ATP/WTA Match discussions

Game preview : Let's look in today matches, three tournaments, a lot of players in the courts, but our mind is on one specific match, John Isner versus Vasek Pospisil in Atlanta ATP250 tournament. Why this match? well it can be very intriguing, because both players can show specific and different style of tennis, which is the old style. We know both players really good, John Isner is home player, who recently won a title in Newport, and now he is playing came here for another title, but seeded player will meet very strong opponent at round 16. His opponent is Vasek Pospisil from canada, he already played one match here. Canadian is not youngster anymore and after few hard year he came back to top 100 and this year he plays very solid.

John Isner - 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 in 20 ranking spot, american have 20/14 record this year, its not his best year of tennis, but he still can improve, hard court record 4/5. A lot of tournament on hard in USA still coming this year so no worries John plays really well at home.

Vasek Pospisil - five years younger player than John, but he maybe have even more experience in his tennis life. These few year in Vasek life was very hard, many injuries didn't let him get in good shape, he went down in rating, he didn't play like before. Young guitarist(Plays guitar and puts his videos on youtube) changed his thinking about tennis, he did start play more doubles matches, found a lot good partners and won many titles in doubles, even grandslams. What happend next was expected by all his fans and experts, he came back to singles better and stronger and now he plays really well. 36/15 his record this year on all surfaces. 19/9 on hard court this year, we can say day by day Vasek getting stronger and better, that very good for him and canadian tennis. Vasek Pospisil is tall player too, like John he likes to play on fast courts, like grass or fast hard courts, he find himself really comfortable there.

Comparing players : Let's talk about serve, well John Isner is one of the biggest guys with strong serve here on ATP tour, so no secret he will be better on serve, while Vasek do have a good serve, but not so perfect. There is a one thing about serve, both players need good serve to win, but John depends more on his serve, without his good serve he will struggle, but Vasek have other guns in arsenal to win even without serve. Big guy's are slower that for sure and that is oppurtunity for Vasek, he is fast player, really flexible and he have a fast forehand shot, so he can hit ball very soon and really good. A lot of things goes in both players favor. Both players met before 6 times and both won 3 times, so there is 50/50 for today too. They can be very similar and different, both players like to serve well and hit volleys, they are old school players and play really nice on hard courts.

What to expect today? Well, it's fast court surface, we can expect alot of ace's from both players, fast court, both in good shape, with good serve, good game play and both players knows good each other, so we can expect a TB in all set's if they will serve really good again, like it was before, so be ready for long set's and a lot of game's.

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Jack Sock - Dudi Sela

Game preview : Atlanta atp250 gets even hotter with all matches, now we have R16 fight Jack Sock versus Sella Dudi. American boy and Israel best player, match between these two players must be insteresting and doesn't matter what result at the end going to be, a match its self will be entertentmaint. 10,975$ At this round player already secured and 20 ranking point's, but well its worth to fight for bigger prizes that for sure, at least QF round is what both players want and need, last year they both skiped this tournament.

Jack Sock - Very talented and very smart player, he is still young, only 24 years. American maybe young, but very intellegence at tennis, smart and he is fun to watch. Like real american he is tall 191cm and like american player he have very solid serve. Burito lover, like he say's about himself this year showing a super result on hardcourt, 21/5 hard court stats. After few years down, he came to good play like Jiri Vesely with doubles help, he won few important titles with doubles partners and all that wining energy came to singles. Jack won to titles playing singles matches in Auckland at the season start and later in Delray Beach. Strong sides of Jack Sock ? Well of course it's his serve, very strong and solid, and acuraccy of serve sometimes really impressive. Also power play with strong forehand is second thing in Jack arsenal and last but very important thing is his mind. Currently player in 19 ranking position, but with hard court session in USA yet to come he can improve his ranking.

Dudi Sela - 32 years old player from Israel, who mostly likes hard and fast surface or grass surface, we can say it loud after his this year result on grass (9-2). Totally diferent player, smaller, faster and very active on court, but one thing mostly he play on lower level tournaments, like challenger. This season he won Canverra Chalenger also in first tournaments of the season and when grass tournaments came he won Notthingam challenger. This year on hard court he have 16 wins and 8 looses. Only 175cm player and 66kg can fly on court, he is really fast and speed is his main superpower on court, maybe his playing level not so good, but he always had his speed and fast playing style, that really helps when he plays versus slower players. Sela Dudi ranking at this moment is 74, all career he had ups and downs, but mostly he always was in same sport.

