A classic !
Meeting between two completely opposed styles which we are now used to seeing since it will be their 7th match.
If their first 3 meetings ended with a victory for Jap, the last 3 were for Félix. Of course, Felix didn't have the same level. We would then like to give a little more credit to their last meeting played this year in Madrid, but Madrid favors Félix so much... Here we are at Roland, and it's not at all the same. Félix is at 1.17 anyway... So okay, when he's in, he's unplayable for a guy like Nishioka who has a clear power deficit, but we know Félix by heart. So why this rating? Nishioka's two recent withdrawals are not for nothing I think, but his injury no longer bothered him in Lyon, and he recently withdrew due to "illness". Anyway, the guys know each other by heart, they know where to hit. Félix is the best player, but holding 3 entire sets with implacable rigor on slightly slow clay with a big rat in front is not his style. I will still be very surprised if it goes to 3 sets 0, even if he is completely capable of it.


