Vol 5 Chapter 456: Sweep the net

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Federer felt that he was unfavorable for years. At the beginning of the Australian Open, he lost to Djokovic in the semi-finals. In the subsequent French Open, Federer entered the final for the fifth time but lost to Nadal. At Wimbledon he is best at In the game, the quarter-finals lost to French player Tsonga.
Federer has won at least one Grand Slam trophy every year since 2002, and this year, Federer is in a state of worry. If the US Open is also broken, it will be the worst record since 2002.
Not far away, Federer's twin daughters were playing there, and Federer looked at the newspaper but sighed rather helplessly.
"Roger, what's wrong? Why sigh?" Wife Mirka asked.
"Look at this. The IAAF has just issued the latest regulations. An athlete can only participate in three Olympic track and field events. This is obviously for Zhang Guan." Federer said.
Mirka nodded: "I think the IAAF will not allow Zhang Guan to be the only one in track and field events. I remember that in the last Olympics, Zhang Guan won 10 gold medals by himself! But this What does it have to do with us?"
"Of course it does." Federer continued: "Zhang Guan can only choose three track and field events to participate, then he can put more experience on other events, such as tennis. If Zhang Guan participates in the Olympic tennis competition, It looks like I can't get a gold slam in my life!"
Federer was quite disappointed here, and Mirka came over to comfort her husband. She said: "Zhang Guan hasn't played tennis for two or three years. Maybe he's gone? And he is now Should ATP points be zero? He has to pass the Olympic Wild Card Qualification to be on the Olympic stage?"
"You reminded me." Federer took the laptop and searched Zhang Guan's information on it.
"Sure enough, Zhang Guan announced to participate in this year's China Open." Federer pointed to a piece of news.
"China Open? That seems to be an insignificant event?" Mirka asked.
"It doesn't matter, but the champion of the Chinese Open has 500 ATP points, which is enough to allow Zhang Guan to directly enter the top 100 in the world. And there should be no big players in the Chinese Open. Zhang Guan's championship may be a breeze." Federer went on to say: "Zhang Guan may be able to recover some status in the Chinese Open game, and then face the next Shanghai Rolex Masters, which is the ATP1000 event, Zhang Guan only needs to get a top four ranking, his points You can be firmly ranked in the top 50 in the world, and you will definitely get a ticket for the Olympic tennis. It seems that the tennis racing of the Olympics can definitely see Zhang Guan."
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The women's singles competition in the China Open is a WTA first-level event, with a total prize money of 1.34 million US dollars. The total prize money of the China Open is only 2.34 million US dollars. After deducting the prize of 1.34 million women's singles, the remaining men's singles, Women's doubles and men's doubles share a prize of USD 1 million, so there are not many bonuses for men's singles.
The lack of bonuses is certainly not enough to attract big players in the men's singles. The ATP1000 Masters tournament has a total bonus of two to three million US dollars, so big players are disdain to participate in the Chinese Open. Those who are slightly famous are participating in the Chinese Open, all for the 500 points. After all, the top players in the world do not participate, and it is relatively easy to get these 500 points.
This year's China Open men's singles has a total of 36 players. The top seed is French player Tsonga. With the outstanding performance of Wimbledon, Tsonga has just entered the top ten in the world. The current world ranking is 9th. He is also the only player in the top ten in the Chinese Open.
As the organizer of China, there will be three host places. Zhang Guan takes up one of course, and also takes care of the grouping. The first opponent is Russian Gabashvili, ranking around 100 in the world. Most of the results of participating in the four Grand Slams were the first round of halt.
Such an opponent is obviously very helpful for Zhang Guan to find the game state. After a few rounds of familiarization, Zhang Guan took the 6-4 and 6-1 games and took Gabashvili lightly into the second round.
Zhang Guan's opponent in the second round was veteran Liubic. Liubisic was actually only 32 years old this year, but his debut was relatively early, and he was balding early, and he grew older, so he felt like a veteran. However, Ljubicic's state is already much worse than that of that year, and the history of Ljubicic also announced his retirement in April next year.
Liubicic, who will retire next year, apparently beat the strength of fame, and after a game, Zhang Guan gradually found the feeling of tennis, and finally defeated Liubici by 6-3 in two sets. odd.
Zhang Guan’s third opponent is the Russian player Yuzny. This is an old opponent who once played, but with the growth of his youth, Yuzny has also come to the peak. When he played with Zhang Guan, Yuzny was The top 15 players in the world are seeded even in the four Grand Slams, and now Uzny is ranked more than 40 in the world and is not a seeded player in the Chinese Open.
The gap in strength was also doomed to the result of this game early. After Zhang Guan defeated Yuzny, he finally ushered in a relatively difficult opponent Cilic.
Prior to this, Zhang Guan had encountered some "old, weak and sick" players, such as Liu Bisic, although famous, but has already passed the peak period, this kind of people who are retiring soon, naturally can not talk about What strength. Cilic from Croatia is a rising player.
Cilic's world ranking reached the ninth position in the world last year, and successfully reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open. In the future, Cilic also won the championship in the 2014 US Open. Such a young and rising player is considered the first grindstone encountered by Zhang Guan.
Cilic first participated in the Grand Slam match in 2008, when Zhang Guan had faded out of tennis, so there was no record of playing between Cilic and Zhang Guan, and the new calf was not afraid of the tiger at the beginning of the game. Zhang Guan launched a strong attack.
Cilic is 1.98 meters tall and tall and burly. He is a typical Croatian strongman. He is undoubtedly a strong player. His serve is strong and his forehand is full of strength. This player may not be suitable for the French Open. On the clay court, but on the hard court, it is obviously like a fish.
However, Cilic picked the wrong opponent. At that time, the American cannon Roddick at the peak was not as good as Zhang Guan. The Cilic, a slightly weaker grade, could be Zhang Guan's opponent.
After a while, Cilic defeated very simply. Even spectators who didn't understand tennis already saw that Cilic's failure was due to inferior skills.
After defeating Cilic, Zhang Guan advanced to the finals of the Chinese Open. His opponents are all available to Berdych.
Berdych is also a relatively fast-thinking player in recent years. He reached the semi-finals at the French Open last year, and Wimbledon won the second place. Berdych is currently ranked 11th in the world. Among the contestants in the Chinese Open Only this and Tsonga, and he also defeated Tsonga, advanced to the Chinese Open final.
Berdych is a famous "nerve knife". At Wimbledon last year, he killed Federer and Djokovic one after another. At that time, Federer and Djokovic were in good condition, but they encountered excellent performance. Berdych still suffered a failure. This kind of "nerve knife" is invincible when the state is good, but when the state is not good, it often loses to some unknown people.
Today, Berdych's state is not good, nor bad, and it can only be regarded as average, but after the game began, his state quickly reduced from "normal" to "bad". Because in the entire tennis court, almost no one cheered for him.
After all, China Open is Zhang Guan's home stadium. Especially when it comes to the finals, the home audience is definitely one-sided support for Zhang Guan.
For the "nerve knife" type players, this strong away atmosphere is most likely to affect the mood and state of play.
Nerve knives are often more and more courageous, more courageous and more courageous, fighting is a rush, once it is deflated, it looks like a balloon with a hole. . No one cheered for Berdych today. He couldn't be brave or able to fight. He soon surrendered his gun.
The final was a three-win system with five innings. Zhang Guan went straight in three sets. He defeated Berdych smoothly and won the championship of the Chinese Open.
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Sweeping the net, Zhang Guan is back! -"Sports Times" gave a big headline. (To be continued.)