Today's match possible scenario : Well, both players are really different, one is tall and strong, other one is small but fast and thats a thing it always interesting to watch matches between players like them, they never played before together, so its first time and it can be very unexpected. Jack Sock will play first match after Wimbledon and tragic midsummer season, he played at French open first round and lost, then he played at Wimbledon and lost again,but this time at seceond round. This time American will play few tournaments before grandslam, maybe he will get in good shape again. What we want to say, if its first match after long time, so it can be very hard for Jack to get in rhytm of today match and that can make match more interesting. What about Dudi ? It's not first his match in this tournament, in first round he defeated russian player K.Kravchuk in two sets, so he will be more comfortable in court, maybe with more experience for this match. At the end what we want to say, Sela is very experienced player and Sock is good young player, so these matches between players like this are always fun to watch and easy to enjoy. Scenario can be very different, maybe Jack was training all the time and win in

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Leonardo Mayer - Frederico Delbonis

Tennis preview : Hamburg ATP 500 clay tournament day by day is reaching the hottest spot, we already have a semi-final here and true great players from Argentina. They both fought very hard to reach this round and get 79,715 € and 180 ranking points. Of course both players are really glad to get this kind of money and so much points, it's easy to say both players having really hard time and this season, struggling from the beginning, but now we see they play better and better. At quarter-final both players had good fights to reach the semis and now they are here and they're one step away from the final and maybe first title at this level tournament. What we can say about these players? Well they are not in the top of the rating for this moment, leonardo went down into ranking last year, a lot of injuries , problems made his season just horrible, we can say same about Frederico he went down to the rating to, but in the middle of the season this year he won challenger titles, reached some last rounds and he got in the 100top, while Leonardo still trying to comeback.

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Frederico Delbonis : Left handed player, 190cm height really like clay surface, and that's normal for player who came from Argentina. Almost all career he is playing only on clay, and showing his best tennis there. Currently 81 in ranking Delbonis have 24/9 clay score, 331/172 for all career score on clay. Mainly he plays on challenger level and can collect a lot of points, but when he tries to play on higher level tournament he can't compete with elite players, but not for today as we can see. Argentinian played here from Qualification rounds and already played 5 matches, won versus Karen Khachanov young russian start, versus Spain star Ferrer David who currently in very good shape. 26 years old player likes to serve a big shots, he has a very solid forehand and left hand helps him a lot.

Mayer Leonardo - 3 years older player also from Argentina also same height, but right handed and currently 138 ranking spot will try to win versus his teammate from Argentina. Well leonardo Mayer was really good player few years ago, he even won this tournament in 2014. His highest ranking spot was 21, but what happened next? Well tennis player live is very difficult, a lot of injuries, family and other things was the reason why he went down in the ratings. In this tournament he will get a lot of points, money is not the problem, neither a goal for him, he wants points. Lucky loser after losing in Q, is already in semi-finals. 18/12 this year clay record shows he is recovering, 291/180 clay career record. Strongest things in his gameplay is serve, he is much better server, also he knows all the things about clay, how to slice, how to drop ball.

Comparing the Argentians : We could say Leonardo is more strategic player, more intellegence on court, but also stronger and more powerfull. Well Delbonis ain't stupid or something, but here he is not competative enough, he play simple tennis with good runs. Serve is quite simillar, but on ace's scale Mayer is better. All other things are simillar, but on experience Leonardo is better and more reliable.

What to expect : Both players are from Argentina, friends and knows each other so well. They didn't play together long time, 2012 in Monte Carlo delbonis won in to set's. Other two matches in two sets won Leonardo Mayer. All matches was with TB and more than 20 game's so for this match we can say it will be simillar to other 3 matches.

