Sousa Joao - Monteiro Thiago Moura

Monte Carlo, Qualification - 1. round, clay

And again our lovely Sousa is underatted and once again without any good reason, especially when he will play against same level player or even lower level i would say. We have a very good tournament and everyone want to participate in main rounds. Sousa, played quite a lot on clay in this season and in Italy he played very well against stronger opponent and almost won. Monteiro is Brasilian player who mostly plays in South America tour and there plays best, but this year wasn't so succesful, later he missed USA Hard courts and came here without playing experience in few weeks. We can say that Sousa at the moment is in better playing shape.

1) I think that players between theirself do not have and differences at the moment and giving for Sousa +4,5 is mistake, he won't give up easily and play till the end.

2) Monteiro played quite long ago, he definetly will be ready, but without playing experience that can be harder.

3) Sousa will play in this tournament not for the first time and that can help, Monteiro it will be first time.

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