Tennis Prediction Arthur Rinderknech vs Stefanos Tsitsipas: Gstaad

Gstaad 🇨🇭

• 13, 13, 12. These are the games of the three sets played by Arthur Rinderknech since the beginning of the week in Gstaad. Not a single set settled before the twelfth game. This is my whole reading of his quarter against Tsitsipas: the over 10.5 games in the first set.

• The Frenchman comes out of a 3h21 battle against Tabur, yesterday: a set lost in the tie-break, a set won in the tie-break, then two match points erased in the decisive set before concluding 7-5.

• On the other hand, Tsitsipas has his own history of extensions: his round of 16 against Kym was spread over two days, interrupted by the night at 5-5 in the third set, concluded on Thursday noon. Two tie-breaks there too, and a denouement snatched in the final sprint.

• Their only confrontation does not contradict me: it was this winter, indoors in Rotterdam. Victory of the Greek, but after a first set of twelve games, 7-5. And they have never crossed swords on clay: no one has a ready-made plan for this match.

• Rinderknech has not left the twelve-game zone of the week. I don't see why that would start today.