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Nah, today just John Isner match

John Isner - Gilles Muller

Game preview : Welcome back to Atlanta ATP250 tournament, and we already he have a semi-final here and two very famous players, which are known for extra-ordinary serves in ATP tour. What these players will get for reaching semi-finals 32,695 $ and 90 point's, it's not much four players who are in top 20 or around top20, but they are one step away from the title and every player wants to win titles, especially when you don't win titles often or you are not youngster anymore and time is running out. Well both players are not young anymore, yes, but at this year or in past year they play even better than 5 years ago. As We Know Gilles Muller won his first ATP title when he was in his middle of 30's. John Isner have more titles, he recently won Newport title again. At this moment they both play really well and we can say for sure they want to reach the final and take one more title.

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John Isner - american who recently one title in Newport, he's in good shape, his serve at this moment is very dangerous and serve accuaracy is at high percent. We recently talked about John and his performance, he plays very well now, plays at home, he knows these courts he likes hard surface and that's enough for him to play and win. Currently in 20th spot in ATP rankings he have 6/5 hard score this year.

Gilles Muller - we didn't talk about him in this tournament yet, so 2 years older player and two spots away from USA player(22 at the moment) performing really well this year, he won a title on grass in Holland, at the start of the Season he won title in Sydney, he recently reached the quarter-finals wimbledon so he's in very good shape. Left handed player from luxembourg have two kids and wife and often travels with them, they help him to concentrate on tour. Tall as john Isner, luxembourg player can serve big shots too, he also one of the tower players which uses his big serve like main factor to win.

Comparing the players : Both players are really tall, they can hit serves really fast, so on serve they are =, but maybe left hand for Gilles make's him more unpredictable for right handed players. They both not really fast players, they have strategy how to play in their own way, because they can't compete will small players who can ran really fast. In a lot of ways these two players are really similar, but maybe at different time's they was really different, at young years Gilles couldn't compete good in best level of tennis, while John was really good youngster on tour and managed to win titles, but for this day they both changed theirs game, John has been strugling while Gilles Muller is playing good tennis.

What to expect today? both players met many times before, play a lot of tie-breaks, played many many games and long matches. In Atlanta they met two times and both times in three sets won John Isner, but it was long time ago, for today I guess Gilles Muller is in better shape and will take his win today maybe not in two set's, but he will reach a final. He have more energy left and more ready, while John Isner is playing second turnament in a row with no breaks.

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Game preview : So it's Sunday today and like every week every tournament has come to end so does tournament in atlanta. Today in the final we have only Americans, two American guys never met her before, but they will meet today in the final. In the final you get 60,355 $ and 150 points, but for winning you get 114,595 $ and of course 250 points. So in the final we have John Isner and much younger Ryan Harrison, it's not the first time they will meet on the ATP tour, they met seven times before. In those 7 times, John Isner was 5 times better and only two times Ryan managed to win versus his mate. Today can be very interesting final both players we'll try hard as they can.

Lets talk about players :

John Isner - We already talked about him few time's in this tournament and few times in Newport. Well John is playing miraculous tennis, he's good on Baseline, like always he serves super balls, now he is just perfect.

Ryan Harrison - Let's let's talk about Ryan, we didn't talk about him in this tournament, so Ryan was the biggest young star in USA with his brother. He was number one youngster in America on tennis court. What happened next? He tried to play in men tennis, but it was very hard for him and american couldn't keep up with other players, so he was quiet for some time. These two past seasons for Ryan was very successful, and the moment he is in 42 ranking place, but after this tournament he will reach his highest point of the ranking. Last year he was superb on hard court surface, he had 27/13 score, this year its only 8/6, but he are making progress for sure, this tournament will help him, of course he made good run in indoors court this year (10/0). He still young so he keeps improving, and playing better and better. His strongest sides are serve, activity on court and strong game play, also he is good on doubles, so it helps him to react quickly and act good near net.

Comparing the players : Well Ryan can't compete to John with his serve, it's not so strong, but Ryan uses different style of play, he doesn't rely on it. John on oposite play with serve, his serve make's his game play, he uses a lot of serve and volley. Both Americans are different players, Ryan is younger and faster, more athletic and have complete different style of tennis.

