Betting on Julien is sort of playing a lottery. But I like play that lottery when French man is a edged under-dog. Benneteau with good day is really frustrating guy to play against and even top players struggle to oppose his pushing, yet still aggressive style. Julien have a great heart of a fighter, he don't let go, if match goes into 3 sets most of the time it puts him into favor. Although he seems to dislike playing strong serves I believe he will give fair competition to Ljubicic, who actually started new season sleepy and his serve isn't as helpful as it was even by the end of 2009. Croat is presenting pretty a lot of break chances to his opponents, and if Ivan isn't able to set the point with strong kicking out serve things get nasty to him. I think Ljubicic slowly is joining rest of old boys that will flash somehow, somewhere but to be honest won't be a real threat in ATP. After all he had long career, he put himself into history of this sport and I don't see in him same stubborn fighting spirit. Benneteau is kind of player who can give a match for free if things are not working for him, but we can't underrate French man. He can be really consistent from the baseline and also surprise from either forehand and backhand with winning hit. I think Ivan will take first set, but second he will have to push hard as if Benny will re-build his game and get back on track Ivan with leaking endurance will suffer on that. You never actually know what Benny will do, but all their matches were pretty tight, French man won once clearly, rest was Croat tight victories. Today is a chance to raise the bar to 2 wins on French side.
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