Griekspoor is still alive!

This first round was hell for Griekspoor, he honestly would have deserved to lose it and will have to show something else tomorrow.

Title holder, local, the pressure is maximum for Griekspoor this week but I found him relatively calm with his back to the wall against Kecmanovic. In general he can quickly get angry and smash a racket, here I have the impression that he wanted to get out of it at all costs and didn't care if he played badly. Enough to launch your tournament! After an intense and pressured match he should be more relaxed tomorrow, it is the positive relaxation that can make you play your best tennis. And he's going to need it because that devil McDonald is terrible at playing on grass. He is mobile, hits very flat on the forehand and more generally his shots are close to the net and do not go up at all. He beat a very sad VDZ in the first round without being as easy as expected. Too unrealistic, not killer enough, he took advantage of a VDZ which gave him a lot of free points and frankly could have lost this match with regrets. Griekspoor is a better server, he will have more free points, his game is more offensive too which will take McDonald out of his comfort zone. Firstly while watching H2H I saw that McDonald had always pissed him off, yes but why? Because he covers his ground perfectly, against good, makes Griekspoor crack. Except that on grass everything goes faster, he will be less able to make it play and will find himself outpaced more than usual, that's not nothing