What to expect in Final? Well, they both want to win at home, they really like public and cheerful crowd, so we guess both americans will try to show best tennis. If we talk about match specifics, so for Ryan it will be extremly hard to return John's serve, but it is most important thing to control his serve, without serve John Isner will be in though spot. Next thing Isner at the moment serves really well and dont give up his games at all, but on the other hand, he plays second final in the row, so maybe he will be not 100% high on energy. Ryan is more fresher for this final, maybe even more motivated, but all this motivation depends how he will manage to control John Isner serve, if he wont be able to return or do something on opponents serve it will end in TB or even sooner if John will manage to win Ryans serve, after demotivating his opponent with big serve.

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Vasek Pospisil - Henri Laaksonen

Game preview : Welcome to Washington ATP500 tournament and USA tour in midsummer getting hotter. Today we will see first round of very interesting event. Prize fond of this tournament is 2,002,460 $, solid for sure and like always 500 points. In the first round players get's 6,600 $ and zero points. A lot of different players will play today, many matches will be played today. We choosed to write about these two players, which are still young, but in second phase of career and we are talking about Vasek Pospisil and Henri Laaksonen whom currently reached highest spot of his ranking.

Lets talk about players :

Vasek Pospisil(72) - two years older player than Henri, but those two years gave him even more experience in his tennis career. These few year in Vasek life was very hard, many injuries didn't let him get in good shape, he went down in rating, he didn't play like before. Young guitarist(Plays guitar and puts his videos on youtube) changed his thinking about tennis, he did start play more doubles matches, found a lot good partners and won many titles in doubles, even grandslams. What happend next was expected by all his fans and experts, he came back to singles better and stronger and now he plays really well. 36/15 his record this year on all surfaces. 19/9 on hard court this year, we can say day by day Vasek getting stronger and better, that very good for him and canadian tennis. Vasek Pospisil is tall player, he likes to play on fast courts, like grass or fast hard courts, he find himself really comfortable there. 19/10 score for this day on hard court.

Henri Laaksonen – 25 years old player from Switzerland isn’t so famous and good player like Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka, but he is growing up and reaching higher heighst. Only few weeks ago he became top100 player (currently 92), He is getting better, but after good run on clay court, can he play same on hard court? We doubt that, maybe not at first tournament in USA. Henri really improved in past weeks, we talked about him, that he plays slow, uncordinate, but now he is much faster, he feels better on court, knows where to run. Anyway we are talking about clay surface and slower courts, but now he will play on faster courts and it's hard to say how he will manage to compete with other players. This year he have 7/7 score on hard surface, all career score is 63/40, nothing impresive comparing to Canadian player.

Comparing the players : Well, Vasek is more experienced player that for sure, he played more tournaments on higher level, he had more succes on courts, won versus elite players, while Henri is a challenger level player and can't brag about any bigger win in his career so far. If we talk about gameplay, so Vasek is still much better on many aspects like serve, strategy, his forehand and many small things.

What expect today : Vasek is already in good shape for hard court summer in USA, he played we tournament's here, every summer he plays here so for sure more experience he have for this match. Henri right after clay season went to USA to play on hard, so his preparation didn't happen and few day's on this surface wont have such big impact for his gameplay, he is body still thinks he will play on clay. We think in this match Vasek Pospisil will have totally dominance if he will play agressive from the beggining and won't let for switzerland player to get in this game it will end really fast and Vasek will go to rest for second round. Only chance for Henri in today's match is to keep up from the start and get in the best shape he can get as fast he can, hitting important balls will help too.

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Juan Martin Del Potro - Lukas Lacko

Game preview : Washington ATP500 goes to second round and players get's 12,215 $ and 20 ranking point's - so it's same like winning one Future tournament. In this round two interesting players to meet, one of them is Juan Martin Del Potro who is finally healthy and strong again, other player is Lacko Lukas who currently went down in the rankings again. These two players are completely different planets of tennis, we would say Argentinian is big planet like Saturn and Slovakian player would be small Pluto. Why so ? Well Juan is very talented player with good mentallity and wonderfull sportmanship, of course we can't say anything bad about Lukas, but yet he had some scandals and brake downs.

