I saw this youngster in a previous tournament on clay where he was giving his opponent real problems - he lost the match against a top 20 player here a deciding set was necessary - but I saw him at 17 and could not believe how good he really is when it comes to shot-making and attacking play.
When posting the players in the torunament in Stuttgart I saw his name and looked at his odds to win. So I put a R50 bet on him wining in a match where his opponent was the bookmakers favorite at R1,24 to win - the odds on Justin Engel wining was R3,75.
So his oppenent won the first set - because Engel as the commentaors sad was nervous - but Engel won the second set, So come along the third deciding set and he was 4-2 down and had a long injury treatment - not clear for what. He on the next three serves in a row and was 5-4 up but he was facing his oppomemts serve and fighting to take the match - but could not and in the end a tie-breaker was necessary. He lost his first serve - but then the battle really started and ended with him on serve at 6-5 to win the match. No problem - he did,
His next oppoent will be Alex Michelsen or gail Monfils - but if he is not really injred I am going to put another R50 on him to win that one as well.
I think this youngster will be the Sacha Feinberg-Ngomezulu of tennis in future,
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