Tennis Prediction Learner Tien vs Cristian Garin: Roland Garros

🇺🇸 Tien · 1.58 | 1.25u

• I'm quite surprised to see Learner Tien so high on this first round, especially against a profile like Cristian Garin.

• I obviously understand part of the pricing: the American is coming off an exceptional week with a title won in Geneva, he's chaining matches and some may fear a physical backlash after such a campaign.

• But precisely, he is probably one of the last players on the circuit for whom I would worry about this aspect.

• We've seen it several times in the big events: Tien has a huge physical tank.

• He is able to chain long matches, big battles and even hold five-set marathons without really dropping off.

• So I'm not particularly worried about his physical condition before this first round.

• From a purely tennis point of view, the match-up also pleases me a lot.

• With his left-handed style, his quality of movement and his ability to make one more shot constantly, he has exactly the weapons to make the match extremely uncomfortable for Garin.

• I expect to see the American impose a lot of volume in the exchange, vary the trajectories and gradually push the Chilean into his trenches.

• And that's where the physical aspect could actually become an important factor.

• Because Garin remains a player that I sometimes find fragile in long battles, especially when he has to constantly defend and suffer the opponent's rhythm.

• Under the Parisian sun and in exchanges that are likely to drag on, I see Tien more capable of maintaining his intensity from the first to the last point.

• The objective will be simple: make him play, make him run, make him doubt and gradually wear him down physically.

• And with the confidence he has built up in recent weeks, I think the American is arriving in Paris in the best possible shape.