Lets talk about players :

Juan Martin - 28 years old, big guy with strong serve, but that is same like we would say chocolate is brown, it is much more. Juan was elite player he went foot by foot with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, but then a worst thing happend for tennis player, his wrist got injured. For tennis players injures is part of job, but for Argentinian it could mean end of his tennis career. In the end of course after many opperations and recovery he managed to comeback to the court after 2 long years. At this moment ex no.4 racket is 32th and with every tournament he is playing better and better. This year all surfaces score 15/8, hard court 6/4, but he can improve it any time soon. Juan plays very nice tennis, he is big player, but very active, the most dangerous gun in his arsenal is his forehand : very fast and low with no spin.

Lacko Lukas - Almost two years older player from Slovakia, whom had promising career when he was younger, a very talented guy, but unfortunate for Slovakia and him something in his career went wrong and from promising player he became a simple challenger player. The highest point in Lukas career was when he reached 44 ranking spot, but now he is only 119. In other hand player from slovakia plays well on challenger level, often he reaches a finals, semifinals, but sometimes he even plays good on big tournaments like Wimbledon, in 2015 and 2016 he reached 3 round. As a player he can be very good, but sometimes something goes wrong and he starts to loose his point's in every tournament. Anyway this year he have 11/4 record on hard, once more it is promising result and its only midseason so he can improve.

Comparing the players : Why player from Argentina is better? - 1. He is more talented, but even more important thing, he knows what to do with his talent. 2. He want more to win, he improves everytime, he trains a lot, he have peace with his mind and trains all body, even brain. 3. His technique is much better.

Lacko Lukas - From good player went to basic, maybe he doesn't have good player mentallity, maybe he makes poor decision or doesn't even train enough to be always in best shape.

Differences are simple : Juan have better serve, better forehand is stronger in all kind of ways, only thing Lukas can be proud he is fast and active, also in this case his backhand is better.

What to expect today : Martin didn't play a long time, he was on holiday for a bit, while Lukas was playing 3 tournaments after Wimbledon, that can help Slovakian to fight, while argentinian will be getting in right move for this match, but at the end even if Lacko is prepered for this match and will try to fight hard as he can (also he already played here in first round,Juan didn't) Del Potro will find his way thru him if not from the first set, so on the second set he will start to play like real champion. At the end we can say, Martin Del Potro is just better player and he is going to win.

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Milos Raonic - Nicolas Mahut

Game preview : Washington ATP500 second round going to end this day with a lot of wonderful matches, one of them is Raonic Milos(10) from Canada versus Mahut Nicolas(111) from France. It will be clash of the generations, 8 year difference between players and age can be deciding factor of the match. Nicolas is 35 years old and this season is completly disaster for him, he lost his favourite tournament on grass, all grass season was so promising for him, but it ended really bad, from top 40 Nicolas droped to 111th position. Milos Raonic is still young, but not young young, he already have a lot of experience, but this season ain't so good too, he didn't reach Wimbledon final like last year, he played really bad in first two tournaments on grass. Both towers will meet for first time, it will be fun to see good serving players on fast court.

Lets talk about players :

Milos Raonic : 26 years old player who originaly came from Montenegro now plays for Canada. He is tall, almost 2metres height and 100Kg so that is solid for tower like him. Yes we can say his main factor to win is serve, but no like John Isner, without serve canadian still can play very solid game, he is fast and strong and play really good at the net. In past few years he had many injures and we see now he is sliping away from Top10, it's matter of time when he will drop out of top10, unless he will get more healthy and physically well. This year his score on hard 11/6 not bad, but he can improve it, but can he reach last year 29/8 ? We don't think so...

Mahut Nicolas - Frenchman who is 35 years old and play very nice old style of tennis, he isn't afraid of running to the net after serve, after good hit from forehand, he is one of the best players near net, why so? He is also top player in doubles and in doubles you must play good near net, you need have great reaction to ball so from doubles to singles he transfered a lot of good play, but sadly this year he don't play good at all. In first round he finally won after 4 matches loosing streak, but in 10 last matches he won only 2 times. 190cm tall and 80kg weight player have 6/5 hard score this year, but anyway he never was good on hard court, espacially outside, all career record is 146/141. Frenchman is very good on grass and indoors courts.

