Fabian’s motivation here please?

On paper, it’s not much of a contest. Prado’s ball doesn’t do enough damage, even less so on slow clay at the start of a damp night session. Fabian will have all the time he needs to set up his attacks, combined with some nice drop shots.

Now, Marozsan played injured against Fokina at Wim, and he’s the type who can get by almost walking in a 250.

And then Prado is improving. He doesn’t do anything particularly impressive, but he’s there. He doesn’t make many errors. He plays the right way. I liked his Roland qualies; in my opinion he was playing at his best level. But here it really only depends on Fabian. Not just in terms of average level, but also in terms of the match-up.