World No. 97, Feliciano Lopez of Spain, will take on Lucas Pouille of France, the world number 133, in the first round of the 2021 Winston-Salem Open on Monday, August 23. Get the live streaming options of this Feliciano Lopez v Lucas Pouille match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Feliciano Lopez v Lucas Pouille Head to Head
The pair have met five time before, and Pouille leads their head-to-head series by four matches to one.
Lopez won their first match in Vienna in 2016, but Pouille got his revenge at the Paris Masters later that same year, triumphed in their two encounters in 2017.in Stuttgart and again in Paris, and won their last encounter in Stuttgart two years ago.
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Lopez, One of the Oldest Men on Tour
At 39, Lopez is one of the oldest men still playing on tour and it is a tribute to his fitness and longevity that he is still playing at such a high level, although he has begun to struggle in longer matches.
Lopez is preparing for the US Open where he reached the quarter-finals in singles in 2015, and reached the semi-finals of the doubles in 2016, and the final itself a year later.
His recent form has been patchy. He was beaten in the first round of Wimbledon and Hamburg, and the second round in Gstaad, before reaching the quarter-final of a Challenger tournament on home soil in Segovia in Spain.
But, since switching to North American hard courts, results have been harder to come by. He was beaten in the first round in Washington, managed to qualify for Toronto, but then was beaten in the first round, this time by the South African Lloyd Harris.
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Pouille’s Career Badly Affected by Injury
Pouiile’s career has been badly affected by a right elbow injury that, at one stage, was so bad he thought he might not play tennis again.
From being ranked a top ten player and winning five ATP titles, he finds himself outside the top 100 and struggling to regain his former status.
In fact, prior to Winston-Salem, he had only won one match since reaching the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters, and that was in qualifying for Mallorca, where he still failed to make the main draw.
He was low on confidence when he began qualifying here, but two battling three set wins over Darian King of Barbados, the world 324, and Noah Rubin of the USA, ranked 306th in the world, will have given him a boost.
Lopez v Pouille Prediction and Tip
In a normal year, Pouille might start favourite because of his better head-to-head record. But his injury problems have taken their toll, and he is struggling for form and fitness, so Lopez is tipped.
Tip: Lopez to win: 5/7 (Click Here to Bet with bet365)
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