Question: How long does it take to truly experience Kyrgios’ gift of tennis impact?
Answer: One game.
At the end of last year, when Gawain faced Kyrgios, he scored five consecutive points and blocked Kyrgios. To a large extent, it was caused by Kyrgios himself underestimating the opponent. After losing consecutive points, he concentrated again and Kyrgios became irritable. His temper became an obstacle again, and he lost points in a hurry.
When they met again, all the old and new hatreds came to mind, not only Kyrgios' own revenge, but also the fact that his good friend Kokkinakis failed to get revenge last month and was humiliated. Obviously Kyrgios was suffering. Waiting for this opportunity——
After Gowan's upset victory over Isner in the first round, Kyrgios realized that they might meet in the third round and began to eagerly look forward to this meeting. So when facing Seppi in the last round, Kyrgios fought harder and harder, just to meet Gawain in the third round.
The opportunity he had been waiting for finally came. Kyrgios quickly entered the state at the beginning and was particularly energetic.
In the first game, Kyrgios served.
First of all, Kyrgios is a master of serving. His serving movements are concise, powerful, and most importantly, explosive in an instant.
What makes Kyrgios slightly different from Isner is that in terms of absolute strength and stability, Kyrgios is slightly inferior, so Isner is more inclined to use the absolute advantage of strength and speed to suppress his opponents, while Kyrgios Then you enjoy the playful feeling of "cat playing with mouse" even more, the angle and rotation of the serve change more, and you dare to widen the angle.
Moreover, Kyrgios's second serve is also very fierce, even heavier and more spinning than most players' first serve. If you want to break through from the second serve, you may need to think carefully.
This is why Kyrgios chose to serve first without hesitation after guessing the coin. He hoped to use his serve and attack to suppress Gawain's momentum.
Secondly, Kyrgios’s forehand is a curved-arm topspin, that is, bending the arm to exert force to pull the topspin ball. It is very similar to Nadal, Roddick and others. The return ball is very spiny and fast. At the same time, Very good at taking angles.
In addition, his forehand also has an explosive shot, which does not spin but is purely flat. It is very sudden and impactful. Like Del Potro, he has the ability to absolutely suppress and can also play on grass courts. It can further weaken the spin and make the return ball low and flat.
This forehand can give him the upper hand against the Big Four, so his first appearance was an upset victory over Nadal on the grass at Wimbledon.
Obviously, Kyrgios wanted to give Gawain a blow, firstly to wash away his grievance of being zero-blocked, and secondly, to set the tone for this game.
Therefore, in the first game, Kyrgios was already on full fire. Facing the Saint version of Kyrgios with the "mini universe explosion", Gawain was a little uncomfortable.
In the first three points, Kyrgios' serve was very strong. An ACE, a straight serve, and a serve caused Gawain to return a high ball. Kyrgios immediately followed up with a volley to form the winning point. Gawain only had two in total. The first time he touched the ball, the score was already "40:0".
It wasn't until the fourth minute that Gawain's two-handed backhand was finally returned, and the return hit was quite deep, suppressing Kyrgios' position. But how did Kyrgios handle it?
There is not much swing movement, the whole stance is very awkward, the upper limbs of the arms are pinned beside the body, and the forearm is twisted in front of the body for a beat. It relies entirely on the power of the forearm and wrist to instantly lift and explode, and it is directly Hit the tennis ball back unreasonably.
Even though there was no opportunity, he forced an attack.
Diagonal line, diagonal line.
Gawain had already guessed the return route and was standing on his forehand position. However, Kyrgios's explosive shot showed his speed and power to the fullest. It jumped out like a bolt of lightning. Gawain just made a He swung the racket, but failed to touch the tennis ball at all, and swung a loose racket.
Speed, absolute superiority and absolute suppression.
And when Kyrgios is so awkward and waiting so passively, other players will often barely rebound and hit the ball back. Even if they attack from an ascending point, they will not be able to complete the attack. Most of them will rely on their own strength; but However, Kyrgios completed his attack.
When the winning score was displayed, there was an exclamation in the commentary box in the media center.
127 miles (205 kilometers).
This was already as fast as a shot per hour. No wonder Gawain guessed the right direction and still swung the shot.
Such an unreasonable and domineering forehand is Kyrgios's talent, even when his body cannot balance the force.
"Roar!"
Kyrgios bared his teeth at Gawain and roared, then grinned again.
"hey-hey."
As if he was laughing at Gawain's embarrassment——
At that time, Gawain gave Kyrgios a "5:0", and now Kyrgios returned a "love-game", which can be regarded as a small sigh of relief. It once again proved that the charity exhibition match was just an accident. If Kyrgios If you really take it seriously, he really has never been afraid of any player.
Then?
Then Kyrgios jumped back to the bottom line with a brisk pace, as if he had touched victory... No, no, no, this statement is not accurate, because compared to victory, humiliating Gawain is The more important thing is that at this moment, every movement of his body seems to be provoking and mocking Gawain's bottom line.
But Gawain was not surprised at all.
This is the ability of Kyrgios. His talent has been said over and over again by countless experts and countless players, "If he can focus wholeheartedly on tennis and regain his focus and concentration, he can become incredible." achievement", but only if "if" is true.
As long as Kyrgios wants to, he can hit the ball unreasonably, and he can easily change the situation.
This kind of Kyrgios operation was just a routine operation. Gawain was not surprised at all, let alone fear or panic. He turned around and calmed down.
So, how should Gawain's own serve proceed?
However, it can be clearly felt that Kyrgios's "raging anger" has not yet been vented. He is determined to humiliate Gawain severely in the initial stage of the game and wash away his experience in the charity exhibition match, so starting from the first point He was very active and didn't give Gawain any breathing space.
Unreasonable exertion, unscrupulous hitting, overwhelming power, lightning speed, the quality of the entire hitting was like a stormy sea, hitting his face one after another, leaving no breathing time or room for maneuver for Gawain. , controlled the opening with absolute strength.
This should be the most embarrassing game since Gao Wen faced the all-out Webber in the United States Championship.
But the problem is that the returns that Webber needs to fight to hit are as easy as drinking water and eating for Kyrgios, and he can also hit more returns that play with Gawain, and his performance with ease will make Kyrgios The Ser-Ashe Stadium evolved into its own performance stage.
"3:0".
In less than six minutes, Kyrgios was already leading the first set.
