Darwin Blanch and Jacob Fearnley meet in the quarterfinal at Newport on Friday. Darwin Blanch has won 6 of the last 10. Jacob Fearnley comes in at 6 wins from the last ten.

Jacob Fearnley has had the better of this rivalry, winning 1 of 1 against Darwin Blanch. On grass specifically it reads 1-0 Fearnley — worth more than the overall number this week.

The underlying stats are tight across the board — this is a matchup decided by a handful of points. Blanch comes in off a compressed schedule; Fearnley is running on fumes after a brutal stretch of scheduling. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Blanch is exactly that — a lean.