Valentin Royer

My God.

In 2025, Sascha Bublik won the title, beating, uh, Valentin Royer 7-6, 7-6.

And in 2024, Marin Cilic defeated Zhizhen Zhang, the Chinese player, also 7-6, 7-6.

I don't think there was any breaks of serve across the four sets.

Uh, Rublev gets a bye as the two seed.

Tomas Martin Etcheverri gets a bye as the three, the three seed, and Quentin Halys gets a bye as the four seed in the top.

Uh, Medvedev's first, first match will be against Valentin Royer, the defending runner-up, or Adam Walton, the Aussie.

So obviously both of those boys can serve pretty well and, you know, potentially could trouble Medvedev.

So a very short lifespan of this event.

But we saw Bublik beat Royer last year.

We saw Cilic beat Zhang the year prior.

Now, there is one theme between both finals.

Either Zhang or Wong, Vallejo's got no chance.

So Medvedev should cruise into the semis.

So I understand why he's pretty cheap, unless he loses to Walton or Royer.

But overall, 125 is just way too cheap.

I'll take Dardery to beat Wendelkin.

I will take Serchina to beat Royer.

I'll take the wild card Sweeney to beat Moutet.

Moutet has been struggling out of injury as of late.

But in a weird way, for Djokovic, if it is Berrettini as expected, even if it goes four sets, that might not be the worst thing with how he plays.

'Cause I was looking at, like, Taurante, and then Navone might be a problem in that regard, too, but it was that Royer match in RG that just sucked the life out of him-

Yeah

... having to go four sets, four hours.