ATP Stuttgart: Matteo Arnaldi vs Jan-Lennard Struff
🧠 Form & Context
🇮🇹 Matteo Arnaldi
- 🔥 Solid 2025: 15–13 overall with a balanced surface split (7–6 clay, 6–6 hard, 2–1 indoors).
- 🌱 Grass question mark: Making his Stuttgart debut, enters with a modest 4–4 career grass record and no matches yet in 2025.
- 📈 Trending upward: Recently pushed Djokovic in Geneva and beat Auger-Aliassime at Roland-Garros — showing real top-30 strength.
- 🧱 Aggressive tools: Flat hitting could suit the grass if he finds early rhythm.
🇩🇪 Jan-Lennard Struff
- 📉 2025 struggles: Just 4–15 this season, with only one ATP main draw win since February.
- 🌿 Grass specialist: Finalist here in 2023 and a semifinalist in 2019 — Stuttgart is familiar territory.
- 💣 Surface fit: Big serve and first-strike tennis remain effective weapons on grass despite poor form.
- 🇩🇪 Home court: Energized by the German crowd, often lifts level on home soil.
🔍 Match Breakdown: Grass is tricky — unless you’re with us. Full breakdown live on Patreon.
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