Talk to me about these plays and if you disagree please state why.
Viktor Troicki -170 v Andrey Golubev = winner
Troicki is clearly the more talented player. With his suspension ending I believe he will be looking to make up for lost time and appeared to be in decent form in his 1st match back beating Thiem who has been playing well.
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Albert Montanes +3½ -105 v Fabio Fognini = loser 6-7 0-6
Have not seen many upsets lately so looking for a few on Thursday. Montanes had an efficient 2 set win over Zverev while Fognini has lost two matches in a row. Montanes holds a 4-2 career H2H record but those matches were long ago and probably not all too relevant.
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Joao Sousa -120 v Teymuraz Gabashvili = = loser
Not a whole lot of separation between the two players and Sousa is riding a two match losing streak but this year Sousa has generally won the matches he was favored in. Going with the Spaniard that has trained on red clay his whole life.
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Challenger plays:
Yuichi Sugita -190 v Ruben Bemelmans = loser
Alexander Kudryavtsev -210 v Egor Gerasimov = loser
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Horacio Zeballos -175 v Borna Coric = loser
Going with the veteran player vs the young up-and-coming 17 year old playing in front of his hometown fans. Hopefully he doesn't channel his inner Zverev.
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Benjamin Becker +145* vs Yen-Hsun Lu
I'm taking Becker. Just letting everyone know for fading purposes. Won with Lu but wasn't overly impressed. Had lots of break point saves.