Surprised by his lack of preparation - it is as much mental as it is physical. This is a very common amateur error - apparently it afflicts professionals too!!PKBasu wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 3:11 pm All the breaks in the first set were because of shambolic handling of the return of serve (i.e., the third shot in his service points). The returns from Marcos were nothing great, but were landing deep in his court -- and Yuki would shank the return instead of bending low and getting them over the net. That stood out for me as a glaring weakness that can be easily fixed; he was either not concentrating, or simply isn't used to an opponent returning his serve decently. At the ATP level, he needs to be better-prepared to handle this.
Not being prepared for a good deep return is not a good excuse - and PKB good of you to catch that - and complaining about the wind is not great to hear either - the wind affects the other guy too and he seemed to have managed ok with it.
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There is no sign of Mahak Jain in the qualifiers. 
