"Match Point(
On May 21, 2014, after a short day of adjustments, the National Championship was rekindled, and the individual competitions were fully launched. The men's singles and women's singles started on the same day.
As mentioned above, because the NCAA regular season is all team games, the particularity of the game rules and the objective existence of league divisions have led to direct results:
The national rankings are often difficult to reflect the true strength of the players. The number one and the sixty-fourth are both ranked. The gap exists, but it is definitely not as significant as imagined.
Moreover, NCAA players are still young, plus learning is the most important thing, and the game experience is not rich enough. Naturally, the characteristics of young players who are not stable and have obvious ups and downs are further highlighted and magnified in the intensive schedule of the National Championship.
After experiencing the fierce competition in the team competition, it is very likely that the physical strength will be exhausted and the energy will decline.
It is precisely because of this that individual competitions are often prone to "unpopularity", and this is the case every year.
This year, is no exception.
On the first day of the men's singles competition, there were many upsets, just like the Siberian cold current sweeping Athens, but you can feel the chill in the hot summer.
The No. 1 seed, Linz of Baylor University, was out in two sets, and lost to the No. 3 singles player Andrew-Adams of the University of South Carolina. None, even Adams himself couldn't believe his victory.
The second seed, Thompson of UCLA, in the match against Roberto-Cid of the University of South Florida, could obviously feel that he was exhausted and made frequent mistakes at critical moments. The disadvantage of a break serve was defeated.
From here, it can be felt that the final match between the team competition and the Forbidden Summit was exhausting for both sides. The score seemed to be UCLA's "4:0" sweep of the opponent, but that included Gao Wen's match. In fact, there is suspense in every game.
Thompson, indeed, was powerless—
The same goes for USC.
Huffman and Saramento, who tried their best in the final, also lost in individual competitions.
Hanfman is still a tough player. He fought three tie-breaks and lost two of them. The small score in the tie-break of the final set was "5:7", which was a pity that he lost to his opponent by a small margin.
Saramento could clearly feel that his mind and energy could not keep up. The whole game was like sleepwalking. The quality of defense collapsed seriously. The unknown opponent ended all the games in his university.
It's a pity, it's a pity after all, but this is the cruelest and most realistic part of competitive sports, not all "goodbye" can leave a beautiful back.
The last game of Saramento's tennis career was ugly and embarrassing; however, Saramento has no regrets, because in the team match, he had already dedicated everything he had, That momentary brilliance is what defines his existence.
But it's not just the two teams in the team finals? The impact of the entire team competition spread across the board.
Fifth seed, Felipe-Soares, Texas Tech; sixth seed, Alex Domyan, University of Virginia; seventh seed, Tim Kopinski, University of Illinois Tim-Kopinski); 11th seed, Jared-Hiltzik, University of Illinois —
Lose all!
completely annihilated!
No survivors!
It is very, very worth mentioning that the fourth seed, Mitchell Frank of the University of Virginia, faced Mackenzie McDonald of UCLA in the first round, which is also a focus of the first round.
Macdonald also successfully joined the "Resistance Dark Horse" lineup on the first day of the game, all broke out and marched hand in hand, blowing the clarion call to disrupt the event draw.
incredible!
Unbelievable!
Incredible!
In fact, including the Big Four in men's tennis and the legendary superstar Serena Williams in women's tennis, they have all said on different occasions:
The first round of any tournament is the most difficult, especially a Grand Slam.
Because of the first round of the game, players often need to re-adapt to the new venue, weather, atmosphere and opponents, and more or less need to challenge the state. Once they encounter an impactful opponent, the game will easily come to a stalemate.
Moreover, both the Grand Slam and the top tournaments have qualifying matches, and those low-ranked players need to go through three or two qualifying rounds respectively to win a lottery for the main match. Although the qualifying players are ranked relatively low, they have already played three rounds and have fully adapted to the field, so they can occupy a slight advantage.
It is precisely because of this that the first round of games is often prone to upsets.
Naturally, the single event of the National Championship is also prone to the same situation.
In the first round of the US Championship every year, upsets are very common, people have long been accustomed to it, but even so, such a situation like this year's upset situation is really too rare, almost one seed is lost in one turn, as if the seeded players are all in one night. All Qi Qi can't play in general ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Even ESPN reported on the front page of the official website, witnessing the important historical moment when the cold winter came to Athens in May.
After the first round, among the top 16 seeds, only five people won the promotion, and among them, only one of the top 8 seeds successfully passed—
The third seed is Marcos Giron of UCLA.
It's the Bruins again!
Throughout the process of winning the team competition, Gao Wen was a well-deserved shining superstar. MacDonald's accumulation and Thompson's high-spirited fighting spirit also attracted a lot of attention. However, what about Geelong?
Jilong, once known as the "Little Prince", seems to have disappeared.
UCLA made history by winning both the men's and women's team championships, but the headlines did not see the name of the proud son of heaven, Geelong. In a trance, forgetful people have long forgotten that at the beginning of the season , Thompson and Geelong are known as the twin stars of the Bruins.
And now?
But no one remembers that the No. 2 man of the Bruins also has top-notch standards.
Until the individual competitions are fully launched.
All the top seeds fell one after another, and the top eight seeds were almost bloodbathed. Only Jilong became the only surviving seed, advanced to the second round with a strong performance, and retained the last bit of face of the seeded players. This made the audience and players suddenly realize——
Oh, the Bruins are still hiding such a master!
etc!
Geelong, won; Macdonald, won too...Shouldn't the individual competitions also be the stage where UCLA shines alone...Right?
Thompson, lost, should this be "fortunately"? Regardless, at least one of the Bruins' four singles players finally dropped.
So, what about Gao Wen?