Hamburg Open: Tournament preview, predictions & free tips

Free tennis outright tips and analysis for the 2020 Hamburg Open.

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D Medvedev
1pt 4-1 Coral, Ladbrokes

Tournament preview

Preparations for the 2020 French Open conclude with a strong field tussling for supremacy at the Hamburg Open this week and punters may not have to look too far down the betting to find a solid outright selection.

Greek starlet Stefanos Tsitsipas heads the betting at 7-2 but his performances in the US Open and Italian Open alone suggest he could struggle.

Despite having six match points against Borna Coric in the third round at Flushing Meadows, Tsitsipas capitulated to lose 3-2 and his hard-court woes translated to further disappointment on clay when he was comfortably beaten by unseeded Jannik Sinner in Rome.

Tsitsipas opens with a tricky first-round tie against Great Britain's Dan Evans and may regret having played in the tournament in Italy.

Fellow market-leader and number one seed Daniil Medvedev, meanwhile, chose to sit out the Italian Open after an intense US Open campaign and, although he will have less time to adjust to the switch in surfaces, he should have given himself enough of a break to excel in Germany.

Medvedev too has a tough opening encounter but should he negotiate the match with Ugo Humbert, he has a softer draw ahead of him.

Potential opponents later in the tournament include Casper Rudd, who is likely be feeling fatigue after going deep in the Italian Open, and Fabio Fognini who only recently returned from surgery.

Medvedev was scintillating in the US Open earlier this month, not dropping a set in matches with Federico Delbonis, Christopher O'Connell, Jeffrey John Wolf, Frances Tiafoe and compatriot Andrey Rublev, who will also be competing in the Hamburg event.

His resistance was eventually broken by in-form Dominic Thiem but he looks the one to beat in Hamburg, having shown improvement on clay in the last couple of years, beating Tsitsipas and Novak Djokovic on the way to the Monte-Carlo Masters semi-finals last year.

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