Chapter 1089: Slow Down While Increasing Serve Changes

Today is Tuesday. At this time, it is 5 pm in China. It is daylight saving time in the UK, which is 7 hours ahead in China.

It was time to get off work, but Xin Nancheng did not leave. He frowned and smoked alone in the office.

He did not expose the quarrel with Li Ba. Li Ba's influence domestically and internationally was too great, and it was not as big as it was back then. He was afraid that he would not be able to withstand the pressure.

There has been something wrong with the national team training these days. Yi Jianlian took a week's sick leave, saying it was a knee injury. Just now, Yi Jianlian also asked for leave, saying it was an injury. How is this possible? , he doesn’t believe these nonsense.

"These guys have no sense of organization and no sense of collective honor. They are simply intolerable! What should we do? Should we expose their evil deeds through the media?"

He weighed it over and over in his mind, but couldn't make an immediate decision.

At this time, the coin guessing began. Djokovic got the head first, but Li Ba could only ask for tails. As a result, Li Ba was lucky. He guessed correctly and asked for the serve.

There was only five minutes of warm-up time, but at the beginning of the first game of the first set, Li Ba's serve came.

In today's game, Zhang Depei's serving strategy was to increase the stability of the first serve, which means to reduce the ball speed.

With Li Ba's ball speed, lowering it a bit and adding some angle changes will not affect his ability to hit the ACE ball.

He uses high ball speed to increase the ace ball, but reduces the angle change. It is better to slow down to increase the change.

Right half area, one shot.

He looked at Djokovic's position and saw that unlike others when returning serve, he was close to the baseline.

Generally, when receiving a serve, the position is one meter or one step behind the baseline. After the opponent serves, the receiver will immediately step back, at least two meters behind the baseline. With Li Ba's first serve speed, he has to retreat at least three meters before he has a chance to receive the serve.

But the reason why Djokovic's return is so strong is that he has excellent body flexibility and can complete high-quality receiving actions in various awkward physical conditions; second, his return relies on fast pace and Backhand block.

Therefore, his return of serve does not rely on retreating, but close to the baseline, making the return action in the shortest time, so that the server does not have too much time to move.

Whether it is a fast move or a backhand block, he can return the ball very quickly. In addition, his ability to predict and his flexibility ensure the quality of his receiving. This is why his direct scoring rate after receiving the serve ranks first in the world. Reasons for precedent.

Djokovic stared at Li Ba opposite him and made all preparations. He was going to step on the person opposite him, the most popular guy in the sports world, to achieve the upper hand.

At this moment when Li Ba threw and hit the ball, Djokovic predicted that this was a high-speed outside corner serve.

He instantly predicted the path of the ball, began to move toward the ball, and took advantage of the situation to block the ball with his backhand.

"boom!"

The block is completed and the ball rebounds instantly.

"OUT!"

The ball went out of bounds and the referee shouted.

"1:0." The referee shouted.

"pity!"

Djokovic's coach Berrell and Nike's president shook their heads in the audience.

"Papa..."

The stars on Adi's side are applauding.

Djokovic took a deep breath to stabilize his mind.

The ball just now was too fast and missed the sweetheart, which affected the quality of the return.

He took a look at the speedometer. It was 215 kilometers per hour. Compared with the Hammers' previous games, the first-serve speed dropped by almost twenty or thirty. Why is this?

Li Ba glanced at Djokovic and saw that the ball was actually caught and he did not get the ACE ball.

Although the overall tactic is to reduce the speed of the first serve, it should have been reduced more just now, to the original speed of the second serve.

With Djokovic's receiving skills, this ball speed does not pose a fatal threat to him.

Coming to the left half, Li Ba was ready to serve.

"boom!"

When swinging and hitting, he did not choose to speed up, but chose to change. This time, he wanted the inside corner of the shot.

"ACE!"

The referee shouted loudly.

"2:0." The referee shouted.

215 kilometers per hour, the speedometer showed the speed of this launch.

"Papa..."

The audience burst into warm applause again.

"What?" Deyo was surprised.

His prediction was the outside angle, because 80% of the first shot of the hammer has the outside angle, and the inside angle only increases with the second round. Why did the second round today require the inside angle?

"I see."

But he soon understood that because the ball speed of the two first serves did not exceed 220, which was much worse than the previous games. This was sacrificing the ball speed to increase the variation and stability of the serve.

But this increases the difficulty of his return, because even if Li Ba's serve slows down, it still exceeds 210, or even above 215. If such ball speed increases change and stability, the threat will be even greater.

Li Ba returned to the right half and prepared to serve again.

He felt that his hands felt good today, and he scored two first-serve points, which made him more confident.

"boom!"

With one move, Li Ba asked for the inside corner again.

Moreover, this time he did not serve topspin, but a flat shot.

When the speed is about to slow down, flat shots can also be used.

"What?"

At the moment Li Ba hit the ball, Djokovic made a prediction. In the inside corner, he moved to the left with all his strength and blocked the ball with his backhand, but still did not catch the ball.

"ACE!"

The referee shouted loudly.

"3:0. Game point." the referee shouted.

"He actually hit a flat shot?" Djokovic was surprised.

In the previous games, he didn't see Li Ba serve flat, and even rarely hit flat. What happened today?

He looked at the speedometer, 210 kilometers per hour, and he understood that Li Ba slowed down again, but the flat ball was different from the topspin ball with arc movement, and had a strong straight line penetration, which was why he didn't receive the ball.

He felt a little tricky, because Li Ba's serve was more terrible after slowing down, and now it was game point, and the opponent immediately saved the serve successfully. How to play the next serve? Is it the inside corner or the outside corner? Is it a topspin or a flat shot?

His coach Berrell's palms were sweating. He felt that Djokovic should have some psychological problems, but unfortunately, he couldn't help Djokovic, and he couldn't even make gestures. If he caught it, he would be deducted points directly.

In the stands, Zhang Depei clenched his fists excitedly.

The first serve deceleration tactic is correct. Even if it is slowed down, the hammer's first serve is still a strong threat, but the added changes and stability can make the first serve more threatening than before.

So, sometimes being too fast or too good is not a good thing, just like the iron hammer's boxing skills are too strong, no one is qualified to play with you.

Now the NBA is the same, Li Ba also thinks it's boring to always win the championship. Several giants can't beat him together, how can he play?

Li Ba picked three balls, then came to the left half, ready to serve.

"Bang!"

This time he wanted the outside corner, neither topspin nor flat, but backspin.