Tennis Parlay Arthur Gea + Frances Tiafoe: US Open

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🇫🇷🇳🇱 Over 3.5 sets Gea vs Van de Zandschulp x 🇺🇸 Tiafoe · 2.41 | 0.5

• This section of the draw has been completely crazy since the start of the tournament: Arthur Gea has played 2 matches in 5 sets, Botic Van de Zandschulp has played one.

• Learner Tien too. Alexander Zverev has played 2, in his first two rounds. In this bottom of the draw, no one finishes quickly.

• And the first spot comes from there: Gea has not played a single 'short' match in this tournament. Juan Manuel Cerundolo in 5 sets, Zachary Svajda in 4, Michael Zheng in 5.

• 3 matches, 3 times beyond 3 sets, and 2 times being down 2 sets to 1 and over his whole Grand Slam season, 4 of his 6 matches have gone beyond 3 sets.

• On the other hand, Van de Zandschulp is a player who is also used to long matches this season: a tiebreaker in 13 of his last 20 matches. And he's coming off a 5-setter against Zizou Bergs.

• I would be very surprised to see a one-sided match one way or the other here, especially when you see the level of play of the 2 players since the beginning of the week.

• Regarding Frances Tiafoe, he has beaten Alex Michelsen 2 times out of 2 in his career, in Dallas (7-5 6-1) and in Houston (6-4 6-3), never letting him take a set.

• He just eliminated Daniil Medvedev in 3 sets and, above all, he knows this tournament perfectly since he has already played two semi-finals here.

• Beware, however, Michelsen has not lost a single set in the fortnight. 12 out of 12, with Brandon Nakashima beaten 6-3 6-4 6-4 and Tomas Martin Etcheverry in 3 sets on Thursday.

• And he arrives with 117 games in his legs when Tiafoe has 146 but I have the feeling that Tiafoe has been playing the tennis of his life for a few weeks, he knows perfectly how to play with the public, and remains the most experienced of the 2 players here.

• I'm expecting a long and contested match here too, but Frances remains, for me, the most solid in these conditions.