If you haven’t seen US Open quarterfinalist Botic van de Zandschulp play before, you should know that his phenomenal combination of power and feel is tailor made for indoor tennis.
While the relatively slow court in St. Petersburg won’t do him many favors against Andrey Rublev, the Dutchman is simply too talented a player to be gifted 4.5 games in a best-of-three set match indoors. After winning two rounds to qualify, van de Zandschulp breezed past Yoshihito Nishioka and Sebastian Korda in straight sets.
I do not bet against Andrey Rublev lightly, especially indoors, and while he is still a phenomenal player, he is absolutely at his lowest point tennis-wise in the last two years. Rublev is 5-4 in his last nine ATP matches.