The taste is like chewing wax.
According to the lottery, the eight players in the year-end finals will be divided into two groups, and the first two groups will be held in a round-robin match, and then the top two players in the group will be determined to enter the semi-finals according to their record rankings.
Group A, Djokovic, Wawrinka, Berdych, Ferrer.
Group B, Federer, Murray, Nishikori, Raonic.
On the first match day, Group B took the lead.
The match of "Federer VS Raonic" was the opening match of this year's O2 Stadium, and it easily ignited the heat. After all, just three days ago, the two players just played against each other once, and Raonic played the best of his career. A masterpiece, the aggressiveness of young people is worth looking forward to.
However, the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny.
"6:1", "7:6(0.
Federer took revenge by sweeping Raonic in straight sets.
Whether it was a sharp defeat in the first set or a shaved head in the tie-break of the second set, Raonic failed to show his competitive level, and he was completely different from three days ago.
Of course, everyone knows that it is not easy to face any match against the Big Four, and it is even more difficult to win consecutively. This is why Gawain won so much attention by defeating Djokovic in Paris last week; But Raonic's defenseless defeat was disappointing.
So, what about the second game?
"Murray VS Kei Nishikori", this should be closer and more intense, right?
pity.
"6:4", "6:4".
Kei Nishikori was fully fired, not only winning Murray for the first time in his career, but also suppressing Murray in the audience.
I was very aggrieved.
Fans and spectators came here in high spirits and returned in disappointment. Such a one-sided game is definitely not what they expected to see, but they still hold a glimmer of hope:
Perhaps, this is just the first match day, things should improve tomorrow, and the matchup in Group A is also quite interesting.
but…
One game, "6:1", "6:1".
One game, "6:1", "6:1".
On the second match day, the two games ended up with exactly the same score, with Wawrinka sweeping Berdych and Djokovic sweeping Ferrer.
Moreover, the two games took less than an hour, and the quick results made the audience dumbfounded:
That's it?
Are you bored, wife?
The most frightening thing is that the disaster is still not over. "Sweeping", "brittle defeat" and "complete victory" are like viruses, quietly spreading in the O2 stadium.
On the third match day, Murray swept Raonic and Federer swept Kei Nishikori.
On the fourth match day, Berdych swept Ferrer and Djokovic swept Wawrinka.
All are "2:0"!
Moreover, in four duels and eight sets, only Murray's score against Raonic in the second set was relatively close, "7:5", and the other seven sets were all disparity scores. In the second set, Wawrinka was directly given a duck egg, and the game took about 70 minutes.
The most anticipated but also the most astonishing game is the duel between Djokovic and Wawrinka. This is the first match between the two this season after Wawrinka knocked out Djokovic in the Australian Open. The game was so one-sided that Wawrinka was almost powerless to fight back, which was completely unexpected.
It is true that at the end of the season, the players are exhausted, and their physical strength and energy have reached their limits. In addition, they exhausted their energy when they sprinted for the year-end finals. Just look at the upsets of the Shanghai Masters and the Paris Masters. You know, these are understandable objective factors.
However, from the process to the score, from the confrontation to the stalemate, the whole game was not intense or stalemate at all, and the quality can be said to be terrible.
This... this is really...
It's hard to say.
Since the start of the year-end finals, it has been four full match days, but there is no group match worth discussing. Isn't this too shabby and pitiful?
Whether it is Raonic, a newcomer to the finals, Berdych, Ferrer, a regular in the finals, or Wawrinka, the new Grand Slam champion, the overall performance is all disappointing. So to sum up the battle situation so far, that is—
Djokovic and Federer have won two consecutive victories, and the suspense of the year-end world number one battle continues.
If it is necessary to make the taller among the shorter ones, Kei Nishikori's defeat of Murray is still worth mentioning; but the problem is that Kei Nishikori only resisted Federer for 69 minutes and scored five in the game. Innings, it looked like he suddenly couldn't play, and it was still bad.
Before the game, how much I looked forward to; now, how disappointed.
Before the game, how noisy; now, how speechless.
Compared with the enthusiasm and madness of the fans and spectators, the quality of the game is really not on the table, and even the reporters are speechless, not knowing what to say.
What else can I say?
Obviously, the players don't want that either. They also want to go out on the court and try their best to win, but they are really exhausted.
Perhaps, such a situation in the year-end finals also confirmed one thing: if the professional tennis structure wants to be completely overthrown, there is still something lacking.
However, is there no bright spot in the year-end finals?
no.
After the two rounds of matches in Group A and Group B, no one from the two groups has qualified ahead of schedule, and both of them have formed a ring pattern, which further proves the chaos of this season.
Both Djokovic in Group A and Federer in Group B have won two consecutive victories, so they have an advantage in qualifying. They only need to win a set in the last game to qualify smoothly; If they lose in two sets, they may not be eliminated, they must be relatively small.
Outside of them, the qualifying situation of the two groups is not clear. In fact, the situation of Group A and Group B is exactly the same.
In Group A, Djokovic won two, Wawrinka and Berdych won one, and Ferrer lost two.
In Group B, Federer won two, Kei Nishikori and Murray won one, and Raonic lost two.
All players, including Ferrer and Raonic, have the possibility of qualifying; at the same time, all players still have the possibility of being eliminated.
A ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Two wins for Federer and Djokovic are eliminated.
Take Group B as an example, if Federer loses to Murray in two sets and Kei Nishikori beats Raonic in two sets, Federer, Murray and Kei Nishikori will qualify for a series of situations:
Murray beat Federer, Federer beat Nishikori, Nishikori beat Murray.
So it is necessary to calculate the small points to determine the right to qualify, and Federer may also be eliminated.
The same goes for Djokovic.
One, the two-lost Ferrer and Raonic advanced to the semi-finals.
Also take Group B as an example. Federer defeated Murray in two sets and Raonic defeated Kei Nishikori in two sets. Then Federer won three and won the group first.
The other three players all have one victory, so Murray, Raonic, and Kei Nishikori need to calculate small points to determine the second qualifying place.
The same goes for Ferrell.
Two consecutive victories does not mean qualifying; two consecutive losses does not mean being out.