Donskoy vs Isner: will John's serve help him win the match?

In the first round, Donskoy outplayed Jason Jung (6-1, 6-4). With that victory, the Russian interrupted his losing streak of three matches in a row. But even though it must feel good to win, there is no reason to believe that Donskoy can show good results in Los Cabos. Evgeny won mostly due to the fact that the Taiwanese player is out of form. Evgeny had three double faults in the match, and his service-hold percentage was only 49%. Also, this season Donskoy played only three matches on hard. In the other two, he lost to Zhang Ze and Ramkumar Ramanathan.

Isner has played very little this season. In total, the American played only 15 matches in 2021, nine out of which he won. The Masters in Madrid was his biggest success: John reached the quarterfinals of that tournament. The last appearance of Isner was at Wimbledon. No matter how hard the US representative tried, he failed to defeat Kei Nishikori. As a result, John lost in five sets.