Where there is a well, there is a way.

Well…it is time to end my blog topic, Tennis, and, in fact, I just still can’t believe it now. Back to the first time I heard this annoying homework, initially, I just want to complete it casually, yet, after finishing my very first post, and especially the moment I saw your comments, a sense of achievement and joy suddenly fulfill my heart. After that, I not only start to enjoy the process of writing my own blog, but also stand forward to my classmates’ topics, take Biological world, Miyazaki’s films, Desserts, and Life necessities- songs, for instance, though, I sometimes forgot to give my comments to them, I do like to visit varied style’s blogs. I think, in my eventful first semester with terrifying Schrödinger’s equation, threatening Calculus, and a lot of bothering things in college, this blog offers me a place to take a rest and charge myself to face the next obstacle in front of me and thus, I might keep this habit with a different topic forever even that maybe no one will watch them.

I consider it is not necessarily to review the nine posts before giving a summary, so let’s just skip it!

I choose Tennis as my topic, for the thrilling Majors are always my favorite, but I did not know a lot about tennis before this blog. I search and categorize information from the Internet, then wrote it in my own words. Therefore, I get to remember it more profoundly, like the characteristic of tennis courts, the history of Federer, and the strategies of single and doubles. What’s more, I recalled the story happened in the previous night of College Entrance Exam.

Last but not least, although the writer is me, your comments really play a key role, so I must to say thank you to all of you! By the way; Where there is a well (not a potential well), there is a way, when facing despair, I wish all of you will eventually conquer it with perseverance!

The pictures are from:

http://sports.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/1382/5/1/164451/1.html
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis

My memory of tennis

Well…time do pass extremely fast, and our semester will come to an end only after a month. It seems that I just live in a cycle of midterms, reports, blogs, badminton, experiments, Schrödinger equation, electrons, and Calculus. I spare no effort to try to get out of this loop and intend to grab something new, but just in vain. However, I don’t consider I lead a miserable life, and maybe I just need some time to figure out what I am doing now….

It just my feeling toward my first semester in freshman year, and you might think how this strange paragraph link to the topic, Tennis. To be truth, I initially have no idea about this question too, yet, a thought dawn on me.

Back to January this year, I was busy in preparing College Entrance Exam (學測), and with the exam approaching, I became more and more anxious. In the previous night of the day for the exam, before going to bed, I turned on the TV, and it was broadcasting Australian open (澳洲網球公開賽). It was women doubles and since one team was going to win the game, I decided to watch the game. I don’t know the result of that game, for my parents commanded me to sleep immediately. What’s impressed me most is one of the player is just sixteen years old (now she is seventeen) like you and me! Though both of us are sixteen, she has already accomplished a lot of achievement, but how about me? I am just a commonplace student.

Even now I still often recall this memory; it reminds me that I should find one thing deserves me to spend my whole life in it, just like that tennis player.

This video is the highlights of her game. 

Ashleigh Barty

Well… I have to say sorry, for it seems that I just type a lot meaningless words which have no relationship to the tennis. By the way, the player I mention in the article is Ashleigh Barty, an Australia woman tennis player.

Thank for your reading!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfSll_e-syk

This video is Barty's introduction in 30 seconds.

The pictures are from

http://sports.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/1382/5/1/164451/1.html

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ashleigh_Barty_(AUS)_(9633237520).jpg?uselang=zh-hant

http://channel.pixnet.net/sport/photo/hit/pic/sports/219274258

Tennis Strategies (Doubles)

Last week we talk about tennis strategies and 陳冠文 ask me about an example of serve and volleyer(發球上網型) in The Prince of Tennis. Well…since Takeshi Konomi (許斐剛) intends to make his main characters incredibly strong, nearly all of them are all court players(全面型),so, after racking my brain, I eventually found out an inappropriate instance, for his is not very famous, that is Akutagawa Jirou (芥川慈郎), a player who are good at volleying(截擊), in HYOTEI(冰帝), defeated by Fuji Syusuke(不二周助) in his first appearance…. 

