Review Author MoreTennis
Game preview : Washington ATP500 goes to second round and players get's 12,215 $ and 20 ranking point's - so it's same like winning one Future tournament. In this round two interesting players to meet, one of them is Juan Martin Del Potro who is finally healthy and strong again, other player is Lacko Lukas who currently went down in the rankings again. These two players are completely different planets of tennis, we would say Argentinian is big planet like Saturn and Slovakian player would be small Pluto. Why so ? Well Juan is very talented player with good mentallity and wonderfull sportmanship, of course we can't say anything bad about Lukas, but yet he had some scandals and brake downs.
Lets 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 and with every tournament he is playing better and better. This year all surfaces score 15/8, hard court 6/4, but he can improve it any time soon. 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.
Lacko Lukas - Almost two years older player from Slovakia, whom had promising career when he was younger, a very talented guy, but unfortunate for Slovakia and him something in his career went wrong and from promising player he became a simple challenger player. The highest point in Lukas career was when he reached 44 ranking spot, but now he is only 119. In other hand player from slovakia plays well on challenger level, often he reaches a finals, semifinals, but sometimes he even plays good on big tournaments like Wimbledon, in 2015 and 2016 he reached 3 round. As a player he can be very good, but sometimes something goes wrong and he starts to loose his point's in every tournament. Anyway this year he have 11/4 record on hard, once more it is promising result and its only midseason so he can improve.
Comparing the players : Why player from Argentina is better? - 1. He is more talented, but even more important thing, he knows what to do with his talent. 2. He want more to win, he improves everytime, he trains a lot, he have peace with his mind and trains all body, even brain. 3. His technique is much better.
Lacko Lukas - From good player went to basic, maybe he doesn't have good player mentallity, maybe he makes poor decision or doesn't even train enough to be always in best shape.
Differences are simple : Juan have better serve, better forehand is stronger in all kind of ways, only thing Lukas can be proud he is fast and active, also in this case his backhand is better.
What to expect today : Martin didn't play a long time, he was on holiday for a bit, while Lukas was playing 3 tournaments after Wimbledon, that can help Slovakian to fight, while argentinian will be getting in right move for this match, but at the end even if Lacko is prepered for this match and will try to fight hard as he can (also he already played here in first round,Juan didn't) Del Potro will find his way thru him if not from the first set, so on the second set he will start to play like real champion. At the end we can say, Martin Del Potro is just better player and he is going to win.
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