Mardy Fish #574 to beat Marco Cecchinato #102 in straight sets, 3-0.
Rankings means nothing as this will be only the 5th match of Fish this year. This is his last tournament before retiring. Former #7 ranked player had some bad health problems recently and now he is looking forward to finishing his career well. He is 1/3 this year on hard courts but after losing to Sela and Harrison, he's been to Cincinnati and played some beautiful tennis, looking really fit and not far from his best.
Against him Marco Cecchinato is a proper clay court specialist. He is 7/7 on hard this year, but he beat only poor players. 3 victory's last week in qualifiers for Winston Salem beating the #568, #1424 and #1500.
On clay courts, he is really good but he just can't play on hard. His only advantage is to have a quite good 1st serve, but he is really slow and just has no strengths on hard courts.
Fish last appearance shows that he did train a lot, that he is in shape and in form. For someone who always did some good performances in the US Open, he will also look forward to not staying on court too long and that will be by beating Cecchinato in 3 sets. And I'm pretty sure he will.
Nice odds for this 3-0 !
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