Analysis for Vinciguerra-Ginepri (ATP Duesseldorf)

Head-to-head record 0:0

Vinciguerra´s comeback continues in a great style. He was an impressive junior, winning the European junior championships and making the final of the junior Australian Open when he was 17, when he finished as the number 6 in the junior rankings. The left-hander has won one singles title and reached his highest singles ATP-ranking in 2001, when he became the number 33 in the world. He has experienced significant problems with a back and knees injury. After undergoing several knee operations, Andreas Vinciguerra made his comeback last November, playing club tennis here in Malmo. Very few people thought that he would make it back into the Davis Cup team and even fewer could have conceived what a strong performance he would put on in his first two international matches since October 2006. Amazingly, Vinciguerra, was very close to victory in both matches. He then played the final of challenger in Rome and we think he is definitely back on the track. He wasn’t far from the victory in the first match here in Duesseldorf losing to Tsonga in 3 sets. He will play American Ginnepri today who is everything but a good claycourt player. He is probably the worst of Yanks on the slowest surface as he has won just 9 matches out of 34 on clay during his career. Surprisingly, he kept the match close against Kohlschreiber in the first match but he has been struggling the whole season long and we think that Swede is a clear favourite for this match with anything above 1.65 worth taking.