John Isner - Tommy Paul

Game preview : Cincinnati 2017 (USA) Open ATP, while some players are in first round, we are in the second round already, so let’s forget about 17,700 $ and 10 ranking point prizes and go for second round prizes 32,780 $ and 45 points. In today‘s match we have two fellow American players old folk John Isner and much younger Tommy Paul whom plays first time such good tennis and youngster already showed everyone he will be in TOP100 very soon.


John Isner (19) - 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 19 in the ranking, american have 25/15 record this year, he is playing better and better, in few weeks at home courts he improved a lot, hard court record 9/6 and yet he is still in this tournament so he can win a lot of matches.

Tommy Paul – 20 years old, 185cm tall player from USA, which currently surprised everyone at USA hard court evens. 175 in the ranking now, plays like he is in TOP50 maybe even better, so what is so special that he can compete with Kei Nishikori, Donald Young, Gilles Muller ? Well youngster have a lot of motivation that for sure, he is fresh in court, after few year drifting now he is playing like men. Very fast, with a lot of power and strong fast shots he can score a lot of points. Next thing nobody knows how he plays and there are no information, so it hard to play against him. Youngster likes all stylish hits like other young players do. For sure we will see him in Top100 very soon, he have 27/10 score on hard.

Comparing the players : We have two different generations and two different styles of playing. While John Isner just getting in shape and winning some matches with his great serve (9/6) Paul Tommy is winning matches with his fresh and fast game play (27/10). John is slower and more tactics guy, while Paul is all about energy and speed. Two different generations have different players, John is from older serve and volley generation if we can say that, he is one of last players who uses a lot of this strong tactic and isn‘t afraid of net. Youngster is more from long rallies generation with strong shots from baseline. Well also Paul is more all surfaces player, he can play really well on clay.

What to expect today : Well John is in good shape, he had some rest, now he can play good again, Paul also did his preparation for this tournament, so he must play good again, maybe he won’t surprise John, but he still will play very good tennis. Faster and fresher on courts Paul can be a really big problem for John, maybe John will hit a lot of aces and good serves, but for how long it will help him in this match? He will reach a tiebreak, whats next? If Paul will make some good returns he will take this win, so J. Isner must do something else, because Gilles Muller had his lesson, only serve won‘t help against Paul.

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