Review Author MoreTennis
Game preview : Welcome back to Atlanta ATP250 tournament, and we already he have a semi-final here and two very famous players, which are known for extra-ordinary serves in ATP tour. What these players will get for reaching semi-finals 32,695 $ and 90 point's, it's not much four players who are in top 20 or around top20, but they are one step away from the title and every player wants to win titles, especially when you don't win titles often or you are not youngster anymore and time is running out. Well both players are not young anymore, yes, but at this year or in past year they play even better than 5 years ago. As We Know Gilles Muller won his first ATP title when he was in his middle of 30's. John Isner have more titles, he recently won Newport title again. At this moment they both play really well and we can say for sure they want to reach the final and take one more title.
Let's talk about players :
John Isner - american who recently one title in Newport, he's in good shape, his serve at this moment is very dangerous and serve accuaracy is at high percent. We recently talked about John and his performance, he plays very well now, plays at home, he knows these courts he likes hard surface and that's enough for him to play and win. Currently in 20th spot in ATP rankings he have 6/5 hard score this year.
Gilles Muller - we didn't talk about him in this tournament yet, so 2 years older player and two spots away from USA player(22 at the moment) performing really well this year, he won a title on grass in Holland, at the start of the Season he won title in Sydney, he recently reached the quarter-finals wimbledon so he's in very good shape. Left handed player from luxembourg have two kids and wife and often travels with them, they help him to concentrate on tour. Tall as john Isner, luxembourg player can serve big shots too, he also one of the tower players which uses his big serve like main factor to win.
Comparing the players : Both players are really tall, they can hit serves really fast, so on serve they are =, but maybe left hand for Gilles make's him more unpredictable for right handed players. They both not really fast players, they have strategy how to play in their own way, because they can't compete will small players who can ran really fast. In a lot of ways these two players are really similar, but maybe at different time's they was really different, at young years Gilles couldn't compete good in best level of tennis, while John was really good youngster on tour and managed to win titles, but for this day they both changed theirs game, John has been strugling while Gilles Muller is playing good tennis.
What to expect today? both players met many times before, play a lot of tie-breaks, played many many games and long matches. In Atlanta they met two times and both times in three sets won John Isner, but it was long time ago, for today I guess Gilles Muller is in better shape and will take his win today maybe not in two set's, but he will reach a final. He have more energy left and more ready, while John Isner is playing second turnament in a row with no breaks.
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