ATP/WTA Rio picks - Friday Feb 19th

[FoxMulder]

WTA

Cindy Burger to beat Francesca Schiavone
Shelby Rogers to beat Paula Goncalves
Sorana Cirstea to beat Danka Kovinic
Petra Martic - Lara Arruabarrena over 21.5 games

ATP

Pablo Cuevas to beat Federico Delbonis
Dominic Thiem to beat David Ferrer ( I know.... but Ferrer plays like sh*t recently)
Rafael Nadal - Alexandr Dolgopolov to go over 22.5 games. I expect Dolgopolov to take a set here




BOL

[FoxMulder]

So, Cuevas, Rogers and Martic-Arruabarrena over 21.5 hit as expected. Dolgopolov retired (looks like chickened out), did not see that coming Cirstea is cruising but both players having medical timeouts, no clue what the hack is going on.

Cindy Burger had total control, serving for the match and she lost. You could tell she succumbed to heat exhaustion. Nothing you can do about it, she has had a good run but played poor today despite taking the first set.

Note for next round: fade Schiavone, whomever she's up against doesn't matter. She's totally mental. She can't play sh*t.