Analysis for Guccione-W.S.Jun (ATP Indianapolis)

Head-to-head record 0:0

Heavy serving Guccione will play young qualifier W-S Jun in the first round at Indy. Guccione is a player who heavily relies on his serve. He is often criticized for his lack of match fitness. Guccione aim to break into the top 50 by the end of year was fasttracked in the AO Series. But he hasn’t been impressive lately and lost to several lower ranked players. The American Tennis Tournament Series kick started at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships, Memphis, and Guccione made an impressive showing by defeating Robert Kendrick and Thomas Johansson. Guccione then failed to qualify for the Indian Wells Masters tournament. However, in the Sunrise challenger, a warm up tournament for the Miami Masters, Guccione recorded his best ever scalp against world number 12 Fernando Gonzalez in the semifinals. However, he was unable to continue his stunning form as he failed to qualify for the Miami Masters. He failed to deliver on his favourite surface, grass, bowing out in the first round of the Stella Artois Championships and Wimbledon. Then he tried to get back his self-confidence at challenger tournament but surprisingly lost to Machado. Now, being back on the US scene, he will face dangerous qualifier. W-S Jun is currently on a losing streak but he played well in qualifiers within the last few weeks. However, he has never managed to confirm the good form from quallies in the main event. Now he has a good chance against inconsistent Guccione. We expect a tight match and will support in-form playing underdog with the odds around 3.