[delpiero7]

Ivo has a poor record at Roland Garros having reached the 2nd round only twice in 7 visits.

However, looking closer, his losses have been to Del Potro in 4 sets last year, Hewitt in 5 in 2009 (having held a 2-0 lead), Falla in 5 in 2008, Bjorkman in 5 in 2007 and Hrbaty in 5 in 2006. Losses prior to that were to Kiefer and Kucera in straight sets when Karlovic was still establishing himself on the ATP Tour.

His opponent is a clay specialist (mostly on the challenger circuit), and Karlovic doesn't really have any scalps on clay of late. Despite his string of losses at Roland Garros, he hasn't lost to total nobodies in his recent visits, and the matches he has lost to decent players, he has pushed them all the way.

I'll take the risk on him today that he manages his 3rd career win at Roland Garros.

[delpiero7]

Or alternatively, he could get totally thrashed.