Lee Hyung-Taik's face was gloomy. He wanted to use the color in his service, but he didn't expect to drop the ball first.
Lee Hyung-Taik continued to serve, this time, he had enough energy, hoping to get an ACE ball. However, Lee Hyung-Taik's serve is indeed a bit weak if he wants to get an ACE ball in Zhang Guan's hands.
After Zhang Guan received the ball, after two consecutive beats, he seized the opportunity to rush into the baseline and completed the offensive and defensive conversion with a beautiful forehand.
This sudden change in rhythm made Lee Hyung-Taik unable to adapt immediately, and his handling also seemed a little flustered. In an instant, he changed from the attacking side to the defensive side.
"Like the last ball, Zhang Guan's hitting point was advanced again!" Lee Hyung-Taik only noticed that Zhang Guan's hitting point was advanced, but did not notice that Zhang Guan had been running constantly.
Zhang Guan used a large and continuous forehand movement to end the goal and the score became 0-30.
Lee Hyung-Taik's face has not seen any lightness. Zhang Guan will advance the receiving point for two consecutive balls, and then after the offensive and defensive conversion, Lee Hyung-Taik feels a little bad. If it is impromptu, it is still possible to use it once in a while, but if it is used twice in a row, the possibility of impromptu on the spot is relatively small.
"Is this a specific tactic?" Experience told Lee Hyung-Taik that Zhang Guan's tactics may have formed a relatively mature system.
"If it's just a tactical setting, it's better to say, but if a tactical system has been formed, it will be difficult!" Lee Hyung-Taik thought silently.
In tennis, tactics and tactical systems are perfectly different. A certain set of tactics is just a certain choice made for a specific playstyle. The opponent can easily crack and target, but if a set is formed with a tactical system, then it will be mixed with various changes and countermeasures in the face of various balls, it is impossible to crack through with one or two moves.
In a simple analogy, a tennis tactic is like a position, and a complete set of tactics is like a line of defense. You only need to launch a battle to capture a position, but if you want to break through a line of defense, you need to launch a battle.
The next goal, after Lee Hyung-Taik made a mistake, the second serve took a more conservative approach, Zhang Guan continued to use the "running and offense tactics", the rapid movement offensive and defensive change, so that Lee Hyung-Taik was in a hurry, and quickly lost this ball again.
"What's going on, it feels like I'm being led by my nose, without any initiative. This is my serve!" Lee Hyung-Taik couldn't adapt to Zhang Guan's rhythm. Every time Zhang Guan's offensive and defensive changes, Lee Hyung-Taik was pushed into the passive state.
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In Korean barbecue restaurants, many diners can't believe their eyes, and for Lee Hyung-Taik, who had they had high hopes for, actually fell behind 0-40 in his serve game. Everyone was staring at the TV, without the excitement of the pre-match.
"0-40, why is Lee Hyung-Taik behind?"
"Why do I feel that Lee Hyung-Taik has lost the ball so easily?"
"What happened to Lee Hyung-Taik's player? Not at all? Isn't it said that Lee Hyung-Taik's player is in good condition before the game?"
South Korea stopped talking at all, and he couldn't find a way to justify this score.
Warm-up? Tempt each other? Start counterattack? Stormy attack? There wasn't one. Some were just Lee Hyung-Taik's continuous ball drop, ball drop, ball drop, three consecutive ball drops, and then the fourth ball was dropped smoothly.
It's another love-game, and in Lee Hyung-Taik's own serving game, Zhang Guan shaved his head bald.
The game ended very quickly. When the referee announced the score of 2-0 in the first set, the moment in the barbecue restaurant also turned his attention from the TV to the barbecue plate. But everyone is silent, without the previous talk, the atmosphere of the barbecue shop seems to be freezing like they were in the winter ice cellar, at this time most people have no appetite, the meat pieces dripping on the table are placed in their mouth tasted like wax.
However, there are two exceptions, it is the foreign student Liu Yong and his companions.
"Everyone is dumb!" Liu Yong glanced at the Korean suits around the tables and suddenly shouted, "Give me another portion of meat!"
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In Zhang Guan's serve, Lee Hyung-Taik still didn't get a point.
In the three consecutive games, one point was not scored, as if to explain to everyone that the two of them saw a huge gap.
In the stands, Coach Zhang Depei looked at Coach Choi Xijun who was sitting in the front row with a smile. Coach Choi seemed to perceive Coach Zhang's gaze and stared at Coach Zhang, but his expression was extremely bitter and indignant.
Coach Choi said before the game that Zhang Guan's serve power will be greatly reduced in the French Open, and Lee Hyung-Taik has a great chance to break. However, in a real game, Lee Hyung-Taik, not to mention a break, even became very sleepy. At this moment, Coach Choi finally found out that he had made a wrong prediction before the game.
Coach Zhang has realized this and only heard him say to Zhuge Wenbo around him, "In the clay court of the French Open, the ball speed will indeed slow down, but this slowdown is not just for Zhang Guan alone, but the ball speed of all players will be slower. The decrease of the ball speed makes Zhang Guan's serve threat to be limited, but for Lee Hyung-Taik, who is not good at serving, the decrease of the ball speed will make his serve no threat at all. More importantly, Zhang Guan's new tactics are used! The overall situation of this game is set."
The next game seemed to confirm Coach Zhang's statement that Lee Hyung-Taik's rhythm became more and more chaotic and he made more and more mistakes. Under Zhang Guan's offensive, he lost his second serve. And then, Zhang Guan successfully secured, and the score of the first set of the two sides became 5-0.
With a score of 5-0, there is no suspense in the first set. The only thing worth paying attention to is whether Zhang Guan will give Lee Hyung-Taik a "zero egg".
However, this suspense did not last long. The chaotic rhythm of Lee Hyung-Taik couldn't even guarantee the quality and success rate of his services, and the continuous unforced errors made him lose his serve.
The final score of the first set was 6-0, Zhang Guan gave Lee Hyung-Taik a "zero egg".
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At this time, in front of the TV, countless Korean viewers were all very disappointed.
"How could this happen? Player Lee Hyung-Taik lost the first set of games without even gaining a point!"
"Isn't it said that Lee Hyung-Taik's strength is very strong, he will become the biggest dark horse in this competition? Why is the result like this?"
"A good break? Even if it doesn't break, it's okay to keep your server. Why didn't he win a game? Why did you lose 6-0?"
The TV picture quickly entered the advertising period, and in the studio, the South Korean commentator was scratching his head and thinking of various reasons to excuse Lee Hyung-Taik.
"Lee Hyung-Taik, even if you win the next set, but the score of 6-0 won't help me with an excuse to save your face!"