Analysis for Federer-Stepanek (ATP Rome)

Head-to-head record 4:1

No sense to describe Roger Federer here. He is the best tennis player ever born in our eyes but even best of the bunch can have some weaker moments. Roger seems like having some this year. His latest performances weren’t so masterful like in past and furthermore, he doesn’t like to play Stepanek. He has had hard times against Czech No 2 in past and we will bet on it to happen once again. Czech player is a big fighter who never gives up. He is a versatile player with both solid serve and good baseline play which enables him to be successful on all surfaces. He often uses serve-and-volley strategy. His play is based on a very strong and well-placed serve and it is always very difficult to break him on fast surfaces. As we said, he is known for his fighting spirit and unwillingness to concede defeat, as he has demonstrated several times in his career. We hope that he will fight bravely against unbeatable giant and if he makes his best, we see a decent value in crazy odds above 8.