Tennis Prediction Taylor Fritz vs Alex Michelsen: Washington

🇺🇸 Fritz -2.5 games · 1.70 odds | 0.5 units

• These two have not had the same fortnight. While Alex Michelsen played 5 matches in 5 days in a Challenger in Michigan to go and win the title there, Taylor Fritz played 2 matches in a week, here, in a tournament that counts three times more.

• The result is the same on the scoreboard, it is not the same in the legs. This quarterfinal is the 8th match of the younger of the two in 10 days. It's the 3rd of his opponent.

• And the Fritz of this week leaves nothing behind: Zizou Bergs and Kamil Majchrzak dispatched with the same score, 6-3, 6-4, without dropping a set or a moment of hesitation. His serve is turning at a level that we have rarely seen him, more than 85% of the points won behind his first serve.

• This kind of statistic changes the nature of a match. It is no longer a question of knowing whether he will hold his serve, it is a question of knowing how long the other will hold his knowing that he will not have the right to make a mistake.

• The history between them says something else, and I prefer to state it frankly: Michelsen leads two wins to zero, he won their last meeting on hard courts in Indian Wells in March, and he has therefore never lost to him. That's the real argument on the other side.

• Except that in Indian Wells, the kid arrived fresh, at the beginning of the tournament, without ten days of tennis in his body. Tonight he arrives at the end of a sequence that no twenty-one-year-old player goes through without paying a part of it.

• I see Fritz serve as he has been serving since Monday and take the upper hand in the end of sets, when the legs decide more than the talent.