Originally Posted by
jtoler
I know he's not the exact same as we've seen before but when youre 21-1 on clay and 3 clay titles before the Open thats pretty dominant. Who's tomato can level? Marterer, Bolleli? Marterer just now coming into his own, I think we'll be seeing more good stuff from him especially on clay, Bolleli went through qualies got in a few matches, seasoned vet, 1st round, I dont put too much stock into 1st rounds, besides its only a tiebreak set and neither of them won it so. Schwartzmann came into his own last year I watched him steadily climb the rankings, he's no slouch and a tough out now. A defensive backboard, I saw him beat much bigger name guys last year on hard a surface which he has an overall losing record on. He took a set off of Rafa at the Aussie Open this year. Only lost to Fed by 3 games last year. Beat Johnson, Cilic, Pouille, and Thiem last year on hard. Some players take longer to figure it out, he's one of them, he's here now which means he's no slouch. He's ranked 12th in the world with almost 600 matches on clay, thats about 100 more than Rafa this match against Rafa so far shouldnt be ultra surprising.