Benneteau Julien - Herbert Pierre-Hugues

Game preview : Winston Salem ATP250 first round and today we have a battle between frenchmans. Herbert Pierre-Hugues and Julien Beneatau never played against each other in ATP tour before, today they will know which frenchman is better in official match. While event is not rich for first round players it worth to fight for the second round.

Let's talk about players :

Julien (107) - Frenchman had a very nice tennis career, now he is almost near his sundown, but he still can play in a lot of events and make youngster strugle against him. 185cm player always was known for good serve and athletic tennis, all flexible moves, nice touch, interesting thinking. That why a lot of people like him. 4/3 score on hard this year, but for Julien hard surface was never a good one, he prefers indoors. Now Julien is very good doubles player, it's much easier for him to play doubles matches.

Piere (64) - A tall and still young frenchman, who is future of France tennis. While Julien was always interesting in all newspapers, Herbert didn't become famours from young years, he is not so famous right now, not all knows him. Still player is very intellegent, mostly plays on doubles tour where he with Nicoclas Mahut win's a lot of events, but sometimes he likes to play alone, get fit. Best part of his game is his serve, very dangerous very strong, also he likes use this older tehnique Serve and volley, he is one of those players who knows how to do it right. All his experience from doubles helps him on singles matches, he have a nice touch, good reaction near net.

Comparing the players : Well, both players are completly different, same thing in their lifes is they both are french. Herbert have a strong serve, he moves faster, he is younger, he is better shape, but Julien have much more experience in his life.

What to expect today : Both frenchmans, in this tournament, everything looks suspisiuos, but we can say two things :
1) Herbert won two doubles titles in a row, so he can be in very good shape, all that luck he can bring to the singles and win it easy.
2) He will get some rest before Us Open event and will give for his fella frenchman in two set's. Us Open is very important for Nicolas Mahut and Pierre Herbert on doubles.

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