Zhang in the hard

3 victories in his last 12 matches, the Chinese are going through a difficult period and it is not the heavy soil of Rome that will help him

We know that Zhang does not fundamentally have the game to perform on land, last year he surfed his quarter-final to achieve a few victories on land and that's it. This season back to reality with only one victory in 4 matches and it was against Giron in 3 sets, not at all reassuring. He did not take a set against Humbert, Van Assche and Kecmanovic, the scores are severe with 6/2, 6/3 and even 6/1. His powerful game, focused on the serve and the forehand, does not work on earth, it is up to him to adapt. To talk a little about Galan, he's not my favorite player but the guy fights, we can't take that away from him. He seems amorphous in his attitude but he's still a Colombian who kills himself in clay tournaments all year round. He catches a good Bautista in Madrid, spends 3 rounds in Cagliari in challenge (including a package), in short he is not in a bad dynamic. He too can hurt with his serve and his forehand. We therefore have two players who are not at all in the same dynamic.