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John Isner - Vasek Pospisil



Review Author MoreTennis


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: 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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