Originally Posted by
EaglesPhan36
Dolgopolov-Fognini is no different than Monfils-Fognini to me. You could guess ten times as to the result and probably guess right once out of ten tries. Rafa obviously is not over the back problem mentally/physically and pretty much has said as much, so not sure the Dog's win is a high quality mark on his resume other than the name he beat. Rafa is usually one to defer to his opponent when he loses as well, so that he was saying how poorly he played speaks volumes. I'm not sure I would read a ton into that Rio match either. Fognini was on the end of a marvelous run of form where he won two titles in a row, but was playing his third week in a row with travel, etc. He was due to fatigue out at some point in that tournament. And the last time they met before that was a couple years ago before Fognini really found himself overall, so I do think it's a bit of a toss-up.
Don't think anyone can fault people for trying Raonic, although Murray's return game will be a big test for Raonic and Murray's own service issues can probably be masked more by the lack of a consistent quality return game from Raonic.