Comparing the players : Both players are tall and serves well, but there are few different things, maybe Nicolas is older and year by year his career is coming to end, but he can teach few things younger canadian. In general they both uses same technique a lot of time - Serve and volley, but Nicolas is much more better on this style, Milos not always feels when to run to the net, how to control ball, how to take hard shot near legs at this Nicolas is much better, he often do all shot really well, but there are side thing of this style, Mahut is really slow at the time and Milos is fast as hell, if they could trasnfer best qualities and make one player he would became no.1 easy. In game play we see Milos with simple style, he hits fast forehands, he hits sliced shots but thats all... While Mahut can make wonderfull dropshots, make a mixed rally and that helped in his old age to be in top40 for few years.

What to expect today :It's hard to say, but at the end Raonič will be in the center of the court giving intervie about his victory. Frenchman may be very good player, have a good qualities on court, but he is out of shape and play's not he best tennis right now. One thing which can make a dificulties for Canadian is that he played a long time ago and this match will be first for him.

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Juan Martin Del Potro - Kei Nishikori

Game preview : Welcome back to Washington ATP 500 tournament and for today we already are in best 16 players round and for today all players are getting 23,160$ and 45 ranking points, but everyone wants to get more, especially in this very prestigious tournament. From all matches and all players our eyes goes on these two totally different players, once again on Juan Martin Del Potro versus Kei Nishikori. Very good players, extremely popular in tennis and shines bright like stars at this moment, match its self will be interesting because they are both elite players, also they played 6 times before.

Lets talk about players :

Juan Martin - 28 years old, big guy with strong serve, but that is same like we would say chocolate is brown, it is much more. Juan was elite player he went foot by foot with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, but then a worst thing happend for tennis player, his wrist got injured. For tennis players injures is part of job, but for Argentinian it could mean end of his tennis career. In the end of course after many opperations and recovery he managed to comeback to the court after 2 long years. At this moment ex no.4 racket is 32th, but after this tournament he will go up for sure, especially if he will win today. This year all surfaces score 16/8, hard court 7/4, Like we said last time, he will improve his result and he is. Juan plays very nice tennis, he is big player, but very active, the most dangerous gun in his arsenal is his forehand : very fast and low with no spin. And that is totally different from Kei Nishikori.

Kei Nishikori – One year younger than argentinian, but not only younger, he is smaller only 178cm height, of course he weight less, but on the other side he is very fast, athletic and his game play is one of the fastest. A japan player currently is in 9th ranking spot and plays very solid tennis every year, same for this year 13/4 score on hard courts. Let‘s talk about his playing style – Every year with bigger and bigger staff Kei is training a lot more, even Michael Chung helps him on bigger events. A lot of commentators like to say something about his weakness, but Kei knows it and everytime he deletes his week spots. Few years ago everyone talked about his serve, its weak, he can‘t win on grass and etc, a little bit time after he was serving 200km/h speed, he improved so much, same on return and other things. Most impressive things about Kei is his wonderful shots, he can run mile and hit miraculous winners.

Comparing the players : Two completely different players Argentinian Tall, strong with superb serve and forehand – likes to play serve and volley, can hit very fast forehand, while Nishikori is smaller, faster player which like to mix up his game a little, hit surprise dropshot, hit strange hits around the court, you can’t expect him play same, he isn’t that player.

What to expect today : Well old results are showing us Del Potro is much better player 5 to 1 he is leading, but for this day it’s hard to say whom is more ready, both players play first tournament after Wimbledon, both plays second match in this event. Argentinian had a simpler match in first round, while Japanese played a though one versus home player Donald Young, only after 3 sets he managed to win that battle. I guess today we can see a 3 setter, no chance one of them will give it up easily. We will see a lot of good serves and return, a lot of Kei Nishikori nice plays and strong plays from Martin Del Potro.

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Tomas Berdych - Thanasi Kokkinakis

Game preview : Los Cabos ATP250 In Mexico, wondefull tennis event for the players and all people, who watches tennis on tv or live. Why Los Cabos is so fun? Well, reasons are simple, tournament is near beach with a lot of beautiful places, all players enjoys the view, the hospitality and all that good feeling comes to court and people see that too. A lot of good players came here to play and of course one of them is in Semifinal round tonight, its Tomas Berdych who will meet youngster from Australia Thanasi Kokkinakis. What players get for reaching semifinal? 32,400$ and 90 ranking point's and right to fight for final.

