Yep - he's crazy fast in every aspect of his game. Freitas just looks very smooth and powerful - best I have seen him for a long time.
Alexis to lose to Freitas, no. And even watching the match or the highlights, you can see Alexis's youth all over the loss. He lost big leads to throw it away. The Freitas comebacks broke his calm and resolve and there was some panic as Freitas keep lengthening the points.
Fair enough, but Alexis managed to defeat Qiu Dang and that took some consistency - a big surprise for me.
Qiu Dang was blaming a backhand rubber change that he still needs to adapt to, lol. He also pointed out that the focus was qualifying in mixed double for him, not the singles. He is very likely to play the singles in any case, more likely than not, Timo is done with national team play.
Games were all tight though except one, where he was clearly outplayed. I think his copout was "fair", though copouts are copouts no matter how fair they purport to be.
She has the most visible "wrapping" of the ball when she loops unlike a lot of other top players who do it a lot more subtly.
