Chapter 1073 Hawkeye Challenge

Leading 1:0, Li Ba made a first serve in the left half.

It is still a topspin ball, but it needs to be at an outside angle, so that the line is longer and the landing point is more controllable.

"mistake!"

Of course I was going for the ACE ball on my first serve, but unfortunately this ball was a little long and was out of the teeing area.

The second serve is still in the left half.

According to domestic parlance, the left half of the district is called the second district, and the right half of the district is called the first district. They are called differently.

"boom!"

Li Ba made a second serve.

Montanez wanted to volley again, but this time he was slower, and Li Ba's second serve was still very fast.

"ACE." The referee shouted.

"2:0." The referee shouted.

"Fourth mark, Hammer, well done!" Jordan applauded and cheered, while glancing at Guo Da proudly.

"There are only 4, why are you in a hurry?"

Guo Da touched his bald head and grunted.

"Oh my god, can you hit an ace on the second serve?"

Countless people in Court No. 1 were exclaiming, this is simply impossible.

Returning to the right half, Li Ba made a move.

"boom!"

"ACE!"

"yeah!"

After consecutive ACE balls, Li Ba excitedly waved his fist at Yatou and Guoguo's side of the stands.

"Awesome!" Zhang Depei clapped excitedly.

"The Hammer once again hit a beautiful ACE, and he is about to succeed in holding serve!" Zhang Sheng shouted excitedly in the CCTV live broadcast room.

Li Ba picked two balls and came to the left half again, ready to serve.

"mistake!"

"mistake!"

Continuous serves went out of bounds. After the second serve, Li Ba gave his opponent a point, the score was 3:1, and he still had a game point in his hand.

"The Hammers serve better in the first area." Zhang Sheng analyzed.

"The right-hand shot has a longer outer corner line in the first area, which is more beneficial to his serve." Tong Kexin nodded.

Returning to the right half, Li Ba made a move.

"boom!"

"ACE!"

"4:1, the end of the game, the first set, the game count is 3:0, Li Ba is in the lead." the referee shouted.

"3:0, guaranteed serve successfully!" Zhang Sheng shouted excitedly.

"I actually served 4 ACE balls in the second service game. This is the 6th ACE ball. The hammer's serve was great!"

Tong Kexin shouted excitedly.

After playing two games in a row, when changing sides, it was time for a break. Li Ba carried his bag to the opposite side and started drinking water to wipe his sweat.

More than a minute later, the fourth game of the first set began with Montanez's serve.

Right half area, one shot.

This time he made a little change. The previous shots were all backspin. This time he served a topspin shot and asked for the outside corner, still pursuing the ACE ball.

But his ball speed can only be considered average. With Li Ba's nerve reaction speed, he has no difficulty returning the ball.

However, Li Ba did not return the topspin this time. Instead, he took a step back and chose a flat shot that bounced to the highest point.

He has this skill because he has a foundation in fly catching skills. Even if the training time is not long, his hitting is very accurate.

At the same time, with his height and strength, he also has advantages. Even this flat shot is more threatening than his topspin shot.

If he had Federer's flat hitting skills, given his physical condition, the destructive power of flat hitting would be even more threatening.

There's just one thing. The grip for flat shots is an Eastern grip, a traditional grip. Federer has this kind of grip, so his grip is not conducive to this kind of flat shots, but he has a stronger grip. It's powerful, and there's no problem with hitting it forcefully.

"boom!"

The ball instantly bounced diagonally, low and fast, hitting a little inside the bottom corner, but Montanes couldn't catch up.

"0:1." The referee shouted.

"I scored a point after receiving the serve. This is a really good shot!" Zhang Sheng shouted in the Beijing CCTV live broadcast room.

"Federer is good at this kind of flat shot, and Nadal is good at topspin, so he always has an advantage against Nadal. With the height advantage of the hammer, if the flat shot technique reaches Federer's level, it will be too strong. Yes!" Tong Kexin said with a smile.

Montanez regretted that he should not have hit the topspin ball and gave his opponent the opportunity to hit the ball flat.

With the opponent's height, wingspan, and strength, flat shots would be too damaging to him.

Coming to the left half, Montanes served.

This time it's a backspin ball and requires an outside angle.

Li Ba judged that the ball's landing point was within the bounds, forced topspin on the ball, and pulled a big diagonal.

The ball bounced too fast and too high, and Montanez felt he couldn't hit the ball on the way up.

He couldn't, so he immediately retreated, took three big steps, and retreated beyond the virtual extension line of the left sideline. When the ball was falling, he hit a flat shot.

This time Li Ba did not choose to grab the net, he wanted to try his baseline skills.

He felt that Montanes' strength was only average, so he used this opportunity to try more tactics.

And the bottom line skill is another of his pretty good skills.

"boom!"

The landing point was at the bottom corner of the left half of the area. Li Ba pulled the topspin ball backhand and widened the diagonal line, but the landing point was still the same.

The position is the bottom corner of the opponent's left half.

Under his power, it is the Western-style grip that is most conducive to topspin, and the topspin is extremely strong.

The ball landed in bounds and then bounced extremely fast and high.

Montanez had just moved forward, towards the midpoint, and this time, he was forced to the original position where he returned the ball.

Set.

"boom!"

He responded with a flat shot.

"boom!"

Li Ba pulled back with his backhand again, again in a diagonal direction, hitting the opposite corner.

The two played three rounds in the diagonal. Li Ba pressed Montanes to the return position with a powerful backhand topspin, and warm applause began to ring out from Court No. 1.

"Nice backhand, the hammer backhand is very strong!" Tong Kexin exclaimed.

Just when the opponent returned the ball for the fourth time, Li Ba took the initiative to make a change. After moving one step to the left, he changed his backhand to forehand, and with a bang, he pulled it back again.

But this time he did not pull the diagonal line, but asked for a straight line, that is, the bottom corner of the opponent's right half.

"Bang!"

The ball hit the grass and bounced instantly.

Montanes was pressed by Li Ba to a position more than two meters behind the end line of the left half, and he could not come back at all.

But at this time the referee shouted: "OUT."

Out of bounds? Montanes breathed a sigh of relief.

"What a pity!"

Tong sighed when he heard it was out of bounds.

Li Ba glanced at the referee at the end of the end line, that is, the line judge, and directly asked the chief referee for an Hawkeye challenge.

He locked onto the ball, and the ball's landing point was clear to him, which was more convenient than the Hawkeye system. He was sure that the ball hit the line.

This challenge opportunity is three times per set, plus one in a tiebreak, and the challenge is not deducted for success.

The Hawkeye system is also called the instant replay system. Except for the French Open, other Grand Slam tournaments have it, because now even the top female tennis players' serves exceed 200 kilometers per hour from time to time, and the referee's judgment of this ball speed will definitely be misjudged, so this system was born.

A few seconds later, the electronic screen on the court began to replay.