Nuno too high?

The Portuguese rider often goes through a bit of a rough patch after Australia. Will he have recovered?

It's true that Nuno feels a bit strange right now. He's starting to have more and more of these stretches where he's sluggish. Maybe his edge disappears when he's not at 100%? In any case, with him, you have to navigate between matches where he's a bit too passive, and matches where it's not amazing but you know he'll fight to the death and come out on top quite often. Against Wong in Delray, there was some good and some not so good. The Portuguese player wasn't able to maintain the intensity in the deciding set, whereas Wong managed to elevate his game. Tiafoe was missing a bit of the same thing against Tien, but in a less obvious way. The American served for the match and choked. Kind of like in his first set, with quite a few breaks he couldn't consolidate. That said, he had plenty of stretches of play where he was clearly the dominant player, mainly thanks to his early-taken backhand, which he easily redirects down the line. We know the Portuguese player won’t come out and grab him by the throat, so Tiafoe is logically the favorite here. Still, we know how resilient the Portuguese is...