Roland Garros, Paris – Almost every long tennis point contains a moment Coco goff These days, when an opponent believes she lives with a ball that descends one or two inches from the line.
Then it comes back, and then it is another, and perhaps one or two more. When it ends at the end, often in stealing the goff, a marked contrast between the two players. A player is doubled, gasping for the wind. The second is walking in the position for the next point, the mouth is shut, the air is peacefully streaming inside and out of his nose.
Looks like who is?
Among all the superpowers of Gauf, place those lungs on top.
Almost every moment is a moment Madison Keys Match these days – especially during one Grand Slam – When his back is against a wall and he actually requires this point. One player is moving around, winning with stress, while the other seems to be 1–1 in the first set.
The keys looked like apocalypse in those moments. In the last one year, he has acquired a deep breath in his lungs in moments of struggle, a deep breath. He displayed it repeatedly on his march Australian open title In January. He re -displayed it against fellow American Sophia Kenin in the third round Roland GarrosSave the late three match points in the third set.
When she turns to her husband and coach, Byorn Fratengelo, the points that are made to crush her, sitting in their box, with “I have found it” – because she actually does.
Wednesday's French Open Quarterfinal Duality is present at several levels between Goff and Keys. He was tagged with a “Next Serena Williams” label at an early age, almost eight years separate. The 30-year-old Keys has seen a 21-year-old Goff, who develops and tolerates a Uber-sanskar of what he had gone during his late teenage age, when everyone told him that he had a game to play.
The clear generation -long fight appears as one of the styles on the tennis court. The keys were raised in an era when the game was about digging and swinging hard. Gauf increased the focus to focus on the movement and court coverage, reversed the ability to find the winners or the speed of points from every place in the court.
And then there is a conflict of powers that are higher than any other. The engine of goff against the ability of the keys to reduce their blood pressure to reduce everyone's spikes. This match can do something else to those people.
Goff said in the weekend that there is only one player on the tour who can stay with him in a long match: Zheng Kinwen, who matched the shot for more than three hours in his last two matches, both won the cow.
In the third round match of Goff in Roland Garos, Mary Buzkova of the Czech Republic tried to defeat him as a human backboard, drawing points with deep looping shots in a dialect to inspire errors from a impatient goff. For some time, it worked, but Buzkova had a lack of weapons to win his service game after playing Lungbasters for most of Gauf's people. The US point ended with a 20–12 lead that lasted more than eight shots.
At the beginning of the second set there was a particularly long point, in which both players were up and back and crossed all baseline. Buzkova won it. Goff did not care because he saw and looked at Bauzkova, using his racket to keep it on the soil with tambling.
Goff said with a grin, “I knew that my heartbeat was not really much.” “It felt right.”
Goff knew that there was a way that Buzkova preferred to play. With a set in that bank, the goff was sure that there was no way to manage against him for a better part of two more sets.
Benefits especially when she plays against teenagers, which, regardless of her talent, does not have miles in their legs or their lungs. In the second round, the shoulders of Terreza Valentova, 18 and a growing check talent were overshadowing the points after 45 minutes. The same thing happened to Victoria Maboko, who created 18 -year -old Canadian waves in this spring, who took the first set of Gauf in the Italian Open, then quickly felt that his gas gauge was emptied.
None of these surprises Chris Quenbank is very high. ATP tour player, Goff's surrogate Big Brother, and an analyst for TNT in this tournament, the Ubank has known Gauf from his early childhood in Atlanta, before Goff moved to Florida. When Goff was 15 years old, the Ubank, which is eight years older than that, began to spend 10 days of training with Goff during the off-season. Till then, she was already doing an adult-style track and gym workouts.
He said that training with goffs in the heat of South Florida is not to faint heart. Each drill becomes a competition even when they are going under the line or the line on each other. He is not sure what he feels in making a rift.
During an interview in Paris this week, he said, “There is no day when we are practicing together and you felt that she is giving it.” “She has always been an ultra competitor. I have never seen gas in a match or in a court in a court.”
Can separate Gauf, Yubank said, “It is that a lot of players see fitness as homework, something is to do, but if he was an option to reach the top, he would be happily left.” Goff really likes it. And this is inspired to success in long matches that increase their confidence when the clock ticks.
“If you have never done this, it could be a little bit,” said the Quank.
“The more you get, the more confidence you get as you think.”
The keys are receiving those representatives. He spent working with fall and winter Rehred Langford, a former NFL defensive back Which is now one of the top power and conditioning coaches in the US Tennis Association. This makes her believe that she can physically live with gauf, but she knows that the red soil of the Rolland Garos only gives a even greater edge to the gauf when she can use her feet and her lungs.
“You're going to win the point several times before you actually finish,” Keys said. “Then you are also in danger against him, if at any point you lose control of this point, it is going to become aggressive.”
Keys do not want to let this happen. She works when she is comfortable with all the hard moments that require tennis, with accepting that she needs to take her opportunities and go for her shots and don't worry so much about the result. Safe and temporary is not where she wants to be, whether the scoreboard says. He never demonstrated that more than Aryana Sabalenka over the Australian Open Final, serving in decisive sets at 5-5, 30–30.
Sabalenka returned to Keys Shins. He tilted his knees, allowed the ball to enter his body and redirected him to the postage stamp in the opposite corner of the court. The kind of shot that looks good on television, but whose glow comes with the fact that it is a shot that can produce a tennis player with a diamond punishment.
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“In the past, I probably play a little more temporary and a little more defensively in big moments, and now trying to push to play in the way I was playing to get up in the score,” said in Paris.
When listening to the keys, it becomes clear how low the product of technology and changes in equipment is, even if it has touched his service and changed his racket. Large changes can occur on closed days when she takes places in world capitals instead of hibernating in her hotel room. It's okay to lose, until she loses on her terms.
It goes a long way when she is facing the match point or when she catches one, or when she just wants to show Fartangelo who is the boss. For example, she wants her backhand crosscourt to kill about 99 percent of the time.
“I usually go for some ridiculous under the line and I make it, and I look at him and give him a strange face,” Keys said.
On Wednesday, there will be a possibility of a moment when Keys would appear across the net and think about the version of Coco Goff that she met almost a decade ago, when Gauf was a hyper-talented tween that led to big things for big things.
“It's really fun that he is watching him doing so well at such a young age,” Keys said about Goff.
She is now older. They are both.
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