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Sonego a little rebuilding on one side and Kecmanovic still on alternating current, this match could go in any direction.

For his first match of the season on grass, Kecmanovic suffered a super frustrating and not really deserved defeat against Griekspoor in Hertogenbosh. This is not the first nor the last time that this happens for Kecma, he is not known for managing his matches well as a boss. But the content was pretty good, continuing from his last weeks. On grass he struggles every year, however, he struggles on the way back and when traveling. In Halle it will be faster than the Hertogenbosh turf too, something which may be a bit of a disadvantage from my point of view. And which could benefit Sonego, who loves fast conditions, indoors or even grass. His record is quite good and he has already made big hits on this surface. This season he changed coaches, didn't have big results but this change of surface could help him to smile again. He seeks to be more enterprising, to have the game in hand and that is typically what is needed on grass and to piss off Kecmanovic as well. 4/3 for the Italian in H2H with matches in ITF, on hard, on earth, complicated to draw conclusions except that they are very close regardless of the surface and that one does not doesn't seem to have a big margin over the other.