John Isner - Juan Martin Del Potro

Montreal Masters is about to start and we have great matches in first round, but we chose to write about one very intriguing fight, the battle of Towers. In first round a lot of surprises awaits us, because many players played with injuries, without good warm up and they play for prizes, so what they get in first round ? 16,595 $, very solid numbers for all players, especially for those who don‘t have good ranking and came here via qualification round, all players also get 10 points. In our match two good players will meet, which doesn‘t play for here just for participation and for money in first round, it‘s not all about money for them, so John Isner (USA) and Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) will meet for 8 time in ATP tour. These guys plays solid tennis and always shows wonderfull sportmanship during the years.

Lets talk about players :

Juan Martin Del Potro (31) – Player from Argentina, who really likes all surfaces, but best quality tennis he shows on fast courts, today he will play on hard fast court, so we can expect he will show some good tennis. Juan is very tall player, almost two metres height helps him to serve much better and catch every lob volley over his head. Argentinian is mostly known for very good sportsmanship, his kindness on court, of course he is also very good player, with a lot of talent and good tennis play. Juan best qualities on court is strong serve, very flat forehand and his strategy, he is also not afraid of serve and volley. 7/5 score on hard court doesn’t look like he is very good player, but there are reason, he still trying to make his comeback to safe and normal tennis after injury, he don’t need to rush it, so he plays not so often. We can remember year before he got injured and Juan had 30/9 score on hard courts.

John Isner (19) – American currently went up in the rankings, he won two titles in past two 3 weeks, so currently he plays very impressive tennis. Player from USA also known for good serve and for being tall guy on court, but also like Juan he have a lion heart, recently he bought 500 packs of dog food for charity, he really likes to help people and all alive beings. John is more than 2 metres tall, he really like to play on fast courts, use his serve and volley tactics and so far this year he have 8/5 hard court score, neither so impressive like in Juan situation, but he had some struggles in beginning of the season. All career score 251/125 proves that he is really good on fast courts. We can say he like to play like Juan, but he depends on his serve more.

Comparing the players : Well, players are very similar, both tall with good serve, flat forehands, not the best backhands at this moment, but there is one BUT, player from Argentina is much more athletic and faster, so it can help to win match, especially if John will struggle with his serve a little. Age difference is not big, only 3 years older is American.

What to expect today ? Players are in different shape of ready for this match, Juan for sure will be ready, he missed tennis so much, he is going up in the ranking every tournament, so he will show some good tennis. What about John? It is hard to say, he won two titles he is on good winning streak, but after many wins, he must stop someday and this first round can be last for him at this event. Still we can imagine guys like this, with perfect serve will make at least on Tie-break and will make a lot of ace’s, but in the Juan must win.

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