In sports events, the athletes who participate in the competition are worthy of the leading role. In the audience, even if there are big stars or social celebrities, they just add a special scenery to the competition. It''s impossible to steal the limelight of the competitors. So Xiao Yao came to the scene to watch the game this time, but he just kept a low profile and didn''t disguise himself.
In addition to a baseball cap with sunshade, Xiao Yao did not wear sunglasses or black frame glasses, nor did he wear a mask. Therefore, when he appeared on the big screen, he was immediately recognized by a lot of audience on the scene, causing a lot of voices from the audience. Xiao Yao came to Li AI''s platform as a star this time. He didn''t need to hide and tuck in. Seeing his own appearance on the big screen on the scene, he also waved to the direction of the camera lens generously, which also caused more loud cheers from the audience.
With the start of the competition, both the audience and commentators in the commentary stand paid attention to the two players in the competition field. The big screen switched to the main camera of the competition field, and played the game. Xiao Yao also paid attention to the competition in the following field just like the ordinary audience.
Li AI was in good shape at the beginning. Although he failed to break the serve in the first set, Li AI and his opponent had a 40 draw twice, which put a lot of pressure on them at the beginning. In the second sentence of Li AI''s serve, Li AI only let his opponent win one ball and got four points, including an ace ball. He kept his serve very smoothly and performed very strongly.
The audience were excited to see Li AI play so well. Whenever Li AI scored, the audience gave a burst of extremely loud applause and cheers.
In the cheering voice of the audience, Li AI was also more courageous. In the case of keeping all his serve sets, he broke in the fifth and ninth innings respectively, and won the first set with a score of 6-3.
After winning the first set successfully, the audience had a little more confidence in Li AI''s winning the championship. Many people have begun to look forward to seeing Li AI lift the championship trophy at their own door. But what we didn''t expect was that when the game went to the second set, the situation on the field changed suddenly.
In non Grand Slam women''s competitions, coaches can enter and guide. This tour is not a grand slam event, so during the break at the end of the first set, Li AI''s opponent, Natasha kapunova of Russia, applied for the coach''s guidance. Although the break between the sets is only one and a half minutes like the ordinary break between the games, and kapunova''s coach''s approach guidance is less than 90 seconds, this approach guidance is very effective.
After the start of the second set, kapunova''s tactics changed a lot, his attitude was much more positive, and his performance was much better than that of the first set. After changing the decline of the first set, he took the lead in breaking in the second set and took the lead in the number of games.
It doesn''t matter that Li AI is behind in the game, but the audience and commentators can see that Li AI has been suppressed by his opponents. Li AI''s active mistakes began to increase, especially when the second set was not more than half, the double serve mistakes in the second set were more than the first set, which made the audience and Chinese commentators sweat for Li AI.
Just when the trend of the game was unfavourable to Li AI and all the people who supported Li AI were nervous, a very surprising scene appeared on the field.
It was in the seventh inning of the second set, Li AI''s serve. In the small points of the Bureau, kapunova leads 40-15, and she can achieve the second break of the set as long as she gets another point. The score of the first six games was 4-2, and Li AI was behind. If this game can break, kapunova will be able to turn the score into 5-2, so once you get such a score, the next game will be kapunova''s serve, and you can basically win the second set. And if Li AI can achieve the goal of guaranteed development and turn the score into 3-4, then there is still hope of a reversal in this set.
In such a key node of the key ball, Li AI''s serve out of bounds.
In tennis, each serve can be served twice. After the first service fault, the other side does not score, can also serve a second time, if the second service fault, the other side will directly score. Therefore, the tennis player''s first serve is often the choice of strength, angle Diao way. If you make a mistake in the first serve, you will choose a safer way in the second. For the receiving player, receiving the second serve is easier and more leisurely than receiving the first serve, and there are more opportunities for direct counterattack.
Seeing Li AI''s mistake, kapunova''s face showed a trace of joy, but soon became serious again, holding the racket hands tightly, obviously intended to take advantage of the situation that Li AI''s second serve was not as good as the first serve in quality to attack and take advantage of the situation to win the game.