Lets talk about players :

Tomas Berdych (14) : One of the bigger guy's with great serve, strong shots and big heart. Tomas is elite player thats for sure, he had some great results during his career, he was no.4 racket, never reached that no.1 racket, but he still can. 31 year old player, who is 190cm tall and 90kg weight. So what is going in Tomas life? This season wasn't so good, until Wimbledon where he reached Semifinal, on hard court this season he have only 12/9 score, for elite player is not good enough, but with hard surface in USA again he must improve if he want to be in top10 again. Strongest side of Tomas tennis play is his serve, strong shots and of course talent. Interesting that Tomas rarelly wins versus super elite players like Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal. and that most important thing if you want to reach highest hights. Chech player always just breaking down on important matches, no matter how hard he tries.

Thanassi Kokkinakis (454) - Young player from Australia who is only 21 years old, but with his career strugles, he missed almost two years of tennis. Australian plays really nice tennis, he can make can serve well, he have other mentallity compared to other Aussie players like Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic, he is more not only hard working, but maybe even talented and motivated, he is not kid , when it comes to tennis. Fast and athletic player, can be very hard pill to swallow for all players, every match he tries to do his best. Now he is only 454 in ranking, but he was 69 already if not that injury he coud be maybe in top20. This year he played 3 matches on hard and won all of them.

Comparing players : Completly different players, Tomas is from old school, he plays with power and strong moves, he have very solid serve and thats main things for his victories, Aussie tries to play fast, mixed game, he can serve good too, he can run, he have not so storng stand on court, but he likes to run and play different styles.

What to expect today : We can guess that Tomas didn't come here for title at first, but now he is near that title, anyway this tournament is like warm up for Us open series for him, he isn't playing his best tennis yet, while Thannasi for sure came here for point's and to show everyone he can play and he will. So we can say it going to be good fight, they both wont give up easily, Australian can take at least one set from Tomas.

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Alexander Zverev - Kei Nishikori

Game preview : Semifinals in USA Washington ATP500 and we have only 4 players left and in this match two different, but very superb players will meet. Japanese player Kei Nishikori and Russian-German youngster Alexander Zverev. What these players will get for reaching semis? 87,675$ and 180 point's, that is very good deal for both of them, especially for this match winner. They both have situation between them, Kei is No.9 and Alex is No.8 and points difference is very small, so both of them pretendents to be in TOP8 for longer time.

Lets talk about players :

Kei Nishikori - 7 years older than german youngster, Kei is smaller only 178cm height, of course he weight less, but on the other side he is very fast, athletic and his game play is one of the fastest. A japan player currently is in 9th ranking place and plays very solid tennis every year, same for this year 15/4 score on hard courts. Let‘s talk about his playing style – Every year with bigger and bigger staff Kei is training a lot more, even Michael Chung helps him on bigger events. A lot of commentators like to say something about his weakness, but Kei knows it and everytime he deletes his week spots. Few years ago everyone talked about his serve, its weak, he can‘t win on grass and etc, a little bit time after he was serving 200km/h speed, he improved so much, same on return and other things. Most impressive things about Kei is his wonderful shots, he can run mile and hit miraculous winners.

Alexander Zverev - Only 20 years old german already reached unbelievable hights, he is 8 best player in the world, can you imagine it? This year he plays extremly well 42/14 for now, last all year record was 45/27, so he is already doing better this year. 11/4 hard surface score, last year he reached SF here, so he repeated last year run. Youngster is taller player, but still very fast, athletic and fun to watch with all that energy he plays and wonderfull shot he makes like tweeners, dropshots. Strongest side of his play is serve and strong shots, also his height helps him.

Comparing the players : Kei is much older and wiser, he can be so robotic and just play correct all the time no matter what, he always knows his opponent well, but on the other side Sasha is very talented and with all his talent and pratice he is 8 in the ranking, but he managed to reach it so young. Kei doesn't have great serve like Sasha, but he have all different techniques and uses it to mixup his game. Youngster uses his serve a lot and serve and volley technique, so they are really different players.

What to expect : Well, we can say Sash wont loose in the semis with same result as he did last year. Both playesr never met each other on ATP tour, it will be first time and it can be very intriguing. We expect to see clash of young and experienced so they both can turn this match around no matter what result will be.

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