A magician’s trick?
I’m wondering if there isn’t something to do here with the Kazakh, who’s in form and serious again. On the Monte Carlo clay, he’ll be able to express his creative potential even better. He was ready to trouble Carlito, who, against the Argentinian, admitted he didn’t have much feeling with the ball. It might just be in that one match and he could set off again at full throttle. But he was still looking for sensations in his second match, which is normal at the start of the clay-court season. The Kazakh, however, is in pretty good shape and ready to pull off a possible upset. He seems to be in a state that suggests he’s going to try everything to make his opponent play badly, whatever that opponent’s level. Of course, if he takes too many hits, he tends to give up. But we’ve already seen him beat the Italian Sinner on grass and now on clay in Monte Carlo, which makes me think it’s possible here as well. Even if we’re not really chasing his win, which remains unlikely and much less probable than the Spaniard’s, I think we can really look for an over in games without it being too risky. And I can see that the 18.5 or 19.6 games lines are interesting, so I think that’s what I’m suggesting to you here.


