Review Author MoreTennis
Match of the day in Sweden ATP Bastad 250 tournament : First round, but second day for Sweden ATP tournament in Bastad. Swedish are proud of this tournament and there are a lot of reasons why so. First tournament is very nice with all new stuff for good tournament like stream in all world, good quality courts and many fan on the side, who likes tennis. At the end of the day our match of the day will begin, in this fight we will see to different players with different style of playing. A home boy Ymer Elias will meet a very strong player from Spain Fernando Verdasco, who is one the most dangerous Spaniards in ATP tour. Let’s talk about the players and the match.
Ymer Elias – Just like his younger player will try to show some good tennis in this tournament, unfortunately Mikael lost in his match yesterday, but he was very close to win. Elias is good player, but something went wrong in his game and now he is 237 racket in ATP ranking. Younger Elias was very interesting player, everyone said he will be great player, but we still waiting for it to happen. 1,85m player have a good serve, fast backhand and he is very athletic, but we see sometimes he is very lazy on court and tries to finish rally too fast, he don’t have a lot patience in his game and that’s the biggest problem. 104/56 balance on clay shows us he can win a lot, but this year is only 9/9 not so fancy at all. 21 years old player mostly plays on clay, where patience is most important along with the strategy, maybe improving his game on other courts will help him in all kind of ways.
Fernando Verdasco – A wolf in the tennis with very dangerous forehand in his game, did you ever heard player hit 100 winners? It was F. Verdasco and his forehand. Very impressive player for sure, as we remember last year he reached a final here, so we expect him play well this year again. Spaniard is not only clay player like a lot of people thinks about spain players, he can play on all different surfaces, even on grass is very good and that a fastest surface of all. A good serve, strong body, powerful hits is game of Fernando, but all these things come along with one simple thing, who goes same for Swedish player, a patience both players don’t have it enough. Yes Spaniard is older and wiser, but still he make’s not the best decision in his game sometimes, always rushing and always trying to hit the hardest, in the end all these things are not always working for him. 259/153 clay court balance sound not bad.
Comparing the players : Spanish player have more experience, more titles, better game, everything goes in favor for Fernando. If we compare a serve, we will see Fernando hitting it harder and with more spin, but Swedish player doesn’t use that he just trying to hit is hard as he can, same goes for forehand they both hits very hard, but Spaniard uses more spin, so much the ball changes is trajectory.. You think it will be out? No problem for Fernando, ball spins so good it comes back to court. A lot of things will go in favor for F.Verdasco no surprise only one thing what can say about Swedish players his motivation and agility-younginess that can help him a lot, he plays at home so everyone will cheer for him.
What to expect today ? Well, its always hard to reach final every year, the first match is always hardest for title defender or finalist, especially when you play in first round versus home player who is young and have a lot of desire to win. Spanish player have more experience, but agility of the youngsters and different style of playing always makes it harder to show your experience and dominance. We can say it wont be very easy at first for Fernando Verdasco, but in the end he should manage to take a win in first round at Bastad 250 open tournament.
