5th Kordadev of history

2 everywhere ball in the center between the two men. The only question I ask myself is: what is the Russian's real level on clay? 🤔

I personally went to see Daniil training at Mouratoglou before Monte-Carlo to gauge his level a little. He came out of a break from Miami and resumed training on land only 4 days before the tournament. As a result, he made a rather average, if not mediocre, Monte-Carlo. During training in Madrid, we saw him being quite moody. Then he did a completely calm R1 against Arnaldi, even after losing the first set. This guy is such a chess player that he's hard to pin down. On clay, it's as if he had fewer pawns or one less queen, but that doesn't mean he won't win the game! Afterwards, I put myself in his place for 30 seconds: I have 4 tournaments on earth during the year (Monte-Carlo, Madrid, Rome and Roland), what do I do? I adapt my game a little, my strategy of course, and I go with my strengths. I will never drastically change the way I play. I'm going there with a good mentality, and we'll see if it works. Understand: Medvedev is not going to become a player overnight, but his knowledge of tennis and his distance from the earth can remove a lot of mental barriers from him. Opposite, Korda compensates for his lack of knowledge of the game on land with his technical ease. Land is less of a problem when you can stay on your line and distribute. His match against Purcell was ok, neither great nor bad. He didn't get tripped up like he often does to us. Regarding their meeting, as usual we will have an American who will want to take over the game very quickly and a Russian who will do everything to play one more boring ball to put a sand in the tennis. Swiss watchmaker Korda. And often, it gives...