Bokies said that Youzhny is clear favorite here but I mainly pick this becaise of really good form of Lacko this year. Youzhny already won in three previous matches between theirselves. I belive with his experience and sttistics in matches played against each other, bookies put him in first plan here.

Lacko qualified on Australian open and then reach 3 round where he was stopped by Rafael Nadal. That fact put me in some "research mode" where I found that in all three previous matches with each other there was big fight ongoing and in all three looses Lacko won 1 set.

Lacko never reach any semifinal 's in his career but, why not reach and won final at once in one tournament ? Maybe he gain one more level of play in this year and hopefully he can jump over that step called Youzhny. I will try with clear win here.

GL!