What a day it will be at the Delray Beach Open on Sunday. An unseeded opponent (Radu Albot) against a qualifier (Dan Evans) who took down two top-10 players en route to making the trip to the final. Here is taking a look at how the finale could shape up between the Moldovan and the Briton:
Delray Beach Open Final Prediction
Radu Albot vs Dan Evans
The 29-year-old Albot dropped the first set to MacKenzie McDonald in Saturday’s semifinal 6-3. But he regrouped in a manner that took everyone by complete surprise. In the next two sets, Albot not only won 12 games on the trot (ergo the double bagel) but he also dropped merely 20 points across the two sets. Coming into the final after such a takedown, Albot – who is in his first-ever final in at ATP event – will have oodles of confidence to prop him up further.
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In Evans, Albot will be facing an equally-motivated player with his own share of high self-confidence to match. After finding himself stranded after being handed a one-year suspended from the sport for a year for failing a drug test (for substance abusing of cocaine in April 2017), Evans has instituted quite a turnaround in the year since his comeback into the sport. Now, thanks to his run here in Delray Beach, he is poised right in the periphery of the top 100 of the rankings, with the possibility of making it back into the top 100 with the title.
The match will not lack for intrigue with both players wanting to show their best. Evans, however, has better tactical ingenuity to bolster up his game which could put Albot in trouble. Both players have made it count this week but in Sunday’s – push-coming-to-shove encounter – Evans looks like he will be the last man standing on the court: with his first ATP Tour title, no less.
Prediction: Evans in 2
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