First, about Saurav Gosal. Visitors to Nantes, the city of the arts (the royal residence of the ancient rulers of Brittany), are probably used to the surprises they see every day: the 15-kilometer green line that runs through the city. a tour of some of the most daring installations and installations of modern sports art. There’s a croissant-shaped soccer field, and a mirror with a reflective screen could change the perception of those who want to watch sports. There are crescent-shaped ping-pong tables and basketball hoops where you can shoot from different heights. Giant flower pots kids can jump into, curved benches like in Alice in Wonderland, and giant spiders and mammoths that you can walk on.
When India’s top squash player received rapturous applause for his brilliant backhander, he faced Mohamed El Shorbagi on a beautiful September day – mind you, it was a losing match. players – ditch the public art seen in the city fields.
The audience in Nantes could not help but applaud and applaud, and the narrators were dumbfounded and exclaimed: “Oh, this is outrageous, what a handsome fellow … He did it so easily, it’s not.”
The master of words was once fascinated by Amr Shabana’s fallen wrist, saying: “This is a joker, bakin, utkin, khakin …” Dinky Dinky was equally delighted.
ElShorbag​y won 10-8 in the semi-final between Maison du Squash and Hangar. The 10-8 was the ball of world No. 4 Egypt and Great Britain in two matches, and the 31-year-old former world champion and No. 1 established his authority on the field with some punching power. Gosal is 35 years old and his biggest achievement is a bronze medal in CWG singles after years of fighting on the squash court. It is currently ranked 15th in the world, although it peaked at number 10 in April 2019.
Earlier this summer, Gosar won his first Commonwealth Games medal in singles. The Olympics are often very competitive, and for a sport that didn’t make it to the Olympics, the CWG medal would count as the biggest medal in the Olympic environment. It also crowned his career, but had little impact in his country, where tennis, badminton and TT were the racquet favourites. Few Indians have seen Gosal live. Not to mention he drank his best racket skills.
Six of the world’s top 10 are Egyptians – El Shorbag ​​has only recently moved to play for England. There are also 9 in the top 20, if there is an evil wizard’s wrist pulling out exciting angles in this glass cage, it is likely to be a creative, consummate Egyptian marinated in sports. Made to perfection.
Gosal is one of the shortest, if not the shortest, best players on the PSA Pro Tour. He is one of the fastest players on the tour, making up for his lack of height. On the wooden floor, he has the confident and lyrical footwork of a tap dancer. But what makes the court unique in this sport is the 3D glass walls that hang from the floor, and Ghosal brings the greatest quality to his playing style: precision. In a world of flesh-centered patterns, he brings an artful touch.
Ghosal grew up adoring Egyptian legend Amr Shaban whose soft wrists could play crazy balls at incredible angles in amazing directions, an artist with an independent aesthetic at play and more, not to mention achieving world-class performance. Remember Federer in squash. In fact, continue all the work of Federer. Because the greatest tennis player has just shocked the world with his decision to retire, and a diehard Gosar fan is struggling with his feelings about a tennis world without Federer.
In that case, what could be better than a beautiful backhand thrown from the center with the slightest of racket angles, with a delicately balanced backswing, hitting the front wall low and into a magically straight black squash hole…death to kill. The most unrealistic winner. A notch is a straight joint where the front wall and floor meet at the side wall. This is a unique magic point where the ball changes trajectory imperceptibly, bounces off the Knicks and rolls sweetly down.
Think of Nolan’s Inception and its geometrically curved, surface-shifting, gravity-simulating dream buildings, how beautiful water droplets allow elShorbag​y to gasp for air. El-Shorbagy rushes towards the mirage, and the Egyptians know a thing or two about sand and shining visions of the desert.
Gosal’s lefthand serve – tiny, if you will – left the audience enthralled. The magnifying glass on YouTube is still breathtaking. Even if elShorbag​y was waiting on the side wall, his racket is balanced, a hundred years of rolling gap will be irreparable, such is the helpless magnificence of this shot. Beautiful backhand droplets are earworms from birdsong in the distance. The real lover sighed. The French in Nantes know that this is a special place.
Bring back some frames. Even a lot of shots. That day Gosar was in a trance. In the first match, Electronica went 6:3. He pulled off a long, beautiful prank when he bared his wrist to the very exquisite winner to the right of the front wall, immediately drawing the attention of the crowd. “Listen, listen,” the commentators urged as the crowd went wild.
But it was in keeping two game balls at 10-8 that he would have those players who have been on the field all his life. That night, Federer created his legend. “He is one of my biggest sports heroes. I’m sad that he’s retiring the next day. But I’m glad the backhand came along at that time,” he later told the Express.
It takes hours and years of practice to get it right – to bridge the gap – India coach Cyrus Poncha said it was a testament to two decades of training and Gosal’s consistency, just to get a round of applause from the winner. In the losing game, Gosar was down 11-6, 12-10, 11-13, 13-11 in 69 minutes. “It was a shame that I didn’t win. But on that rally I was in the right place at the right time. I was standing with my back to the wall at 10:8. But when I saw this example, I was sure that I could shoot. For it comes naturally to me,” Gosar said.
Frankly, this is a Rubik’s Cube – collect it correctly. It requires perfect movement on the court, the tightest control of the racquet head to catch the ball early, proper foot placement, and a balance between the three parts of the swing: the backswing, the point of contact, and the follow-up action.