Straight to the point

Let's keep this one simple, shall we?

We don't see Kokkinakis a lot on tour, but when he does play, he usually comes with a good level. Everyone knows about his struggles with injuries, but we have seen over and over again this year that he is still a great player. Beating Korda at the Australian Open at the start of the year, and then he pushed both Bublik and Borges recently. His profile is also not that bad against Jodar, especially since he is someone who is a great server, has decent rally tolerance, and a big forehand. We saw that Jodar is not invincible in his last match against Cobolli! It's true that he looked a bit gassed after a long streak of matches played, and that he should have recovered a bit by now. Still, sometimes all this tennis lingers a bit mentally... and now he has expectations to perform here. I'll admit that he is very mature and professional, so I don't worry about this a lot, but I just want to mention it. As for Kokkinakis, we have to worry a bit about the ending of his last match against Borges, but he is also not the kind of player to turn up and play completely injured, and if things tend to go really bad physically in the matches, he is also quite prone to retiring...