There was a round of applause from the audience at the Philip Stadium. On the Grand Slam court, only a few big-name players can often enjoy this treatment.
Today, they gave this applause was given to Monfils, because Monfils brought everyone a wonderful "performance".
Monfils is also very excited. If it is an ordinary game, he will hardly have so many opportunities to perform. However, Zhang Guan's running and attacking methods are always attacking his space at a fast pace, which also gives Monfils many opportunities to save.
"Applause, let's have some more applause! Let me be more excited!" Monfils sighed.
The second set match between the two also began.
Monfils is not as good as most people, and the score gradually starts to fall behind, but in terms of style of play, Monfils is getting more and more active and fierce. The atmosphere at the scene also drove the state of Monfils, making him more courageous.
Zhang Guan's forehand knocked a diagonal line, this ball is about to go out of bounds, and Monfils also started his "flower style" save, only to see a dive over, swing and hit the ball, in control Made a turn, and then his butt fell to the ground.
"Oh wow!" the audience screamed.
"Save back." Monfils just got up but heard the audience scream again.
"Wow..." The audience's voice conveyed not only marvel but also a feeling of shock.
"What's wrong? Is my landing spot beautiful?" Monfils immediately turned to the opposite side, looking at Zhang Guan.
He saw Zhang Guan stride for two consecutive times, his body vacated, and then stretched his racket under his crotch. He completed this crotch shot in the air.
Similar to this kind of action, Monfils did it just once and was also greeted with the applause of the audience. Now, Zhang Guan is repeating this action.
But Zhang Guan jumped higher and jumped farther than Monfils, Zhang Guan's stride was longer, the stagnation time was longer, and the overall movement was more smooth and beautiful. From the perspective of viewing, if comparing Zhang Guan's action to the White Swan, then the same movement of Monfils is like a Donald Duck.
After Zhang Guan landed, he smiled slightly. He used the stride skill for this performance-like return.
Striding skills is not only a hurdle skill but also a skill in the triple jump. No matter how powerful Monfils is, he is just a tennis player. How could he compete with the champion of track and field? Although Zhang Guan has not participated in the triple jump competition, this does not affect him as he can jump higher, span further, and make more beautiful movements.
At the next moment, the audience was boiling, but this time, the applause and shouts were not given to Monfils, but Zhang Guan.
There was an inexplicable sense of loss in Monfils' heart. He felt that the applause originally belonged to him, but now it was taken away by Zhang Guan.
A few minutes later, with a return from Monfils, Zhang Guan also saved himself and fell sideways. However, unlike Monfils, Zhang Guan stood sideways and stood up, and ran to the net, giving Monfils a fatal blow.
"Oh oh oh!" The audience boiled again.
On the big screen, Zhang Guan's rescue action was replayed. The commentator said in an exaggerated voice, "It's so wonderful. Zhang Guan's save this time is so wonderful. He didn't stay in place after he fell to the ground but stood up directly! How did he do it? You know that the same save action by Monfils just took a second to get up from the ground! Is this a legend? Chinese Kung Fu?"
This is certainly not Chinese Kung Fu. There is a sideways landing point in the long jump technique. Zhang Guan also borrowed one of these techniques. After landing sideways, he used the inertia to get up and take advantage of this situation. This is not difficult for a trained professional long jumper.
Monfils looked at the big screen, and his heart was empty. Of course, he could see that Zhang Guan's save was much more beautiful than his own save.
On the stands, Federer's signature smile appeared on his face. He shook his head gently and said, "I didn't expect Zhang Guan to do this! But his performance is much prettier than that of Monfils. Zhang Guan moves more smoothly and stretches more, and the audience enjoys it more!"
Federer said while looking at the audience. At this time, the audience on the scene was no longer one-sided support for Monfils. Many people turned to support Zhang Guan.
The audience loves new things, but they are also fickle. Originally, only when Monfils was "performing", the audience began to support Monfils because of curiosity, and when Zhang Guan also began to perform, the more ornamental movement instantly made Monfils lose a lot of supporters.
Mirka's voice sounded from Federer's ear, "Don't forget, Zhang Guan is a track and field athlete, of which the long jump is also a world champion."
"Yeah, I saw the same action, Zhang Guan made it smoother!" Federer suddenly realized that he turned his gaze back to the arena.
"Huh? What is Zhang Guan doing?" Federer exclaimed.
He saw that after Zhang Guan returned to the ball on one side of the court, he did not return to the middle position where it was easier to catch the ball, but ran out of bounds, and even approached the position of the barrier.
"What is Zhang Guan doing? How did he run out of bounds?"
"This is about to run out of the court, is it hurt?"
"The other side is left with space as large as Monfils. This ball must have been lost."
The audience at the scene was of course all kinds of speculation. Even the referee turned his attention to Zhang Guan. The referee thought Zhang Guan might be injured. Once he requested a medical suspension, the referee would immediately terminate the game.
The opposite of Monfils was also shocked, but the professionalism of the professional player still made him hit the ball to the neutral position on the other side of Zhang Guan.
"It wouldn't hurt!" Coach Zhang Depei stood up nervously, and it was at this time that Zhang Guan suddenly started to accelerate and ran towards the other side of the court.
"You can still run, the movement is very smooth, Zhang Guan is not injured! But why did he run out of bounds? Suddenly turned?" Coach Zhang felt inexplicable.
But Zhang Guan rose from the sky. He seemed to be an eagle, soaring in the sky. He flew directly from one side of the court to the other.
Singles use the inside edge. The distance between the inside edge of a standard tennis court is only 8.23 meters. This is the most distant space in the world.
In the air, Zhang Guan's legs were close together, and at this time, the tennis ball flew right in front of Zhang Guan, but because Zhang Guan jumped well, the ball was now under Zhang Guan's legs.
A racket suddenly stretched out from the back of Zhang Guan's legs, hitting the tennis ball and hitting the ball across the net.
At the next moment, Zhang Guan fell to the ground and his shoes painted a long trace on the clay court.
The whole action was done in one go. If there were track and field coaches or long jumpers present, you could see at a glance that Zhang Guan's aerial action was a long jump squat, just adding a swinging movement in the air.
A world long jumper, let alone add a swinging action when he is in the air, even a five-shot POSE is also a breeze.
However, this action is not a long jump action in the eyes of ordinary viewers. Instead, Zhang Guan jumped laterally from one side of the court to the other, not only very far, but also very high, and even flew over the tennis ball. The most important thing is that Zhang Guan completed the movement in hitting the ball.
Monfils looked at the scene and was stunned. He even forgot to catch the ball.
The audience was silent as if they couldn't believe their eyes.
"Oh, my God! What did I see! Unbelievable! How did Zhang Guan do that! He is simply God!"