Tennis Prediction Quentin Halys vs Aleksandr Shevchenko: Gstaad

Gstaad 🇨🇭

• The defending champion has left his tournament at the first round. And the man who knocked out Bublik is called Quentin Halys, and I tend to back him in his quarter-final today, on two lines: his win, and the over 22.5 games in the match.

• The Frenchman's performance against the Kazakh was solid from start to finish behind his commitment: 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, a 36-game arm-wrestle with two tie-breaks, snatched from the defending champion on his home turf. Add the 22 aces from his first round against Cina, and you have the hottest server in the resort.

• Facing him is another Kazakh: Aleksandr Shevchenko, who dominated the local Stricker, 7-6 6-2 without too much trouble, also over 2 days due to the rain.

• These conditions suit him well: last year it was here that he had eliminated Wawrinka. A flat hitter, a serve that cracks in the light air, and a lot of confidence displayed: he won't come to just make up the numbers.

• This is my whole reading of this quarter-final: a duel of hitters where the serves fly by, and these matches are not settled in twenty games.

• I see the Frenchman confirm his week at the end of a match that wears down the racket as much as the game counter, with at least one tight set at the end of the suspense.