Tennis forecast: Yuri Rodionov - Dominik-Stefan Stricker

In the semi-finals of the challenger in Columbus, Austrian Yuri Rodionov will play against Dominic-Stefan Stricker from Switzerland.

Yuri Rodionov

The 22-year-old representative of Austria had a difficult match against Mikael Torpegaard from Denmark in the semifinals yesterday, but still achieved victory in three sets. In the first set, Rodionov could have won in the main time, but when it came to serving for the set, Yuri could not finish the job and eventually allowed Torpegaard to move the game into a tie-break, where the Dane was able to take his own – 7:6 (7:1). In the second set, at some point Rodionov began to lose 1:4 at all, it seemed that Yuri would not pull the game out, but at the most important moment he was able to make a break. This did not help break Torpegaard, Mikael immediately made another break and then went out to serve for the match, but the Dane could not finish the job. Rodionov escaped again, and then Yuri caught his wave and made the third break in the set and eventually won it with a score of 7:5. At the same time, Torpegaard could go to a tie-break, with a score of 5:6 in favor of Rodionov, Mikael led 40:0 on Yuri's serve, but the Dane could not finish the job again. In the third set, the tennis players played competently on their serve for a while, but in the middle of the game Rodionov was able to make a break and lead with a score of 4:3. After that, the tennis players played two draws on Rodionov's serve, and at that moment Torpegaard refused to continue the fight.

Dominic-Stefan Stricker

19-year-old Stricker after winning the 1/8 finals over Stefan Kozlov from the USA – 4:6; 6:4; 6:3. I haven't played for a couple of days. It happened because of Jack Juice's refusal to enter the semifinal match. Which was also supposed to take place yesterday. How such a small downtime will affect the young Swiss is still unknown.

Yuri Rodionov and Dominik-Stefan Stricker played together last year at a tournament in Germany. On hard in three sets, the representative of Switzerland was stronger – 7:5; 6:7 (5:7); 6:4.

Forecast

Bookmakers believe that a small downtime will not affect Dominic-Stefan Stricker in any way, and therefore they consider him a more significant favorite in this match. Yes, let Yuri Rodionov play and not very stable, but yesterday he showed that he can pull himself together even in a very difficult situation. It is important for Yuri to try to get to the final of this challenger, and therefore there should be a very hard fight, and we also suggest taking a chance and betting on the representative of Austria.