Analysis for Gicquel-De Bakker (ATP Amersfoot)

Head-to-head record 1:0

The Dutch young gun Thiemo de Bakker (born September 19, 1988) was successful junior tennis player, who won the Boys' Singles Championship at Wimbledon 2006. However, he still lacks the experience from ATP level. Thiemo received a Wild Card into the ATP Amersfoort event in July 2006 and shocked top 100 and French Open Quarterfinalist Julien Benneteau in the 1st round of the event winning in straight sets. In the 2nd round he faced Frenchman Marc Gicquel and lost in 3 sets, 6–4 3–6 2–6. He was just 17 years old. In October 2006, Thiemo won his first senior international title in a Futures event in Albufeira, Portugal. This was followed by many other wins in Future tournaments. He is currently at his career high ATP ranking and should be full of self-confidence after the solid results outside the ATP circuit. In the first round, he proved how dangerous player he can be in front of his home crowd and defeated Cruciat in straight sets. Now, he will face Marc Gicquel of France. Gicquel is obviously much experienced player but his clay court form is really poor. He played extremely bad last week in Bastad losing to Rochus in the first round and we think that De Bakker´s chance for career best result exists and is bigger than odds say. We are happy to support home player with the odds above 2.5.