How to get going again?
After a legendary tournament in Shanghai, Rinderknech is expected this week, and we're all wondering how he's going to play.
Here we are entering the realm of speculation, we cannot predict with certainty how Rinderknech has handled things since Shanghai, the demands must have been numerous and physically we will have to look at his case too. It is a transition not easy to manage in terms of conditions either, there are a lot of things of which we do not know exactly how he will react. He is a good indoor player there are no worries on that but it is everything else that worries me. I remember his good Wimbledon before returning to earth at altitude and being really bad before restarting the machine, there he was able to cut as he should but is it enough? What I liked in China (Beijing then Shanghai) is that he started from the qualifications and gained power, there he has the opposite role. Collignon is in this role of outsider a little more ready to start well and create a surprise too. The Belgian has been giving it his all indoors for a few weeks now and has just had a big tournament in Brussels, he was inhabited and almost on a mission, we'll see how he follows up with the rest of the game but I find him good and especially dangerous. It's not easy to gauge this match, if Arthur plays like in Shanghai then yes he is definitely the favorite but how can we be sure? In these fast conditions the match can become tight and immediately the outsider takes on value.


