the first week.

It can also be seen from the side that Faye Lopez's style of play does face many challenges in today's professional tennis world, but Faye Lopez's world ranking is still rising steadily, and has already ranked among the top 20 in the world, which also proves that His ability; moreover, Fei Lopez has participated in the second consecutive Grand Slam race after Federer, ranking second in history.

Among the top ten players in the world, he has repeatedly defeated Berdych, Ferrer, Raonic, Davydenko, Soderling, Fognini, Safin, Del Potro, Roddick, Wawrinka, etc. ~lightnovelpub.net~ In addition, before Djokovic was fully mature, Philip Lopez also defeated him once.

Philip Lopez's real tough hands are Federer and Murray. He lost all thirteen games against the former, and lost all eleven games against the latter.

This year, Fey-Lopez has maintained his upward momentum.

In Toronto in August, Faye Lopez defeated Berdych and Raonic, who were in very good form this season, to break into the semi-finals.

In Modu, Faye Lopez defeated compatriot Nadal to enter the third round.

For Gao Wen, although Fey Lopez is not Nadal, since Fey Lopez can beat Nadal, it means that Fey Lopez is better than Nadal in this week's state in Shanghai; Moreover, the "serve and net style of play" was the first encounter in Gao Wen's career.

Sampras is somewhat "disgusting", because in his opinion, even he himself is not a pure serve-and-volley style of play, let alone these young players after him, they are all full-court players The method, which is slightly different from the baseline play, covers an area that can extend to the front of the net—

That's all.

(end of this chapter)