Struff is doing his special routine.

The German is capable of very low lows and very high highs. We know that.

Even if Bublik got injured towards the end, we have to praise Struff, who played a really good match, true to his style, always just as risky.

The German has already pulled off some big performances in Grand Slams. Once again he’s showing that he’s capable of really great things. He’s the one kind of dictating the match: he hits the winners and makes the errors, and when his shots go in, it’s monstrous.

He’ll have another chance to get through a round, since he’s facing Faria.

The Portuguese player keeps quietly moving forward and I’m particularly fond of him. He’s a guy who works hard, who’s improving physically and tennis-wise, and he’s moving up step by step. He’s a really solid baseliner, with respectable serving quality and a pretty huge physique. He’s a really complete guy. He’s coming off a match against Shapovalov that he controlled overall, even if he could have lost a set; it wouldn’t have been undeserved either, in my opinion. You can feel he plays fairly textbook tennis, and as soon as there’s a bit too much aggression or the rally pattern becomes a bit less conventional, he struggles a bit more. That’s where, for me, Struff has something to do: he’s really going to prevent him from having a classic clay-court match like he enjoys. And in that little game, the German might have something to say once again.