The audience at Arthur Ashe Stadium booed and complained, expressing their strong dissatisfaction with Kyrgios with their voices and actions, and despised Kyrgios' behavior.
In tennis matches, the audience is always like this. If a player behaves ungently, the first one to boo is the audience. The more top-level events, the more so. The French Open audience has booed players more than once for different reasons.
Surprisingly, even Federer once lost control of his emotions.
Although among the four Grand Slams, the US Open is the noisiest, and there are even DJs playing pop music to liven up the atmosphere between sets and breaks; but the audience also dislikes the players' lack of courtesy.
Not long ago, they were applauding Kyrgios' performance; now, they are complaining about Kyrgios' anger.
Kyrgios obviously couldn't accept it.
Just in time, Kyrgios needs someone to vent his anger on -
Kyrgios, who was chattering endlessly, got angry at the audience again. He yelled "shut up", followed by a series of "shut up". As a result, the audience booed even louder. The US Open audience was not worried about affecting the game.
As the process progressed, everyone watched the excitement and the whole place became noisy.
The game was interrupted for nearly three minutes.
Gao Wen was quite content. He performed simple leg presses and kicks to warm up to ensure that his body muscles were in a relaxed state, and then watched from the sidelines. Encountering such an unexpected situation in a Grand Slam was a brand new experience in his career.
Well, you will encounter various situations in professional competitions.
When Kyrgios finally finished competing with the crowd and prepared to serve, Gawain was already ready to receive the ball.
The furious Kyrgios wanted to eat Gawain alive, and then poured all his emotions into his serve.
ACE, 136 miles per hour (219 kilometers per hour).
The fastest ACE in this game appears!
Kyrgios glared at Gawain fiercely, then stuck out his tongue and shook his head as he walked towards the second area. His expression and movements seemed to be demonstrating:
See, you just can't get it.
He was still able to come back with such speed after a three-minute interruption. Kyrgios is indeed gifted, but even geniuses have weaknesses.
"30:40".
Zone two, inside corner, press forehand.
Kyrgios tried to suppress Gawain's forehand, but the distraction caused by the three-minute interruption obviously affected this serve. The speed still maintained an excellent state of 124 miles (200 kilometers) per hour, but the angle was not completely torn apart.
Come and give Gawain a chance to breathe.
One kick, one extension.
Gao Wen used the force of his forehand to push the ball forward, but at the moment when the ball was released, the strength of his wrist lightly moved outward, and then the tennis ball was hit straight back.
Outside corner!
Gawain's return serve landed in Kyrgios's left service area, which was basically equivalent to an outside corner serve. Then you can see that Kyrgios has reached the position in two big strides, and his backhand was ready early.
, once again used the trump card in his arsenal:
Backhand straight line.
It can be clearly felt that Kyrgios lacked patience in these two rounds and had no intention of "playing with cat and mouse" because he had endless irritability and anger that needed to be vented, so his hitting was obviously much more powerful and domineering. After serving,
The first shot of the attack was connected and the force was directly exerted.
The arc of the swing is not large, it is just a push in a small range, using the power of the racket surface to push forward to change the flight trajectory of the tennis ball.
Sudden and fast.
Whoosh!
The tennis ball flew quickly towards the big triangle on the right sideline of Gao Wen!
Kick, kick, kick!
Kick, kick, kick!
Gawain sprinted with all his strength and moved laterally, moving in a wide range from the left corner to the right corner. The figure sprinting with all his strength was like a wave of light steps, leaving a row of afterimages behind him.
Kyrgios's backhand is straight and fast. The only shortcoming is that because Kyrgios did not take the initiative to exert force himself, and Gawain just received the serve with the help of force, the power attached to the tennis ball has almost disappeared.
It's just that the tail power of the ball quality is not enough, and it only relies on speed to suppress it.
But Gawain's advance prediction of movement bought him time——
Stride! Stride! All-out sprint!
Kick, kick, kick!
His steps were still a little off, and when he saw that the hitting point was about to be wrong, Gao Wen pushed his calf and jumped into the air. He set up the forehand triggering action early, making full use of the inertia of the run-up sprint and the airborne movement.
And the force rolling down from top to bottom completes the exertion.
Soar! Fly!
boom!
The forehand swings quickly, the speed of the racket head is completely increased, the forearm is swung at high speed like a whip, and it still does not stop after the shot is released, and the whole body and arms are completely stretched to complete the large loop hitting movement around the head.
Just like a big roc spreading its wings, it is free and easy.
bass.
boom!
The tennis ball is visibly compressed to the extreme, and then rebounds and impacts, and the power is gradually released. In a daze, you can see the tennis ball swelling again, and the thin fluff explodes, crossing the entire field like an angry bird.
, drew a diagonal super diagonal line, and smashed it towards the theoretical dead ball at the other end of the court.
boom!
Kyrgios started sprinting immediately. He also rushed from the left end of the court to the extreme right end, and the speed he burst out in an instant reached the extreme.
For the first time in the entire match, Kyrgios lost his calm posture and reached the extreme pace. However, he did not expect that Gawain's full forehand would instantly elevate his speed and power to a whole new level; even though Kyrgios's
Even though the speed has been fully released, it is still a little bit behind.
It was obviously Kyrgios who was the first to change the line, but it was Gawain who was the first to exert force. This was also the biggest change from the second half of the first set to the second set. The initiative was not in the hands of Kyrgios, but in the hands of Kyrgios.
The two players are constantly competing, and no one can tell when the other will launch an attack.
This time, after Gawain reversed his passivity, the pressure was overwhelming towards Kyrgios. It was obvious that this forehand shot was an attack planned by Gawain.
Tap tap tap.
Kyrgios' speed has exploded to the extreme, but the movement of his legs on the ground still cannot catch up with the flying speed of the tennis ball.
Out of bounds?
Out of bounds, out of bounds, out of bounds...
Kyrgios staggered forward, his eyes fixed on the landing point of the tennis ball, and he continued to mutter like a curse. This should be his only hope. As long as the return ball goes out of bounds, everything will be over.
The problem was solved, and this was the only thought in his mind.
However--
within the bounds.
The linesman made an inbounds gesture, and Gao Wen's return ball hit the corner of the triangle and landed on the line!
Accurate! Tricky! Tough! Domineering!
boom!
In an instant, the whole place was boiling!
No one expected that Gao Wen would win this point in such a tough and violent way, breaking Kyrgios for the first time and reaching the serve!