Li AI made a lot of double serve mistakes in this set, so in the second serve of this key ball, Li AI adopted a rather conservative approach, and made a service with relatively general speed and landing point.
Looking at the quality of Li AI''s service is not high, already ready for receiving, kapunova also quickly made the action of leading the racket, at the moment when the ball came, he tried his best to swing the racket in his hand.However, I don''t know if kapunova''s excessive force led to the deformation of the batting action. The tennis ball hit by kapunova did not fall on the opposite side of Li AI''s field, but flew straight to the audience.
Seeing the flight track of tennis, we all know that kapunova''s ball iron must be out of bounds. Some spectators who support Li AI on the scene can''t wait to cheer, but the cheers haven''t been completely heard, and they are replaced by the exclamations of the spectators who follow the flying tennis in the air.
Unfortunately, the tennis ball hit by kapunova flew to Li AI''s player box. The player''s box on the tennis court is also open-air. There is no baffle in front. The tennis ball hit by kapunova flew to Li AI''s player''s box. If there is no accident, it should hit the audience in the box.
This karpnova is a power type female player. She is known for her fast speed of hitting the ball. This time, her speed is also very fast. The player''s box is usually arranged in a lower position near the field. If the ball speed and the distance are hit directly, it''s hard to say whether it will hurt people. So see tennis very fast straight to the audience of Li AI''s player box, many of the audience also exclaimed.
The tennis ball hit by kapunova flew into Li AI''s player box and flew towards the face of a foreign middle-aged man, but it was suddenly bounced back. In front of the foreign middle-aged man, a raised fist suddenly appeared.
"Wow ~" many audiences at the scene immediately understood what was going on, so after the exclamation, there was a huge cheering and applause.
As a result of the broadcast lens, the TV audience basically did not know what had happened. They only heard cheers, shouts of surprise, and then a burst of huge applause and cheers. Therefore, Xin Tong, the commentator of CCTV, began to explain to the audience watching the game on TV: "just now, kapunova went out of the line and was hit by her The tennis ball flew directly to the audience. Coincidentally, the ball flew to Li AI''s player box. If you read it correctly, this fast ball should have been hit directly by people and didn''t hurt people. This is an unexpected situation. Let''s see if there is a live replay later. "
In addition to the television audience, there were also some viewers who didn''t see what happened because of the angle. There were cameras in the audience, and some of them were still shooting team members in the players'' box. Therefore, the big screen played back the accident immediately.
The high-speed camera is used to shoot the competition in the venue, while the ordinary camera is used to shoot the audience. However, the ordinary camera also has the slow play function. Although the slow play effect of the high-speed camera is not as good as that of the high-speed camera, it is enough to let the audience understand what happened.
In the players'' box, Li AI''s coaches Rodriguez and Xiao Yao are very focused on watching the game. After kapunova received the service, both of them immediately saw that kapunova''s return ball must be out of bounds, and both of them had a smile on their faces. But the smile did not fully open, they both found that the tennis ball hit by kapunova flew in their direction.
Coach Rodriguez''s eyes widened in surprise and then he had to duck. But the speed of tennis is very fast, from his action point of view, most will still be hit by tennis. But Xiao Yao around him at this critical moment is very fast to swing a fist, accurate hit the flying tennis, with his fist to fly back to the tennis.
"Ooh ~" seeing the slow motion playback on the big screen, all the audience knew what had happened. Seeing that Xiao Yao hit the fast tennis with his fist, all the audience gave Xiao Yao a round of applause.
"We can see it through slow motion playback." Xin Tong also looked at the slow motion replay on the broadcast screen, and then explained, "kapunova''s ball was directed at the face of Li AI''s coach Rodriguez just now, which is a very dangerous situation, but Xiao Yao around him reacted very quickly. Before the tennis hit him, Xiao Yao actually hit the tennis with his fist, avoiding Rodriguez being hit by the tennis Injury. The applause from the audience should be given to Xiao Yao. Of course, he deserves applause from the audience. "
"Well, it''s not just quick reaction. The young man''s action is also very fast and his shot is quite accurate." Ding Sheng also said, "you know, the area of the fist is much smaller than that of the tennis racket. Kapunova is a power player. The speed of the ball is very fast. It''s not easy to hit the tennis accurately in such a short time."
