If Nishikori gets through this 3rd round match im pounding Tsonga against him in the 4th. He just had a medical time out cuz he has problems and some pain with his wrist. Also the guy has no serve at all and when he starts making a lot of unforced errors, wich he is making now, he has no game
I would not read too much into that. The timeout was probably a ruse to change the momentum of the match. But you are right, Nishi is looking pretty subpar today. Probably did not expect GGL to put up a fight.
GGL is good but expected a bit more from Nishikori today. Felt like he was waiting for GGL to lose the whole time rather then to go out and win the match.
Nishikori said his wrist was sore, but after treatment it got better. Kei is known for being injury prone and is quite often for him to play with some kind of pain. The Japanese will have now one day off to try to recover for a possible clash against Tsonga.
It won't be easy for Kei to handle Tsonga's big bombs on serve, but if Kei shows up at decent level he's clearly the favorite.
At the end it will all boil down to Kei's physical condition, like usually happens.