This week let’s watch some Doubles strategies. Simply talk, we can categorize them into three types.

The first one is both-up strategy. To be both up to the net, the player needs to rush to net after serving, therefore, it also called serve and volley doubles, yet as you can imagine, when both players are close to the net, the over-head shots(高吊球) will become their nightmare. However, if their volley skill is awesome, their opponents will do get into troubles, because they barely have enough time to deal with the balls.

Since we have both-up, there must be a both-back strategy. This strategy is not offensive but defensive, and it is a useful response while our competitors both come to the net, like the picture shows.

Australian Doubles

The last one is the most common and complicated one, up-and-back strategy. Let’s first glance at the picture. Server starts his serve in backline and the other player stay behind the net, and that’s the simple type of up and back strategy, and with the change of the game conditions, it can turn into both up or down strategy. Besides, it can also vary into the well-known Australian Doubles(澳大利亞陣型) and the I-Formation(I陣型)

As usual, enjoy the funny video~~.

Thank for your reading. Have a nice day~

The picture are from 

http://baike.soso.com/v30175.htm

http://events.tw.msn.com/sport2012/events/%E7%B6%B2%E7%90%83?page=3

http://dpin100.blog.china.com/201204/9619429.html

http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/10557/item/747219/

Tennis Strategies!

Eventually, after been trampled by the terrible chemistry midterm, I will not have a nightmare about getting stuck in an infinite potential well and having a fierce fight against the particles in it anymore! The world seems to be colorful again!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SENCxdRVkUo It's some funny moment in tennis court~. 

Well…let us turn to my topic, in this seventh blog to introduce tennis, I will talk about different kinds of tennis strategies by taking a lot of examples, not only in the real world, but also some classical instances in animation!

The first one is Serve-and-volleyer(發球上網型). As its name mentions, this type of players are tend to come up to the net(上網…not surfing the Internet, like we do everyday= =) after serving the ball. This behavior gives their opponents more pressure, for the flying time of the ball will be decreasing, yet it is same to the players who stand just behind the net. For me, the games with this type of players are charming and exciting, because I always enjoy watching the reaction of the players who are forced to hit the balls between extremely short periods of time.

Next one is All court player(全面型球員), I consider most of you can easily guess the features of it, since some of you have watched The Prince of Tennis (網球王子) before and the well-known main characters in this animation are the best representatives of this type, like Echizen Ryoma(越前龍馬) and Tezuka Kunimitsu(手塚國光). For those people not interested in two dimensional world, Roger Federer will be your best choice to realize the characteristic of it. It is really hard to explain it clearly, for they sometimes come up to the net and sometimes stay in the baseline(底線), just decide by their own mind and doesn’t have a rule.

 Tragedy… since the words are over 300, and I think it is a leap in the dark for me to keep increasing them. I will introduce other types in other articles~. Thank for your reading! By the way, Djokovic, the previous blogs mentioned, is a good aggressive baseliner(底線侵略型球員)!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y1ITZelkig This video shows breathtaking passing shots from Federer

The pictures are from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation
http://album.blog.yam.com/show.php?a=k88111765&f=9140478&i=19049462
http://comic.people.com.cn/BIG5/n/2013/0809/c130243-22510426-7.html
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roger_Federer_Doha.jpg
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis

ATP and Novak Djokovic

Congratulations!! Most of you have conquered the midterm exam (or be bitterly trampled by it like me). All what I am thinking is Schrodinger equation, and what’s more, numerous naughty electrons not only colonize but also divide my brain into shells with different shapes.

Well…since my topic is neither an annoying particle in the box nor a potential well, let’s talk about ATP and Novak Djokovic(諾瓦克‧喬科維奇), for this skillful young man just won the championship in ATP World Tour Finals two days before(on November eleventh) by defeating Rafael Nadal(拉斐爾‧納達爾)!

First and crucial, ATP is not what you may think in biological field, which can provide energy in our body, like this one.

