John Isner - Andrey Kuznetsov

Game preview : Welcome back to Winston Salem ATP250 and we are in the second round already, prizes are increasing and for this round players gets 6,120 $ and 10 ranking point's... Comparing to US Open first round prizes it is nothing... Still players playing here, getting in shape, looking at mistakes. In this match we have a two times winner John Isner and Russian Andrey Kuznetsov.

Let's talk about players :

John Isner (14) - 32 years old and 2 metres height player from USA is most known for big heart and big serve, but let's talk about him like person, long time he played basketball too, tall player can easily dunk, shoot, he have great sportmanship, but also John is very kind person, he made his of fundation for dogs, and recently bought a 500 packs of dog food, for homeless dog shelter. Talking about his game, he plays impressive tennis, most known style of old tennis - Serve and volley, a great serev helps him to collect points easy, he likes playing near net. Long strong hands, can catch any ball around him, but that not all, he have very good intellegence for tennis, he knows how to play. Curently 14 in the ranking, american have 28/16 record this year, he is playing better and better, in few weeks at home courts he improved a lot, hard court record 12/7 and yet he is still in this tournament so he can win a lot of matches.

Andrey Kuznetsov - 185 cm tall and 26 years old player is mostly known for his clay tennis skills, but on hard so far he didn't improve that much so other players would be afraid of him. Andrey is very talented player, but not so lucky with injuries, he get injured often. What we can say about his tennis? Well, he have a great serve, he is very fast and athletic, he likes to hit good forehand hits, still he need to improve a lot in all ways, especially in his strategy and thinking. This year record on hard 5/6, not impressive like all his hard statistics.

Comparing the players : John Isner is taller with better serve, thats for sure, but Andrey is much faster and flexible on court, he can run very well and that will be a problem for John. Russian likes to play fast tennis too, so they both can hit good serve, perfect winners and play short rallies.

What to expect in this match? It is very good question, also like what John with his ranking and last schedule doing here? He won two titles on USA courts, reached SF in Master event, why no get some rest before Us Open? Andrey is here because he needs to save what is left from his ranking, so he will try to win for sure, he need to play some time on hard to get ready for Us Open too. We would say, John won't play with 100% power, but Andrey going to try to win.

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