TennisSection previews the 2022 ATP Cup as Stefanos Tsitsipas takes on Hubert Hurkacz on Day 1 on Saturday, January 1st, 2022.
Which of these two exciting young guns will come out here at their best? Will it be Hubert Hurkacz to give Team Poland a strong chance to get a win against Team Greece? Will it be Stefanos Tsitsipas who is really the only hope for Team Greece to get anything going here at the 2022 ATP Cup? Both players know each other well and they will give it their best on the opening day here.
Hubert Hurkacz will want to come out here at the 2022 ATP Cup in strong form, bouncing back from his last 3 ATP Tour matches where he lost all matches in the group stages of the ATP Finals. The nerves got the Hurkacz in Turin and both himself and the fans know that his level is much higher than what he put on display. Here at the 2022 ATP Cup, Hurkacz will want to come out and show us that he has been working hard during the off-season to find his best tennis and get himself into a strong place to continue winning matches and titles in 2022. However, Hurkacz meets a top 5 player now in Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Stefanos Tsitsipas also comes into the 2022 ATP Cup having lost his last 3 matches, losing to Tiafoe in Vienna, retiring against Popyrin in Paris, and losing to Rublev in Turin. Stefanos has some elbow issues in the last couple of months of the year and he has been working with doctors to recover and get back to his best physically. Stefanos is a great player and when his serve and forehand are firing, it is extremely hard to stop him from dominating. Tsitsipas has made it clear that he wants to have a much better 2022 season and he will want to get off on the right foot here at the 2022 ATP Cup against Hubert Hurkacz.
Stefanos Tsitsipas and Hubert Hurkacz have met 8 times before, with Stefanos Tsitsipas leading the head to head 6-2. In 2021 they met twice, with both players splitting the matches. Hurkacz did win the more important match, beating him in the Quarter-Finals of the Miami Masters, which he eventually won. Both players have been in somewhat sub-par form in the last few months so they will both want to get an early win under their belt for their confidence. However, if both players are fit and ready to go, I think that Stefanos just has more aspects in his game which enable him to get the win. It will be tight as both will be a bit rusty, but Tsitsipas should get a vital win for Team Greece at the 2022 ATP Cup.
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