A. Shevchenko - M. Gengel

Tel Aviv ATP tournament, hard (indoor)

The young Russian really impresses me, he has a good serve and plays powerfully from the back line chasing his opponents. Having risen to the 153rd place in the ATP, I believe that the 21 year old Russian will rise further because he has a lot of potential. Here, in the qualification, he meets Gengel, russian has won lost 2 times on hard, but only this year suffered a defeat due to an injury on clay. Gengel is far from the Russian level anymore and this is shown by the ATP ranking and performances in tournaments, because the Czech is already significantly worse and here such an advantage is really not bad, in my eyes

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