For Dawidowicz Fokin, the tournament in Monaco is the second tournament on clay this season. Last week, the Spaniard played two matches in Portugal’s Estoril, where he defeated Frenchman van Asch but lost in straight sets to Italian Cecchinato. Before Estoril, we watched Alejandro at the Masters in the USA, in Indian Wells the Pyrenean did very well, won three times, lost only to Medvedev. In Miami, he won against Nakashima but lost to Paul. In his career, Davidovich Fokina won one brick Challenger in Seville in 2019. Last year he played 19 matches on the ground, of which he won 11 with one defeat.

Khachanov has not played on the ground this season, and in the previous season he had worse statistics on the pitch than the Spaniard: 9 wins to 7 defeats. The year before, Karen had negative clay stats altogether, which tells us unequivocally that this surface cannot be called a Karen profile. But Khachanov did well at the Masters in Miami, where the world’s 11th Rocket defeated Etcheverry, Lehechka, Tsitsipas and Cherundolo, losing only to Medvedev in three games in the bout. Of course, the Russian is in a good sports mood, but only the game will show how easy it will be for him to switch to a different surface.

Tennis player Rating Total number of matches in 2023 wins failures
Fokin’s Davidovich 24 21 12 9
Khachanov eleven 19 13 6