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Men's Day Two Highlight
By Eric Salliot
Monday, May 26, 2003
Fortune has not favored last year's surprise French package Paul-Henri
Mathieu, who has drawn an unenviable first round match against an in-form
Gaston Gaudio. The 44-ranked Mathieu is attempting to put an injury-ridden
season behind him, but Gaudio one of the formidable Argentinean clay court
contingent at this year's French Open, is standing in his path. Just getting
to the second round this year it seems will be something of an exploit for
the home fans' favorite.
CURRENT FORM
Gaston Gaudio is in the form of his life. Counting his wins in the Davis
Cup and the ATP World Team Championship, he has notched up no less than 26
victories already this season. Despite all those wins he has consistently
fallen at the last-but-one hurdle, losing in the semi final at Vina del Mar,
Buenos Aires and Hamburg.
Paul-Henri Mathieu can only dream of such levels of consistency. A shadow of
his former self so far this season due to a serious groin injury, the man
from Alsace has one miserly win to his name, over the Austrian Werner
Eschauer. Tough first round matches against Roger Federer in Rome and
rising star Rafael Nadal in Hamburg have hardly assisted him, and when
Michael Chang picked the names out off the hat in Paris his run of bad luck
in draws continued.
'Paulo' is not the type of guy to let such misfortune get him down though.
He knows all he needs is a good win for his tennis to start flowing again,
just as it did last year when he cruised past Wayne Ferreira, Fabrice
Santoro and Jiri Novak before falling to Andre Agassi in a game he should
have won when two sets to love up.
STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES
Gaudio possesses one of the most dangerous backhands on the circuit,
largely thanks to his uncanny ability to switch it from a whipping cross-shot
to a punishing down-the-line drive. The Argentinean's serve is nothing to
write home about, but his drop shot is nicely disguised and often an outright
winner. The big question mark hanging over Gaudio is his ability to handle
the big-match pressure. His semi final defeats at the hands of Juan Carlos
Ferrero in Monte-Carlo and compatriot Guillermo Coria at the same stage in
Hamburg owed as much to his worrying loss of confidence as to his opponents'
merits.
Mathieu boasts a threatening first serve and powerful drives on both the
forehand and the backhand. He is at his best when he is able to impose his
rhythm on the match, but less happy when his opponents vary the height and
speed of their returns. Weak at the net, Mathieu is in need of a win to
restore his on-court peace of mind - this could be just the match he needs
to kick-start his season.
PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS
The two have never met.
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真是相當的悲觀
希望如同報導所說 贏了這場比賽 順便也找回了信心ꐠ加油啊
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erase all the memories
they will only bring us pain
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