Analysis for Fish-M.Gonzalez (ATP French Open)

Head-to-head record 0:0

Mardy Fish of United States will play Argentine Maximo Gonzalez in the first round at Roland Garros. Fish is a hardcourt specialist and we expect him to have some troubles on one of the slowest surface on ATP circuit. Mardy is one of several young American tennis players who rose to prominence at the beginning of the 21st century. Fish uses his strong serve and powerful backhand to win points from the baseline. He would often move around the court and find his way to the net to put away a ball by volleying. In short, he is an all-court player. He is typical Yankee who considers clay to be his less favourite surface and his game on European clay is usually frigid. He will now face promising Argentine claycourt player Maximo Gonzalez who already proved this year that he can be competitive on the highest level as well. His YTD clay court record is 20 wins – 6 losses and he managed to beat the likes of Moya, Ventura, Zabaleta of Dabul and kept the matches close against Fernando Gonzalez or Juan Monaco. He is a player of big potential who is, however, limited by his height. He is not able to produce such the powerful strokes like his US opponent but his movement is much better. As typical Argentine, he tends to after every shot and often forces his opponent to produce unforced errors. We played well in Duesseldorf last week and we believe he will hive Fish some hard times. Anything above 2.2 is good enough for us.