ATP is the abbreviation of Association of Tennis Professionals (國際男子職業網球總會). It holds a lot of major international tennis tournaments, and thus we call them ATP Tours (ATP巡迴賽), by the way, they do not contain Four Grand Slam Tournaments (四大滿貫賽事=Majors).

Novak Djokovic is borned in Yugoslavia(南斯拉夫) and he is the very first one in Republic of Serbia(塞爾維亞) to win the championship in the Majors (it was Australian open) and got the medal in Olympic games(奧運). Before his success in tennis, nearly all championships are belonging to Federer or Nadal, yet Djokovic broke this situation through sharpened up his skill diligently. On the other hand, as previous blog mentioned, Federer is getting older is also one of the reason.

Next week I will keep introduce something about Djokovic and different kinds of tennis strategies, thank for your reading!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6_yGCx5Eic this is the video about Lu Yen-Hsuan(盧彥勳) competed against Djokovic.

The pictures are from

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenos%C3%ADn_trifosfato

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ATP_World_Tour.png

http://iservice.libertytimes.com.tw/liveNews/news.php?no=755840

http://www.worldjournal.com/view/aSportsnews/21282342/article-%E5%A4%A2%E9%81%8A%E5%96%AC%E5%B8%A5-%E7%B0%BD%E5%90%8D%E9%81%AD%E7%A0%B8%E5%82%B7-?instance=picshot

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E5%8D%B0%E5%9C%B0%E5%AE%89%E6%B3%89%E7%B6%B2%E8%B3%BD-%E5%96%AC%E5%B8%A5%E6%8C%BA%E9%81%8E%E4%BA%82%E6%B5%81%E6%99%893%E8%BC%AA-072005974--ten.html

The Prince of Tennis~

Before reading the blog, there’s a good news from Hsieh Su-Wei(謝淑薇)and Peng Shuai(彭帥)!! They just won WTA (it’s a tournament held by WTA世界職業網球女子協會) championship three days ago (on 10/27) and Hsieh Su-Wei’s ranks become third!!!

Since midterm is approaching, let’s have an unexpected and interesting topic about tennis, The Prince of Tennis(網球王子) this week!! (I suggest that you can click this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmUCZR5Bbks to enjoy the music when reading the text!!)

This Japanese animation is originally a manga from Takeshi Konomi (許斐剛) since 1999, and still releasing. I consider most of you have watched it before or even still watching now, and, honestly, though the skill in this animation is nearly impossible to implement in real condition, I just can’t resist the charm of the incredible technique, and what’s more, I always can imagine the scene I use the Samurai drive(武士截擊) to divide  ball into half by the rope of the net.

the picture of The Cyclone Smash(龍捲風殺球)

The anime narrates the story happened around the tennis club in Seishun Academy (青春學園). The main character, Ryoma Echizen(越前龍馬) is only twelve years old, as the freshman in junior high school, he first be despised by others, yet after showing his ridiculous (not joking, how can a human being actives like this!!!???), he wins the respect and become the unprecedented first grader to get into formal team.

Well, besides the astonishing tennis skill, the cooperation and emotion between teammates really fascinated me. They help, provoke each other when facing adversity, company their teammates to help them improve, and sometimes compete with each other to sharpen up skill. They are not only teammates, but also friends will last forever. I consider it’s really a worth watching animation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAaVy47R72g this video is about the comparison of using the skill in real world.

the pictures are from 

http://wqwz.manmankan.com/201008/4372.html

http://www.tudou.com/home/diary_u27158431c322976m00p1.html

http://hsj116.blog.163.com/blog/static/692306232010112001455736

http://home.gamer.com.tw/creationDetail.php?sn=759366

Roger Federer!!!!!!!!

I think he is very handsome, don't you??

Hello everyone!!!Since we have appreciated some astonishing video from Roger Federer, this week let’s explore this greatest legend’s history and achievement!!!

