Chapter 357: The Favorite to Win the Championship

Chapter 357: The Favorite to Win the Championship

The French Open ends on June 10, while Wimbledon begins on June 25, with only two weeks between the two. In these two weeks, Europe, especially the United Kingdom, will hold a series of grass court events as a warm-up match before Wimbledon. These grass-court events include the TOUR's Halle Open in Germany, the TOUR's Queen's Turf Cup, the TOUR's Holland Odina Open and the TOUR's Nottingham Tournament.

The level of these games is not high, there is no ATP1000 level masters. Among them, the Tour Germany Halle Open and the Tour UK Queen's Turf Cup are ATP500-level events, and the two games are held at overlapping times, and athletes can only choose one of the two; while the Tour Holland Odina Open and the Tour UK The game in Nottingham is an ATP250 level event, and the game time also overlaps.

Federer and Nadal seem to have discussed it long ago. They participated in the Halle Open in Germany and the Queen's Grass Cup in England with a tacit understanding, but neither of them won the championship. Federer withdrew halfway through the German Halle Open, while Nadal was defeated by the Frenchman Mahart in the quarter-finals of the Queen's Turf.

As for the two ATP250 events, Federer and Nadal definitely disdain to participate.

With the arrival of the new week, ATP announced the latest men's singles world rankings. Federer still ranked first with 6190 points. This score is relatively small for Federer. You must know Federer at his peak The points are basically maintained at around 8000 points. However, this year I lost an Australian Open champion and a French Open runner-up, so the points are less than 1300 points in normal time.

Nadal ranked second with 4425 points. He lost a French Open championship and his points also dropped.

With two Grand Slam titles, Zhang Guan ranked third with 4000 points. This is also the first time that Zhang Guan ranked among the top three in the world.

With the update of this issue of ATP world rankings, Wimbledon's 32 seeded players have also been released. The No. 1 seed is still Federer, the No. 2 seed is still Nadal, and Zhang Guan has become the No. 3 seed.

Although the detailed grouping of Wimbledon has not been released yet, the position of the seed players is fixed. As the third seed, Zhang Guan is divided into the 2/4 zone. If there is no accident, he will meet Federer again in the semi-final , met Nadal in the final.

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A few days later, the draw process of the Wimbledon draw was broadcast live.

Zhang Guan's opponent in the first round was Jimel Stober, an American, another name Zhang Guan had never heard of.

Kimmel Stober is a veteran player. He was relatively active in the past few years, but he did not achieve top results. In recent years, he has begun to transform into a sports celebrity. His current world ranking is no longer in the top 50, so he is not a very strong opponent.

Tennis matches are like this. The higher the seed players are, the more they will encounter some weaker opponents at the beginning. For example, at the Australian Open, they faced the seed players consecutively from the second round. For Zhang Guan, the third in the world, it is impossible to happen again.

After the grouping of Wimbledon, those professional sports commentators also began to express their opinions, but this time, almost everyone is optimistic that Zhang Guan can enter the semi-finals smoothly, and as many as 70% of people think that as long as Zhang Guan can Beat Federer in the semi-finals to secure the Wimbledon title. As for the outcome between Zhang Guan and Federer, absolute generosity experts also believe that it is a 50-50 situation, like the former "King of Wimbledon" Sampras, who even supported Zhang Guan to win the Wimbledon championship.

In an interview, Sampras said this: "This year's Wimbledon, I have placed Zhang Guan as the winner. Zhang Guan has performed well enough this year. He has won consecutive The champion of the Australian Open and the French Open, so far he has not lost any games, not even a single set, which is really unbelievable. More importantly, Zhang Guan is playing in front of the net. Hitting the ball at the first time will undoubtedly make Zhang Guan play more aggressively at Wimbledon. And I heard that Zhang Guan has started to cooperate with Zhang Depei. Zhang Depei was a very smart player back then, and he really played with his brain , I think Zhang Depei knows what Zhang Guan really needs, and he can keep Zhang Guan to win Wimbledon."

At the same time, among the winning odds offered by the British gaming company, Zhang Guan's winning odds are also tied for first with Federer. This is definitely an astonishing odds. Federer is not only ranked No. 1 in the world, but he has won four consecutive Wimbledon titles, which is enough to prove Federer's dominance. It is the first time for Zhang Guan to participate in a Wimbledon match, and it is also the first time to participate in a grass court match. No one knows how strong Zhang Guan is on the grass court. It can be said that it is unprecedented to be able to win the championship with the same odds as Federer of.

In fact, even Federer himself said in an interview that Zhang Guan will be the biggest obstacle on his way to five consecutive Wimbledon titles.

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Zhang Guan glanced at the contents of the media, and felt a little weird in his heart.

"Why has the wind changed? At the Australian Open and French Open in the past, no one was so optimistic about me. Now in this situation, I have become the favorite to win Wimbledon." Zhang Guan sighed a little.

"That's because your serve and net ability are very good." Sharapova continued: "After all, it's a grass court. Your high-speed serve can basically score stably as long as you don't make mistakes. It is almost impossible to get a break from your hands; and your net play should be the best among active tennis players, even if your opponent's serve, your net play is very threatening, if It’s those players with weaker serves, I’m afraid they won’t be able to win a set from you!”

"It sounds like I feel that the Wimbledon champion must be mine." Zhang Guan said with a smile.

"But you have to be careful in the first game, don't overturn the boat in the gutter." Sharapova then reminded.

"Why, my opponent, the American called... Oh, yes, the guy named Kimmelstober, is he a crazy knife? He is very powerful when he is in good condition?" Zhang Guan continued to ask.

Sharapova shook her head: "Gimmelstober is not great, but the stadium where you play has a nickname."

"What nickname?" Zhang Guan asked.

"Champion's Graveyard. It's also called the Seed Graveyard." Sharapova went on to say: "In the competitions held there, seeded players are usually eliminated by lower-ranked players, including Sampras, Agassi, and Federer in 2002. In addition, there are some relatively high-ranking singles who are not so famous, and they have also fallen there."

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On June 25, the 2007 Wimbledon tennis tournament officially began.

Zhang Guan, on the other hand, appeared as the No. 3 seed in the Wimbledon No. 2 court known as the "Champion's Grave" and "Seed Graveyard". His opponent is the unseeded American veteran Kimmel Stober. This game is also the opening match of this year's Wimbledon on the second court.

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