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Juan Martin Del Potro - Kei Nishikori



Review Author MoreTennis

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: Welcome back to Washington ATP 500 tournament and for today we already are in best 16 players round and for today all players are getting 23,160$ and 45 ranking points, but everyone wants to get more, especially in this very prestigious tournament. From all matches and all players our eyes goes on these two totally different players, once again on Juan Martin Del Potro versus Kei Nishikori. Very good players, extremely popular in tennis and shines bright like stars at this moment, match its self will be interesting because they are both elite players, also they played 6 times before.


Let’s talk about players :


Juan Martin - 28 years old, big guy with strong serve, but that is same like we would say chocolate is brown, it is much more. Juan was elite player he went foot by foot with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, but then a worst thing happend for tennis player, his wrist got injured. For tennis players injures is part of job, but for Argentinian it could mean end of his tennis career. In the end of course after many opperations and recovery he managed to comeback to the court after 2 long years. At this moment ex no.4 racket is 32th, but after this tournament he will go up for sure, especially if he will win today. This year all surfaces score 16/8, hard court 7/4, Like we said last time, he will improve his result and he is. Juan plays very nice tennis, he is big player, but very active, the most dangerous gun in his arsenal is his forehand : very fast and low with no spin. And that is totally different from Kei Nishikori.


Kei Nishikori One year younger than argentinian, but not only younger, he 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 spot and plays very solid tennis every year, same for this year 13/4 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.


Comparing the players : Two completely different players Argentinian Tall, strong with superb serve and forehand – likes to play serve and volley, can hit very fast forehand, while Nishikori is smaller, faster player which like to mix up his game a little, hit surprise dropshot, hit strange hits around the court, you can’t expect him play same, he isn’t that player.

What to expect today : Well old results are showing us Del Potro is much better player 5 to 1 he is leading, but for this day it’s hard to say whom is more ready, both players play first tournament after Wimbledon, both plays second match in this event. Argentinian had a simpler match in first round, while Japanese played a though one versus home player Donald Young, only after 3 sets he managed to win that battle. I guess today we can see a 3 setter, no chance one of them will give it up easily. We will see a lot of good serves and return, a lot of Kei Nishikori nice plays and strong plays from Martin Del Potro.



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