As usual, let’s enjoy an interesting video to release our pressure from midterm exam…. (Oh…What’s wrong with my chemistry= =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkpkP_8ynis

Roger Federer was burned in Switzerland, and he was initially interested in soccer and tennis, yet, when he turned into a teenager, he must choose one of them, undoubtedly, he decided to sharpen up his tennis skill, or  now he wouldn't have the chance to be well-known, and later became a pro in sixteen. I consider the most influential year in his career life is 2003,which he won his first Majors(大滿貫) championship (that was Wimbledon:溫布頓). After built up his confidence, he attended the peak in tennis world in year 2004!!!

To be honest, he is my favorite player not only because his amazing ability, but also because his behavior in his leisure. Instead of living a extravagant life, he joined a lot of charity charitable event, such as leading fundraising event to help rebuild Haiti(海地) after the catastrophic earthquake.

Roger Federer is famous for the ability of adjusting himself to different kind of tennis court, and especially on hard court and grass court. Since his achievement is really countless and too hard to express by only 300 words, I will put a link in the end of the blog.

Before leaving the blog, let’s enjoy the incredible skill of Federer. (the video is about fake shots(假動作), and even the commentator say that it is ridiculous!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjwwSWPCL-8

more about Federer: http://www.rogerfederer.com/en/rogers/history.html

The pictures are from:http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/7/5/21/n1716881.htm

http://kunlinjohnlee.pixnet.net/blog/post/25215051-%E6%81%AD%E5%96%9C%E8%B2%BB%E5%BE

%B7%E5%8B%92%E7%B5%82%E6%96%BC%E5%AE%8C%E6%88%90%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E7%B6%B2%E7%90%83%E8%BF%B7%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%A2

http://sports.people.com.cn/BIG5/22155/22166/9595799.html

http://big5.cri.cn/gate/big5/gb.cri.cn/41280/2013/01/18/5631s3995020.htm

Chinese Taipei in East Asian Games

Hello everyone, this week let’s talk about the latest news just happened in last few weeks: The unprecedented achievement Taiwanese player achieved in East Asian Games(東亞運)!!!

Don’t be too urgent to read the text! The astonishing video is waiting for your click! (Roger Federer is coming again! By the way, the car is owned by his coach……)

First, I intend to introduce the background of East Asian Game (EAG for short). Coincidentally, it may be your first time and the last chance to hear about EAG, for it will be cancelled after 2013 held in Tianjin (天津) and changed into 東亞青年運動會(it doesn't have the official name now.). As its name tells us, the contestants are nearly all come from East Asia, and its function is used to provoke the exchange between Asian countries. Since 1993, it kicks off per four years.

The picture of men's and women's team(團體賽) won gold medals.

This year, Taiwan won total seventeen gold medals, and tennis representative grasp five of them! (also five sliver and two bronze(銅牌))

Women's double, Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chan(詹詠然)

What’s amazing, not only mixed doubles(混雙), but women’s doubles(女雙) and men’s doubles(男雙) all gained one gold and silver medal, which means both of the teams competed in finals are all Taiwanese.

Mixed double, Hao-Ching Chan(詹皓晴) and Hsin-Han Lee(李欣翰)

   In the end, let’s applaud to all representatives!!

 p.s. Hsieh Su-Wei(謝淑薇) is going to attend the tournament in Turkey next week!!

Well, since EAG is only occurred in East Asia, it’s really hard to find the video in English version, so I give up after trying my best...and thank for your reading!





The pictures are from http://issackr.pixnet.net/blog/post/37942305-2013%E5%B9%B4%E7%AC%AC%E5%85%AD%E5%B1%86%E5%A4%A9%E6%B4%A5%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%9E%E9%81%8B%E5%8B%95%E6%9C%83-%E6%8E%92%E7%90%83%E9%A0%85%E7%9B%AE%EF%BC%8810-6-13
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%9E%E9%81%8B-come-%E7%A6%A6%E9%9F%93%E6%8A%97%E4%B8%AD-%E7%B6%B2%E7%90%83%E9%9B%99%E9%87%91%E5%A0%B1%E5%96%9C-221053106--ten.html
http://udn.com/NEWS/SPORTS/SPO3/8221036.shtml
http://udn.com/NEWS/SPORTS/SPO3/8221008.shtml
The video is from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKB42W7KsVI.

