We are just few days away from the first Grand Slam of the
year ,The Australian Open and already the top tennis players sweat it out in ATP 250 tournaments held in
Chennai, Brisbane,Doha and also in
Hopman Cup. While we saw players like Novak Djokovic , Andy Murray, Milos
Raonic and Kei Nishikori started the season well where as other players like Rafael Nadal,Stan
Wawrinka ,Marin Cilic and Roger Federer looked to regain their form just few week
before the first Grand Slam of the Year
Here is the Preview of the main contenders to win the
Australian Open Men’s Single Title at Melbourne Park.
Novak Djokovic :
No doubt the 12 times Grand Slam winner and 6 times
Australian Open Champion starts as the favourite to win the title. Despite his
indifferent form towards the end of the 2016 season, Djoker has all attributes
to win the title for the record 7 times and for me start as favorite. He
started the season well and faced 5 match points in the second set Tie break to
beat Fernando Verdasco at Doha and then defeating World Number 1 Andy Murray in
the final to successfully defend his Qatar Open title.
Andy Murray:
World Number 1 Scotsman starts as my second
favourite to win his first Australian Open this year. Andy Murray had a terrific
2016 with reaching the finals of Australian Open and French Open and winning his
second Wimbledon title and also winning the Gold Medal in Rio Olympics. He also
got the world no 1 ranking towards the end of the season and also defeated
Novak Djokovic in the season finale at London. On current form, the world no 1
has the best chance of winning his first Australian Open Title after five
attempts. But main question is Can he beat Novak Djokovic to win in five set
match?
Milos Raonic:
The Canadian with his big serves starts as one
of the favorite to win his first Australian Open this year. No doubt about his
big serves ,but Raonic has improved his Forehands and Backhand which has
troubled the likes of Roger Federer in Wimbledon ,Rafael Nadal in Brisbane and almost
defeated Andy Murray in the semifinal of ATP World Finals big matches in an
epic 3 setter match. Despite his improved game still there is question mark in
Raonic mental toughness especially against big players in the world
Stan Wawrinka:
Despite
his inconsistency , Stan Wawrinka has every attributes to win Australian Open
this year. The 2013 Champion Wawrinka has been one of the few players to
trouble Novak Djokovic in Australian Open where they had some epic five setters
in 2013, 2014 and 2015 Championship and also he is the only player since 2010
to beat Novak in the Australian Open in 2014.Also he has defeated Novak
Djokovic in the Grand Slam Finals with most recently in US Open 2016.The
biggest strength of Stan Wawrinka is his big serve and his powerful single
handed backhand which can trouble any of the top players and also his powerful ground
strokes which can trouble any top ranked player.
No comments:
Post a Comment