From a performance level and a system level, Gao Wen's clay court season and grass court season were indeed fruitful and worthy of celebration.
But in Gawain's view, compared to these numbers, the real gains are those things that are invisible and intangible, an experience, an experience, an adventure——
Open a new door!
This is something he was not able to experience in his previous life, the different scenery and style of the tennis world.
Clay tennis and lawn tennis are still tennis, but they are not the tennis that Gao Wen knows. The different uses and presentations of technical characteristics in different venues are indeed strange and new.
From spin to bounce to power, it not only shows the different characteristics of tennis itself, but also shows the different styles of players' skills, which is very interesting.
Maybe, tennis is about speed and power, but if you think tennis is only about speed and power, you would be wrong, just like Formula One.
In the eyes of ordinary people, Formula One is pure speed and passion; only with a truly in-depth understanding can we know that racing is also related to control, judgment, calculation, timing, etc. In addition to absolute speed, there is another mystery to this event.
But the magnificent world is not that simple.
Tennis, too.
Of course, players can apply what they are good at on hard courts to clay and grass, and it will still work sometimes; but if this is the case, tennis will lose a lot of fun, and it will never be able to open another door to pry.
To a whole new world.
At least, that's what Gawain thinks.
Although the clay and grass seasons have ended, Gao Wen's understanding and digestion has just begun, and he still needs some time to chew on it.
After comprehensive consideration from different aspects, Tobias and Sampras reached a consensus——
Throughout July, if they don't arrange additional tournament schedules, they need a holiday.
correct!
A small part of the reason is that, just like in March, the ITF and ATP reached an agreement to take advantage of the short gap between major events and squeeze the Davis Cup into July.
From July 17th to 19th, the second round of the Asia and Oceania region is about to begin. China will go to an away game to challenge the second seed India.
The winner of this game will enter the World Group play-offs to compete for qualifications to advance to the World Group next year.
If China can beat India, it will be the second time since 1990 that they have entered the World Group play-offs.
There is no doubt that Gawain is the center of attention.
At that time, Gao Wen will fight as the number one single.
However, the Davis Cup event is only a weekend, with at least one singles match and as many as two matches. The intensity of the entire match is very limited, so there is no need to worry too much; but considering that Gao Wen has just finished the high-intensity clay and grass matches
During the season, it is extremely important to adjust the schedule to balance work and rest.
It is precisely because of this consideration that Tobias and Sampras hit it off immediately, and after Wimbledon ended, they announced that they would take a short vacation.
Before and after, it is actually only three weeks, but in the compact and dense comprehensive tennis schedule calendar, it is particularly precious.
It just so happened that Gao Wen really needed this kind of time to digest and digest the experiences of the past three months.
Here, Gawain's trip to Wimbledon comes to an end. He leaves London immediately and returns across the Atlantic to New York——
Before the holiday officially begins, he needs to shoot next season's advertising and posters for Nike, as well as three magazine interviews and two magazine cover shoots.
Although he lost the Wimbledon semi-finals, the commercial value of Gao Wen continued to rise off the court. Nike revised its business plan and launched a comprehensive layout.
On the other side, the Wimbledon event has also entered its final climax. The singles and doubles finals have begun, and the audience is looking forward to witnessing the birth of history again.
First, the women’s singles arena——
Serena Williams welcomes the impact of young rookie Muguruza.
Although this is the first time Muguruza has entered a Grand Slam final in his career, the "post-90s" undoubtedly has the ability to challenge the back of the ball, and has proven this in actual games.
The two players have met three times in their careers, all in Grand Slam tournaments. Although Williams leads with two wins and one loss, Muguruza's upset victory over Serena Williams in the second round at the French Open last year was his masterpiece;
At the Australian Open at the beginning of this year, Serena Williams also narrowly won in three sets.
In this rematch, Serena Williams has never adjusted her serve to its best this year, which may become a breakthrough for Muguruza to overturn the game.
"6:4", "6:4".
At the end of the match, Williams missed two consecutive serves to win the game, but in the end she still defeated her opponent in straight sets.
Behind the ball, still behind the ball.
This is Serena Williams' 21st Grand Slam championship. At 33 years and 289 days old, she also becomes the oldest Grand Slam champion in the Open era.
At the same time, this is the second time in Serena Williams' career that she has achieved the "Serena Grand Slam". Since last year's US Open, she has won all the Grand Slam championships in four consecutive cities. When the WTA briefly fell into turmoil and chaos,
The Queen once again unified the country and reached the top to defend her dominance.
After the top four in the men's singles field defended their glory, Serena Williams once again proved that the "Serena Era" in the women's singles field is not over yet.
Secondly, the men’s singles arena——
History has changed slightly, but not completely.
In the last life, Djokovic defeated Federer in four sets and won his ninth Grand Slam championship, fully starting his first peak period.
Everyone said that Federer had returned to the top, but in front of Djokovic, Federer was passive throughout the game. The last impression left to people was that in the second set, he saved seven set points and won the tiebreaker at "12:10"
The next game; however, in the end, it still failed to create more threats.
In this life, the five-set battle with Gao Wen in the semi-finals, on the one hand, really consumed Federer's physical energy, and Djokovic invisibly widened the gap; but on the other hand, it inspired Federer's ambition, confidence and condition to rise.
To a whole new level, the game will be different.
"6:7(6)", "7:6(10)", "6:4", "4:6".
In the first four sets, the two players were inseparable, and no one could completely widen the gap. The interlocking game was stalemate, exciting, and suffocating.
Finally, the game entered the final set.
However, it was clearly felt in the final set that Federer's physical fitness was weak, while Djokovic became more courageous and gradually took the initiative.
Although Federer still relied on experience and will to maintain the balance of the game, he was still unable to create more disturbances in Djokovic's serve. Instead, he frequently found himself in danger in his own serve. Facing the world's best receiving serve
Excellent player, his serve is severely limited.
In the deciding set, Djokovic broke Federer's serve twice in a row in the final stage, completely destroying his opponent with a continuous shock wave and taking away the victory.
"3:6", Federer is in front and Djokovic is behind.
The championship, after all, belongs to Djokovic, who successfully defended his title——
After losing consecutive finals at Melbourne Park and Roland Garros this year, Djokovic finally had a breakthrough at Wimbledon.