Here are some general thoughts on Day 2 for those interested.
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Weather
Medium (40%) chance of showers in the early morning. Mostly sunny afternoon. Winds southwesterly 15-25km/h becoming lighter as morning progresses.
Minimum 15 degrees
Maximum 22 degrees
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Other Thoughts – Day 2
A list of players that should win includes:
- Nadal
- Hurkacz
- Schwartzman
- Thiem
- Wawrinka
- Carreno-Busta
- Sugita
- Pospisil
- Kyrgios
- Medvedev
- Anderson
- Zverev
- Bencic
- Keys
- Q Wang
- Svitolina
- Bertens
- Collins
- Muchova
- Mertens
- Kontaveit
- Sabalenka
Players that look too short include:
- Kerber (given hamstring issue)
- Peterson (given back issue)
- Yastremska
- Paul
- Kecmanovic
- Gunneswaran
- Auger-Aliassime
- Rublev
Potential Plays that just missed the cut (more to be added prior to start of play):
- Ito + games vs Gunneswaran
- Polmans/Kukushkin total games over
- Schwartzman – games vs Harris (little worried one lapse from Diego could make this really difficult)
- Moutet to challenger Cilic
- Minnen to defeat Sasnovich
- Hercog to defeat Peterson (note Peterson back spasms in Hobart)