The runner-up battle?

Zhang Depei is a Chinese-American tennis player. He has won the French Open in 1989 and was the runner-up in the Australian Open and the US Open in 1996. It is worth mentioning that when he won the French Open championship, he was only 17 years and 3 months old. He was also the youngest champion in the Grand Slam men's singles competition. Zhang Depei's best ranking in history is the second in the world, and the first for that year's world ranking is the world champion: Sampras.

After Zhang Depei retired, he transformed into a tennis coach and has also achieved some results. However, what is most familiar to Zhang Guan is the Japanese player Nishikori. Since Zhang Depei became the coach of Nishikori, Nishikori's results have risen linearly, not only did he win the runner-up in the US Open, his world ranking has also climbed to the top five in the world. This also fully shows that Zhang Depei is still very capable as a coach.

In addition to Zhang Depei, Zhang Guan also has no other better choice. Tennis, like other professional sports, usually changes coaches during the offseason. Those good coaches have long been hired by other players during the offseason, and now it is January. The entire tennis season just started, naturally there will be no players changing coaches. So being able to find a coach like Zhang Depei is a big surprise for Zhang Guan.

So Zhang Guan immediately said, "Then let Coach Zhang come as soon as possible and reimburse him for the ticket. Although he can't make it to the semifinals, he can certainly make it to the finals. Maria also made it to the semifinals, for Coach Joyce the task is very heavy, I can't always rub her coach!"

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For Gonzalez, being able to defeat Nadal and entering the Grand Slam semi-finals has created his personal best results. Before this, his Grand Slam best results were only in the quarterfinals.

"My opponent in the next game is Zhang Guan, which is a good group!" Gonzalez is still very excited at this time, defeating Nadal in such an important game, it is indeed a big celebration for him.

"If the opponent is Davydenko, it's troublesome for me. Davydenko's game experience is very rich, he can always crack my forehand, so that my attack will be blocked and I won't be able to find the feeling of the game. But fortunately, Zhang Guan helped me get rid of Davydenko and I'm playing a rookie in the next game. It seems that entering the final is not a problem!" Gonzalez continued.

At this time, Gonzalez fully demonstrated the natural optimism of South American players.

However, Gonzalez's coach said, "I don't think you should care too much. Although Zhang Guan is participating in the Australian Open for the first time, he is not an ordinary rookie. All the skills he has shown are very good. He is very mature, you have seen that game with Davydenko, Zhang Guan's forehand is very accurate, and he uses a baseline offensive tactic similar to Federer; and his service level is also very good. But in the game, he sent out more than ten ACE balls! I made a statistic, he served more than 70%, and his speed can exceed 200 kilometers per hour. This is better than you!"

"I'm stronger than him! That's because I didn't do my best!" Gonzalez sneered, then said, "Wait and watch, I will try my best in the game tomorrow! Zhang Guan's serve is good? Is his forehand also good? Then I will beat him with a serve and forehand!"

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The Australian Open is on the eleventh match day.

In the women's singles semi-finals that started first, Williams Jr. defeated Vaidisova 2-0, and Sharapova defeated Christels with the same score. Today's Australian Open final will be a contest between Williams Jr. and Sharapova.

However, this is not a good result for Sharapova. It is well known that Williams Jr. is Sharapova's nemesis. Sharapova has never won against Williams, although Sharapova's first Grand Slam title was won against Williams, since the WTA year-end finals in 2004, Sharapova has never won against Williams. Then, when Sharapova faced Williams again, it will be ten years in a row.

After the women's singles two-and-a-half game, Rod Laver Stadium also ushered in the most important game today, Federer against Roddick in the men's singles semi-finals. Roddick was the sixth seed of the tournament. Before the game, he was considered to be a favorite to win the championship. Although his record with Federer was 12 losses and 1 win, Roddick was disadvantaged. But in the second half of last year, the famous tennis Coach Connors became Roddick's coach, and Roddick also made rapid progress. Roddick faced Federer's only victory in the Kuyan Classic before the Australian Open.

The Kuyan Classic was only one week away from the Australian Open, which means that Roddick had defeated Federer a week ago, so many people think that Roddick will cause Federer a lot of trouble, maybe he can be defeated again; some people will say that this is a battle of revenge.

However, the result of the game was shocking. Federer ended the game in only 83 minutes. 6-4 / 6-0 / 6-2 straight sets sent Rodick out of the game. Roddick failed to cause Federer any trouble.

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"Federer has booked the championship of the Australian Open"

"In the game held this afternoon, defending champion Federer defeated the 6th seed Roddick of the tournament and successfully advanced to the final. However, for many people, the current Australian Open championship has lost suspense. In another men's singles game although the semi-finals have not started yet, neither Gonzalez nor Zhang Guan can beat Federer in the final. So Federer can say that he has already taken the Australian Open championship into his arms."

This report tells the voices of many people. Now Federer is in perfect condition. From the first round of the game until he defeated Roddick in the semi-finals, Federer won 3-0 without losing a set.

In the media predictions before the game, among the seed players, only Nadal, Ljubicic, Roddick and Nalbandian could cause trouble for Federer. Among them, Nadal and Nalbandian are well-known "cow killers"; Ljubicic is a friend of Federer, and he knows Federer's style very well; Roddick just defeated Federer last week.

The current situation is that Nadal lost to Gonzalez, Ljubicic was eliminated in the first round, Roddick could not stop Federer's progress, and Nalbandian lost to Zhang Guan. In the eyes of the media, all four people who had a chance in defeating Federer are out, so everyone has decided that Federer has become the Australian Open champion.

As for Gonzalez and Zhang Guan, one is the tenth in the world, one is a rookie participating in professional games for the first time, even if they have played well in the first few rounds, but no one is optimistic about Zhang Guan or Gonzalez defeating Federer. Therefore, the game between Zhang Guan and Gonzalez was also dubbed the "Australian Open Runner-up".