Blessed be the day of rest

Carlos is one of the few survivors of the Laver Cup...

But his rest day is reassuring! Against Michelsen, he played a bit of cat and mouse with himself. As soon as he drifted a bit to the dark side, he raised his level right after to break back. With a day of rest and time to adjust to Asian scheduling, I’m a bit more confident. And since everything depends on him here… In any case, he looks happy, and he’s coming back from injury so he should normally be a bit fresher than the other players. Normally...

Father Matteo, for his part, seems to be in an endless cycle of comebacks from injury. He had exactly the game he needed to blow Sakamoto away, and he didn’t hold back.

Against Carlito, he played a hotly contested set at Indian Wells in 2024, but now he’s more in search of confidence and harmony with his body. Maybe he needs to base his game much less on the defensive side. We can see how that’s working out for Jacquet, and the Frenchman also used to get injured a lot before.