Analysis for Kohlschreiber-Chiudinelli (ATP Basel)

Head-to-head record 1:0

Marco Chiudinelli of Switzerland will play Phillip Kohlschreiber in the first round of home tournament. German beat him earlier this year in Doha but Chiudinelli has a great second half of the year and player some tight matches against the very top players. At 2009 US Open, he came through the quallies and defeated Starace and Youzhny in the first two rounds to be stopped by Davydenko. He entered the 2009 PTT Thailand Open as a qualifier. He defeated German qualifier Florian Mayer in the first round, and followed that up with a second round win over former World No. 1 Marat Safin. Chuidinelli lost a three-set match to top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals. He than qualified for another two Asian tournaments and last week in Vienna, he pushed the eventual winner Melzer into two breakers. His indoor form is solid and we expect a lot from him in front of his home crowd. German is an offensive baseliner who plays well on all surfaces. His best results come from hard courts but his latest results weren´t so impressive. Well, he is going okay but he is certainly not unbeatable and dangerous Swiss shouldn’t be above 2.5 in our eyes.