Review Author MoreTennis
Game preview : Welcome to Washington ATP500 tournament and USA tour in midsummer getting hotter. Today we will see first round of very interesting event. Prize fond of this tournament is 2,002,460 $, solid for sure and like always 500 points. In the first round players get's 6,600 $ and zero points. A lot of different players will play today, many matches will be played today. We choosed to write about these two players, which are still young, but in second phase of career and we are talking about Vasek Pospisil and Henri Laaksonen whom currently reached highest spot of his ranking.
Let's talk about players :
Vasek Pospisil(72) - two years older player than Henri, but those two years gave him even more experience in his tennis career. These few year in Vasek life was very hard, many injuries didn't let him get in good shape, he went down in rating, he didn't play like before. Young guitarist(Plays guitar and puts his videos on youtube) changed his thinking about tennis, he did start play more doubles matches, found a lot good partners and won many titles in doubles, even grandslams. What happend next was expected by all his fans and experts, he came back to singles better and stronger and now he plays really well. 36/15 his record this year on all surfaces. 19/9 on hard court this year, we can say day by day Vasek getting stronger and better, that very good for him and canadian tennis. Vasek Pospisil is tall player, he likes to play on fast courts, like grass or fast hard courts, he find himself really comfortable there. 19/10 score for this day on hard court.
Henri Laaksonen – 25 years old player from Switzerland isn’t so famous and good player like Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka, but he is growing up and reaching higher heighst. Only few weeks ago he became top100 player (currently 92), He is getting better, but after good run on clay court, can he play same on hard court? We doubt that, maybe not at first tournament in USA. Henri really improved in past weeks, we talked about him, that he plays slow, uncordinate, but now he is much faster, he feels better on court, knows where to run. Anyway we are talking about clay surface and slower courts, but now he will play on faster courts and it's hard to say how he will manage to compete with other players. This year he have 7/7 score on hard surface, all career score is 63/40, nothing impresive comparing to Canadian player.
Comparing the players : Well, Vasek is more experienced player that for sure, he played more tournaments on higher level, he had more succes on courts, won versus elite players, while Henri is a challenger level player and can't brag about any bigger win in his career so far. If we talk about gameplay, so Vasek is still much better on many aspects like serve, strategy, his forehand and many small things.
What expect today : Vasek is already in good shape for hard court summer in USA, he played we tournament's here, every summer he plays here so for sure more experience he have for this match. Henri right after clay season went to USA to play on hard, so his preparation didn't happen and few day's on this surface wont have such big impact for his gameplay, he is body still thinks he will play on clay. We think in this match Vasek Pospisil will have totally dominance if he will play agressive from the beggining and won't let for switzerland player to get in this game it will end really fast and Vasek will go to rest for second round. Only chance for Henri in today's match is to keep up from the start and get in the best shape he can get as fast he can, hitting important balls will help too.
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