Entertaining Children

  Chapter 684 Statistics

  All that happened just now. Xiao Yao almost punched the tennis ball out of his instinct from years of martial arts training. He didn't feel too much, and he didn't know that the tennis ball was blown out by him. Xiao Yao himself was surprised when he saw the close-up picture on the big screen at the scene. Seeing that the big screen at the scene cut his own picture again, Xiao Yao smiled and raised the right hand that had just punched out. He made a fist and opened it again and again several times, indicating that his hand is all right.

Li Ai saw Xiao Yao's movements through the big screen, put the tennis racket in his right hand under his left arm and clamped it, freed his right hand, smiled and raised his right hand to Xiao Yao's direction. Thumbs up, and then handed the broken ball to the referee on the sidelines.

  The referee took the tennis ball and looked at it, first with a surprised expression, and then with a wry smile. According to the rules of the tennis game, a batch of new **** were originally to be replaced after the game was played. Now that the game has been played for most of the time, the referee has not asked them to add a new ball, but let them use the remaining The dropped **** will be replaced together after the round.

  After this episode, the game continues.

  It seems that this accident interrupted Kapunova’s good state. The next goal was taken by Li Ai again, turning the score into a 40-40 deuce, successfully saving his two break points. Subsequently, Li Ai scored two consecutive points to save his critical serve, turning the game points into 3 to 4.

After replacing a batch of game balls, the performance of both of them became normal, and neither of them broke serve. However, in this set, Kapunova was in the lead, so in the end, Kapunova was also 6-4. Scored a set back.

  The two played 1-1 in the first two sets, and then the third set is the final tiebreaker.

  Before the start of the final game, Li Ai also applied for the coach's approach guidance. Hearing the referee's notice, Rodriguez gratefully patted Xiao Yao on the shoulder again, then quickly got up and left the audience and ran into the competition arena.

   "We saw Li Ai applied for coaching guidance!" Xin Tong looked at the broadcast screen and said, "This is very rare in Li Ai's previous games. It seems that Li Ai really attaches great importance to this final."

"This is indeed a very rare situation in Li Ai," Ding Sheng commented, and then smiled again, "I don't know if it was the accident that the tennis nearly hit the coach just now, which reminded Li Ai of the intense game. There was still her coach sitting in the audience."

"It doesn't matter if the accident just now reminds Li Aicai, but in any case, Li Ai and our audience should thank Xiao Yao." Xin Tong laughed, "If it weren't for Xiao Yao, I'm afraid we would not be able to see that. One scene."

"That's true." Ding Sheng said, "It's a pity that the speed counter in the arena only shows the speed of the player's serve, not the speed of the player's hitting in the game. The highest record of Kapnova's serve speed is 100 At more than 90 kilometers per hour, although the receiving of the ball will not be as fast as the serving time, it is estimated that it will not be much worse. If the ball hits Rodriguez’s face directly, I am afraid he will not be able to continue to stay. I watched the ball in the auditorium, let alone enter the court now."

"If Li Ai's performance can be significantly improved after coach Rodriguez's entry guidance, and then win the finals, I think Xiao Yao will be one of the heroes of Li Ai's match." Tong said with a smile.

   "Xiao Yao brought good luck to Coach Rodriguez, I hope he can also bring good luck to Li Ai." Ding Sheng said, "Well, the rest time is over, and the final set is about to start."

  At the referee's reminder, Rodriguez stood up from Li Ai. Before leaving the field, Rodriguez, who had already explained, suddenly added: "Young just told me that he has been counting your data. Kapunova has made more forehand errors than backhands today. You should Attack her better forehand position. I haven't counted it. I'm not sure if that is the case. You should feel more on the court and judge for yourself.

  Tennis matches are not like football or basketball. The coaches in the audience do not necessarily have the opportunity to enter the court to guide the players, and generally do not do those statistics. These things have special personnel and organization statistics. The broadcaster can get these real-time data, which will be shown to the audience in the inter-game and inter-game gaps. The commentators and commentators will also discuss this, but there is no tennis player. The coach will watch the game live and listen to the live broadcast on the radio to pay attention to the specific data, so Rodriguez's grasp and interpretation of the game is also relatively macro.

  But Xiao Yao is different. His super memory allows him to resume previous matches at any time. It is not difficult to mentally calculate the statistics of the two players. The sports that Xiao Yao is most interested in are football, basketball and tennis. Although he can only play basketball, football and tennis are pure fans, but there is a professional tennis coach sitting next to him. Xiao Yao also takes advantage of every ball. Rodriguez asked many questions in every game and every set. During the exchange between the two, Xiao Yao also unknowingly shared the data he counted with some of his own opinions. He just said his own opinions, and didn't mean to guide Li Ai, but this did not prevent Rodriguez from telling Xiao Yao's words to Li Ai.

   "Okay, I see, I will pay attention!" Li Ai nodded.

  Rodriguez left, and the final set of the third set officially began.

  In the first half of the third set, the two played quite stalemate. Although in terms of scoring, Li Ai scored more than Kapunova, but it did not reflect in the game points.

In a game, if you score four points, let your opponent get two points and win the next game, let your opponent not have a point to win the next game, or if both sides score no less than three points, Winning the opponent by two points is also a game. Li Ai’s serve is very smooth, usually when his opponent has 0 or 15 points to win his own serve, and Capanova often allows Li Ai to score 30 points, and even a 40-point deucede situation. It's difficult to keep the hair down. From the overall situation, Li Ai is obviously more dominant than Kapunova, but the fact is that neither of them succeeded in breaking the opponent's serve.

