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Hello. If there’s one thing that’s been missing from the men’s tour in the past two years, other than a fit Andy Murray, it’s a fit Stan Wawrinka. The man with the brutal, beautiful backhand has found it tough since reaching the 2017 French Open final and losing to Rafa Nadal in three sets. A knee injury has taken its time to heal and the sport has suffered as a consequence. Tennis needs Wawrinka. When he’s in the mood and he’s hitting the lines and finding those outrageous angles, there’s no one with a better chance of taking down your Federers, your Nadals and your Djokovices.
The good news is that there have been glimpses of the Wawrinka who beat Djokovic in the 2015 French Open final this week. Up to 28 in the rankings after an encouraging run of form, he looked awesome against Cristian Garin on Wednesday and is likely to take some stopping when he faces former future Roger Federer Grigor Dimitrov in the last match on Suzanne-Lenglen today. Dimitrov had a good and surprising win over Marin Cilic in the second round, but he lost in the first rounds of Wimbledon and the US Open to Wawrinka last year. It should be entertaining. It should be a Wawrinka win.
Written by Jacob Steinberg
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2019/may/31/french-open-day-six-live-johanna-konta-rafael-nadal-roger-federer under the title “French Open 2019, day six: Pliskova takes on Martic – live!”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
