Improving Struff should strut his stuff against Copil

WTA Moscow
BT Sport 1, 9am Wednesday
WTA Luxembourg
BT Sport 2, 9am Wednesday
ATP Stockholm
FreeSports, 11am Wednesday

Bookmakers are finding it difficult to split Marius Copil and Jan-Lennard Struff in their ATP Stockholm Open first-round clash, but if any player deserves to win the clash it's the German.

Struff has played consistently well and enjoyed a positive campaign, so much so that he actually deserves to have won a main-tour title.

With time running out this season that probably won't happen, but Struff has shown that he thoroughly merits a place in the top 50 and with greater experience he could climb a fair bit higher.

Copil is a bit of a streak player and that makes the Romanian dangerous to oppose, but even though Struff's strengths may not be best suited to indoor tennis he could still find a way to win.

In Moscow, Aliaksandra Sasnovich is favourite to upend top seed Kristina Mladenovic, who is without a match win since early August. The Belarusian has been well backed to progress, too, and the market may be proved correct.

Recommendation
J-L Struff
1pt 5-6 Betfair, Paddy Power

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