Chapter 1115 Return to Phoenix

"Don't be surprised, I can't catch the speed of 230 an hour every time. I just got lucky this time." Li Ba turned around and said to everyone.

Then I tried several more times, and sure enough, Li Ba only received the call three times out of seven times in total.

But this has surprised everyone. This is a small racket. If it is a real racket, it means that Li Ba can hit the sweet spot at such a high ball speed.

Li Ba smiled and said: "I have only been doing this kind of training for three months. Come on, everyone, if you practice well, you won't eat so many ACE balls from me."

Federer's face twitched. He had eaten the most, more than 400 in one game. He never wanted to eat Li Ba's ACE ball again in his life.

"Attention, this is the return of serve between me and Djokovic. You can follow your own habits and retreat to receive the serve." Li Ba said.

The training camp closed at the end of the month, and Li Ba began to train his tennis skills with all his strength.

On August 16, Li Ba rushed back to Beijing and took Yatou and Guoguo to attend Gao Yuanyuan's wedding.

Li Ba and the girl each gave a gift to Gao Yuanyuan. In addition, the girl specially prepared a set of jewelry at the bottom of the box for Gao Yuanyuan, which was worth a lot of money.

On August 23, Nadal announced his withdrawal from the US Open due to his unrecovered injury.

On August 26, the US Open announced the seed list. Federer and Safina were the No. 1 male and female seeds respectively. Murray and Serena Williams were the second male and female seeds respectively. Li Na and Zheng Jie were the No. 18 and No. 1 male players respectively. No. 21 seed.

Li Ba is the men's No. 10 seed, which is similar to his current world ranking.

He was randomly assigned to the 2/4 divisions in the top half, the same division as Roddick.

Li Ba's Wimbledon championship fund is 1.2 million pounds. This time the US Open singles championship fund is 3.7 million US dollars, which is much higher than Wimbledon.

The US Open has always been held at the USA National Tennis Center in New York, and it will be the same this time.

In addition, unlike Wimbledon, the US Open is a hard court, and it is harder than the Australian Open, so the ball speed at the US Open is the fastest, faster than Wimbledon.

The ball speed at Wimbledon is fast, not because of the venue, but because of the ball, because the balls used at Wimbledon are deflated, which is conducive to heavy balls and flat hitting.

Li Ba came to New York in mid-August for adaptive training.

As soon as he arrived in New York, Marbury came over, trained with him, and served as his caddy for three tickets to the finals.

He has more friends here. Some friends from Hollywood come to watch him train every day, take photos, and then post them on Facebook.

In addition to friends, there are also a large number of media following him from the hotel to the training ground, 24 hours a day.

CCTV sent an interview team this time, including seven people including cameramen and assistants, to follow him.

After the fly-catching training camp, Federer continued to use this kind of training to improve some of his abilities.

Through this kind of training, he only needs to improve his receiving ability, and he will have a great chance of defeating Li Ba.

Like him, top players such as Djokovic also think so.

On the 27th, the qualifying round is over.

On the 28th, the main draw of the US Open begins.

With his strong ability to hold serve, Li Ba successfully reached the quarter-finals and met Roddick.

On September 7, the match between Li Ba and Roddick began. This was also the last match in the 2/4 division.

In the end, after an hour and a half, Li Ba once again relied on his strong ability to hold serve and his strong return ability to eliminate the unlucky Roddick and reach the semi-finals.

In the semi-finals, just two months later, he once again met the No. 1 seed Federer, who was also in the top half, to compete for a spot in the final.

The media predicts that this time Federer is more familiar with Li Ba's technical characteristics, and he has learned Li Ba's training methods, and will defeat Li Ba this time.

But at the same time, the media also analyzed Federer's weaknesses, that is, there are still some problems in receiving serve, and the tiebreaker is also a big problem.

The United States is different from Wimbledon, Australian Open, and Wimbledon. In the final set, the United States is the tiebreaker.

Before the game, in the ESPN live broadcast room, commentators Ruby and Lance, as well as guest Nadal, were analyzing the game.

"Raphael, do you think Roger can win this time?" Lance asked.

Nadal said seriously: "I know Roger has been training with the hammer during this period. He should have adapted to the hammer's serve to a certain extent. Coupled with his own strength, he should have a chance to defeat Hammer."

Ruby asked: "Rafael, you gave up Wimbledon and the US Open in succession, so will you participate in the next China Open?"

Nadal smiled and said: "Probably. I'm almost recovered now. The reason why I gave up the US Open is because I need to truly recover. I can't come back early and let the injury relapse."

In the end, Federer won the match 5-3.

In this game, he realized his idea. Facing Li Ba's strong serve, his return success rate improved a bit.

Of course, Li Ba's ball speed was too fast and he still didn't receive many balls, but these improvements allowed him to seize the opportunity to break Li Ba's serve.

On the other hand, Li Ba's breaking ability was still the same. His skills could not be improved much in a short period of time, and he could never seize the opportunity to break Federer's serve, and ultimately lost the game.

After the game, although Li Ba lost, he was still surrounded by the media.

"Hammer, do you regret letting Federer attend your training camp now?"

"Hammer, are you doing this on your own?"

"Iron hammer..."

A lot of questions were raised.

"What do I regret? If Roger and the others don't go to my training camp, his coaching team will also simulate my serve to help him improve his technical level of receiving serve. What I have to do is to improve my technical level. Have the strength to truly defeat them," Li Ba said with a smile.

He added: "A true king will not want his opponent to be too weak, but will only hope to have a stronger opponent. I have always thought so, and this is what I do."

After losing the game, Li Ba left the United States directly.

On September 8, Li Ba landed in Beijing, and his family members also arrived early.

On September 27, the China Open begins.

This year's China Open is full of real big names, and their star power is far greater than in previous years.

Li Ba also reached the top eight at this China Open. Coincidentally, he met Federer again, and then lost to the opponent again, stopping in the quarterfinals.

After finishing the China Open, they rested in Beijing for two days. On October 13, Li Ba and his family left for the United States to start the new season.

At this time, the preseason has begun.

He hasn't paid attention to the NBA for a long time, and he doesn't even know what the lineup of his own team is, so the first thing he did when he returned to Phoenix was to rush to the headquarters to find out about the team's status.