Benjamin Bonzi and Ignacio Buse meet in the semifinal at Winston-Salem on Friday. Benjamin Bonzi is rolling — 4 straight wins, 6 of 10 in recent play. Ignacio Buse brings a 3-match winning streak into this one, 5-5 across the last ten.
The underlying stats are tight across the board — this is a matchup decided by a handful of points. Bonzi comes in off a compressed schedule; Buse arrives with very little recovery time. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Bonzi is exactly that — a lean.