In the training room, Zhang Guan took advantage of the break to ask Coach Zhang about Lee Hyung-Taik.
Coach Zhang said, "When I was a player, I had paid attention to this player Lee Hyung-Taik. After all, there were a few yellow men on the professional tennis court. At that time, he asked me to sign an autograph! In general, Lee Hyung-Taik belongs to the more traditional yellow race athletes."
"Compared to the traditional yellow athletes? What does that mean?" Zhang Guan asked.
"That's how I am." Coach Zhang smiled and pointed at himself, and then said, "Compared with white athletes, our yellow athletes have disadvantages and advantages in physical talent. The advantage is that our reaction speed will be very agile, the coordination of the body will be better, and the ability to move the foot will also be very flexible. In the clay court of the French Open, it is relatively easy to get good results. As for the disadvantage..."
"I know, strength, explosiveness, and physical strength." Zhang Guan said.
"That not all. Both the yellow race and the Asian race are at a disadvantage for strength and explosiveness, but their physical fitness is not necessarily worst. Many yellow race athletes have poor physical fitness, and they can't handle it when they hit back. More importantly, because there is no high-level systematic training. After high-level systematic training, the physical fitness of Asian athletes can still be comparable to that of European and American athletes. After all, tennis is not the most intense sport in terms of confrontation. Lee Hyung-Taik's physical fitness, although it can't be said to be excellent, is still commensurate with his world ranking."
Zhang Guan nodded, then asked, "How about Lee Hyung-Taik's technique? Are there any shortcomings?"
"A player who has played professional tennis for twelve years, even if he has any shortcomings in technique, he would have fixed with training. In my impression of him, he should be fair in technique, but there is nothing worth it. The place of praise is generally mediocre." Coach Zhang said while laughing, "Actually, I met Lee Hyung-Taik in the first round. I am quite satisfied. His world ranking is 42, not high. It's not too low, just try our new style of play on him. Think of him as a tested stone!"
Coach Zhang is very confident in the new "running attack", he didn't even give Zhang Guan much pre-match guidance. This kind of running has a full offensive and defensive conversion style. The core of the tactic is to seize the initiative and then drag the opponent's nose. In the face of Lee Hyung-Taik's athletes, Coach Zhang feels that there is no need for too special tactical guidance.
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On May 27, the last Sunday of May, the French Open game officially kicked off.
There was no Zhang Guan's match on the first matchday, but the weather forecast brought the bad news that there would be rain during the day. The fact is the same. The daytime game was disturbed by rain. Fortunately, several big-name players such as Davydenko and Williams Jr. completed the game smoothly.
In tennis competitions, when it's raining, the hard courts, and grass courts will become very slippery, athletes are also finding it easy to slip and get injured, the referee will often terminate the game, and for the clay court as long as the rainfall does not exceed 5 mm, the game can go on.
When the rainfall is less than 5 mm, the red clay will be more humid, and the hardness of the ground will increase slightly while the viscosity increases, but it is easy to cause some small bumps on the ground; and if the rain is heavy, the red clay will become muddy, at this time it will be completely unsuitable to continue the game.
The second matchday, this day is also the match between Zhang Guan and Lee Hyung-Taik. Their game is the finale of the No. 7 stadium, and the game will not start until five o'clock in Paris time at the earliest.
However, the sky was not beautiful, the sky was overcast early in the morning in Paris, and the heavy rain fell shortly after the start of the game. All games had to be delayed by three hours. In the end, there were only seven games to finish today, including six games for women's singles and one game for men's singles.
Sister Na's game was one of the seven completed games. Today, Sister Na started slowly and was 3-5 behind in the first set. The opponent took the game. At this time, because of the rain suspension, Sister Na suddenly broke out, and won the first set 7-6, and then won the second set 6-0, to successfully advance.
Because of the rain, the game between Zhang Guan and Lee Hyung-Taik can only be delayed. Other big-name players match such as Federer and Nadal can only be held on the third matchday. Sharapova's match was postponed to the fourth game day.
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After two days of rain and rain, the sky finally cleared on the third day of the French Open. The game between Zhang Guan and Lee Hyung-Taik was also changed to the No. 6 stadium.
Today's Zhang Guan wore a red sleeveless tennis T-shirt and a pair of white shorts. Even at the clay-court, it is very conspicuous at first glance.
This tennis suit was specially customized by the sponsor, especially for Zhang Guan, and Sharapova is also a red-colored vest. The sponsor made a couple of clothes for the two.
In Grand Slam competitions, large sponsors often choose a more uniform color tone, which is also to establish brand effectiveness. For example, this year's French Open, the color of the clothing sponsored by Nike for its athletes is mainly blue, dark blue, blue-black, etc. in addition to the traditional white, so you can see that Federer and Nadal's tops are sky blue. However, when Zhang Guan came here, considering that Chinese people prefer red, the sponsor specially provided Zhang Guan with a red jersey, and even Sharapova was dipped in the light.
This game is a contest between two Asian players. For many French audiences, it seems to be not very attractive. From time to time, some players will face European and American's audience yawning in the game. However, audiences from Asia, especially Chinese and Korean, are very excited. Of course, there are more Chinese in Paris than the Koreans. Also, Zhang Guan's reputation is much greater than that of Lee Hyung-Taik, so when Zhang Guan played on the scene, there was a lot of applause; when Lee Hyung-Taik played, the applause on the scene would be much sparser.
"The next round is the first round of the French Open men's singles competition. The 15th seed Zhang Guan will play against non-seed player Lee Hyung-Taik. Both of them are players from Asia. I think for Asian audiences, this game must be something they look forward to." The narrator made a torrent of introductions, and the two of them on the field also completed the warm-up.
"At the beginning of the game, Zhang Guan served first! Zhang Guan showed a very strong serve in the Australian Open. His serve is very threatening. He also issued the most ACE balls in the Australian Open this year! I don't know if Zhang Guan can continue the good feel in today's French Open!"
At this time Lee Hyung-Taik looked at Zhang Guan intently.
"The French Open is not an Australian Open. This is a clay court. Your fast serve here is not so powerful! Even if you serve faster, it will slow down on the ground." Lee Hyung-Taik was thinking about it. Then, he saw Zhang Guan throw the ball up and swing.
At the next moment, the tennis ball flew over and hit the sideline.
"It's a tricky angle! It's a good point! Just hit the sideline." Lee Hyung-Taik thought to himself.
The French Open's ball speed is relatively slow, so even some fastballs, as long as the ball is hit, will be received by the opponent.
Lee Hyung-Taik's reaction was relatively quick. He immediately reached out to make a catch, but the ball had already flown out.
"ACE! 15-0." The referee's voice sounded.
Lee Hyung-Taik involuntarily stepped forward, looked down at the trace of the falling ball on the sideline, and shook his head helplessly.
"Good luck, you can hit the ball at this angle!"