  In the first six games, the two were tied 3 to 3. The seventh game was Li Ai's serve. Li Ai once again succeeded in securing the serve and smoothly changed the total score to 4 to 3. The next eighth game was Kapunova's serve, and Li Ai also made another effort to break serve.

  From this round, Li Ai's tactics have also undergone some changes. Kapunova’s forehand is a long-term event. Li Ai’s previous games used to attack Kapunova’s backhand positions, but in this round, Li Ai began to stare at Kapunova’s forehand. Bit offense.

  This more risky move allowed Kapnova to hit two good goals in a row and scored two points in the beginning of the game. Li Aisi was unmoved and continued to attack Kapunova's forehand on the third goal. Then, Kapnova made a mistake in her forehand attack and drew a not too difficult ball out of bounds. Next, Li Ai continued to attack Kapunova’s forehand position, and Kapunova unexpectedly made two consecutive forehand return errors, one out of bounds and one off the net, allowing Li Ai to 40. Over 30 points, but also got a key break point.

  If Li Ai can break serve in this round, he can rewrite the game points to 5 to 3, and then it will be Li Ai’s own serve. As long as he keeps it, he can win the game. On this key ball, Kapnova made a mistake in her first serve. In the second serve, in order to be stable, she served a ball with a relatively average speed and landing point, while Li Ai, who was already ready to attack, made a direct shot. The ball hit the bottom corner of Kapunova's forehand. Although Kapunova, who rushed to the bottom corner, received the ball, her movements were a little deformed, and the tennis ball that came back slowly and floated high into the air.

   Judging that the tennis ball had landed in his own half, Li Ai quickly ran to his own net, stared at the tennis ball in the air and made the act of drawing the racket early. Before the tennis ball landed, he pulled the tennis back directly. The speed and angle of the ball are excellent, and Kapnova, who is standing in the middle of the baseline, is completely helpless with this ball.

  Li Ai broke his hair successfully, and the situation clearly fell to Li Ai's side. There was also a huge applause and cheers from the audience.

"Li Ai finally succeeded in breaking serve! Now the game is 5 to 3, Li Ai is leading, and then Li Ai's serve game. As long as there is no big mistake and keep this serve, the game can be won. "Xin Tong in the commentary also said excitedly.

"Yeah, Li Ai's advantage is very big now." Ding Sheng nodded and began to analyze Li Ai's tactics in this round, "Li Ai played very aggressively in this round! We can see In this round, Li Ai played all Kapunova’s forehands. Kapunova’s forehand is very powerful. Li Ai’s approach is actually a riskier approach, but I didn’t expect it to Punova's forehand made several consecutive mistakes."

"Actually, there is a trace to follow." Xin Tong on the side looked at the data given in the broadcast screen, "The data shows that so far in this game, Kapunova's active errors for forehand are better than backhands. There are many more. Even if this round is not counted, there are more forehand turnovers than backhands. Although we audiences don't feel that obvious, but Li Ai on the court must have this feeling, so I suddenly stared at it. He played with Kapunova’s forehand, and insisted on hitting the opponent's forehand when the first two goals were missed."

   "Yes," Ding Sheng nodded, "Li Ai, a top international player, is not only very skilled, but also at the top level in terms of judgment and execution."

   Finally won a break, and Li Ai did not let the victory slip away. In the next game, Li Ai successfully saved his serve, won the final set with a score of 6 to 3, and became the women's singles champion in this game.

  As Kapunova's return ball went out of bounds, Li Ai clenched his fists and shouted in excitement, and the audience also cheered.

After walking to the net and shaking hands with the opponent and the referee, Li Ai happily waved to the audience and took off the brace on his wrist and threw it into the audience. In the area where the wristbands were dropped, countless hands immediately stretched out and scrambled for the wristbands flying in the air.

  Then it was the award ceremony on-site. Li Ai, who was holding the championship trophy, also accepted a brief interview with the on-site host and said some thoughts about winning. In addition to thanking his family, team and audience, Li Ai also specifically mentioned Xiao Yao, who came here to watch the game today. I thanked Xiao Yao for the punch at the critical moment, and also joked that if Xiao Yao is not a big star, he must hire Xiao Yao as his bodyguard with a lot of money, which also caused a happy laugh from the audience.

  The award ceremony ended, and Li Ai and Kapunova returned to the players' lounge. The audience began to exit, and Xiao Yao followed Li Ai's team members back to Li Ai's player lounge.

   "Congratulations!" After entering the lounge, Xiao Yao immediately congratulated Li Aidao.

   "Thank you!" Li Ai happily stepped forward and gave Xiao Yao a hug, "Thanks to you today!"

   "You played well by yourself, what does it have to do with me?" Xiao Yao smiled.

"First, thanks to you sitting next to Gaby and helping him fly the tennis ball, otherwise, at the end of the second set, where can he come in and coach." Li Ai smiled, "Second, thanks to you This manual data recorder, I remember that she made a lot of forehand mistakes today, otherwise I would not risk continuously attacking Natasha's forehand in the eighth game, forcing her to make consecutive mistakes and complete the only break of the third set. ."

"Haha," Xiao Yao smiled, "Blocking tennis is a conditioned reflex of the body. Those data were mentioned in a chat with Mr. Rodriguez. I didn't expect to be able to help. But I can help you. I must be very happy!"

  Xiao Yao is not Li Ai’s coach and will not intervene in Li Ai’s tactical guidance. That sentence was just a lip-service to Rodriguez when he expressed his opinion when chatting with Rodriguez. It didn't mean that Rodriguez would tell Li Ai, but Xiao Yao was naturally very happy that Li Ai could benefit from it.

  (End of this chapter)