The characteristics of tennis court

Hello everyone, today’s topic is Wimbledon(溫布敦), French open(法網) and the feature of four kinds of tennis court.

Like previous time, let’s begin from a funny video about Roger Federer.

French open, also called Roland Garros, is the second tournament of Majors. It is played on clay court in every late May to early June. Due to its courts are lack of illumination devices, sometimes, the match may be hung up to next day if the game spends too much time, and that do influence players a lot. Thus, players often complain about that.

The Wimbledon Championships (simply Wimbledon), is the most famous and oldest tournament in Majors (四大滿貫賽). It’s the third event of the slam tournament which kicks off in late June and early July since 1877. What’s unique, it’s now the only contest played on grass court, and when we talk to Wimbledon, undoubtedly, we must consider to The Pride of Taiwan (台灣之光), Lu Yen-Hsun (盧彥勳) , who is the second player in Asia “to reach the quarter-finals” and Hsieh Su-Wei(謝淑薇), who just won the championship in 2013!!

Hsieh Su-Wei and Peng Shuai win the chanpionship!

The picture of Lu Yen-Hsun

Next, let’s talk about the most common court, hard court(硬地球場). Hard court is easy to maintain and the weather has nothing to do with the velocity of the ball reflecting from the surface of the hard court. The aggressive baseliners (底線型侵略球員) will be dominant when playing on hard court.

Compared with hard court, grass court(草地球場) is easier to produce, yet hard to maintain. The characteristics of grass court are the height of ball reflects from the surface is the lowest and ball sometimes may reflect unusual. Therefore, the serve and volleyers (發球上網型球員) like this kind of court.

 

Clay court(泥地球場), which challenges the physical strength of the players most, has the highest height of the ball reflect from the surface, but makes the speed of the balls slowest. If the weather is dry, the speed of the balls will increase a little bit. Defensive baseliner(防禦型底線球員) is suitable to clay court.

I put carpet court(地毯球場) in the last, because it’s not very widespread. It’s used indoor and the speed of the ball is faster than other courts.

The moment of Hsieh Su-Wei win the final competition.

Next time, I haven't decided the topic, but one thing is for sure, the video which will entertain you!!

The four Grand Slam tournaments

Hello everyone, I  am glad to introduce part of the most important tennis annual event to you: The four Grand Slam tournaments, also called Majors.

It is the video about some amazing or even ridiculous play and just use for amusement.

Australian Open , which first held in 1905, is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events of the year ,and it starts in mid January . It features not only men's and women's singles, men's, women's, and mixed doubles but also junior's championships, wheelchair, legends and exhibition events. What interesting is the prize money it awarded to all the attendants in 2013 is AUD$31,000,000(equals to NT＄857,243,000), which is the highest in the four Grand Slam tournaments.

The United States Open Tennis Championships(US open for short) is the last of tennis major ,which kicks off in late August and early September. Coincidentally, the first and the final tournament both play on hard court. Besides men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, it additionally contains the competition of senior, junior, and wheelchair players. The thrilling thing is that its court is unique, for all of them are illuminated, meaning that television coverage of the tournament can extend into prime time to attract higher ratings. Even more, the deciding heat of women’s singles is thus influenced to move to Saturday night to draw better television ratings.

 the trophy of US open

 the trophy of Australian Open

It is the highlights about the final US Open 2013 Djokovic vs Nadal and Rafael Nadal won his second US Open crown.

It is the conference which Novak Djokovic discusses his US Open Men's Final loss to Rafael Nadal.

Thank for your reading. Next week I will present the characteristic of four kinds of tennis courts, and other Majors, Wimbledon and French Open. By the way, I will seek some interesting video to put them on the blog and I am sure that you won’t want to miss them.