Tennis Prediction Ben Shelton vs Joao Fonseca: Montreal

Montreal 🇨🇦

• Ben Shelton first. His match against Bergs on Friday, it's 8 aces, 0 double faults, 87% of points won behind the first serve, and a victory completed in 1h05. The best Shelton of the season, or close to it.

• Joao Fonseca responds present in front: Tsitsipas then Ruud knocked out one after the other, and especially 2 first sets of 13 games, in the tiebreaker each time. This 19-year-old boy doesn't let go of a start.

• The heart of the file is summed up in one sentence: an unplayable left-handed serve on one side, and on the other a young man who has not been broken at the start of the match for 2 matches. When the serves hold, the sets stretch and the games pile up.

• Honesty, because it cost me dearly: Fonseca, he knows how to bounce back. 100% conversion of break points against Tsitsipas, 67% against Ruud. If he breaks Shelton's serve once per set, it ends 6-4 6-4 and my 2 tickets die together. This scenario exists, I look it in the face.

• Their only previous meeting however says the same thing as me: Munich in April, 27 games in 3 sets, on a clay court that suited neither of them. On hard court, with these serves, I don't see why it would be shorter.

• And you'll notice there's no winner on my ticket. The market can't separate them, neither can I, and I'm not paying to decide what no one knows how to decide.

• The 2 lines are the same bet at 2 levels, I'd rather say it: that's why the stakes are reduced. Tiebreakers, a match that drags on, and 2 cannons who return blow for blow. That's all I'm asking for this Sunday.