The boos were overwhelming and the whole place was turbulent. However, the situation was so unclear that no one could accurately tell who these boos were aimed at.
Booing the referee?
Expressing serious dissatisfaction with the referee's penalty? After all, the second set was over before Kyrgios got angry, and subsequent warnings and penalties seemed unnecessary.
Boo Gawain?
Do the home fans believe that Gawain's deliberate provocation angered Kyrgios and used unfair means outside the stadium to try to win the game?
Boo Kyrgios?
Not only condemning Kyrgios' dangerous moves, but also condemning Kyrgios' attitude towards the game, this is obviously a smear campaign against the Australian Open.
Boo the organizer?
Is the parade of security personnel entering the venue too exaggerated? This farce may become the biggest bloody moment of this year's Australian Open. Is it really okay?
It's hard to tell exactly who the boos are directed at.
But what is certain is that Kyrgios once again thought this was directed at him, and like a howling dog looking at the moon, he raised his chin and roared loudly.
"Shut up!"
Even in front of the home fans, this unruly genius did not hesitate to scold him.
"Shut up!"
The boos did not stop, but became more and more violent.
However, the boos could not last long. After a brief distraction, the home fans were dragged back to the ground by despair and sadness.
Then, they finally began to realize reality.
The second set is over.
"7:6(3)."
Gao Wen wins.
Kyrgios held two consecutive set points in his own serve to win the set, but unfortunately he failed to win. As a result, the tie-break reached a stalemate of "3:3", but Gawain scored three consecutive points, and he won the victory neatly.
Pocket it.
Especially in the last three points of the tiebreaker, Gao Wen truly showed his demeanor as one of the top eight in the world and proved his ability with an absolutely tough attitude.
In sharp contrast to Kyrgios's roaring and roaring, Gawain, who is usually good at roaring and celebrating, performed calmly in the second set, especially in the tie-break, with a calm and confident performance that ensured victory.
, firmly grasping the initiative, and the atmosphere of the game quietly changed.
At Margaret Court Stadium, the home fans were demoralized.
Different from watching the live broadcast in front of the TV, they can feel the atmosphere of the game more clearly and profoundly when they are in front of the TV. The tension and excitement put their hearts through severe tests at all times. After a continuous roller coaster experience, their energy and physical strength will increase.
The consumption is very serious.
On the verge of suffocation.
The farce after the inventory was over disintegrated the defense line from both a mental and physical level.
Although no one can be sure exactly who the boos are directed at, and perhaps even the booing fans themselves cannot be sure whether other fans are on the same side as them, what is certain is that there is a lot of disappointment hidden in it.
Disappointment with Kyrgios.
Judging from Kyrgios' performance, he is still the spoiled child who does as he pleases, gets and asks for whatever he wants. He managed to concentrate for a while, but after things didn't develop as he expected, he fell into shirk.
model of responsibility.
Losing the second tiebreaker was like a wake-up call.
The Australians at the scene were all a little dizzy and couldn't recover for a while, and then they realized that the third set might also be difficult.
Kyrgios is really overwhelmed.
In fact, a small number of fans can be seen leaving the stadium one after another——
They couldn't bear to watch any more.
Of course, objectively speaking, the game is still not over. Kyrgios can still win three consecutive sets in a huge reversal, and the suspense of victory has not yet been decided.
Agassi once said a famous saying: There is no timer in a tennis match. Everything is possible until the winner is determined.
Whether it is football or basketball, these games have time limits. No matter what, the game always needs to determine a winner within time, even if it is overtime plus overtime.
But not tennis.
In the past, there was a long-set tiebreaker, so Isner and Mahut played a score of "70:68" at Wimbledon.
Now, there is no long-game tie-breaker, but there are still tie-breaks/tie-breaks, and in the tie-breaks, the small score also has a surprising score of "30:28".
Opportunities always exist objectively.
It is precisely because of this that unless the players themselves give up the game, the outcome of tennis will always be in suspense.
However.
But the home audience can't stand it anymore. It's not so much a lack of confidence as it is a lack of physical strength, energy, and enthusiasm. They really have no way to continue. Watching the game is also a kind of torture, and the heart can't bear it.
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A kind of despair, a kind of fatigue, a kind of lack of interest, more turbulent than anger, gradually spread in Margaret Court Stadium.
Although only a very small number of fans left the venue, the entire atmosphere was still different from the first two sets.
The fans are still shouting and cheering.
"Up! Nick! Up!"
A small group of fans covered in oil paint, a dozen or twenty people, cheered happily and energetically, not feeling tired at all. Their shouts circled loudly above the stadium, but the first two fans could no longer be found.
The hot atmosphere of the album makes their voices feel particularly lonely.
Then, the third set began.
Kyrgios is not giving up.
The problem is that he is always angry, even furious, so he starts to exert force blindly, as if tennis is some kind of father-killing enemy, exerting force unreasonably.
The problem is that tennis is not a sport in which an absolute advantage can be achieved through strength. Regardless of exerting force, it has no use except a waste of energy. On the contrary, it may cause the hitting point to be messed up, either off the net or out of bounds.
The ball goes out of control.
In fact, it can be seen that this is Kyrgios' purpose. He just needs to vent his anger. If he doesn't vent his anger, he may explode——
The Margaret Court Stadium should be very bloody, and it is not sure whether the broadcaster can continue to broadcast it.
After his anger was vented for a while, Kyrgios's energy began to collapse, and he was obviously unable to concentrate. Off-field factors interfered with him more and more frequently.
The audience was looking for trouble.
Even the cheering sounds of the fans seemed to have become a kind of interference. It was obvious that Kyrgios was getting more and more irritated, and the complaint index skyrocketed.
He even had a direct conflict with fans in the first row at the back of the stadium. After the opponent yelled something unclear, he launched a counterattack.
"Shut up!"
"Shut your mouth, I don't need you to tell me how to play!"
The fan seemed frightened and kept his mouth shut, but Kyrgios, who won the scolding battle, still couldn't regain his concentration.
Naturally, batting accuracy has declined, and the number of unforced errors has skyrocketed like a rocket.
However, the real key problem is that there are very serious problems with Kyrgios's prediction.