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Leonardo Mayer - Frederico Delbonis



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: Hamburg ATP 500 clay tournament day by day is reaching the hottest spot, we already have a semi-final here and true great players from Argentina. They both fought very hard to reach this round and get 79,715 € and 180 ranking points. Of course both players are really glad to get this kind of money and so much points, it's easy to say both players having really hard time and this season, struggling from the beginning, but now we see they play better and better. At quarter-final both players had good fights to reach the semis and now they are here and they're one step away from the final and maybe first title at this level tournament. What we can say about these players? Well they are not in the top of the rating for this moment, leonardo went down into ranking last year, a lot of injuries , problems made his season just horrible, we can say same about Frederico he went down to the rating to, but in the middle of the season this year he won challenger titles, reached some last rounds and he got in the 100top, while Leonardo still trying to comeback.


Let's talk about players :


Frederico Delbonis : Left handed player, 190cm height really like clay surface, and that's normal for player who came from Argentina. Almost all career he is playing only on clay, and showing his best tennis there. Currently 81 in ranking Delbonis have 24/9 clay score, 331/172 for all career score on clay. Mainly he plays on challenger level and can collect a lot of points, but when he tries to play on higher level tournament he can't compete with elite players, but not for today as we can see. Argentinian played here from Qualification rounds and already played 5 matches, won versus Karen Khachanov young russian start, versus Spain star Ferrer David who currently in very good shape. 26 years old player likes to serve a big shots, he has a very solid forehand and left hand helps him a lot.


Mayer Leonardo - 3 years older player also from Argentina also same height, but right handed and currently 138 ranking spot will try to win versus his teammate from Argentina. Well  leonardo Mayer was really good player few years ago, he even won this tournament in 2014. His highest ranking spot was 21, but what happened next? Well tennis player live is very difficult, a lot of injuries, family and other things was the reason why he went down in the ratings. In this tournament he will get a lot of points, money is not the problem, neither a goal for him, he wants points. Lucky loser after losing in Q, is already in semi-finals. 18/12 this year clay record shows he is recovering, 291/180 clay career record. Strongest things in his gameplay is serve, he is much better server, also he knows all the things about clay, how to slice, how to drop ball.


Comparing the Argentians : We could say Leonardo  is more strategic player, more intellegence on court, but also stronger and more powerfull. Well Delbonis ain't stupid or something, but here he is not competative enough, he play simple tennis with good runs. Serve is quite simillar, but on ace's scale Mayer is better. All other things are simillar, but on experience Leonardo is better and more reliable.


What to expect : Both players are from Argentina, friends and knows each other so well. They  didn't play together long time, 2012 in Monte Carlo delbonis won in to set's. Other two matches in two sets won Leonardo Mayer. All matches was with TB and more than 20 game's so for this match we can say it will be simillar to other 3 matches.



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