Gao Wen was able to catch the embarrassment and shyness in Pulan's eyes, and there was a slight smile in his eyes, and then he pretended not to notice anything, and changed the subject.

"Learned a few things, but realized there was still a lot to learn."

"The most important thing, though, is to really realize the joy of clay."

Pu Lan tilted his head slightly, "Oh? How should I say it?"

Gao Wen thought that Pu Lan was just trying to change the subject, so he said something in general, but when he saw Pu Lan, his brows were full of curiosity and inquiry, he couldn't help being a little surprised, "Are you really interested?"

"Of course, as long as it's something you're interested in, I'm willing to listen." Pu Lan stared deeply at Gawain, his clear pupils reflecting Gawain's face.

Gawain was slightly stunned, and before he realized it, the smile on the corner of his mouth rose slightly, "Be careful, you may have opened Pandora's Box."

A tease made Pulan chuckle, and then Gao Wen continued.

"Actually, there has always been a saying among professional coaches that basic skills must be trained on clay."

"But obviously, the training system in North America does not agree with this, and it is more of the idea of European coaches."

"In the past, I always believed that this should be a conflict of views between different training factions, which exists objectively in the professional training of different competitive sports."

Pu Lan didn't know much about tennis. If it wasn't for Gao Wen, she wouldn't even watch tennis very often, and she wouldn't even care about the status of tennis matches.

But at this time, Pu Lan showed an expression of interest, not a kind of pandering, but from the bottom of his heart, Gawain always seemed to be able to make things interesting.

More importantly, Pu Lan wanted to understand Gao Wen's world, and his curiosity and interest were unprecedentedly strong.

"So, have your views changed now?"

Gawain nodded slightly, "A little bit."

As Gawain said, this is a debate of training factions, which slowly rose from the second half of the first decade of the 21st century and has continued

The cause came from Roddick's retirement. He reached the top of the US Open in 2003. This was the last time a North American player won a Grand Slam. This also declared the decline of the golden generation in North America; There are no American players in the top ten ranks.

There is no doubt that this is the end of an era. From Connors to McEnroe to Chang Depei, from Courier to Sampras to Agassi, North American hard-court players have dominated professional tennis for more than 30 years. Whether it is a Grand Slam champion or the world's No. 1 throne, it shows top-level dominance in an all-round way.

Now, it ushered in a complete collapse.

Instead, the strong rise of European players, the "Big Four" all came from Europe, and led to the appearance of the entire European faction, and the balance of power in professional tennis has undergone a fundamental change.

Later, in 2017 and 2018, a group of players such as Isner and Querrey successively declined in the world rankings due to injuries, and the growth rate of the subsequent new generation was far behind Zverev Jr. , Tsitsipas and others, the professional tennis world in North America has fallen into a short-term fault.

At worst, there were no American players in the top 30 in the world rankings, and it lasted for a long time.

This was the case until Taylor-Fritz, Reilly-Opelka, Toy-Paul, France-Tiafoe, Sebastian-Korda (Sebastian-Korda), Jenson-Brooksby (Jenson-Brooksby) and other "post-95s" and "post-00s" young players emerged one after another and changed the situation again.

In this regard, global professionals including North America had a heated discussion:

why?

The strength of the "Big Four" is one aspect; but what else? Putting aside the Grand Slam and Masters championships for the time being, what about the world rankings?

Not only in top-level events, but in ordinary events, it can be generally felt that American players are lacking in competitiveness and it is difficult to keep up with the average level of competition.

Moreover, the most puzzling fact is that due to commercial considerations, the popularity of hard courts has skyrocketed, the number of hard courts has continued to rise, and the living space of clay courts and grass courts has been further compressed. Naturally, players who are good at hard courts Also get more room to play.

Someone once said that Federer is good at grass, Nadal is good at clay, and Djokovic is good at hard court. Of course, these three giants perform very, very well on all courts, but everyone has their own best court. Therefore, people in the industry are generally optimistic about the future of Djokovic

The most intuitive point is that as the proportion of hard-court events becomes larger and larger, the number of weeks that Djokovic occupies the world's number one is getting longer and longer.

After all, the world rankings look at the average level of performance over the past year.

In the same way as Djokovic, players from the North American training system are good at hard courts. Logically speaking, they should be able to show their skills like a fish in water, but this is not the case.

This doesn't seem to make sense.

At this time, the dispute over the training system gradually surfaced.

It may sound weird and difficult to understand, but the reality is that the North American training system is called "power flow", while the European training system is called "technical flow"

Yes, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray, all are called "tech flow".

Of course, from the perspective of the game style, Federer and Nadal seem to be far from the technical flow, but the context can be seen from an in-depth analysis from a professional perspective.

Such a conclusion is not without reason.

To put it simply, the North American training system is not limited to the United States, but also Canada, Australia, etc., including most countries and regions in Asia.

This training system revolves around hard courts. Serving and forehand are strengths, but that's all. Compared with a single weapon, the more serious problem is:

The monotony of the tactical system.

Players often rely too much on their serve and forehand, and strength becomes the core of the entire training system. In fact, with the development of physical fitness and equipment technology, as long as the serve and forehand are powerful enough, they can indeed win. They put all their faith in their serves and forehands.

But the question is, what if it doesn't work? What if you can't score with your serve or your forehand~www.mtlnovel.com~?

At this time, the players who grew up under this training system fully exposed their shortcomings:

One is the lack of scoring means.

One is the lack of tactical literacy.

Finally, we will delve into an essential problem, the lack of training of "ball quotient".

how to say?

It can be understood that if a person has eighteen kinds of martial arts in his arsenal, then in a crisis situation, he will constantly think about what weapons he has to get out of the predicament, and naturally, the entire tactical system will be enriched and active.

But if there is only one weapon in a person's arsenal, they can indeed defeat the enemy at ordinary times, so they have no other thoughts in their minds, and gradually their thinking ability will degenerate. Even if someone threw a machine gun in front of him, he didn't know how to use it.

Players from the North American training system are the latter.

(end of this chapter)

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