i was there until middle of second set. nishioka was disappointing no first serves at all! i think he hit 2 first serves in the whole first set (edit: i was exaggerating. he actually hit 12 first serves in the first set. however, they were at a speed which would categorize them as 2nd serves imho). only until the 11th try when he hit the first first serve... in the second set he took a MTO. something about his right hip was itching him. 99% of the time he was struggling with himself and obviously he was also disappointed about himself. however, his strokes look solid when they were working. also hit some nice winners, but overall performance was poor today :/
mecir was not winning this match, nishioka was losing it...
Well i was hoping for some consistency but he didn't deliver it anyway he is for sure more talented than most of the young guys on the person above me specialy players like Halebian :lol:
Halebian and Blake Mott are players I followed through juniors, no doubt they are at best top 100 but I would be amazed if Donaldson, Tiafoe and Chung don't end up better then this guy.
i was there until middle of second set. nishioka was disappointing no first serves at all! i think he hit 2 first serves in the whole first set. only until the 11th try when he hit the first first serve... in the second set he took a MTO. something about his right hip was itching him. 99% of the time he was struggling with himself and obviously he was also disappointed about himself. however, his strokes look solid when they were working. also hit some nice winners, but overall performance was poor today :/
mecir was not winning this match, nishioka was losing it...
okay, i may have exaggerated. sorry! i was really underwhelmed. but it's true that he needed at least 10 or 11 tries to get his first "first serve" in. the first serves which were working had around 150km/h speed... so in fact that were second serves...
thanks for the clarification though. i will edit my initial post.
Yes, due to his height Yoshi struggles on serve. If he is gonna make that final push into the top 100 he needs to make more first serves. He has decent pace and spin on it but it is not consistent from match to match
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