Tomas, are you there?

Always the same guessing game with him...

Frankly, I can't decode this guy. There are surely injuries I'm not aware of, but there's also a pretty shitty temperament that makes him rely a lot on desire. In a big tournament, you could say there's a bit less chance of seeing him botch a match. And his loss to Shimabukuro in Tokyo came right after the Laver Cup, so we can downplay it. I'll therefore hypothesize that we'll have a very decent Machac today. He also has a semifinal to defend. He'll therefore probably be the baseliner who only hits "fracs", with good mobility and excellent volleying. At the US Open, we saw his limits (as we did at the AO, by the way), against a style good enough to counter his baseline aggression, that makes few errors and serves well. Fritz, Djoko, Nakashima... And I say that because Bellucci is a very tough customer when he's in shape. Sufficient? I don't know... I liked his performance against Walton, and I also like him as an outsider like here. But as so often, if Machac is in form, he'll be stronger...