V. Kopriva - J. Domingues

Playing at home, Domingues takes on Kopriva's challenge in the first round. Two clay experts, but my favorite is Czech who has improved a lot in a couple of years. The Portuguese is a competitive tennis player, but he is struggling to climb the rankings, and being short (178cm) he lacks stability. Kopriva is rising in the rankings and is playing really well this season because of it, and it gives him the status of a slight favorite, which I would like to take advantage of even though the tournament is in Portugal. Kopriva loses on clay this season quite rarely and only to very serious tennis players, and I cannot classify Portuguese as one of them

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