Oh the good puncher match!
In terms of ball quality it is very heavy, who will have the biggest one?
It's not really good Karatsev at the moment but the Russian knows how to raise his level of play in the Grand Slams, that's why he is dangerous. I saw him get off two good shitty games against McDonald then Huesler making 10 double faults each time. His attitude on the field does not really make you want to bet on him but the same can be said of Lehecka. The young Czech hits the ball extremely well but he is tactically limited at the moment! It's simple, when he has no solution he tries to hit even harder or take the net without really building his points, it's an admission of weakness and his opponents feel it. He makes the final at Winston Salem but apart from his match against Purcell I found him disturbing, his defeatist attitude with his head down like Karatsev promises! He comes out of a fairly dry defeat in the final and must continue in the first rotation of the first day at the US Open now, he will not arrive in the best conditions to start this tournament, Karatsev to take advantage of it..


