Review Author MoreTennis
Game preview : Semifinals in USA Washington ATP500 and we have only 4 players left and in this match two different, but very superb players will meet. Japanese player Kei Nishikori and Russian-German youngster Alexander Zverev. What these players will get for reaching semis? 87,675$ and 180 point's, that is very good deal for both of them, especially for this match winner. They both have situation between them, Kei is No.9 and Alex is No.8 and points difference is very small, so both of them pretendents to be in TOP8 for longer time.
Lets talk about players :
Kei Nishikori - 7 years older than german youngster, Kei is smaller only 178cm height, of course he weight less, but on the other side he is very fast, athletic and his game play is one of the fastest. A japan player currently is in 9th ranking place and plays very solid tennis every year, same for this year 15/4 score on hard courts. Let‘s talk about his playing style – Every year with bigger and bigger staff Kei is training a lot more, even Michael Chung helps him on bigger events. A lot of commentators like to say something about his weakness, but Kei knows it and everytime he deletes his week spots. Few years ago everyone talked about his serve, its weak, he can‘t win on grass and etc, a little bit time after he was serving 200km/h speed, he improved so much, same on return and other things. Most impressive things about Kei is his wonderful shots, he can run mile and hit miraculous winners.
Alexander Zverev - Only 20 years old german already reached unbelievable hights, he is 8 best player in the world, can you imagine it? This year he plays extremly well 42/14 for now, last all year record was 45/27, so he is already doing better this year. 11/4 hard surface score, last year he reached SF here, so he repeated last year run. Youngster is taller player, but still very fast, athletic and fun to watch with all that energy he plays and wonderfull shot he makes like tweeners, dropshots. Strongest side of his play is serve and strong shots, also his height helps him.
Comparing the players : Kei is much older and wiser, he can be so robotic and just play correct all the time no matter what, he always knows his opponent well, but on the other side Sasha is very talented and with all his talent and pratice he is 8 in the ranking, but he managed to reach it so young. Kei doesn't have great serve like Sasha, but he have all different techniques and uses it to mixup his game. Youngster uses his serve a lot and serve and volley technique, so they are really different players.
What to expect : Well, we can say Sash wont loose in the semis with same result as he did last year. Both playesr never met each other on ATP tour, it will be first time and it can be very intriguing. We expect to see clash of young and experienced so they both can turn this match around no matter what result will be.
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