Before long, among Spain’s tennis players, the expression “The grass is for cattle”a more or less funny way to resign evidence and assume the difficulties they found to be competitive when weeding the grass and the Grand Slam more pick up, Wimbledon.
The green surface is still a very demanding test every year, but the Spaniards placed the batteries like everyone to work and prepare the Wimbledon attack: Two titles won Rafa Nadal (2008, 2010) and two consecutively now carrying Carlos Alcaraz In ‘Cathedral’ (2023, 2024). The complexities are left.
Allergy grass would be a thing of the past for the Spaniards, but whipped land still had detractors, not Spanish, of course, enjoyed when the tournaments came to the clay, the clues of which almost all grew as tennis players.
The same does not occur, for example, in USAWhere the common thing is to train on hard tracks and, therefore, finding the secrets of whipped earth is an excessive effort.
Frances Tiafoe27 years old and World Cup No. 16, he is one of the tennis players who hates clay. Without going, when he reached Paris I’m happy for one reason, at least, debatable. “I’m really cute Roland Garros Be my last contest on earth. What really matters, the grass and the hard tracks of the tag -day, where tennis really matters today. “
Tiafoe somehow showed reasons to have grimo on the ground: until 2022 he did not win his first game in a big Roland Garros, an event that day against Benjamin Bonzi ended with six losses in the 1st round in the first six participation.
However, just a few days later, it was in the quarterfinals without losing a set. Not only that: in one week he won many games in Roland Garros (4) as in his previous career (4 by 9 losses). How is this possible? “Playing hard track tennis on whipped ground”French answers, a very happy person who fell properly in the circuit.
“I feel like I’m playing with amazing -amazing. I feel at a good moment and I’m happy to be there. I like to compete and play aggressively, simplify the game, play the right way, because I know how to do it, my best, and living and dying of results. Right now it’s fine,” French said.
“In whipped land I make me more passive than other surfaces because the track doesn’t help me play as fast as I want,” explained Tiafoe, who prefers short points and winning blows, a tactic that is too simple for the ins and outs of Earth.
“Patience is something I am fighting for,” recognizes the American, without the good that ‘earthlings’ appreciate. “But, in general, I believe that everything can change in one week. When I have Delray Beach’2018 (hard), Houston’2023 (Land) and Stuttgart’2023 (grass).
This Tuesday is in the threshold to match its best results in a Grand SlamSemifinal achieved twice with your beloved We’re open of hard tracks and very fast exchanges (2022, 2024).
The opposite is required LORENZO MUSETTIGreat Earth Expert, World Cup No. 7, in a great way this season. In that sense, it will be a rivalry of differences. Tiafoe (3-2) led his past quarrels, but Italian won his single clay shock, in Rome’2023.
Source: La Verdad
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