Indian Wales, California – a championship that leads itself as a tennis, Indian wells It tends to bring some elements of the Old Testament to sport in the California desert.
The sun that recedes a day is replaced with temperatures that can turn into cold at night. In a part of the world that sees the rains about 14 days out of 365, a few seem to be always landed in the first two weeks of March, which led to the interruption of play. Last year, The bees gathered the main stadium. This year, the enemy is right for tennis players at all levels – it rarely stops playing, but it determines its rhythm more than any other weather – is the small yellow ball doll that they are trying to hit inside the white lines and lead it to distraction.
Renke Haikata, 24-year-old Australian, who is credited with his childhood in a Seedni suburb storm in a Seedeni wind suburb to overcome his match in the first round with Alexander Shevchenko from Kazakhstan, 6-1, 6-3. Through the complex, it surpasses the 40 miles of palm trees, which sends a billing of balls and vibrations across the air, such as a free football kick.
Hijikata said that the winds on Thursday were not only strong: it seems to be coming from every direction. Given this, there was only one way to survive, and did not include taking a dead goal on the lines to try to end points quickly.
He said: “You have to give yourself great margins.” “You have to press the ball on the field and get your running shoes.”
Bellinda PenicicWhich followed its usual strategy, as it prevailed 6-1, 6-1 on Tatzana Maria, had a similar approach. “Try to play with it, not try to go to get risky shots and only play a big goal and work on your legs strongly.
“Respect the wind.”
heat It can be exhausted and the rain can delay playing, but the wind is the most automatic. It is very similar to a strong primary service or a ground blow, its strength is more than tennis means little without knowing its direction. If it is blowing up and down on the field, in parallel with the side lines, the effects are more predictable. At one end, the players should be careful not to rise with the breeze on their back. On the other hand, they should realize how much it will carry. The player who receives a ball with the wind behind it needs to respond faster; If it slows down the ball, their foot should take it to that and adapt to any sudden changes in the direction.
It usually does not work clean. The breeze can developed the Flushing Bay in some days in the United States Open in New York; Arthur Ash, the main square, was famous for its velement before installing a partial ceiling in 2015. At the ATP Tour event held in Estoril, Portugal, directly north of Lisbon, winds off the Atlantic Ocean can make chaos in the matches.
The wind in the Indian Wales of another kind, which slides in one way or another the minds of most players because they wax poetic around what is for many of their favorite stations in tennis evaluation. The place is basically the wind machine thanks to its location between two groups of mountains, San Jacintos and San Bernardinos, in the Kochilla Valley, about 120 miles east of Los Angeles. Mountains act like repression. The hot air rises from the desert land, and the cold air from the top rushes to replace it. In external courts, he will go in any direction you choose for today. In the main arena, stadium 1, with the structure, doors and openings of the bowl, create the currents and swirls that players have to adapt during flying.
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Desert winds can create other risks as well. Bensoic said she left the training court last Friday with a mouth from the best desert.
“It was like a sandstorm,” she said.
The wind made for a disturbing first match for Joao FonsecaThe 18 -year -old rising star from Brazil who plays the championship for the first time. Fonseca had to scrambling the collapse in the third group against Jacob Vernelli, Britain, to win the first time in Indian Wales.
FONSECA dominated Fearnley in the first group, where the British adapted to the wind and discovered how to play strongly in it. Perhaps Fearnley has an advantage. University tennis played at the University of Texas Christianity, which can be large in itself, especially in the Home Tcu stadiums, which were built in a type of sultanate.
“Many of them are my mind.” “You can not really control what the weather will do, so you accept it somewhat and try to use it for your best.”
He seemed to have mastered things, as he dismantled the Brazilian until a dual FONSECA error allowed even in the decisive group. FONSECA did not lose another game in the maximum matches he could remember, as he served his kick, as he was leaving the stadium and to a background for Fearnley, who uprooted his opponent. His hat exploded at one point; A towel rolled on the field and stopped playing during another.
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“When the atmosphere is stormy, this is just a mistake, and at this level, it is just one point that won the match,” he said.
However, the wind made FONSECA so uncomfortable that after the two -hour match, it went to the training fields to strike for another half an hour and try to get a sense of the ball.
After the end of Fonseca and Vernelli on the main stadium, it was Emma RadocanoIn turn to try to discover the elements. Radokano has been playing its first match since the spectator was removed from one of its matches to show the behavior attached to it in Dubai last month. The person who appeared in her match in the second round against Carolina Musioua “approached her, left her note, took her image, and participated in the behavior that caused her distress,” according to a statement issued by the Dubai authorities.
The Indian Wales brought safety and a lot of support to it. She said, “I had nothing to happen in Dubai at all today.”
Unfortunately for Radaucanu, who flourishes the rhythm and finds its grooves, it also brought the kind of conditions that no player wants in the first match after a break. The wind has proven, and the difficult challenges of Moyka Ouchigima, which mastered the circumstances by changing its shots, a lot in the defeat of 6-3, 6-2.
Like many players, Emma Radocano found the stormy conditions that are a challenge in Indian Wales. (Clive Brunskill / Getty Images)
“It is very embarrassing in the wind here,” said Radocano, who was playing her first match with her new pilot coach, Vladimir Platinik. Platinic trained Lulu Sun, who beat Radokano in Wimbledon last year, and the highest of the perpetual supportive support.
“Many balls that were very compressed in these courts a day and in the wind,” Radokano said. “So just jumping was a lot, then a kind of palaces, almost like Meshits.
“I didn’t really know what would happen.”
As the night decreased and the temperature decreased, the wind faded. Of course, the rain came, a cold fixed spray that caused the game to stop at around 8:30 pm at 9:25 pm, officials played the game at night.
Before the championship, the BNP Paribas Open’s decision changed the court’s provider of discussion between the players on the conditions. In the first evidence, the new Laykold surface remains a voltage, as it sends desert sand and gravel in the paint that sends balls that come out of the strike areas and intimidate the feeling. They are fluctuations in the sun and the cloud, hot and cold, and most of all, a storm and quiet that determines the conditions that resemble André Roblef with four championships in one.
If the expectations are correct – they are always large in the desert – the storms will be lighter in the coming days, making life on tennis courts easier to deal with them. Unless the bees are a swarm again.
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