"I heard that he learned martial arts when he was a child. It seems that his skill is really good!" Xin Tong continued.
As the tennis ball flew to his box, Li AI did not start the next ball, but looked up at the big screen like the audience. The referee knew that the team members involved in Li AI would be more concerned, so she did not urge Li AI, but also looked at the big screen together. As for the initiator of the whole event, kapunova, who just hit the ball, she knew how much force she had made and how fast she could feel the speed of the ball. If she hit the audience directly, it would really cause injury. She looked at the big screen nervously.When she saw the tennis fly to Li AI''s coach, kapunova opened her eyes in surprise, and subconsciously covered her mouth. It was only when she saw someone blow the tennis ball away and no one in Li AI''s player box seemed to be injured that she was greatly relieved. She waved in the direction of Li AI''s box and made a sorry gesture. Then she motioned to Li AI to show that she didn''t mean to.
After the playback, the live director found kapunova''s action, so he switched the big screen directly to the shot of a camera facing kapunova.
"We saw kapunova make a sorry gesture to Li AI''s box." Ding Sheng helped to explain, "we all know that she certainly didn''t mean it, because even the top men''s players may not be so accurate. They can deliberately attack the coach in the opponent''s box with tennis in the way of receiving service. It must be an accident, but she still apologized for the people who might be hurt by her. This is a very positive point, and it also reflects the quality of this international top tennis player. "
"Yes," Xintong continued, "we see kapunova also gestured to Li AI, Li AI also very generous smile and waved his hand to indicate that it''s OK. Although the competition is very fierce, the demeanor of the two players is still very good. Of course, this is an accident, and we don''t need to pay too much attention to it. Now the game resumed, the score was 30-40, Li AI kept a break point, and then Li AI served. Wait, it seems that there is still a situation, Li AI suddenly stops again...
originally, after Li AI and kapunova signal, they are ready to continue the next ball. Li AIFA, who bowed his head to the sideline, had a tennis ball lying on the ground. This should be the tennis ball played by Xiao Yao. After rebounding, it fell into the field. Maybe everyone just watched the big screen, and the caddies didn''t pay attention, so they didn''t run in and pick it up at the first time. Looking at the tennis ball close to him, Li AI did not signal to the caddie in the field and picked up the tennis ball from the ground.
But after picking up the tennis ball, Li AI stopped strangely and looked down at the tennis ball in her hand. Then her face changed. She stood in the middle of the court, raised the tennis ball with her left hand, held the racket with her right hand and pointed to the tennis ball in her left hand.
The on-site director immediately directed a camera to zoom in and push forward the lens, gave a close-up of the tennis ball in Li AI''s hand, and cut it to the on-site large screen.
On the big screen, Li AI pinches the tennis ball with his left hand. Then you can see from the close-up picture that there is a big crack in the middle of the tennis ball, and you can see the inner rubber wall.
"Wow ~" seeing this scene, the audience all gave out a burst of exclamation.
"Li AI picked up a tennis ball from the center of the court," Xin Tong introduced to the TV audience. "That position should not have a tennis ball. It should be the one that kapunova hit and Xiao Yao hit with his fist just now. It seems that it has fallen back to the court again. Li AI seems to be beckoning the cameraman at the scene to give a close-up of that tennis ball? Let''s see what''s going on
"Wow After the close-up of Li AI''s tennis ball appeared on the screen showing the broadcast picture in front of him, Xin Tong also exclaimed, "the tennis ball in Li AI''s hand has split a big hole. Just now, Xiao Yao''s blow blew up a tennis ball. How powerful it must be
"It''s not just the strength of his fist," Ding Sheng said with an incredible face. "If there is no external force, no matter how strong a person''s strength is, it''s impossible to blow up a tennis ball with his fist! This also shows from the side how fast the ball speed of kapunova just now is. I hope his wrist and fingers are not injured