Tomas Berdych vs. Romain Jouan-2011 US Open match preview

Tomas Berdych is ranked at number 9 in the world. On the other hand Romain Jouan is ranked at 230 among the ATP rankings.

Berdych has been having a fruitful few months as he snatched a quarterfinal spot in Canada and a semi-final performance in Cincinnati. He also went on to reach the last four in Bastad prior to that. The Czech also had a good result at the twin ATP1000 events of Rome and Madrid where he successfully stepped among the last eight. He will be trying his best to make it big at the US Open.

Jouan has been nailing wins at the ITF challengers and Futures events as this year has been filled with quarterfinal and semi-final spots. As part of his ATP presence, he has played a few qualifying rounds at this year’s French Open, Marseille, the Australian Open, Stuttgart and Hale. He will have to raise the bar if he wants to put forth a challenge to Tomas Berdych.

Both the players have never met before and this will be the first time that both players will be playing each other. Berdych can slam massive serves, aggressive forehands and can change pace with his backhands. Jouan can play tactical backhands and angle sharp volleys. Berdych should be able to come through in three straight sets.