Inconstant land

Between our lumberjack Nikoloz who works quite well on motivation, and our national Baez who only lives for the Golden Swing, we are not in the shit!

Well, first of all, Nikoloz is through the qualifiers. Two wins in three sets against two traps. I found him very resilient in the head against Tomic, because there was enough to blow his top! But my gut tells me that the Georgian is here to reclaim a very important place: that of the top 100. This season, he will have scoured the Grand Slam qualifiers like no one else! With a little more consistency, he would enter the top 100, synonymous with direct qualification for the main draw of the Grand Slams. In general, the cut is between 104 and 108. He is currently 111, but it is better to take some margin because this soft underbelly is hell. On the game side, there are still 2-3 things to fix as well. You know him by heart, Nikoloz sends bags after bags. That is his strength. If he manages to find more consistency, he can do damage to a lot of players. Is his game bothering Baez? Well, the Argentinian isn't a bad returner (8th on the ATP leaderboard across all surfaces, 22nd on hard), but it's more his service games that could be a problem. The altitude could do him some good in this area. He had a good match against Hanfmann in Kitzbuhel, but should we draw any conclusions from that? Beyond tennis and match-ups, this guy is just mentally erratic. He could have taken a welcome break with his Argentinian family and started again with renewed vigor, but the Asian tour isn't usually his forte. We're a bit in the shadows here...