"He didn't know it was impossible..."

It's hard to miss: Terence Atmane is having the tournament of his life. But as my dear friend Marcos has been saying since the beginning of this week: "He's not even overplaying!" Does he stand a chance against what is perhaps the best tennis player of all time?

"A person with two arms and two legs, like me." Not wrong. He just forgot to add "with the best mentality on the tour, the best movement with Carlito, etc...". Against Félix, Jannik gave us another demonstration. The Canadian really has no weapon to beat him because he has pretty much the same monolithic game as the Italian but not as good. He is almost obliged to play it in tempo, and that is mission impossible. He tried to round off a little at the end of the match, and he got punished. Jannik played the injury trick again at the start of set 2 too, with a strange limp. But just a piece of information to note. No, against Jannik, Terence should watch his match against Mannarino. Adrian managed to really bother the Italian for two main reasons in my opinion: his left-handed leg which gives him access to super short angles, especially on serve, and his hyper aggressiveness. Manna didn't necessarily play very powerfully, but he remained glued to his line, short preparations, strings stretched to 12 kilos, and go ahead and direct the ball where I want. This completely took Jannik out of his usual level because ALL OF Jannik's matches for the last 2 years, I mean all, he's the one directing most of the time (well, maybe an exception sometimes against Carlito). Terence definitely has the left-handed touch needed to go for these angles. But, although he is capable of taking early, he still prefers to give himself time, starting with the return. And the power, even as great as Terence's (Richard Gasquet says that after Nadal, Terence has the heaviest forehand on the tour), bothers Jannik much less than the hyper-aggressiveness shown by Manna. I also have no doubt that Jannik and his team took Terence very seriously and developed a good strategy. Rune had the defensive qualities, but he was far too incisive in attack. And then we sometimes felt he was caught up in the fear of losing against a huge outsider. Shame. Jannik is the most "clutchy" and professional player in the world. And last thing, he turned the tempered steel against Felix. That is to say, on the return, he sent a deep ball on the backhand of poor Felix who returned it as best he could, and already he had taken possession of the rally. This guy is an alien. I don't know if you can really realize what he does if you don't play a lot of tennis. It's unreal. So apart from the injury, I unfortunately don't see anything else. Terence spent 10h56 on the court, and played 1001 points 🤣. But he had already arrived exhausted on a tour in Asia and had won his first tournament. In terms of adrenaline, I'm not too worried about him physically. We'll have to see about his USOP qualifying match, though... In short, there's very little hope here for our friend Terence, who is a genuine and very endearing guy. We're all going to watch the match, but I'm afraid I'll be a little disappointed. As for betting, let's check out the cuts, you never know!