Jiri Lehecka

I probably need to rethink how I think about Taggart myself.

In the Swiss Indoors in Basel, we have Valentin Vacheron against Yuri Lehechka, and I can't say I'm annoyed, but I've been talking about Lehechka on fast, hard courts for a long time, saying the faster the better for Yuri, and I didn't pull the trigger there either.

I had some other bets and they lost, so again, I can't really complain, but...

So Vachero looks super.

Again he wouldn't have been one that I chose but he looks amazing and he's had some super wins.

Vachero's route has been Mariano Navone, Rafa Jodar, Holger Rune, Taylor Fritz and then he plays Lehechka in the final.

I think that's a pretty close final.

Lehechka will probably be a small favourite but I watched some of Vachero's tennis and he's serving out of a tree.

And, you know, those are all pretty, pretty lively conditions, all quick surfaces.

And he's, he's beaten the likes of Lehechka, Bublik, Dardery.

you know, all high-ranked players in those conditions.

In fact, he's actually won three of his last six matches against top 20 opponents, has said Jakarta.

And in the top 20 guys, it's just, it's starting to get to the nine plus shots category.

It starts at Lehechka, where it starts to like drop below 50, maybe.

It starts like Fritz, Koboli, Lehechka, Nakashima, Mensik, and Shelton.

That's the category that when it goes nine plus shots, they're winning less than 50% of the points.

And it starts at the nine plus shots.

Alex has had a great year.

Arnaldi in the round of 16, Shapovalov, then Munar, and then Lehecka in the final.

Mm-hmm.

Shows up to Shanghai, beats Juan Manuel Cerundolo in the first round, and then loses to Sisu Bergs in the s- in the next round.

Uh, but despite that, he's still a young player who is hungry to prove himself at this level.

And when we're talking about the likes of Hadar, um, we keep speaking about Fees and these other guys, Lehecka, I mean, he's a little bit older it seems, but he's someone who has now shown that he can go toe-to-toe with them.

He beat Rafael Hadar, come back from another comeback, just like on the women's.

Uh, he lost the first set 6-1 and then won 7-6, 6-4.

He beat Musetti twice.

He's also beaten Lehečka twice, beat him in Canada three and three, beat him in Shanghai from a set and just getting pushed around the court, 4-6, 7-6, 6-4.

It was one of Rafa's best wins of the year.

And now this three and four victory over Medvedev as well.

Now, luckily for him, every adventure is the same because he keeps dropping the first set and then immediately comes back and wins in three.

Beat Tarante in three, beat Lehečka in three, beat de Zanchest in three, and beat Ruud in three.

So overall competition, I know Tsitsipas has played better lately.

Had his deepest US Open run a couple of weeks, if not months ago.

But overall, a decent path there.

For Hodor, though, I mean, Tarante we saw make a good run in a fast hard court in Cincinnati about a month or two ago, but he's not been in good form lately.

Lehečka made the final in Tokyo.

Good win there.