Rinkyyyyy

Hijikata in GC, I like it..

Who knows why, but I read an interview with Hijikata who said he was playing the best tennis of his life in GC and that even in the tournaments before he felt better, he likes it! So I often tell myself that he's going to be good, that he's an interesting player at back, except that not really in fact. He just said that but in reality he's no better than elsewhere in GC, poor guy. And now he arrives after an abdominal injury contracted in Washington without any match since.. Another annoying parameter for him is Darderi's profile, the Italian serves hard and Hijikata is not at all a good receiver. Conversely, we must also expose the facts about Darderi and it's not glorious, already physically he was injured in Cincinnati and he completely exploded in mid-air in Winston-Salem after a big fight in the first round. He doesn't really like playing on hard courts, although he has some interesting qualities. It's true that on the return leg he's lost, but Hijikata doesn't serve particularly well. Do we want to trust an Australian who hasn't played a match and is potentially still a bit injured, or rather an Italian who is physically on a knife edge, but who has a bit more of an advantage in this kind of match-up? It's not the match of the year, and there are a lot of unknowns.