Juan Carlos will play against Ivan Dodig in first round of the Australian Open.

This night,the first Grand Slam of the year will start and we now know who will be the opponent of Juan Carlos in the first round,a croatian called Ivan Dodig. As Juan Carlos is situated in the top half of the main draw,his macth will be played at Monday´s night,so we will have to wait one day more to see Juan Carlos again after his injury at Auckland.


Who is Ivan Dodig?

So that he could get into the Main Draw,this croatian needed to played all the qualies rounds.He is 25 years old and its now ranked in the 185th position of the ranking.In the first tournament he played this year,at Doha,he lost against the belgian Steve Darcis.The most peculiar thing as that,although most of you will not now who Dodig is,last year he played against Juan Carlos in the second round of the qualies at Montreal,in a match that lasted for a bit more than 30 min and which JC won by 6-4 0-1 ret.

If we analyse the statistics of that match,the croatian only did one ace more than JC and in the precentage of first serves,JC was much better than him (85% against 63%). Although Dodig has a good serve,the percentage of points won with his second serve is low, so that is what JC needs to take advantage of so that he can obtain the breaks to reach the victory.


Has Juan Carlos recovered from his injury?

As we can see in a video uploaded on youtube,which was recorded last night,we can see Juan Carlos training,doing some rallies.We can see that he moves without any pain and that he can play at a high level,mantaining long rallies, so we could say that he is mostly recovered.Watch the video of Ferrero training here

Once we know the schedule of Tuesday,we will write here at what time is his match and where you can see it.Hope you recover completely JC!