{"id":84657,"date":"2025-05-08T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84657\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:00:11","slug":"jim-courier-thinks-atp-player-whos-not-won-a-completed-match-since-february-is-going-to-be-a-real-threat-very-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84657\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Courier thinks ATP player who’s not won a completed match since February is going to be a real threat very soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The clay court season on the ATP Tour continues with the Italian Open, where Jannik Sinner is making his return to competitive tennis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sinner\u2019s suspension has been labelled \u2018convenient\u2019<\/a>, with the ATP<\/a> number one having just served a three-month ban.<\/p>\n

He was able to compete at and win the Australian Open earlier this season, and now returns on home soil at the Italian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sinner is the top seed at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Rome, with his fellow top three players Alexander Zverev and Carlos Alcaraz also involved.<\/p>\n

All three have received byes into round two, with many others having been required to get underway in round one.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Marco Iacobucci\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty ImagesJim Courier tips Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard to be a real threat despite winless run<\/p>\n

And that was the case for Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a>, who has been the topic of discussion between former world number one players Andy Roddick<\/a> and Jim Courier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Tennis Channel Live Podcast, Roddick said: \u201cHe is going to run hot and cold. You wonder if it\u2019s like the second time through the line-up thing that we talk about in baseball.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre people getting a read on his serve? It\u2019s obviously tougher to hit those 125mph half first serve, half second serves on clay as opposed to indoors.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev suggests how to combat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard\u2019s big serve after beating him in Dubai<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe has taken his lumps a little bit. He obviously was in qualies for Grand Slams last summer. I think we forget about that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a heck of a run there, but this is a tough match up for him. Jordan Thompson is so savvy, he can stay back, he can come in. He is well-versed. He can hit those chip returns and be speedy around the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s not totally surprising for me this is a tough match up and it\u2019s not totally surprising to me that the product fit with clay and Mpetshi Perricard has been challenging so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

Courier meanwhile commented: \u201cYou guys remember liberation day when the tariffs were announced and the stock market just went into a nosedive?<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Pedro Salado\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of smart people bought the dip and that\u2019s what I would be doing if I was an Mpetshi Perricard fan right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would buy the dip, because I would go long on his future. This guy is going to bother people. Clay is not going to be his best surface. It could still be a decent surface though.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust ask John Isner. A little more time on the ball. He needs a little more time on tour. I think Andy is right about second time through the line up.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow all the coaches on tour are a little more tuned in to how you might be able to get to him. I think this guy is going to be very good, I just think it\u2019s going to take him a little bit longer.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes these big guys, it takes them a little bit longer to put it all together. There is a lot of length in those levers they have got to organise.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard continues disastrous form at the Italian Open<\/p>\n

The big-serving Perricard beat Zhang Zhizhen in his opener at the Dubai Tennis Championships in February, but has endured a miserable run since then.<\/p>\n

The two-time ATP champion has lost every single match barring his Indian Wells opener, when Fabian Marozsan was forced to retire.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Former Wimbledon champion withdraws from the Italian Open at last minute after failing to recover from injury<\/a><\/p>\n

The disastrous run includes early exits at the likes of the Miami Open, Monte Carlo Masters and Madrid Open.<\/p>\n

But the Frenchman has now continued his cold run at the Italian Open, having lost his opener to Jordan Thompson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Perricard will be particularly eager to see the back of the Australian, who has knocked him out of Miami, Monte Carlo and now Rome.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old, ranked 36th in the world, took the first set against Thompson before losing the match 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(7-5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clay court season on the ATP Tour continues with the Italian Open, where Jannik Sinner is making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[5065,4294,25760,25564,23860,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-84657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andy-roddick","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-giovanni-mpetshi-perricard","11":"tag-italian-open","12":"tag-jim-courier","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114472342424967457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}